The Bible

1
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• What is apostasy? (2 Thess 23) falling away

2
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• 2 Thessalonians 23 (NKJV) - Let no one deceive
  you by any means for that Day will not come
  unless the falling away comes first, and the man
  of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

3
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• avpostasia a falling away, defection,
  apostasy in the Bible namely, from the
  true religion Acts 2121 2 Thess. 23
  (Josh. 2222 2 Chr. 2919 3319) Jer.
  219 - Thayers Lexicon

4
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• avpostasia - as a condition resulting from
  changing loyalties revolt, desertion as a
  religious technical term (1) apostasy, rebellion
  (2TH 2.3) (2) defection, abandonment (AC 21.21)
  - Freiberg Lexicon

5
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• A Changing of loyalties is a good description
  of the term. (Jer 219)

6
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• Jeremiah 219 (NKJV) - Your own wickedness will
  correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke
  you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil
  and bitter thing That you have forsaken the Lord
  your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,
  Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

7
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• Did the apostle Paul ever teach on this subject?
  (Acts 2026-32)

8
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• Acts 2026-32 (NKJV) - Therefore I testify to you
  this day that I am innocent of the blood of all
  men. 27For I have not shunned to declare to you
  the whole counsel of God. 28Therefore take heed
  to yourselves and to all the flock, among which
  the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to
  shepherd the church of God which He purchased
  with His own blood.

9
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• 29For I know this, that after my departure savage
  wolves will come in among you, not sparing the
  flock. 30Also from among yourselves men will rise
  up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the
  disciples after themselves. 31Therefore watch,
  and remember that for three years I did not cease
  to warn everyone night and day with tears.

10
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• 32So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to
  the word of His grace, which is able to build you
  up and give you an inheritance among all those
  who are sanctified.

11
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• For three years I did not cease to warn everyone
  night and day with tears.

12
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• For three years I did not cease to warn everyone
  night and day with tears.
• When was the last time you hear a single sermon
  on this subject?

13
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• Apostasy is defined by a people who demand the
  kind of teaching they want rather than demanding
  Gods will alone without compromise be taught.
  (2 Tim 41-4)

14
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• 2 Timothy 41-4 (NKJV) - I charge you therefore
  before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will
  judge the living and the dead at His appearing
  and His kingdom 2Preach the word! Be ready in
  season and out of season. Convince, rebuke,
  exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

15
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• 3For the time will come when they will not endure
  sound doctrine, but according to their own
  desires, because they have itching ears, they
  will heap up for themselves teachers 4and they
  will turn their ears away from the truth, and be
  turned aside to fables.

16
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• Is this an optional subject? Ask Paul! I charge
  you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus
  Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at
  His appearing and His kingdom.

17
The Bibles warnings of apostasy are widely
ignored

• People can ask for Bible teaching and be running
  away from God. Look back at where
  you attend and see not only what has been taught,
  but what has not been taught.

18
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• If one concedes that the Bible is from God then
  several things must also be true about
  the Bible. (2 Tim 316-17)

19
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• 2 Timothy 316-17 (NKJV) - All Scripture is
  given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
  for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
  instruction in righteousness, 17that the man of
  God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for
  every good work.

20
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• ..that the man of God may be complete,
  thoroughly equipped for every good
  work.

21
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• ..that the man of God may be complete,
  thoroughly equipped for every good
  work.
• Anything that God provides man is sufficient for
  the task it is intended! Creation
  (Gen 131) Jesus as our Savior (Heb 725)

22
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• Genesis 131 (NKJV) - Then God saw everything
  that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So
  the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

23
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• Hebrews 725 (NKJV) - Therefore He is also able
  to save to the uttermost those who come to God
  through Him, since He always lives to make
  intercession for them.

24
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• Ones attitude towards the Bible will in fact
  show ones attitude towards God. (Jn 1248)

25
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• John 1248 (NKJV) - He who rejects Me, and does
  not receive My words, has that which judges
  himthe word that I have spoken will judge him in
  the last day.

26
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• If we love God, then we must be seeking truth!
  Men quickly reveal their hearts
  when a Bible is opened and light is shown on
  their deeds. (Jn 319-21)

27
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• John 319-21 (NKJV) - And this is the
  condemnation, that the light has come into the
  world, and men loved darkness rather than light,
  because their deeds were evil. 20For everyone
  practicing evil hates the light and does not come
  to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  21But he who does the truth comes to the light,
  that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they
  have been done in God.

28
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• Two attitudes two destinies Where are you? (1
  Jn 41, 6)

29
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• 1 John 41 (NKJV) - Beloved, do not believe every
  spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of
  God because many false prophets have gone out
  into the world.

30
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• 1 John 46 (NKJV) - We are of God. He who knows
  God hears us he who is not of God does not hear
  us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the
  spirit of error.

