A. Take a 100 dollar US bill for example!
1. How many spots different from the genuine is classified as fake!
2. One spot on the face of anywhere different from the genuine is classified as fake!
3. Most often heard is color of the picture and the line US 100 inside is different!
4. Yes, Wal-Mart found an easy way to detect a fake bill use eraser!
B. But when comes to identify a fake church!
1. They put up a grand big sign on wall that says First Presbyterian Church!
2. They say inside this building is church of Christ!
3. This is like saying this is 100 dollar bill! Only that it was printed 10!
4. Try to find a store that takes a printed 10 dollar bill as 100!
5. These are all soulless people!
B. Make no mistake! I solemnly declare: If you are not in church of Christ, your faith is false!
1. 1968 in Hong Kong these were what I taught!
a. Look for a church with the name church of Christ.
b. They eat the Lord’s Supper in Sunday worship.
c. They offer praises without instrumental music.
d. Their water baptism is for forgiveness of sins.
2. 1970 Betty Zeng came to study in Taft University at Bakers Filed California!
The first Saturday she found a church of Christ went in to ask:
a. The name of this church is church of Christ! Answer: Yes.
b. Do you eat Lord’s Supper in worship to God every Sunday? Answer: Yes.
c. What is the purpose of your water baptism? Answer: For forgiveness of sins.
d. Do you sing praises to God without instrumental music? Answer: Yes.
3. She told the man: This is the church I will come to worship God tomorrow!
The man happened to be one of the elder in that church of Christ!
4. Before she left, he asked: Can I ask you some questions? Answer: Yes.
a. Where you come from? Hong Kong.
b. Who taught you these? My preacher.
c. What is his name? John Chan.
d. Where is he? Abilene Texas studying for his Master degree!
5. Good! My mother live there. This Christmas holidays I will go to visit my mother!
I will go look him up and talk to him!
C. Today it is 2019! 51 years has gone by!
1. By the grace of God, I learned a little bit more in the Bible!
2. Each kind of church has its unique characteristic!
3. Each kind of church has its own set of chord messages!
4. Each kind of church has its own origin!
5. The name is only that little thing above water of a huge iceberg!
6. Anyone like to find a not church of Christ and check if that church worship exactly like us!
7. I can safely say that church did not discover the English Bible changed the meaning of John 8:31
D. Be not deceived! God is not mocked: Gal.6:4-10
For whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap. Gal.6:7
1. Let each man prove his own work,
and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone and not of his neighbor. Gal.6:4
2. For each man shall bear his own burden. Gal.6:5
3. But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teaches in all good things. Gal.6:6
4. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap. Gal.6:7
5. For he that sows unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that sows unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life. Gal.6:8
6. And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Gal.6:9
7. So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men,
and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith. Gal.6:10
E. Conclusion: You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect! James 2:22
May the Lord bless you and keep you always! Written March 19, 2019.