First Baptist Church Holt
11.20.22
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  • All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name (Coronation)
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  • Hebrews 13:17 ESV
    17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

    Who am I obeying?

    leaders, in charge
    obey with the idea that the course of action is biblically accurate
    They are in and over every local church
    Philippians 1:1 (ESV)
    1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
    Acts 14:23 (ESV)
    23 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
    Titus 1:5 (ESV)
    5 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—
    Why are they there?
    watching carefully, unable or unwilling to sleep
    Ezekiel 3:17 ESV
    17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
    Who put them there?
    Ephesians 4:11–16 ESV
    11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
    1 Peter 5:1–3 ESV
    1 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; 3 not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.
    Acts 20:28 ESV
    28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

    Who are they giving an account for?

    souls, people, whom they keep account of following a profession of faith
    Acts 2:41 ESV
    41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
    Acts 2:47 ESV
    47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
    Acts 6, they understand who the widows are and have a meeting to find the best way to meet their specific needs
    The early church is keeping records, accounts of who they are responsible for
    Church membership is (1) a covenant of union between a particular church and a Christian, a covenant that consists of (2) the church’s affirmation of the Christian’s gospel profession, (3) the church’s promise to give oversight to the Christian, and (4) the Christian’s promise to gather with the church and submit to its oversight.
    Jonathan Leeman; Bobby Jamieson
    Christians don’t join churches; they submit to them.
    Jonathan Leeman
    Case in point
    1 Corinthians 5:1–13 ESV
    1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. 3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
    How do they know who to judge? Help? Admonish?
    Church discipline assumes to know who is “in”
    Matthew 16:19 ESV
    19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
    The profession of faith is the marker for who will be in the church Jesus is building
    When that profession proves illegitimate through some gross, unrepentant immorality, the church is given the power of the keys to act
    Matthew 18:18 ESV
    18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
    This is different than joining a gym or Sam’s Club. You are brought from the domain of darkness into the kingdom of God’s Son. Col. 1:13
    Colossians 1:13 ESV
    13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
    More specifically, made a part of His body.
    1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV
    12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
    1 Corinthians 12:21 ESV
    21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
    You cannot, once a member of His body, exist on your own, just as your feet cannot exist apart from your body. Therefore...
    Hebrews 10:25 ESV
    25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

    Why does church membership matter?

    It proclaims the gospel by displaying it. Reconciliation with God and each other.
    Ephesians 2:13–22 ESV
    13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
    Whose care and leadership are you submitting to? Who are they giving an account for? What are you (plural) proclaiming?
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