Friday Bible Study. February 28, 2014.
Do not be one of these condemned Jesus believers!
First of all, we know the saved Jesus believers are in the churches of Christ!
Acts 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. (KJV)
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NIV)
Romans 12:5 so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. (NIV)
Romans 16:16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send greetings. (NIV)
Col.1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead,
so that in everything he might have the supremacy. (NIV)
Who are the condemned Jesus believers?
1. Matthew 7:22-23 The preach not the same gospel people.
Many will say to me on that day, `Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name,
and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' (NIV)
hen I will tell them plainly, `I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!' (NIV)
2. John 8:31-44 The refuse to obey Jesus' teaching people.
To the Jews who having believed him,
Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are reallymy disciples. ...
John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father'sdesire.
He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.
When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (NIV)
3. Heb.10:25 The stop meeting together people.
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourageone another--
and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
4. Matthew 8:11-12 The reject New Testament teaching people.
I say to you that many will come from the east and the west,
and will take their places at the Feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
but the sons of the kingdomshall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
5. 2 Peter 2:20-21 The fall back into the world people.
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. (NIV)
6. Heb.6:4-6 The fall away from the truth people.
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift,
who have shared in the Holy Spirit, (NIV)
who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age,
if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance,
because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. (NIV)
7. James 4:4 The friendship with the world people.
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. (NIV)
8. 1 John 3:10 The not doing righteousness people.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:
whosoever do not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother. (KJV)
9. 1Cor. 5:9-11 The fornicators.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners,
or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company,
if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer,
or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. (KJV)
10. Titus 3:10-11 Belong to a denominational church people.
A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject; (KJV)
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinned, being condemned of himself.
11. Matt.22:10-13 The not worshiping God in spirit and in truth people.
"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
`Friend,' he asked, `how did you get in here without wedding clothes?'
The man was speechless.
"Then the king told the attendants, `Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' (NIV)
12. 2 Jn 1:9-11 Those associate and help false teachers people.
Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God;
whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him.
Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.
13. 2 Peter 2:1 Teach things not recorded in the Bible people.
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you.
They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them-- bringing swift destruction on themselves. (NIV)