Download New Testament Church part 3

Matt. 16:18
“Upon this rock, I will build My church”
• Thus, this is the Lord’s church
• Since Jesus is Divine – it is a Divine institution
It’s Standard and Discipline
1. Jesus is the Only Head
2. OT is Not Her Law
3. NT is Her Only Guide
4. Application & Meaning
Origin and Establishment
1. Origin of the NT Church
2. Establishment of the NT Church
Its Nature
“Church”
•
The term “church” to many suggest a religious or
social club
•
A good group or a good place to go
•
Confusion when use the term differently
•
So what is the New Testament Church?
•
What is its nature?
Understanding
the Nature
Appreciate It
Reflected In How
Conduct Self In It
1 Tim. 3:15
I write so that you may know how you
ought to conduct yourself in the house of
God, which is the church of the living God.
Its Nature
1. The Saved
1. The Saved
A. Not a building or place
1. Church continually grows (Acts 2:47)
2. There is one church (Eph. 4:4)
3. Jesus died for the church (Acts 20:28)
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1. The Saved
A. Not a building or place
B. People
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Church is made up of men and women (Acts 8:3)
Acts 8:3
3 As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering
every house, and dragging off men and women,
committing them to prison.
1. The Saved
A. Not a building or place
B. People
1.
2.
Church is made up of men and women (Acts 8:3)
Church is made up of saints
Eph. 1:1 – “The saints …. at Ephesus”
Rev. 2:1 – “The church at Ephesus”
Phil. 1:1 – “The saints….at Philippi”
Phil. 4:15 – “No church ….but you only”
Acts 9:13 – “The saints at Jerusalem”
Acts 8:1 – “The church at Jerusalem”
1. The Saved
A. Not a building or place
B. People
C. People who are saved
1.
2.
Not that people are saved – then they join the church
Those who are saved are added to the church (Acts 2:47)
Acts 2:47
praising God and having favor with all the people. And the
Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
1. The Saved
A. Not a building or place
B. People
C. People who are saved
1.
2.
3.
Not that people are saved – then they join the church
Those who are saved are added to the church (Acts 2:47)
Those in the church are those who are Christians (Acts 11)
1. The Saved
Heard
“preaching of
Lord Jesus”
v. 19-20
Believed &
turned to
Lord
v. 21
Christians
v. 26
Disciples
v. 26
seen
the grace
of God
v. 23
Church
v. 26
Its Nature
1. The Saved
2. The Church
2. The Church
A. Translated from Greek: Ekklesia
Church (Ekklesia)
Out of
To Call
Those Who have been called out
2. The Church
A. Translated from Greek: Ekklesia
B. The Nature of this calling
1.
2.
3.
Called by the gospel (2 Thess. 2:14)
Called out of darkness into light (1 Pet. 2:9)
Called to be saints (Eph. 1:1; Phil. 1:1)
who called you out of darkness into His
marvelous light.
Its Nature
1. The Saved
2. The Church
3. The Body
3. The Body
A. Church is the Body
1.
2.
Eph. 1:22-23
Col. 1:18
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3. The Body
A. Church is the Body
B. Comparison to human body
1.
2.
3.
Many members yet one body (1 Cor. 12:20)
Each member has a function (1 Cor. 12:14-19)
No division (1 Cor. 12:24-25)
C. Christ is the head (Col. 1:18; Eph. 1:23)
1.
2.
Authority over the body
Church takes all direction from the head – subject to the head
gave Him to be head over all things to the
church, which is His body.
3. The Body
One Body
Rom. 12:4-5 – many members in one body
1 Cor. 10:17 – one bread and one body
1 Cor. 12:12 – members of the one body
1 Cor. 12:13 – baptized into one body
Eph. 2:16 – reconciled in one body
Col. 3:15 – called in one body
Its Nature
1. The Saved
2. The Church
3. The Body
4. The Kingdom
4. The Kingdom
A. Church and the Kingdom are the same
1.
2.
Premillennialism says they are distinct
They are one and the same in NT
4. The Kingdom
Matt 16:18-19
18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on
this rock I will build My church, and the gates of
Hades shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of
heaven..."
4. The Kingdom
Darkness
Into kingdom
Col. 1:13
Darkness
In Lord
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1 Cor. 12:13
4. The Kingdom
A. Church and the Kingdom are the same
B. Has the essentials of a kingdom
King – Christ
(Col. 1:13)
Throne - Heaven
(Acts 2:30)
Territory - Hearts
(Luke 17:21)
Law - Gospel
(John 12:48)
Citizens - Obey
(Matt. 7:21)
Its Nature
1. The Saved
2. The Church
3. The Body
4. The Kingdom
5. The House
5. The House
A. Church is the house of God
1.
2.
1 Tim. 3:15
House = family
5. The House
A. Church is the house of God
B. Those in the church = Children of God
1.
2.
Rom. 8:16
Thus, all God’s children are in the church
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our
spirit that we are children of God
5. The House
A. Church is the house of God
B. Those in the church = Children of God
C. Born into the family
1.
2.
New birth (John 3:3, 5)
Born again when obey (1 Pet. 1:22-23)
Since you have purified your souls in
obeying the truth through the Spirit in
sincere love of the brethren, love one
another fervently with a pure heart, having
been born again
Its Nature
1. The Saved
2. The Church
3. The Body
4. The Kingdom
5. The House
6. The Temple
6. The Temple
A. Church is the temple of God
1.
2.
1 Cor. 3:16-17
Dedicated to divine service – dwelling place of God
Do you not know that you are the temple
of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in
you? If anyone defiles the temple of God,
God will destroy him. For the temple of
God is holy, which temple you are.
6. The Temple
A. Church is the temple of God
B. We are both part of the temple & priests
1.
2.
If church = temple – then we are part of temple
We are priest in the temple offering sacrifice (1 Pet. 2:5)
you also, as living stones, are being built
up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to
offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to
God through Jesus Christ.
Its Nature
1. The Saved
2. The Church
3. The Body
4. The Kingdom
5. The House
6. The Temple
7. The Bride
7. The Bride
A. Church is the bride of Christ (Eph. 5:22-33)
B. Means:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Love Christ has for us (Eph. 5:25)
Christ is the head of the church (Eph. 5:24)
Church is to be pure (2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:25-27)
If married to another it is spiritual adultery (Rom. 7:1-3)
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as
to the Lord. For the husband is head of the
wife, as also Christ is head of the church;
and He is the Savior of the body.
Its Nature
1. The Saved
2. The Church
3. The Body
4. The Kingdom
5. The House
6. The Temple
7. The Bride
Salvation
Hear the gospel
Believe In Jesus
REPENT of your sins
Confess your faith
Baptized Into Christ
(Rom. 10:17)
(Jn. 8:24)
(Lk. 13:3)
(Matt. 10:32-33)
(Acts 2:38)
REMISSION OF SINS
Faithful until death
(Rev. 2:10)