Unauthorized Conduct

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Unauthorized Conduct

• Strange Things

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Strange Things

• Fire, Leviticus 101-2
• Woman, Proverbs 216-17
• Doctrines, Hebrews 139
• Gods, Joshua 2420

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Strange (HOSEA 812)

• Hebrew (zur) A primitive root to turn aside
  (especially for lodging) hence to be a
  foreigner, strange, profane. (Strongs Hebrew
  Dictionary)
• Greek (xenos) foreign (literally alien).
  (Strongs Greek Dictionary

When Gods authority is not respected His word
becomes a strange thing!
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Strange Fire (LEVITICUS 101-2)

• Not commanded by the Lord
• Presumptuous sin, Psa. 1913 Deut. 1820
• Despises authority, self-willed and disrespectful
  where honor is due, 2 Peter 210

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Strange Fire (LEVITICUS 101-2)

• Not commanded by the Lord
• Presumptuous sin, Psa. 1913 Deut. 1820
• Despises authority, self-willed and disrespectful
  where honor is due, 2 Peter 210

Strange fire is being offered today in churches
of Christ - Institutionalism
Acts 1423 Phil. 11
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Local Church is Sufficient
BENEVOLENCE
Local Church (elders)

Relieve its Needy Saints
Acts 244-45 434-37 Acts 61-6
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7
Local Church is Sufficient
BENEVOLENCE

C

Local Church (elders)
Relieve its Needy Saints

C

C
Acts 1127-30 1 Cor. 161-3 2 Cor. 81-4, 13-15
91, 12-14 Rom. 1525-27
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8
Local Church is not Sufficient!
BENEVOLENCE

C

Relieve Needy


Need
INSTITUTION
C

C
Scripture Please!
NOT THIS!
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9
Local Church is not Sufficient!
BENEVOLENCE
C

Albuquerque Childrens Home



Relieve Needy
C
Need

C
Scripture Please!
NOT THIS!
9
10
Local Church is not Sufficient!
BENEVOLENCE
C

Russian Orphanage



Relieve Needy
C
Need

C
Scripture Please!
NOT THIS!
10
11
Local Church is Sufficient
EVANGELISM

C

Preacher
Preach Gospel
C

C
Acts 131-3 Phil. 415-16 2 Cor. 118
11
12
Local Church is not Sufficient!
EVANGELISM
C


Sponsoring Church
Preach Gospel

Preacher
C

C
Scripture Please!
NOT THIS!
12
13
Local Church is not Sufficient!
EVANGELISM
C


Kenya Bible School
Preach Gospel

Preachers
C

C
Scripture Please!
NOT THIS!
13
14
Local Church is not Sufficient!
EVANGELISM
C

Bible Institute (Honduras)

Preach Gospel

Preachers
C

C
Scripture Please!
NOT THIS!
14
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Strange Fire (LEVITICUS 101-2)

• No authorityStrange fireSin!
• The local church is sufficient and able to
  accomplish the work given it by the Lord without
  adding institutions
• Hold fast the pattern of sound words, 2 Tim. 113

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Strange Woman (PROV. 216-17)

• Foreign, immoral and against Gods authorized
  marriage covenant
• Bitterness, pain and death, Prov. 51-6
• Sinful pleasure that robs you of the pleasure God
  has given you in marriage, Prov. 520 (15-19)

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Strange Woman (PROV. 216-17)

• Gods commandment protects us from the strange
  woman, Prov. 623-29, 32
• God authorizes purity of mind and body, 1
  Thess. 43-7
• Gods judgment is upon those who will not
  repent, Heb. 134

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Strange Woman (PROV. 216-17)

• Gods commandment protects us from the strange
  woman, Prov. 623-29
• God authorizes purity of mind and body, 1
  Thess. 43-7
• Gods judgment is upon those who will not repent,
  Heb. 134

Strange woman is being accepted today in
churches of Christ - Divorce and
Remarriage for any cause -
Matt. 532 199 (1
Cor. 79, 20)
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Strange Doctrines (HEB. 139)

• Foreign to the apostles doctrine (Acts 242)
• Sound doctrine is NT teaching, but
• Strange doctrine turns from God, 2 Jno. 9
• Strange doctrine rejects Gods grace, Gal. 16-9
• Strange doctrine does not edify, 1 Tim. 13-4
• Strange doctrine is not godliness, 1 Tim. 63

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Strange Doctrines (HEB. 139)

• Foreign to the apostles doctrine (Acts 242)
• Sound doctrine is NT teaching, but
• Strange doctrine turns from God, 2 Jno. 9
• Strange doctrine rejects Gods grace, Gal. 16-9
• Strange doctrine does not edify, 1 Tim. 13-4
• Strange doctrine is not godliness, 1 Tim. 63

Following strange doctrine is sin! Heb. 139
(Eph. 414-15)
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THE APPLICATION

• It is sin to offer God what He has not commanded
  (strange fire)
• Institutionalism has not been commanded
• Therefore, institutionalism is sin

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THE APPLICATION

• It is sin to take what God does not authorize
  (strange woman)
• Adultery is taking an unauthorized woman
• Therefore, adultery (strange woman) is sin

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THE APPLICATION

• It is sin to teach what Gods word does not
  reveal (strange doctrine)
• False teaching is foreign to Gods word
• Therefore, false teaching is sin

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Gods Word

• Becomes a strange thing when we refuse
  knowledge, Heb. 812 46
• We must offer God what pleases Him, not what
  pleases us!
• We must reject everything that is unauthorized --
  it is strange to God!