Does It Make Any Difference

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Does It Make Any Difference?

• Part 5
• Keeping holy days, eating the Lords Supper
  unworthily, Using OT worship practices

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We have already noted

• The danger in false teachers doctrines
• What God says about good people
• Church founders
• Church beginnings
• Church names and their authority
• Clergy/laity distinctions, fund raising
• Women leadership

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One Common Practice is Keeping Special Days

• Galatians 49-10
• But now that you have come to know God, or rather
  to be known by God, how can you turn back again
  to the weak and worthless elementary principles
  of the world, whose slaves you want to be once
  more? 10 You observe days and months and seasons
  and years!

They were turning back to the weak worthless
things
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One Common Practice is Keeping Special Days

• Galatians 411
• I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.

Paul feared lest his work had been in vain
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One Common Practice is Keeping Special Days
Of course, there IS a significant day

• The day that Jesus entered Jerusalem
• The day He was shown to be the Son
• The day the church was established
• The day the disciples assembled for worship

Revelation 110 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a
trumpet
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Eating the Lords Supper by Their Own Preference
Acts 242 And they devoted themselves to the
apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the
breaking of bread and the prayers.
Acts 207 On the first day of the week, when we
were gathered together to break bread, Paul
talked with them
Must have been a weekly devotion
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Eating the Lords Supper by Their Own Preference
Matthew 2626-28 Now as they were eating, Jesus
took bread, and after blessing it broke it and
gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat
this is my body. 27 And he took a cup, and when
he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying,
Drink of it, all of you, 28 for this is my blood
of the covenant, which is poured out for many for
the forgiveness of sins.
The emblems were unleavened bread and fruit of
the vine
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Eating the Lords Supper by Their Own Preference
1 Corinthians 1124-27 24 and when he had given
thanks, he broke it, and said, This is my body
which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
25 In the same way also he took the cup, after
supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in
my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in
remembrance of me. 26 For as often as you eat
this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the
Lord's death until he comes.27 Whoever,
therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of
the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty
concerning the body and blood of the Lord.
This passage reveals the right attitude
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Eating the Lords Supper by Their Own Preference
To have the Lords Supper you must have

• The day

• The right emblems

• The right attitude

• The right place

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Using Unauthorized Worship Practices

• 2 Chronicles 2925-28
• And he stationed the Levites in the house of the
  Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to
  the commandment of David and of Gad the king's
  seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the
  commandment was from the Lord through his
  prophets. 26 The Levites stood with the
  instruments of David, and the priests with the
  trumpets. 27 Then Hezekiah commanded that the
  burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when
  the burnt offering began, the song to the Lord
  began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the
  instruments of David king of Israel. 28 The whole
  assembly worshiped

Using instruments WAS worship in the OT
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Instrumental Music in Worship?
The New Testament is silent on the practice,
Period.
Revelation 2218-19 I warn everyone who hears the
words of the prophecy of this book if anyone
adds to them, God will add to him the plagues
described in this book, 19 and if anyone takes
away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God will take away his share in the tree of life
and in the holy city, which are described in this
book.
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Instrumental Music in Worship?
It was first instituted into Christian worship
by Pope Vitalius about 750 AD.

• Consistently, the greatest reformers cast it out
  as an unscriptural innovation.
• John Calvin
• John Wesley
• Martin Luther
• Charles Spurgeon
• Andrew Fuller
• Adam Clarke

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Youre in the wrong church

• If your church is teaching doctrine not found in
  scripture
• If your church is taking up money and its not
  the first day of the week
• If a woman is leading men in any church
  activities
• It your church is keeping special days
• If the Lords Supper is offered and its not
  Sunday
• If its Sunday and the Lords Supper is NOT being
  offered
• If someone is playing instruments in worship

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The New Testament church is different from mens
churches and we CAN see the difference if well
look and not be led