WATCHMEN

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WATCHMEN

• Ezekiel 331-11
• Ezekiel 317-21

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WATCHMEN OF CHRIST

• (Eph 618) Praying always with all prayer and
  supplication in the Spirit, and watching
  thereunto with all perseverance and supplication
  for all saints (19) And for me, that utterance
  may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth
  boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
  (20) For which I am an ambassador in bonds that
  therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
• (Phi 23) Let nothing be done through strife or
  vainglory but in lowliness of mind let each
  esteem other better than themselves. (4) Look
  not every man on his own things, but every man
  also on the things of others. (5) Let this mind
  be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus

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WATCHMEN TO OUR BRETHREN

• (Heb 125) And ye have forgotten the exhortation
  which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son,
  despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor
  faint when thou art rebuked of him (6) For whom
  the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
  every son whom he receiveth. (7) If ye endure
  chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons
  for what son is he whom the father chasteneth
  not? (8) But if ye be without chastisement,
  whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards,
  and not sons. (9) Furthermore we have had
  fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we
  gave them reverence shall we not much rather be
  in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and
  live? (10) For they verily for a few days
  chastened us after their own pleasure but he for
  our profit, that we might be partakers of his
  holiness. (11) Now no chastening for the present
  seemeth to be joyous, but grievous nevertheless
  afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
  righteousness unto them which are exercised
  thereby.

• (Rev 319) As many as I love, I rebuke and
  chasten be zealous therefore, and repent. (20)
  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock if any
  man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come
  in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
  (21) To him that overcometh will I grant to sit
  with me in my throne, even as I also overcame,
  and am set down with my Father in his throne.
  (22) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
  Spirit saith unto the churches.

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WATCHMEN TO OUR BRETHREN

• Rebuke-
• to reprimand words expressive of disapproval of
  behavior that is not Christ-like
• Admonish-
• 1. To instruct or direct.
• 2. To warn or notify of a fault to reprove with
  mildness
• 3. To counsel against wrong practices to caution
  or advise
• 4. to reprove a member of the church for a fault,
  either publicly or privately the first step of
  church discipline. It is followed by of, or
  against as, to admonish of a fault committed, or
  against committing a fault. It has a like use in
  colleges.

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WATCHMEN TO OUR BRETHREN

• (Rom 1514) I myself also am persuadedthat ye
  are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge,
  able also to admonish one another.
• (Titus 215) rebuke with all authority. Let no
  man despise thee.
• (I Tim 520-21) Them that sin rebuke before
  alldoing nothing by partiality.
• (Titus 111-14) rebuke them sharply

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WATCHMEN TO OUR BRETHREN

• (Mat 1815) Moreover if thy brother shall
  trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault
  between thee and him alone if he shall hear
  thee, thou hast gained thy brother. (16) But if
  he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or
  two more, that in the mouth of two or three
  witnesses every word may be established. (17)
  And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it
  unto the church but if he neglect to hear the
  church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man
  and a publican.
• (1Jo 317) But whoso hath this world's good, and
  seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his
  bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the
  love of God in him? (18) My little children, let
  us not love in word, neither in tongue but in
  deed and in truth.

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WATCHMEN TO OUR BRETHREN

• (Tit 310) A man that is an heretick after the
  first and second admonition reject
• (2Jo 18) Look to yourselves, that we lose not
  those things which we have wrought, but that we
  receive a full reward. (9) Whosoever
  transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of
  Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the
  doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and
  the Son. (10) If there come any unto you, and
  bring not this doctrine, receive him not into
  your house, neither bid him God speed (11) For
  he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his
  evil deeds.
• (Rom 1617) Now I beseech you, brethren, mark
  them which cause divisions and offences contrary
  to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid
  them. (18) For they that are such serve not our
  Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly and by
  good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts
  of the simple.

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WATCHMEN TO OUR BRETHREN

• (2Th 34) And we have confidence in the Lord
  touching you, that ye both do and will do the
  things which we command you. (5) And the Lord
  direct your hearts into the love of God, and into
  the patient waiting for Christ. (6) Now we
  command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from
  every brother that walketh disorderly, and not
  after the tradition which he received of us. (7)
  For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us
  for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among
  you
• (1Co 511) But now I have written unto you not
  to keep company, if any man that is called a
  brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an
  idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an
  extortioner with such an one no not to eat. (12)
  For what have I to do to judge them also that
  are without? do not ye judge them that are
  within? (13) But them that are without God
  judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves
  that wicked person.

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WATCHMEN TO THE WORLD

• (Mat 2819) Go ye therefore, and teach all
  nations, baptizing them in the name of the
  Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
  (20) Teaching them to observe all things
  whatsoever I have commanded you and, lo, I am
  with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
  Amen.
• (Mat 514) Ye are the light of the world. A city
  that is set on an hill cannot be hid. (15)
  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a
  bushel, but on a candlestick and it giveth light
  unto all that are in the house. (16) Let your
  light so shine before men, that they may see your
  good works, and glorify your Father which is in
  heaven.

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PREACHING THE GOSPEL

• (Acts 165) the churches increased in number
  daily
• (Acts 931) these that have turned the world
  upside down
• (Col 123) the gospel was preached to every
  creatureunder heaven

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THE GOSPEL IS FOR ALL

• (Joh 317) For God sent not his Son into the
  world to condemn the world but that the world
  through him might be saved.
• (Col 127) To whom God would make known what is
  the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
  Gentiles which is Christ in you, the hope of
  glory (28) Whom we preach, warning EVERY man,
  and teaching EVERY man in all wisdom that we may
  present EVERY man perfect in Christ Jesus

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WARNING OF DANGER!!!

• (1Pe 58) Be sober, be vigilant because your
  adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh
  about, seeking whom he may devour

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CAUTION TO THE REBUKER

• (1Ti 51) Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him
  as a father and the younger men as brethren (2)
  The elder women as mothers the younger as
  sisters, with all purity.
• (Mat 73) And why beholdest thou the mote that
  is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the
  beam that is in thine own eye? (4) Or how wilt
  thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote
  out of thine eye and, behold, a beam is in thine
  own eye? (5) Thou hypocrite, first cast out the
  beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou
  see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
  brother's eye.
• (Mat 2313) But woe unto you, scribes and
  Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom
  of heaven against men for ye neither go in
  yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are
  entering to go in. (23) Woe unto you, scribes
  and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of
  mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the
  weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy,
  and faith these ought ye to have done, and not
  to leave the other undone. (24) Ye blind guides,
  which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. (25)
  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
  for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of
  the platter, but within they are full of
  extortion and excess. (26) Thou blind Pharisee,
  cleanse first that which is within the cup and
  platter, that the outside of them may be clean
  also. (27) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
  hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited
  sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful
  outward, but are within full of dead men's bones,
  and of all uncleanness. (28) Even so ye also
  outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within
  ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

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THE PURPOSE

• II Thess 314- that he might be ashamed
• I Co 55- that the spirit may be saved in the
  day of the Lord Jesus.
• Col 128- that we may present every man perfect
  in Christ Jesus

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WHAT TYPE OF WATCHMEN ARE WE?

• Like Jonah??
• (Isa 5610) His watchmen are blind they are all
  ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot
  bark sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
  (11) Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never
  have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot
  understand they all look to their own way, every
  one for his gain, from his quarter. (12) Come
  ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill
  ourselves with strong drink and to morrow shall
  be as this day, and much more abundant.