Zeal vs. Zeal (Part B)

Very simple. Don't be intimidated by the word docs teaching is another word, is what we believe.

So the angel says, speak to the people all the words of this life that is doctrine. That is what we believe about this life because of Jesus Christ and you're not going to stumble into it. You're not going to just somehow figure it out on your own.

These things come to the spirit of God. This is cross reference radio with our pastor and teacher Rick Gaston.

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Pastor Rick will continue his message called seal versus seal as he teaches through acts chapter 5.

These men when they were delivered from jail. They might've thought what was going to go home. That's not what was happening and they probably did go home first. Any well anyway they return to that spot. The place of arrest will land them in honorable beating before this is all over.

He says and speak to the people all the words of this life well servants. That's what they were and they weren't called to be free, they were called to preach.

We have come to expect this from these apostles as we move through.

We watch them mature from the days of his walk with Christ in Galilee.

There are times to flee their times to engage directly engage go back to Kings again with that prophet Elijah.

At one point they come to arrest him and he said man of God, come with us.

You're under arrest and he says if I'm a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and they were gone. That is a pretty powerful prophet, but before that going back to his great escape. God said him get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook unit which flows into the Jordan.

And he wasn't ashamed to hide at the command of God. That's what was called for and he wasn't ashamed to go stand in front of Ahab. When that was called for either what is this reference here speak to the people all the words of this life. Okay Christians, what do you speak to people well. I hope that when you do speak the words of life. It is at the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Peter has the honor of claiming this phrase in the Bible, the words of life in John's Gospel when you Jesus didn't ask people to come back to church when they decided to leave his okay see and a transit on the state you stand, you going to and this is a pattern that I think the churches should follow well at this point, Jesus preached a sermon that a lot of people didn't like so much so that is where out here leaving this church coming back. There was talk like that get the feeling had to do some of your love other churches did you say that like that. I anyway just having a little fun don't go get uptight over that what you want because the anointing is on anyway. Jesus said to the 12. Do you also want to go away and Simon answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go. You have the words of eternal life. Love that where we go to go nobodies got this just you not given it up for anybody.

Some of those people that left I like them but this is where I belong. Wish we would catch more of that. So Peter is the one and later he will write his divine power has given to all things that pertain to life. It is one of the Scripture verses that a lot of Christians bypass even reject the don't believe that the Scripture gives you all the words that pertain to human behavior you want to know how to behave, what to do. I think one of the setbacks for great causes of Christians come crumbling is that they're not ready for the opposition God says I'm going to be with you, but he does not say you will not be opposed to promises all those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution in one form or another beer from your flesh, be it from somebody else it's coming when you know this is the head is not so young sucker punched you ready for this and thinking that God is just going to sweep all of your bad feelings your moods away your depression away your your anger, your road rage is not to happen like that, more than likely what is going to happen is you're going to have to draw your short sword because the enemy is going to be that close to you. Your long-sought is going to be useless at that point, you need both and II think that the this is the role of the pastor to ready the sheep because he's gotta be ready himself so I'm not just telling you semi-retire words rhyme just up and semi retired at the face these things I face them to their things that give me a knot in my stomach. There are things pastoring that gosh how to deal with this. Well, that's the heat in the kitchen and that's where you been called to take it. Okay I'm going to take it. But, but don't want to take it.

Lord, if you're not with me I'm going to be with you right everything gets better after that. This is an ongoing process. It's not a one time deal. It's not I'm I'm strong today and I'm going to be strong forever in this life is not how it works it works is I'm strong today and I can be strong. Next time, if I follow the basics and stick with the Lord well they are told. Give the words that is the complete gospel.

Do not leave out that which hurts and make sure you don't leave out that which helps. This is what they're told to do. You have filled prescription until somebody we do not have and have filled gospel. We have the whole thing.

The worst results follow. Keeping back the doctrine. What are you saving them to well I you know I I'm not going to tell them the truth. Also, because I tell you the truth, and I know your enemy. Well, it has to be that way because I'm colliding you to be your friend women. I see the results of holding back doctrine from preaching our faith and being witnesses, but they will follow they will come. The damage will happen if we withhold the truth, and the teaching maybe the next generation will parade the damage for us. Maybe some of that is what's going on.

The churches have been withholding the truth, withholding the doctrine preoccupied. Not all churches, of course, but many of them preoccupy which is getting people into the pews and getting attendance and building on that additional whatever ulcers they trying to do except preached Christ maybe that next generation will parade the damage done by truth concealed or withheld unsaved people are sinners under the blanket of darkness. Therefore, they are blind and to help them get out of that there is that witness of our life and there's the preaching of the truth.

This is consider some doctrines that you should know the advents plural of Christ, that is his first coming and his second coming, which is not yet occurred. The virgin birth. You know how to preach about this a miracle as I don't believe in a rigorous cradle in heaven. Well that's all point whole point of the virgin birth is saying this is unlike anything you've ever seen before and it's only the beginning of what's coming. The virtuous life of Christ that he and he alone was sinless, no one else, no one else of human beings sinless except the Christ, his death in my place doctrinally called vicarious death, the death of Christ for me.