31
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• What do people mean when they call others
  legalist, traditionalist, and Pharisees?
  Ask them if they can find and stand in the
  truth?

32
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• What do people mean when they call others
  legalist, traditionalist, and Pharisees?
  Ask them if they can find and stand in the
  truth?
• It is not legalism or traditionalism to
  pursue a principled life based upon definitive
  answers found in the word of God.

33
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• New Testament Christians would have been startled
  that anyone would ever question the need to seek
  the truth about all things God revealed.

34
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• Consider how the Apostle John described
  Christians in 2 John.

35
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• Consider how the Apostle John described
  Christians in 2 John.
• all those who have known the truth (11)

36
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• Consider how the Apostle John described
  Christians in 2 John.
• all those who have known the truth (11)
• the truth which abides in us and will be with us
  forever (12)

37
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• Consider how the Apostle John described
  Christians in 2 John.
• all those who have known the truth (11)
• the truth which abides in us and will be with us
  forever (12)
• I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of
  your children walking in truth, as we received
  commandment from the Father (14)

38
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• Later John plainly wrote that we need to know if
  we are of the truth. (1 Jn 319)

39
The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect
God

• 1 John 319 (NKJV) - And by this we know that we
  are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts
  before Him.

40
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• Must we have authority from God for everything we
  do we have the right to act when God is
  silent? Look at the repeated, emphatic response
  of Jesus!

41
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• Must we have authority from God for everything we
  do we have the right to act when God is
  silent? Look at the repeated, emphatic response
  of Jesus!
• Jesus whole life was focused on doing the will
  of the Father who sent Me. (Jn 519-21, 30)

42
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• John 519-21 (NKJV) - Then Jesus answered and
  said to them, Most assuredly, I say to you, the
  Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees
  the Father do for whatever He does, the Son also
  does in like manner. 20For the Father loves the
  Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself
  does and He will show Him greater works than
  these, that you may marvel.

43
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• 21For as the Father raises the dead and gives
  life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom
  He will.

44
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• John 530 (NKJV) - I can of Myself do nothing.
  As I hear, I judge and My judgment is righteous,
  because I do not seek My own will but the will of
  the Father who sent Me.

45
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• There was not a single thing Jesus did without
  the fellowship and authority of
  the Father. (Jn 828-29)

46
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• John 828-29 (NKJV) - Then Jesus said to them,
  When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will
  know that I am He, and that I do nothing of
  Myself but as My Father taught Me, I speak these
  things. 29And He who sent Me is with Me. The
  Father has not left Me alone, for I always do
  those things that please Him.

47
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• If someone really wishes to please God then they
  will walk in these same footsteps.

48
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• If someone really wishes to please God then they
  will walk in these same footsteps.
• What does perfect mean? What does every good
  work mean? If the silence of the Bible means
  that we can do what we think, then I do not know
  of a single doctrine of the Bible that is not
  compromised and made meaningless.

49
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• God showed in the Old Testament that the silence
  of the scriptures is restrictive! (Lev 101-3)

50
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• Leviticus 101-3 (NKJV) - Then Nadab and Abihu,
  the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put
  fire in it, put incense on it, and offered
  profane fire before the Lord, which He had not
  commanded them. 2So fire went out from the Lord
  and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

51
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• 3And Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord
  spoke, saying By those who come near Me I must
  be regarded as holy And before all the people I
  must be glorified. So Aaron held his peace.

52
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• The New Testament recognizes this point and
  expects men to have the same view. (Heb 712-14
  2 Jn 9-11)

53
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• Hebrews 712-14 (NKJV) - For the priesthood being
  changed, of necessity there is also a change of
  the law. 13For He of whom these things are spoken
  belongs to another tribe, from which no man has
  officiated at the altar. 14For it is evident that
  our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses
  spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

54
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• 2 John 9-11 (NKJV) - Whoever transgresses and
  does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not
  have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ
  has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone
  comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do
  not receive him into your house nor greet him
  11for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.

55
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• When men say there is no God-given way to read
  the Bible (Hermeneutics), they are badly wrong!

56
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• When men say there is no God-given way to read
  the Bible (Hermeneutics), they are badly wrong!
• Maybe Nadab and Abihu have an argument at the
  judgment!

57
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• When men say there is no God-given way to read
  the Bible (Hermeneutics), they are badly wrong!
• Maybe Nadab and Abihu have an argument at the
  judgment!
• From a positive standpoint we can understand the
  proper view of the silence of the scriptures. (1
  Pt 411 Col 317)

58
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• 1 Peter 411 (NKJV) - If anyone speaks, let him
  speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers,
  let him do it as with the ability which God
  supplies, that in all things God may be glorified
  through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory
  and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

59
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• Colossians 317 (NKJV) - And whatever you do in
  word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord
  Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through
  Him.

