Build According To The Pattern What Is A

Build According To The Pattern

What Is A Pattern? • To a builder --- a blueprint • To a seamstress --- a pattern • To a manufacturer --- the spec’s What happens when a pattern is changed? What if everyone involved decided to make changes on their own? What if only one person made a change to the pattern?

What Is A Divine Pattern? • Same as the others: It is a blueprint, pattern, guideline, rulebook, example, etc… • It cannot be changed or altered in any way without consequences. • The result of following the pattern will give us what the Creator willed for us to do.

THE DIVINE PATTERN • • Comes from God 2 Corinthians 2: 11 -12 Jeremiah 10: 23 Proverbs 16: 25 • God Showed Moses the pattern and Moses built it according to the pattern • Exodus 25: 8 -9, 40 • Hebrews 8: 5

The Divine Pattern • David gave Solomon the plans for the Temple. • 1 Chronicles 28: 1112, 19 • DOCTRINE • Acts 2: 42 • Mark those who do not follow the apostles doctrine; • Romans 16: 17 -18 • 2 Thessalonians 3: 6

Seed Of The Divine Pattern • • God’s law: Seed bearing after its kind Gen 1: 11 -12 Seed is the word of God in Matthew 13 Plant the same seed (doctrine) from the beginning of the church, and you get the same church. • Paul talked of planting the seed of the church and God gives the increase. 1 Corinthians 3: 6

Build Church According To The Pattern • Name: Acts 11: 26; Romans 16: 16 • Foundation: 1 Corinthians 3: 11, Matthew 16: 18; • Law: 1 Corinthians 14: 37; 2 Timothy 3: 16 -17 • Membership: Acts 2: 38, 47; Galatians 3: 26 -27

Build Church According To The Pattern • Organization: Acts 14: 23; Philippians 1: 1; Ephesians 4: 11 • Worship: Acts 2: 42; Ephesians 5: 19; Acts 20: 7 • Discipline: Matthew 18: 17; 1 Corinthians 5: 4 -5, Revelation 2: 14 -16 • Love of Brethren: 1 Peter 1: 22; Hebrews 13: 1; John 13: 34 -35

According To The Pattern • We could talk a long time about what is not following the pattern given to us in God’s word. • 2 Timothy 1: 13 • We must be faithful to follow the pattern given to us. • Psalm 127: 1 • Are you part of a group that has followed the pattern?