Christ died on the cross as a sinner being sinless, though taking my punishment for my sin.

He died for me as me covers all sinners is victorious resurrection. Don't leave that out. He is the one that died and got up again the deity of Christ, do you do we preach that the Christ is the son of God.

Therefore, equal with the father, not counting it robbery to be equal with the father or away preoccupy with our own problems that we can get to these doctrines.

Maybe that's why God doesn't bring the unbelievers our way. The doctrine of justification how God sees me because of my relationship with Jesus Christ that he doesn't look at my sins, he sees what Christ is done, that he is washed them all away that this justification does not belong to everybody, but only to those who come sanctification. The processes of Christianity and the development as a Christian becoming more and more like Christ glorification what we get in the end, the rewards we get heaven. No more tears, no more sorrow, more telemarketers, God loves them to have the gift of annoyance annoyance anyway. Grace and commandments we need to preach these things to unbelievers and I were so serious doctrine for later. Know it's not all doctrine is for right now if we can articulate. Paul taught believers in Thessalonica about the second coming of Christ the end times. The filling of the Spirit indwelling of the spirit. The ruin that sin is done to all humanity, the redemption that is available and the judgment to come. These are doctrines and when it when the apostles were told to go teach.

This was in their teaching. It belong to it. Should someone have cross-examined them, asked them a question they would've been ready because of the doctrine you take notes. That's one thing do you study those most of the doctrine get in you. Can you say this is what I believe is a fundamentals not complicate now, there are those that can take any one of the doctrines that I listed and complicated so much.

You will know what what to believe. You gotta learn to avoid those types. They write thick books on one subject just to let you know these things are very simple. Don't be intimidated by the word doctrine. Teaching is another word, is what we believe. So the angel says, speak to the people all the words of this life that is doctrine. That is what we believe about this life because of Jesus Christ and you're not going to stumble into it. You're not going to just somehow figure it out on your own. These things come to the spirit of God.

They are taught.

Every Christian is to be homeschooled in Christ by their father, and he uses the Christ and the Holy Spirit, and himself, and this is how he has arranged it.

I admire universities know how much knowledge is there to appoint and there's the point I don't come up here and teach you about medicine or civil engineering or science, and I don't appreciate them teaching the word of God that is for the house of God, and by doing it the way they've done it. They have complicated and ruined everything.

If you ask me. Will no one to ask you little asked myself. Anyway, I'll restrain him as I'm getting zealous. I'm becoming hot because it is about zeal. I want Christians to be in schools to be in universities to be in many places, not every place, but in many places. We want the Christians to be to bring the gospel but we want to understand to the importance of the church. As I said this I think last week, you should not have the same feeling when you walk into a supermarket or a retail store or a garage or anywhere a hospital should not have the same feeling as when you walk into the house of God.

It is the only place that I know of work. Christ says that he bought the church ecclesia the assembly with his blood of he feels that way about I'm going to feel that way about. I believe in these things because I believe the Bible teaches them.

I believe in the high office of a pastor, not because I am a pastor but because the Bible teaches that when Paul said to Titus. Don't let them despise your authority. We need these kind of things do you feel a little uneasy around your pastor, you should. That's a good thing I didn't.

I'm not totally uneasy. I would be a bad thing but there's that little legend.

You know this guy bites and it's good when I would row my pastor. I know you know he's my pastor he's got this authority that I consent to, and this holds everything together better than anything else. It's called reverence and reverence is a good thing if it is not abused well. Coming back to this seal versus seal because as the apostles was zealous for what they were preaching there with those zealous for shutting them down. They were so jealous that they murdered Christ to do it. Verse 21 and when they had heard that they entered the temple early in the morning and taught, but the high priest and those with him came called counsel together with all the elders of the children of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought I been waiting for this verse. All morning just to say this little thing when they heard that that spooked the men they were delivered by an angel go preach it. They were scope when they heard that, I just love this part of of of verse 21 in the section, wherein the angel in verse 20 told him go and they're going. They entered the temple early in the morning and taught they were called to preach and it will call to pray in the recall to perform now this part about they entered the temple early in the morning, will they were delivered at night, which suggests that well okay were freed from jail. Let's go home, freshen up is we've got to get to the temple early and that's what seems to be going on. Luke doesn't bog us down with those details.

He's got better ones for us. Verse 22 but when the officers came and did not find them in the prison they returned and reported. Verse 23 saying. Indeed, we found the prison shut securely in the guard standing outside before the doors, but when we open them.

We found no when inside.

Verse 24 now when the high priest the captain of the temple and the chief priest heard these things, they wondered what the outcome would be a I bet they did so they are then delivered miraculously from this jail and when the offices come to bring them before the Council. They find them not there. They report this to in verse 21, where it says the entered the temple in the morning, but the high priest and those with him came called counsel that is big counsel going about the disciples they go to bring them before them there gone spiritual blindness to Christ is worth any other handicap known to man because of its reach. It reaches beyond this life.

