Baptist Doctrine

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Baptist Doctrine
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The Lord's Day The Kingdom and Last Things
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Review 1CANON OF SCRIPTUREa list of books
which are reckoned to bethe Holy Scriptures.

• Jesus Authenticated O.T.
• A number of documents were circulating from
  50AD-150AD
• Marcion heresy prompted the canon
• Muratorian Fragment-200AD was first list
• Council of Carthage-397AD-first council to list
  all 27 NT books.

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Review1-CRITERIA FOR CANON OF SCRIPTURE

• 1ST Criteria- Book was written or endorsed by an
  apostle.
• 2nd Criteria- Did the early church use
• the books as sacred writings
• 3rd Criteria- Conformity to the core
• of books not questioned.
• 4th Criteria-was the book Christ-Centered.
• 5th Criteria- Internal evidence of its unique
  character as inspired and authoritative

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Review 2- CREATION THE FALL OF MAN

• The Creation of Man and World Thought
• Evolutionist call man a cosmic accident
• QuoteFor something to be its own creation, it
  would have to be and not to be at the same
  time.-Dr.R.C. Sproul
• The odds of spontaneous regeneration
• Fossils tell no tales

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Review 2-SAVING FAITH-Two Views

• ROMAN CATHOLIC
• God declares a person justified when he indeed he
  is just.
• Infusion of Grace
• Grace can come by
• Two sacrements
• Baptism and Penance

• PROTESTANT VIEW
• The instrument of cause of faith alone.
• Imputation of Grace
• Double Imputation Christs righteousness and
  Death put on our Account
• Not Antinomian Faith

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Review 2-God-Triune Person

• GOD THE FATHER
• 1. A Creative relationship.Ps.685/Jerm.319
• 2. A Redemptive relationship.Jn.112/Gal.326
• GOD THE SON
• Christ is the invisible God made visible.
• God came near in Christ. Jn.114
• GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT
• In the person of the Holy Spirit, God comes even
  closer relationship with His children.
• The Holy Spirit is the resurrected presence of
  Christ in His Body. Christ in you. Gal.220

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Review 2-GODS PURPOSE OF GRACE

• Gods purpose of grace is mans redemption
• Election never appears in Bible as mechanical
• Election seems always to deal with Gods Children
• Election never appears as a cancellation or
  violation of mans free will.
• God chose us in the sphere of being in Christ.
  Eph.13-13
• Perseverance of the saints says all true
  believers will endure till the end.
• Paul believed God keep Him till the END. God
  keeps us saved.
• The Christian and Sin-struggle against
  carnality(Rom.7)
• We must agree with what God shows us about sin
  and repent and ask Him to help you overwhelm

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Review 3-The Doctrine of the Church-Baptism-Lord
s Supper

• The N.T. church of the Lord Jesus is a local
  body of baptized believers who are associated by
  covenant in the faith and fellowship of the
  gospel..
• The church is an autonomous-self-governing
• In the N.T. church denotes a local body of
  redeemed.
• More than an organization-it is a spiritual
  organism
• Birth of church-the Day of Pentecost
• Jesus bought the church with his blood
• Jesus gave authority to church to bind and loose

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Review 3-The Church,Baptism,Lords Supper

• The purpose of the church was that were
  commissioned to be witnesses of Gods Plan of
  salvation to the world. (Eph.310-11)
• The officers of the church were pastors(elders)
  and pastors
• Pastors were chosen to maintain
  orderexhortteach and shepherd the flock
• Deacons were to serve the needs of members and
  take some of the load off pastors in care of
  flock.(Acts 6)

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Review 3-The Church,Baptism,Lords Supper

• Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer
  in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and
  the Holy Spirit.
• Both ordinances are symbolic, not sacramental.
• Baptizo to dip or plunge, submerge,immerse
• The idea of baptismal regeneration did not occur
  till the 2nd or 3rd century and that by a group
  that evolved into the Roman Catholic church.
• There are four views of Lords Supper
• Catholics-TransubstantiationElements become the
  Body
• Lutherans-ConsubstantiationChrists present with
  elements
• Sacramentarianpartaking of supper is a means of
  grace
• Baptists-The Lords Supper is symbolicno saving
  effect in taking

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Lesson 4-The Lords Day

• The first day of the week is the Lords Day. It
  is a Christian institution for regular
  observance. It commemorates the resurrection of
  Christ from the dead and should be employed in
  exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both
  public and private, and by refraining from
  worldly amusements, and resting from secular
  employments, work of necessity and mercy only
  being excepted
• In the O.T. the seventh day of the week was set
  apart as the Sabbath. Sabbath means rest.
• The number seven came from God resting after His
  creative work. It was a sacred day.
• In the gospels, Jesus and the disciples observed
  the seventh day as Sabbath. But Jesus did not
  agree to the over 1500 rules that Jewish leaders
  had put on the observance of the Sabbath day.
  (ExampleJesus disciples pluck corn on Sabbath
  day-Matt.121-4See Mark 32 and Luke 61-11and
  John 61-47)

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4-The Lords Day-pt.2

• Paul went to the synagogues on the Sabbath day
  because they found an audience to preach to.
• The Lords Day appears one time in N.T. and
• Was the first day of the week.
• Acts 207 and upon the first day of the week,
  when the disciples came together to break
  bread..
• I Cor.162 Upon the first day of the week let
  every one of you lay by him in store..
• Jesus was raised from the dead on the first day
  of the week.
• John 201 The first day of the week cometh Mary
  Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the
  sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from
  the sepulcher.
• The Sabbath a day of rest from work, while the
  Lords Day memorialized Christs resurrection.

