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3. Lesson 10: We Believe Miracles Have Ceased
Why We...?
Lesson 10: We Believe Miracles Have Ceased

4. Believe in Holy Spirit Baptism for believers today as the apostles had
Those Who
Believe In
Miracles
Today
Some rely on miracles – not seek medical help
Some seek medical help – think still a miracle
Some have Faith Healing services (i.e. Oral Roberts, Benny Hinn)
Believe in Holy Spirit Baptism for believers today as the apostles had

5. We Believe Miracles Have Ceased
The Purpose Is Accomplished

6. The Purpose Is Accomplished
Not for the betterment of men (Not everybody was fed / healed)
Confirmation of the message / claim
Mark 16:17-20
Heb. 2:3-4 (word has been confirmed)
Reveal the word
John 16:13; 14:26
Word is complete (Jude 3; 2 Pet. 1:3)
Prove Gentiles are gospel subjects (Acts 11:2,3; 16-18)

7. We Believe Miracles Have Ceased
The Purpose Is Accomplished
Holy Spirit Baptism Has Ceased

8. Holy Spirit
Baptism
Has
Ceased
Two Cases in the New Testament

9. The Apostles Holy Spirit Baptism Has Ceased Case # 1
Promised to the Apostles (Acts 1:4-5)
Apostles received it on Pentecost (Acts 1:26–2:4)

10. 26 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

11. The Apostles Holy Spirit Baptism Has Ceased Case # 1
Promised to the Apostles (Acts 1:4-5)
Apostles received it on Pentecost (Acts 1:26–2:4)
Purpose:
Reveal truth (John 16:13)
Show things to come (John 16:13)
Teach all things (John 14:26)
Bring all things to their remembrance (John 14:26)

12. Holy Spirit Baptism Has Ceased Case # 2
Did Cornelius Receive Holy Spirit Baptism?
Acts 10:45 – “also”
Acts 10:47 – “as well as we”
Acts 11:15ff
v “as on us at the beginning”
v Reminded of Acts 1 & 2
v. 17 – “like gift”
Acts 15:8 – “even as he did unto us”

13. Holy Spirit Baptism Has Ceased Case # 2
Did Cornelius Receive Holy Spirit Baptism?
What Was the Purpose?
To prove that the Gentiles
are now gospel subjects
Acts 11:18

14. Holy Spirit
Baptism
Has
Ceased
Two Cases in the New Testament
What Those with HSB Could Do
Speak with other tongues (Acts 2:4-11; 10:46)
Heal the lame (Acts 3:6-11; 4:14,16,22)
Strike one dead (Acts 5:7-10)
Raise the dead (Acts 9:36-41; 20:9-12)
Strike one blind (Acts 13:7-11)
Speak without taking thought (Mt. 10:19)
Impart miraculous gifts (Acts 8:17-18)

15. Holy Spirit
Baptism
Has
Ceased
Two Cases in the New Testament
What Those with HSB Could Do
Today There is One Baptism

16. One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
Eph. 4:5
Holy Spirit
Baptism
Has
Ceased
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
Holy Spirit Baptism
Spirit
(Acts 1:5)
Christ
(John 1:33)
Promise
(Acts 1:4-5)
Reveal Truth
(John 16:13)
Water Baptism
Water
(Acts 8:38)
Men
(Matt. 28:19)
Command
(Mark 16:16)
To Save
Element
Administer
Nature
Purpose

17. We Believe Miracles Have Ceased
The Purpose Is Accomplished
Holy Spirit Baptism Has Ceased
Would Cease With Complete Revelation

18. Enumeration of the Gifts (Chapter 12)
Would Cease
With
Complete
Revelation
Spiritual Gifts
(1 Cor )
Enumeration of the Gifts
(Chapter 12)
Duration of the Gifts
(Chapter 13)
Regulation of the Gifts
(Chapter 14)

19. 9. Interpretation of tongues
Would Cease
With
Complete
Revelation
1. Word of wisdom
2. Word of knowledge
3. Faith
4. Gifts of healing
5. Working of miracles
6. Prophecy
7. Discerning of spirits
8. Tongues
9. Interpretation of tongues

20. Enumeration of the Gifts (Chapter 12)
Would Cease
With
Complete
Revelation
Spiritual Gifts
(1 Cor )
Enumeration of the Gifts
(Chapter 12)
Duration of the Gifts
(Chapter 13)
Regulation of the Gifts
(Chapter 14)

21. Would Cease
With
Complete
Revelation
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

22. “Perfect” Would Cease With Complete Revelation
Thayer: “brought to its end, finished; wanting nothing necessary to completeness; perfect…” (p. 618).
Vines: “signifies having reached its end (telos), finished, complete, perfect” (Vol. III, pp ).
Strongs: “complete” (#5046).
Liddell & Scott: “Complete, perfect, entire” (p. 696)