60
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• There are some fundamental conclusions that every
  Christian must draw.

61
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• There are some fundamental conclusions that every
  Christian must draw.
• We must know if a teaching or practice is
  authorized by Gods word!

62
Jesus showed us by example how to respect the
revealed will of God

• Every Christian must be willing to give Book,
  Chapter, and Verse for any practice or
  teaching they engage in. (Col 317).

63
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Some are boldly claiming we do not need authority
  to act. Many are attributing this
  approach as coming from men

64
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Not surprisingly, our historic legalism has
  created legalistic hermeneutics within the
  Churches of Christ. Thus, before we read the
  first word of Scripture, we have already brought
  certain false presuppositions to the process. For
  example, traditionally, we in the Churches of
  Christ have looked at the Scriptures to tell what
  is authorized.

65
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• But before we look at the Scriptures, we decide
  that the question is one of authority. But, you
  see, the Scriptures not only tell us the answer,
  they tell us the questions, and authority is not
  one of the questions addressed by the New
  Testament.

66
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• It is, however, a doctrine invented by John
  Calvin and still taught by strict Calvinists. You
  see, the Campbells and Stone were strict
  Calvinists by education, and although they
  rejected the Calvinistic view of salvation, they
  did continue in the mainstream of Calvinistic
  hermeneutical thought. Jay Gwin, Do We Teach
  Another Gospel?

67
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Not surprisingly brother Gwin includes within his
  description of legalist those who oppose
  instrumental music in worship.

68
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Not surprisingly brother Gwin includes within his
  description of legalist those who oppose
  instrumental music in worship.
• How can we know if it is from God or from men?

69
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Not surprisingly brother Gwin includes within his
  description of legalist those who oppose
  instrumental music in worship.
• How can we know if it is from God or from men?
  
• How many who hold this position will fairly
  discuss it? Attitudes reveal hearts.

70
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Sadly, many preachers within churches of Christ
  will not be so bold. They will use other
  language that the hearer cannot understand.

71
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• 1. Patternist - It is time to admit that in
  our churches, a wide variety of people from
  all walks of life...simply do not find patternism
  and legalism to be meaningful themes (p. 121). -
  Dr. Richard Hughes, Reclaiming a Heritage
  Reflections on the Heart, Soul and Future of
  Churches of Christ.

72
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Biblically the term pattern is equivalent to
  authority! (Heb 85)

73
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Hebrews 85 (NKJV) - who serve the copy and
  shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was
  divinely instructed when he was about to make the
  tabernacle. For He said, See that you make all
  things according to the pattern shown you on the
  mountain.

74
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Is it legalism to take every word that come
  from God on a subject and
  properly apply it and stay within what is
  revealed? (Mt 34)

75
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Matthew 34 (NKJV) - Now John himself was clothed
  in camels hair, with a leather belt around his
  waist and his food was locusts and wild honey.

76
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• If it is a matter of misapplied scripture then
  show where that is done!

77
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Propositional Baconian -

78
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Propositional Baconian -
• What has become sad is that current day CENIist
  deny the origins of their logician hermeneutic.
  D. R. Dungan gladly praised the origins ofhis
  hermeneutical method and quoted Bacon in his book
  on hermeneutics. Dungan wrote, "... Bacon, to
  whom we are largely, if not wholly, indebted for
  this method of philosophy" (p. 82).

79
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• According to Dungan, the purpose of the inductive
  method is to report all the facts, "and from them
  the conclusion is to be reached" (p. 83).
  Discussion with a Christian Church Preacher

80
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• According to Dungan, the purpose of the inductive
  method is to report all the facts, "and from them
  the conclusion is to be reached" (p. 83).
  Discussion with a Christian Church Preacher
• This kind of reasoning from scripture existed
  long before Francis Bacon.

81
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• According to Dungan, the purpose of the inductive
  method is to report all the facts, "and from them
  the conclusion is to be reached" (p. 83).
  Discussion with a Christian Church Preacher
• This kind of reasoning from scripture existed
  long before Francis Bacon.
• What doctrine does not involve logic and
  application? (Jn 717)

82
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• John 717 (NKJV) - If anyone wills to do His
  will, he shall know concerning the doctrine,
  whether it is from God or whether I speak on My
  own authority.

83
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• CENI Hermeneutic - Why does CENI consistently
  distort narratives, poetry, parables, doxologies,
  psalms, wisdom, personal correspondence,
  beatitudes, etc. into one monotonous invective?
  Why would any conscientious "common sense"
  Christian allow such distortions to go
  unchallenged? Discussion with a Christian
  Church Preacher

84
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Pattern puzzle pieces come in three shapes,
  according to Church of Christ pattern-seekers.
  Each piece bears the form either of an express
  command ("C"), an approved example ("E"), or a
  necessary inference ("NI"). But the picture on
  the completed puzzle is surrounded on four sides
  with a very thick border.

