The Pattern

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The Pattern

• Sv 10-2-11

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The Gospel Pattern

• Is it really THAT important
• What is it?
• Where did we get it?
• Can it be altered?
• What about those who differ?
• What can we do?

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The Pattern

• Patterns are a group of smaller parts.
• 1 2 3 4
• 2 4 5 8 10 12
• Patterns can be easily recognized.

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Which Pattern?

• Rom 122 Do not conform any longer to the pattern
  of this world, but be transformed by the renewing
  of your mind.
• Phil 317 Join with others in following my
  example, brothers, and take note of those who
  live according to the pattern we gave you.

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Pattern Given by Apostles

• Jesus I give you the keys..
• 1 Thessalonians 42 For you know what
  instructions we gave you by the authority of the
  Lord Jesus.
• 2 Peter 31 I want you to recall the words
  spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the
  command given by our Lord and Savior through your
  apostles.

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The pattern was entrusted!

• 2 Tim 112 What you heard from me, keep as the
  pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in
  Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit that was
  entrusted to you-- guard it with the help of the
  Holy Spirit who lives in us.
• 1 Thes 24 We speak as men approved by God to be
  entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to
  please men but God, who tests our hearts.

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Pattern is entrusted to YOU!

• Jude 13 Dear friends, although I was very eager
  to write to you about the salvation we share, I
  felt I had to write and urge you to contend for
  the faith that was once for all entrusted to the
  saints.
• 2 Tim 22 And the things you have heard me say in
  the presence of many witnesses entrust to
  reliable men who will also be qualified to teach
  others.

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No part left out

• Col 125 I have become its servant by the
  commission God gave me to present to you the word
  of God in its fullness..
• An altered pattern is no longer a pattern!

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No part added.

• Gal 16 I am astonished that you are so quickly
  deserting the one who called you by the grace of
  Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- 7
  which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some
  people are throwing you into confusion and are
  trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.

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But we have our own Apostles

• Acts 121 Therefore it is necessary to choose one
  of the men who have been with us the whole time
  the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
  beginning from John's baptism to the time when
  Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must
  become a witness with us of his resurrection.

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But we have our own Apostles

• Acts 2 They continued steadfastly in the
  Apostle's Doctrine.
• Acts 164 As they traveled from town to town,
  they delivered the decisions reached by the
  apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people
  to obey.

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Qualifications for Apostles

• 2 Cor 1212 The things that mark an apostle--
  signs, wonders and miracles-- were done among you
  with great perseverance.
• 1 Cor 1437 If anybody thinks he is a prophet or
  spiritually gifted, let him acknowledge that what
  I am writing to you is the Lord's command.

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Qualifications for Apostles

• 1 Thes 213 And we also thank God continually
  because, when you received the word of God, which
  you heard from us, you accepted it not as the
  word of men, but as it actually is, the word of
  God, which is at work in you who believe.
• Apostles write scripture! The had a season.
  Their missions were completed when they died.

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Keep AWAY from wrong pattern

• Romans 1617 I urge you, brothers, to watch out
  for those who cause divisions and put obstacles
  in your way that are contrary to the teaching you
  have learned. Keep away from them.
• 2 Thess 36 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
  we command you, brothers, to keep away from every
  brother who is idle and does not live according
  to the teaching you received from us.

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The Pattern is vital to Salvation!

• 1 Tim 19-10 law is made not for the righteous
  but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and
  sinful, the unholy and irreligious for those who
  kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for
  adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and
  liars and perjurers-- and for whatever else is
  contrary to the sound doctrine.

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The Pattern is vital to Salvation!

• 1 Tim 416 Watch your life and doctrine closely.
  Persevere in them, because if you do, you will
  save both yourself and your hearers.
• 2 John 19 Anyone who runs ahead and does not
  continue in the teaching of Christ does not have
  God whoever continues in the teaching has both
  the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you
  and does not bring this teaching, do not take him
  into your house or welcome him. Anyone who
  welcomes him shares in his wicked work.

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Eternally condemned

• Gal 18 But even if we or an angel from heaven
  should preach a gospel other than the one we
  preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
  9 As we have already said, so now I say again If
  anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than
  what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

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What can I do?

• Titus 19 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy
  message as it has been taught, so that he can
  encourage others by sound doctrine and refute
  those who oppose it.
• Titus 21 You must teach what is in accord with
  sound doctrine..

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The Gospel Pattern

• What is it? It is a pattern, bits of instruction.
• Where did we get it? The apostles entrusted it to
  us.
• Can it be altered? No. Adding, modifying or
  subtracting is impossible.
• What about those who differ? Keep away, eternally
  condemned!
• What can I do? Guard it, teach it, entrust it.

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