It takes people to hell. And of course Satan has decided if we can just blow that word hell to make it mean less than what it means, we will dumbed down a lot of people and so is user what the unit everywhere. You know the before they can just say no that the put that in front of it. Why does somebody have to say hell no.

When I say no to Helen draw closer to Christ instead got all messed up. Why because you blind you can't see on the road.

Are you looking at Christ.

You can see who he is.

Second Corinthians 4 Paul's heart was never far away from reaching the lost. Desiring to Reese's whose mind the god of this age has blinded. Satan is only god of this age, because he is been appointed by the people under his sway God is that controlling influence and some people have a controlling influence. That's a lie called idolatry. They make up their own gods so impulses, whose mind, the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe last the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. You can't sit you cannot say that about any angel or any profit but could someone say you have the image of God. We are made in his image, but that image has been marred by sin. So when you look at another human being. You not seeing what God created your seeing what is happened because of sin, and then the reconstruction starts when your born-again regenerated into the image of Christ would be blasphemous if he were less than God. To say I'm being transformed into the image of someone less than God that's not good enough know I'm being transformed into the image of the son of God who is God the son, so those who are looking to protest against decency in churches and today there's do you know they got the their word out to go disrupt and agitate their blind their blind they don't see who Christ is and they don't see where they're going. That does not excuse the this kind of blindness is not something that will pardon them they must come to Christ. Paul when he gives a testimony about his convergences. I saw the light I saw nothing of the world like to goof on you know them a comedy of those little brother.

No you did not, and if you didn't, you too dumb to go to lighten you deserve to be dead. You say that's harsh but true. I mean, you know sometimes. Sometimes it's the bad cop in us, that has to make its point and I just use the bad cop in me. I like the bad cop in me. I just gotta watch him because he gets you know the bad anyway. Verse 25 someone came and told him, saying, look, the man whom you put in prison or standing in the temple and teaching the people there they go again. What an exciting time to be a Christian in Jerusalem right now struggles on the horizon. Death is coming to believers. Verse 26 then the captain went with the officers brought them without violence, for they feared the people. Thus, they should be stoned yeah that the people were being blessed and here comes the authority now they want to put into this event. Gotta watch their step this.

That was their motive for not abusing the apostles not well they they arrested them peacefully because they were taken by the message which was happening with Christ. Christ preached and want to rest the offices come negative.

Nobody has preach like this we we just couldn't what could we do anyway. The apostles go peacefully now were going to be coming up close to civil disobedience. You verse 27 and when they had brought them. They set them before the Council and the high priest asked them, saying, verse 28 do not strictly command you not to teach in this name and look you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intent to bring this man's blood on us.

They could even say his name. This something very special about the name of Jesus.

In Jesus name, amen.

There is this is a shortened version of the name Yahweh saves that's what the name means the name of Jesus or Joshua Moses is the one that shortened or took Joshua and gave him that that name shortened it anyway. Verse 27, the stark contrast between the apostles and the members of this council. This council they were refined they were religious well educated and powerful. Nothing wrong with any of those except their ministry had no power, because they were antichrist.

That's what where it goes wrong the apostles. They were common people. Some of them not well educated but educated. They were not ignorant men. They were born again and with the power of God.

They were changing lives unlike anything anybody had ever saw the council was trying desperately to retain their influence the Council's influence and not let the apostles outdo them in the people start listening to them.

So with risk to their lives. The apostle state the truth of the living God from his word forward write this to the church in Rome. He wanted to get to Rome as I want to get there. I want to share some some spiritual fruit with you.

I want to make a righteous boast that you know I was there I preached in Rome and he said, but so in writing this letter to them is unashamed of the gospel of Christ. Word is the power of God to salvation to everyone who believes, and that is a fact is not a height requirement await requirement: about that. There's just you, and Christ is hated. This how dare he do that.

Verse 28, they insisted that the apostles submit to the authority didn't we command you, then we did since use pronouns y'all got some nerves at a pronoun and that anyway and look you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine.

What an honor. The enemy is it admitting that they were succeeding in a have to pay a marketing agency to go find out how you were doing teaching the person of Christ is cross his resurrection. The Old Testament law already covered morality and is what to do and still it is a Jew centered Jewish and centered environment there was no need yet to to go into thou shalt not kill – but I steal Paul's going to have to do a lot of that one is dealing with Gentiles, and the church. They are reprinting also the lewdness with them. Polygamy, being just one first Corinthians 2 in connection to your filled Jerusalem with your doctrines.

This will all they were preaching right determine.

Paul wrote to the committee and not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. Wasn't trying to be a shrewd businessman or anything like that.

He was just move you've been listening to cross reference radio daily radio ministry pastor Rick Gaston of Calvary Chapel in Mechanicsville, Virginia.

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