85
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• According to the pattern-seekers, this means that
  every detail of church structure, worship,
  leadership, and ministry must be "authorized" by
  one of those puzzle pieces, or else it is
  unlawful. By their reckoning, silence does not
  mean consent. It means absolute prohibition
  ("S").

86
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• We will refer to this doctrinal system as
  "CENI-S," an abbreviation for "command, example,
  necessary inference" and "silence." Ed Fudge,
  the Plague of Patternism

87
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• We will refer to this doctrinal system as
  "CENI-S," an abbreviation for "command, example,
  necessary inference" and "silence." Ed Fudge,
  the Plague of Patternism
• CENI is a description of language. It is like
  noun, verb and pronoun! Why object to these
  things?

88
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Does the Bible approve of following examples and
  drawing inferences? (1
  Cor 111 Mk 1223-27)

89
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• 1 Corinthians 111 (NKJV) - Imitate me, just as I
  also imitate Christ.

90
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Mark 1223-27 (NKJV) - Therefore, in the
  resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she
  be? For all seven had her as wife. 24Jesus
  answered and said to them, Are you not therefore
  mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures
  nor the power of God? 25For when they rise from
  the dead, they neither marry nor are given in
  marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

91
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• 26But concerning the dead, that they rise, have
  you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning
  bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, I am
  the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
  of Jacob? 27He is not the God of the dead, but
  the God of the living. You are therefore greatly
  mistaken.

92
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• We should read the Bible as a narrative. or
  We should only preach expository sermons.
  treat the Bible as a narrative that tells the
  story of Gods mighty deeds on behalf of the
  world which he created, which he seeks to redeem
  and over which he someday will triumph when his
  rule is complete (p. 186).  Richard Hughes,
  Reclaiming a Heritage

93
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• I believe we should go back to the Bible free
  of any shackles of doctrinal issues of churches
  of Christ and just read it as a story (which is
  what it is). Not seeking to find justification or
  argumentation over some preconceived notion about
  righteousness, holiness, patterns, etc.

94
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• But, reading it as a Christological document (see
  the Art of Reading Scripture), I think we will be
  greatly enriched and many of our rigid rules will
  become more nuanced and refreshed. We may even
  drop some rules and we may actually add some
  depth of commitment to the call to discipleship.

95
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• As we do that, and as we begin to glean the true
  intent of this story and reinvestigate the real
  meaning of various contexts that have dominated
  us in our issues we will have done ourselves
  a great favor.

96
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• We will not be propositional Baconians nor will
  we be relativist postmoderns (though, to one
  degree or another, we will miss some points and
  probably lean in one or both of those directions
  at different times in specific instances). But,
  we will be Bible storytellers. From a preacher
  in a non-institutional church

97
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• I recently hear a preacher in Auburn say that he
  would only emphasize the subjects that come from
  expository preaching.

98
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• I recently hear a preacher in Auburn say that he
  would only emphasize the subjects that come from
  expository preaching.
• He likely will refuse to make applications to
  present day issues that flow from a study of
  scripture. I doubt he would oppose instrumental
  music because that issue in not specifically
  debated in scripture.

99
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Reading without personal application is vain!
  (Heb 512-14)

100
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Hebrews 512-14 (NKJV) - For though by this time
  you ought to be teachers, you need someone to
  teach you again the first principles of the
  oracles of God and you have come to need milk
  and not solid food. 13For everyone who partakes
  only of milk is unskilled in the word of
  righteousness, for he is a babe.

101
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• 14But solid food belongs to those who are of full
  age, that is, those who by reason of use have
  their senses exercised to discern both good and
  evil.

102
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Where will the church be in the next 30 years?
  (Acts 2026-32)

103
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Acts 2026-32 (NKJV) - Therefore I testify to you
  this day that I am innocent of the blood of all
  men. 27For I have not shunned to declare to you
  the whole counsel of God. 28Therefore take heed
  to yourselves and to all the flock, among which
  the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to
  shepherd the church of God which He purchased
  with His own blood.

104
Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• 29For I know this, that after my departure savage
  wolves will come in among you, not sparing the
  flock. 30Also from among yourselves men will rise
  up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the
  disciples after themselves. 31Therefore watch,
  and remember that for three years I did not cease
  to warn everyone night and day with tears.

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• 32So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to
  the word of His grace, which is able to build you
  up and give you an inheritance among all those
  who are sanctified.

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• Know the word of God.

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Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Know the word of God.
• Be experienced in dealing with and solving
  problems Gods way.

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Attitudes and arguments of those who reject the
limits of Gods authority

• Know the word of God.
• Be experienced in dealing with and solving
  problems Gods way.
• Be prepared to deal with the trends within the
  religious world.