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Lesson 4-The Kingdom

• The Kingdom of God includes both His general
  sovereignty over the universe and His particular
  kingship over men who willfully acknowledge Him
  as King. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm
  of salvation into which men enter by trustful,
  childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Christians
  ought to pray and labor that the Kingdom may come
  and Gods will be done on earth. The full
  consummation of the Kingdom awaits the return of
  Jesus Christ and the end of the age.
• The word kingdom means kingship, royal power or
  rule.
• It refers to Gods sovereign reign in the natural
  universe and in the spiritual world and our
  hearts.
• Matt.1228 If I cast out devils by the Spirit of
  God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
• Matt.131-47 the kingdom of Heaven is likened
  unto a man which sowed good seed..the kingdom of
  heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed.the
  kingdom of heaven is like unto leavenlike a
  treasure hid in a field..
• Matt.2629 I will not drink henceforth of this
  fruit of the wine, until that day when I drink it
  new with you in My Fathers kingdom.
• I Cor.1550 flesh and blood shall not inherit
  the kingdom of God niether doth corruption
  inherit incorruption.

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• As Creator, God has the right to be sovereign.
• Satan disputed this claim
• The incarnation of Christ was to disprove Satan
• THE NATURE OF THE KINGDOM
• Christs Kingdom is not of this world (John
  1836)
• Jesus demonstrated over natural universe. Nature
  obeys Jesus.(wind,waves,fish,food,walk on water)
• Jesus said His Reign was within you.Lk1721
• It is the reign of God among us. Some see his
  kingdom as a literal 1000 yr reign-politically.

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4-Last Things

• God, in His own time and in His own way, will
  bring the world to its appropriate end.
  According to His promise, Jesus Christ will
  return personally and visibly in glory to the
  earth the dead will be raised and Christ will
  judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous
  will be consigned to hell, the place of
  everlasting punishment. The righteous in their
  resurrected and glorified bodies will receive
  their reward and will dwell forever in heaven
  with the Lord.
• Eschatology means the science of last things.
• Theologians speak of realized eschatology and
  unrealized eschatology.
• Full Preterist view-All things predicted in the
  OT have been fulfilled with the destruction of
  the temple in 70AD Christ came invisibly then in
  judgment
• Partial Preterist view-All but the coming of
  Jesus back visibly have been fulfilled.
• It is a dual sense that one may understand
  Christs presence now and His promised return.

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4-Last Things-pt 2

• JESUS TEACHINGS ON LAST THINGS
• Jesus taught His return at the end of the age is
  clear. (See Matt.1627-28)
• Jesus most extended teaching on last things is
  found in Matt.24-25.The events there deal with
  the destruction of Jerusalem,the Lords return
  and the end of the age.
• See Matt.2424 Verily I say unto you, This
  generation shall not pass, till all these things
  be fulfilled.
• Were many of Jesus prophecies in Matt. 24
  fulfilled in the invasion and destruction of
  Jerusalem in 70AD?
• Jesus said there would be many false signs of His
  return. Matt.244-7

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4-Last Things-pt3

• Jesus said that wheresoever the carcass is,
  there will the eagles be gathered
  together.Matt.2428 The eagles refer to those
  that devour, vultures. So this is a time of
  judgment not His Glorious Appearing.
• When Roman ruler came into Jerusalem he set up
  His own emblems in the temple to be worshipped.
  (See Matt.2415)
• Over 1 million Jews were killed in 70AD
• Many of the Christians escaped to the caves.
• This was the great tribulation.
• There is apocalyptic language in Matt.24 that
  parallels the prophecies in Daniel 924-27
• His coming is certain and the fall of Jerusalem
  was a certain prophecy by Jesus.

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4-Last Things-pt.4

• Major Views Among Baptists as to Second Coming
• PREMILLENIALIST They believe the next item is
  the rapture of saintsseven years of
  tribulationChrist comes to set up a literal 1000
  yr reign then the final
• Consummation of all with Christs return again.
• AMILLENIALISTMillennial time is an infinite
  period of time beginning at the cross or day of
  Pentecost till Christs returns.
• POSTMILLENNIALISTSThere will be a triumph of
  the gospel culminating in a period of
  righteousness which will continue for 1000yrs. At
  the appearing of Christ there will be a
  resurrection of the dead, both righteous and
  wicked, followed by the judgment.

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4-Last Things

• Quote K.Barth(Swiss Theologian in the 1940s
  said The time is come when Christians need to
  read their Bible in one hand and the newspaper in
  the other.
• Some Definite Things About Christs Return-Acts
  110-11
• THE RETURN WILL BE PERSONALLY
• THE RETURN WILL BE VISUALLY
• THE RETURN WILL BE GLORIOUS
• Paul said in light of His return Christians
  should live righteously, and godly in this
  present world looking for that blessed hope and
  the glorious appearing of the great God and our
  Saviour Jesus Christ. Titus 212-13
• So certain were the early Christians of Christs
  return, they thought in their lifetime.
• Since the N.T. speaks in broad terms about last
  things, interpretations will differ. Ones
  position to details has never been a test of
  orthodoxy among Baptists.-Dr. Hershel Hobbs

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The Lord's Day The Kingdom and Last Things
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Evangelism and Missions

• Missions Evangelism have their ultimate source
  in the heart of God.
• It is a privilege and obligation.
• Following His resurrection Jesus gave various
  commissions to disciples.
• Matt.2819-20
• Luke 2446-49
• John 2021-23
• Acts 18