23. Would Cease
With
Complete
Revelation
Part

24. Would Cease
With
Complete
Revelation

25. In Part Perfect God’s Revelation God’s Revelation Would Cease With
Complete
Revelation
In Part
Perfect
Knowledge (v. 9)
Prophecy (v. 9)
Knowledge
Prophecy
God’s
Revelation
God’s
Revelation

26. The “Perfect” Must Be Of The Same Nature As That Which Is “In Part”
Part Revelation Of God
NOT
Coming Of Christ
Part Revelation
Of God
BUT
That Which Is Perfect
(Complete Revelation)

28. We Believe Miracles Have Ceased
The Purpose Is Accomplished
Holy Spirit Baptism Has Ceased
Would Cease With Complete Revelation
No Evidence Of Miracles Today

29. No
Evidence Of
Miracles
Today
Speak with tongues (Acts 2:4-11; 10:46)
Do wonders and signs (Acts 2:43)
Heal the lame (Acts 3:6-11; 4:14, 16, 22)
Strike one dead (Acts 5:7-10)
Heal everyone (Acts 5:15-16)
Raise the dead (Acts 9:36-41; 20:8-12)
Strike one blind (Acts 13:7-11)
Speak without taking thought (Matt. 10:19)
Can Those Who Make The Claim To Have Holy Spirit Baptism Do These Things?

30. We Believe Miracles Have Ceased
The Purpose Is Accomplished
Holy Spirit Baptism Has Ceased
Would Cease With Complete Revelation
No Evidence Of Miracles Today

31. Lesson 13: We Don’t Have Women Preachers
Why We...?
Lesson 13: We Don’t Have Women Preachers

32. We Are Not Talking About:
Some Churches
Have
Women Preachers
We Are Not Talking About:
Women teaching women
Women teaching children
We Are Talking About:
Women publicly preaching
to mixed (men & women)
audiences

33. It Is Not Because:
We don’t like women
We think women cannot do as well as men
We think women are inferior
We think women don’t know the Bible
We want to hold to old traditions

34. Gal 3:28 Women Are Equal To Men
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Women Are Equal To Men

35. We Don’t Have Women Preachers
God Placed Man (Not Woman) In Leadership

36. God Christ Man Woman God Placed Man Generally (1 Cor. 11:1-3)
(Not Woman) In
Leadership
Generally (1 Cor. 11:1-3)
1 Cor 11:1-3
1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you.
3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
God
Christ
Man
Woman

37. In the Home (Eph. 5:22-24; 1 Pet. 3:1-7)
God Placed Man
(Not Woman) In
Leadership
Generally (1 Cor. 11:1-3)
In the Home (Eph. 5:22-24; 1 Pet. 3:1-7)
Husband is head of wife
Wife is to submit to husband

38. In the Home (Eph. 5:22-24; 1 Pet. 3:1-7)
God Placed Man
(Not Woman) In
Leadership
Generally (1 Cor. 11:1-3)
In the Home (Eph. 5:22-24; 1 Pet. 3:1-7)
In the Church (Men are to lead)
Elders are men (1 Tim. 3:1-7; Tit. 1:5-9)
Deacons are men (1 Tim. 3:8-13)
Preachers are men
Peter & apostles (Acts 2, 3)
Paul (Acts 13, 17)
Stephen (Acts 6)
Philip (Acts 8)

39. We Don’t Have Women Preachers
God Placed Man (Not Woman) In Leadership
Women Are Not To Teach Over A Man

40. Women Are Not To Teach Over A Man
1 Tim. 2:11-14
11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submission.
12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

41. Women Are Not To Teach Over A Man
Context
Roles of men & women
Men (v. 8)
Pray Everywhere
Women (v. 9-14)
Subjection

42. Women Are Not To Teach Over A Man
Context
Restriction (v. 12) }
Not To Teach
Over a man
Not To Have Auth.

43. Women Are Not To Teach Over A Man
Context
Restriction (v. 12)
Reasons (vv )
Order of creation (Gen. 2:22-24)
Transgression (Gen. 3:1-6; 16)

44. We Don’t Have Women Preachers
God Placed Man (Not Woman) In Leadership
Women Are Not To Teach Over A Man
Women Are Not To Address The Assembly

45. Women Are Not To Address the Assembly
1 Cor. 14:34-35
34 Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.
35 And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.

46. Women Are Not To Address the Assembly
Context: Church = assembly (v. 23)
1 Cor 14:23
Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say that you are out of your mind?

47. Women Are Not To Address the Assembly
Context: Church = assembly (v. 23)
Silent (v. 34)
Must sing (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16)
Silent – i.e. Submissive / not over a man
Silent – not to address the assembly

48. We Don’t Have Women Preachers
God Placed Man (Not Woman) In Leadership
Women Are Not To Teach Over A Man
Women Are Not To Address The Assembly
What Can A Woman Do?

