Progressively Called Out Acts 6:87:60 pew Bible p840842

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Progressively Called OutActs 68-760 (pew Bible
p840-842)

• Meeting Our Challenges Head On
• Old Testament
• The story of God reaching to fallen man
• Abrahamchosen by God as founding father
• JacobIsrael12 sons
• Chosen People
• Chosen to show Gods glory to fallen man
• Called ekklesiaThe Called Out
• Called out of their houses for a purpose

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Progressively Called Out

• Meeting Our Challenges Head On
• The New Testament
• The continued story of God reaching out to fallen
  man
• Apostles chosen by Jesus as founding fathers
• The Bride
• Chosen to show Gods glory to fallen man
• Called ekklesiaThe Called Out
• Called out of their houses for a purpose

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Progressively Called Out

• Meeting Our Challenges Head On
• ekklesiaThe Called Out
• Used 114 times to describe the church
• Used in v38 to describe Israel after they were
  saved from slavery in Egypt
• What is the purpose that we are called to?
• To show Gods glory to fallen man!
• How are we to do this?
• Go and show!

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Progressively Called Out

• Meeting Our Challenges Head On
• Understanding our spiritual heritage
• Rejecting the anointed
• Rejecting the relationship

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Progressively Called Out

• Understanding our spiritual heritagev1-8
• All starts and ends with Gods glory615 72
  55
• They are the people of Israel, chosen to be Gods
  adopted children. God revealed his glory to
  themRomans 94
• Gods glory had departed
• From the tabernacle1Samuel 419-22
• From the templeEzekiel 103-19
• From the people400 silent years

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Progressively Called Out

• Understanding our spiritual heritagev1-8
• Abrahamcalled because of his faith
• Before the Law
• Before circumcision
• Before the tabernacle
• Before the temple
• Before he went to the Promised Land/Israel
• Abraham was saved by grace through faith, before
  the things held so near by the religious leaders.

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Progressively Called Out

• Understanding our spiritual heritagev1-8
• The Jews confused
• Physical descent with spiritual experience
• National heritage with personal faith
• Circumcision with inner purity
• Ritual had taken the place of the enjoyment of
  reality!

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Progressively Called Out

• Rejecting the anointedv9-36
• Joseph and Moses
• Both were called to deliver
• Both were rejected the first time
• Both married Gentile wives while exiled
• Both were accepted by the people the second time
• The prophets and their message was rejected
• They rejected Jesus
• The Jews will recognize Jesus when He returns!

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Progressively Called Out

• Rejecting the relationshipv37-53
• Ten Commandmentsrepeatedly broken
• God dwelt with themworshiped idols
• Made an outward show of worshiping God
• Inwardly they worshiped the surrounding gods
• Built the temple for Godit became their idol

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Progressively Called Out

• They had
• Rejected the Father in the Old Testament
• Rejected the Son by rejecting Jesus
• Now the were rejecting the Holy Spirit by
  rejecting Stephen, coming in His power

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Progressively Called Out

• You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart
  and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist
  the Holy Spirit?NLT
• Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and
  ears, ye do always resist the Holy GhostKJV
• Unwilling to bow to the leadership of the Holy
  Spirit!

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Progressively Called Out

• Instead of seeing Gods truth as seed that
  produces fruit and more seed, the religious
  leaders embalmed the truth and refused to
  accept anything new.Warren Wiersbe

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Progressively Called Out

• By the time Jesus came to earth, the truth of God
  was encrusted with so much tradition that the
  people could not recognize Gods truth when He
  did present it. Mans dead traditions had
  replaced Gods living truthWarren Wiersbe

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Progressively Called Out

• The Result
• Stephen killeddied praying for his accusers
• Jesus stands upthe only time we see Jesus
  standing at the Fathers right hand
• Cheering for His hero?
• Standing, showing His support of Stephen?
• Ready to welcome him home?
• The church moves outno longer a sect of
  JudaismChrist followers
• A move from Jerusalem to the Gentiles

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Progressively Called Out

• In 1948, Auca martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his
  journal, I seek not a long life, but a full one,
  like You, Lord Jesus.
• Two years later, he wrote I must not think it
  strange if God takes in youth those whom I would
  have kept on earth till they were older. God is
  peopling Eternity, and I must not restrict Him to
  old men and women.

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Progressively Called Out

• Like Stephen, Jim Elliot and his four comrades
  were called on January 8, 1956, to people
  Eternity as they were slain by the people they
  were seeking to reach. What has happened to the
  Aucas since then is proof that the blood of the
  martyrs is indeed the seed of the church. Many
  Aucas are now Christians.
• Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give
  thee a crown of life (Rev. 210).

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Progressively Called Out

• The face of the church is forever changing
• God never changes
• Throughout the Bible He was progressive in
  reaching man
• How He reached out changed
• The church is still changing
• Will we allow Jesus to use us progressively?

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Progressively Called Out

• Living Jesus, Living Hopeprogressively seeking
  to bring glory to God by reaching out!