MINISTERIAL ETHICS CLASS 2 Section 1 THE STUDY

MINISTERIAL ETHICS CLASS 2, Section 1 THE STUDY OF ETHICS “WHAT IS THE TRUTH? ” Pilot

MINISTERIAL ETHICS CLASS NUMBER 2 SECTION ONE THE STUDY OF ETHICS • WHAT IS TRUTH? • RELATIVE ETHICS • HOW CAN A CHRISTIAN UNDERSTAND

MINISTERIAL ETHICS “THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, SO HELP ME GOD. ”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • The TRUTH Is telling or learning the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, even possible in today’s world of mega media lies?

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • The TRUTH • Believers in Jesus Christ are called to not only to declare the TRUTH but to live the TRUTH and to LOVE THE TRUTH, even if it hurts us!

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • WHAT IS THE TRUTH? “The true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth. 2. conformity with fact or reality. ”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • WHAT IS THE TRUTH? TRUE or TRUTH HEBREW = אמת “ emeth” – faithfulness, firmness, dependable. Deuteronomy 13: 14

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • WHAT IS THE TRUTH? TRUE or TRUTH GREEK = ἀληθής = “athalace” – showing truth, presenting actually as it is. Matthew 22: 16

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • TRUE , TRUTH and TRUSTED MATTHEW 22: 15 -17 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk. 16 And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying,

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • TRUE , TRUTH and TRUSTED MATTHEW 22: 15 -17 “Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • TRUE , TRUTH and TRUSTED MATTHEW 22: 15 -17 17 Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? ”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • RELATIVISM – ETHICS • The doctrine that no ideas or beliefs are universally true but that allar e, instead, “relative”. That is, their validity depends on the circumstances in which they are applied.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • RELATIVISM – ETHICS • The doctrine of relativism is dangerous, deadly, weak minded, intellectually lazy and a poor excuse for a life philosophy. WITH OUT TRUTH YOU WILL FAIL!!!

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • TRUE , TRUTH and TRUSTED MATTHEW 7: 24 -27 24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came,

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • TRUE , TRUTH and TRUSTED MATTHEW 7: 24 -27 and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • TRUE , TRUTH and TRUSTED MATTHEW 7: 24 -27 them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall. ”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • THE HOLINESS OF GOD • There are two characteristics available in the Bible to accurately show the character of God: • HOLINESS and LOVE.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • THE HOLINESS OF GOD • LOVE is the most popular in today’s FEEL-GOOD world. • Love as defined by the secular relativistic mindset is very different from the Biblical realities of LOVE.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE LEVITICUS 19: 17 -18 “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE LEVITICUS 19: 17 -18 against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD. ’”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 6: 4 -6 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 6: 4 -6 6 And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. ”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE MATTHEW 9: 35 -38 Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE MATTHEW 9: 35 -38 among the people. 36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE MATTHEW 9: 35 -38 37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. ”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 COR. 13: 1 -7 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy,

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 COR. 13: 1 -7 and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 COR. 13: 1 -7 my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy;

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 COR. 13: 1 -7 love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 COR. 13: 1 -7 truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • BIBLICAL ETHICS • The Biblically driven person is motivated by the ethical reality of God’s LOVE for HIS people. This LOVE removes all selfish ambition and selfcentered aggression.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE MATTHEW 5: 43 -48 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. ’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE MATTHEW 5: 43 -48 hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good,

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE MATTHEW 5: 43 -48 and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • MORAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE MATTHEW 5: 43 -48 47 And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. ”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • BIBLICAL ETHICS • The Biblically driven person is motivated by the ethical reality of God’s LOVE for the PEOPLE in this world to find and know Jesus Christ as LORD and Saviour.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • THE HOLINESS OF GOD • HOLINESS of God is central to His divine nature and a fixed foundation of His CHARACTER. • HOLINESS and SIN cannot co-exist.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE ISAIAH 6: 1 -5 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim;

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE ISAIAH 6: 1 -5 each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said:

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE ISAIAH 6: 1 -5 “Holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!” 4 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out,

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE ISAIAH 6: 1 -5 and the house was filled with smoke. 5 So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE ISAIAH 6: 1 -5 For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts. ”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • GOD IS HOLY • While it is true that God is LOVE, God is also HOLY. Holiness is key to understanding Biblical ethics. THE HEART OF THE FATHER is a HEART for HOLINESS.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • GOD IS HOLY • God could not LOVE if He was not HOLY. “For God so loved the world that HE gave His Only Begotten SON…” • The atonement for our sin HAD TO BE HOLY.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE ISAIAH 53: 10 -11 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE ISAIAH 53: 10 -11 and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE HEBREWS 5: 5 -10 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. ” 6 As He also says in another place:

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE HEBREWS 5: 5 -10 “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek”; 7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications,

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE HEBREWS 5: 5 -10 with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE HEBREWS 5: 5 -10 obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE HEBREWS 5: 5 -10 High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek, ” 11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE COLOSSIANS 1: 19 -20 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven,

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE COLOSSIANS 1: 19 -20 having made peace through the blood of His cross.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • GOD IS HOLY • There can be no REDEMPTION or JUSTIFICATION for sin without God’s HOLINESS. • There can be no witness for Jesus Christ without a DESIRE for HOLINESS in each of us.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • WHAT IS HOLINESS? • HEBREW = קדש • "Qo-desh” meaning NOT COMMON or separated from what is common in the world.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE EXODUS 3: 4 -5 So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said,

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE EXODUS 3: 4 -5 “Here I am. ” 5 Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ” (qo-desh ada-ma)

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • WHAT IS HOLINESS? • GREEK = ἅγιος • “hagi-ous” meaning set apart for WORSHIP and reverence.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE MATTHEW 1: 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. (hagious pneuma)

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • WHAT IS HOLINESS? • Holiness means to be separated away from common sin and to be set apart for worship of a HOLY God.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE LEVITICUS 11: 44 -45 “For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping that creeps on the earth.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE LEVITICUS 11: 44 -45 45 For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. ”

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • WHAT IS HOLINESS? • There is a second part to holiness: to be FAITHFUL for obedience. • We are called to be FAITHFUL to obey our GOD in mind, body and soul, yielding HOLY service.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE ROMANS 12: 1 -2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE ROMANS 12: 1 -2 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ETHICS AND MORALITY • The MINISTER’S ethics have absolutely NOTHING to do with this world. We are called to change this world, not be changed by it.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ETHICS AND MORALITY • MINISTERS are called to be separated from the SIN of this world and be faithful to obey GOD’S Biblical morality in this world. • SEPARATED for FAITHFULLY OBEYING GOD’S WORD.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 THESSALONIANS 4: 1 -8 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 THESSALONIANS 4: 1 -8 God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 THESSALONIANS 4: 1 -8 sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 THESSALONIANS 4: 1 -8 God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS FROM THE BIBLE 1 THESSALONIANS 4: 1 -8 testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in Holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS • ETHICS AND MORALITY • IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SIMPLY RESPOND TO GOD’S LOVE, WE MUST BE CHANGED BY IT.

MINISTERIAL ETHICS CLASS 3, Section 1 Pages 45 -60 The TEN COMMANDMENTS