I Popular Views Of The Bible

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I Popular Views Of The Bible

• 1. Irrelevant
• Age. Ac.1720-21
• New Age
• Content. Ac.7
• Rivals. Is.819-20
• Horoscopes
• 0.011 accuracy

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2. Irritating, Jn.1248

• Bad news good news
• What about poor innocent natives? Ro.323
• But they never rejected Jesus!
• Ro.128
• What if they dont know the Father?
• External Ps.191-4 Ro.118-20
• Internal Ro.214-15

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• Irrelevant
• Irritating
• Inaccurate
• Jacobs branches, Gn.3025-43
• 317, 9, 12
• Flat earth
• Josephus
• Silence proves nothing
• What he says, skeptics reject

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• Irrelevant
• Irritating
• Inaccurate
• Influence
• a. Inquisitions
• (Mt.2651-52 2 Co.103-5)
• b. Legalism

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Legalism

• an improper fixation on law or codes of
  conduct, or legal ideas, usually implying an
  allegation of misguided rigor, pride,
  superficiality, the neglect of mercy, and
  ignorance of the grace of God or emphasizing the
  letter of the law over the spirit

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NT Condemns Legalism

• Mt. 520
• Col. 216, 18, 21-23
• Loving obedience is not legalism
  Col.211-13 316-17
• Is illegalism better than legalism?

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4. Influence

• a. Inquisitions
• b. Legalism
• c. Bibliolatry
• Mt.43
• What passage criticizes one who tries too
  hard to obey God?
• Mt.2323

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5. Ignorance

• I follow Jesus, not the Bible
• Jew I follow Moses, not Law
• Driver I obey police, not stop signs
• How to know Jesus w/o His word?
• Jn.1248
• 2 Co.111-4

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6. Inaccuracy, 2 Co.36

• Spirit, not letter of the law
• a. Inconsistent
• b. Paul does not contrast experience over the
  word, or allegory over literal (113), but
• Superiority of new covenant over old (6-9)

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The letter and the Spirit

• Letter Old Law written on stone
• Kills (6, 7) exposes guilt
• Spirit New Law governs from w/in
• Jer.3131-34 Jn.117

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• The Law finds a man gathering sticks on the
  Sabbath and stones him. Grace finds thousands
  of robbers and murderers, illuminates them, and
  gives them life. The one turns a living man
  into a dead one the other out of dead men makes
  living ones. Christ says, Come unto Me all ye
  who are heavy laden, not and I will punish
  you, but and I will give you rest Chrysostom

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II There Is A Pattern

• 2 Co.318, Jesus (Lord)
• 41, connects w. 318 ministry (36)
• 42, not handling Word deceitfully manifesting
  truth
• 43, our gospel 4, light of gospel (6)
• 45, preach Christ Jesus
• 47, treasure (Mt.1344)

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NT Pattern

• 2 Tim.113, Pauls words
• 1 Tim.116, Pauls conversion
• Show point out
• Pattern as a model, prototype
• An example for all to follow

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2 Tim.113

• A pattern of sound words
• A standard
• No one was left to invent his own religion
  according to his own desires
• Only God knows what pleases Himself
• Hold fast! (314)