49. Titus 2:3-4 2 Tim. 2:2 What Women Can Do Women Can Teach
Older women teaching younger women
Titus 2:3-4
“Men” (anthropos) = mankind
Thayer: “with reference to sex (contextually)”
2 Tim. 2:2

50. What Can A Woman Do? What Women Can Do Restrictions
Teach women & children (Tit. 2:3-4; 2 Tim. 2:2)
Serve in some special way (Rom. 16:1)
Humbly correct a man (Acts 18:24-28)
Ask / answer a question in class
Do anything that does not violate her limitations.

51. Lesson 14: We Withdraw From The Unfaithful
Why We...?
Lesson 14: We Withdraw From The Unfaithful

52. When A Member Becomes Unfaithful-
Church
Withdraws
We do not withdraw the first moment he sins
Only withdraw after it is evident that he is not repenting
Make several attempts to talk with the person
Communicate to person that we will withdraw fellowship (usually by letter) within a week or two
Statement made before the congregation
Other members do not socialize with that person

53. “Kicked them out of the church”
Common
Questions & Charges
Often
Made
“Kicked them out of the church”
“How could you mistreat people this way?”
“Shouldn’t you show love and concern?”
“Tell them can’t come to church / attend?”
“This is mean and hateful”
All such charges are based on
a misunderstanding of what withdrawing is

54. 1 Corinthians 5 2 Thessalonians 3
Two Main Passages
That
Discuss
With-drawing
1 Corinthians 5
2 Thessalonians 3

55. 1 Cor. 5 Two Main Passages The Situation: (vv. 1-2)
Fornicator – Not repenting
The church had done little
The Instruction: (vv. 3-13)
Put him away (vv. 3-4)
Purpose (vv. 5-8)
Keep no company (vv. 9-13)
1 Cor. 5
The Conclusion:
Ignoring unfaithful – wrong
Withdrawing is an
effort to save
It works (2 Cor. 2)

56. 2 Thess. 3 Two Main Passages The Situation: (vv. 7-13)
Thought 2nd Coming imminent
Some not working (vv. 7-12)
Some busybodies (vv )
2 Thess. 3
The Instruction: (vv. 6, 14-15)
Withdraw from disorderly (v. 6)
Note that person (v. 14)
Don’t company with (v. 14)
Not an enemy –
thus admonish (v15)
The Conclusion:
Command to withdraw
To bring them to shame – repent
This is not being an enemy

57. We Withdraw From The Unfaithful
Because The Authority Of Christ Says To

58. The Authority Of Christ
Because
The Authority Of Christ
Says To
Under the authority of Christ
Christ has all authority (Matt. 28:18-19)
Must abide by the authority of Christ (Col. 3:17)
Christ commands us to withdraw

59. The Authority Of Christ
Because
The Authority Of Christ
Says To
Under the authority of Christ
Specifically in the texts
1 Cor 5:4-5
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Thess 3:6
But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

60. Do So To Obey Christ Because Under the authority of Christ
Says To
Under the authority of Christ
Specifically in the texts
Do So To Obey Christ
Whether Or Not
See Anything Else Accomplished!

61. We Withdraw From The Unfaithful
Because The Authority Of Christ Says To
To Bring The Unfaithful To Repentance

62. Unfaithful To Repentance
To Bring
Unfaithful To Repentance
Goal should always be to restore
Jas 5:19-20
Gal. 6:1
Should show love & concern (1 Cor. 5:2)

63. Unfaithful To Repentance
To Bring
Unfaithful To Repentance
Goal should always be to restore
Withdrawing is designed to produce repentance
1 Cor 5:5
deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Thess 3:14-15
And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

64. Unfaithful To Repentance
To Bring
Unfaithful To Repentance
Goal should always be to restore
Withdrawing is designed to produce repentance
It Works (2 Cor. 2)
How it works:
Brings him to shame (2 Thess. 3:14)
Causes him to think about sin
Comes to realize – missing something (1 Cor. 5:9-13; 2 Thess. 3:14)
Continually admonished

65. We Withdraw From The Unfaithful
Because The Authority Of Christ Says To
To Bring The Unfaithful To Repentance
To Keep The Church Pure

66. God wants the church to be pure (Eph. 5:26)
To Keep The Church Pure
God wants the church to be pure (Eph. 5:26)
If sin is not corrected – corrupts the whole church
1 Cor 5:6-8
Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

67. God Wants The Church To Be Pure (Eph. 5:26)
To Keep The Church Pure
God Wants The Church To Be Pure (Eph. 5:26)
If Sin Is Not Corrected – Corrupts The Whole Church
Withdrawing Takes Away The Unfaithful
1 Cor 5:7, 13
7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us
13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."

68. To Keep The Church Pure
God wants the church to be pure (Eph. 5:26)
If sin is not corrected – corrupts the whole church
Withdrawing takes away the unfaithful
It causes others to fear (Acts 5:11)

69. We Withdraw From The Unfaithful
Because The Authority Of Christ Says To
To Bring The Unfaithful To Repentance
To Keep The Church Pure

70. Hear John 12:48
Believe John 8:24
Repent Luke 13:3
Confess Matt. 10:32
Baptized Mark 16:16
Faithful Matt. 24:13

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