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Our Restoration Heritage
Our Restoration Heritage • “I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church” (Mat. 16. 18).
Our Restoration Heritage “Jesus is the Son of the Living God” (v. 16).
Our Restoration Heritage The foundation of the church, thus, is the recognition that there is kinship between its founder and God.
Our Restoration Heritage “I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from and where I am going” (John 8. 14).
Our Restoration Heritage "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world” (John 8. 23).
Our Restoration Heritage “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins" (23 -24).
Our Restoration Heritage "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (31 -32).
Our Restoration Heritage All hinged upon believing Jesus was exactly who He said he was (God’s kin) and had shown himself to be: “Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name” (John 20. 30 -331).
Our Restoration Heritage True disciples would “continue” in His word (8. 31).
Our Restoration Heritage To Peter, He said, (Mat 16: 19): "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. "
Our Restoration Heritage Jesus statement to Peter is a significant. • Peter would “unlock” heaven. • What would follow in terms of ‘binding and loosing’ would have a strict correlation in Heaven.
Our Restoration Heritage The very first turn of the key was Acts 2. 38.
Our Restoration Heritage The door would open wider (v. 39, Acts 1. 8, Eph. 2. 14 -18 and 19 -22. ).
Our Restoration Heritage On the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles with the cornerstone of Christ rests the church.
Our Restoration Heritage As the teaching of God through the Apostles unfolded, decree after decree that had been bound in heaven was released to man.
Our Restoration Heritage Paul said, “If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord's commandment” (1 Cor. 14. 7).
Our Restoration Heritage Acts 16. 4 records: “Now while they were passing through the cities, they were delivering the decrees which had been decided upon by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem, for them to observe. ”
Our Restoration Heritage • They were “delivering” (paradidomai—handing over) the “decrees” (Gk. dogma— ordinance or decision) for that which would have been bound in heaven and was to be practiced in all churches.
Our Restoration Heritage Enter a problem. . .
Our Restoration Heritage Two views: a changing or a static pattern?
Our Restoration Heritage Our view: Christianity, as outlined in the pages of the New Testament and as the first disciples were challenged to practice it in the First Century, is exactly what it was intended to always be.
Our Restoration Heritage Really it is a fundamental debate between two ideologies, one, that the church of Christ and its beliefs, practices, and teachings can change over time and still receive heavenly endorsement and, two, that the church of Christ and its beliefs, practices, and teachings cannot change over time and still receive heavenly endorsement.
Our Restoration Heritage • In the Old Testament God said, (Deu 4: 2) "You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. ” • The key to keeping the commandment of God would be keeping the commandment as He had it written in heaven and delivered it to man.
Our Restoration Heritage • Exodus 20. 4: "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. ” • over twenty times the Old Testament records that Jeroboam “made Israel to sin” (e. g. , 1 Kings 14. 16): "He will give up Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he made Israel to sin. " • The correlation between what was bound in heaven and what Jeroboam bound on earth was lost.
Our Restoration Heritage • In contrast, when Hilkiah the high priest discovered a copy of the law in 2 Kings 22 and 23 another king, Josiah, issued a restoration plea (2 Kings 23: 3): “The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant. ” • This was a restoration plea. The people agreed and followed the dictates of the plea. • Thus, of Josiah it was said, “Before him there was no king like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him” (2 Kings 23: 25).
Our Restoration Heritage Jeremiah pled: “Thus says the LORD, ‘Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it'” (Jer. 6: 16).
Our Restoration Heritage The New Testament is replete with warnings against getting away from that pattern set forth in the traditions and teachings of the apostles.
Our Restoration Heritage • There is a “pattern” of “sound words” to be followed (2 Tim. 1. 13). • It was to be committed to faithful brethren (2. 2). • The charge was to be that men would not teach a “different doctrine” (2 Tim. 1. 3). • Paul taught that those who do such are “puffed up, knowing nothing” (1 Tim. 6. 3, 4). • The Hebrew writer(s) affirmed a principle, that we must “make all things according to the pattern” (Heb. 8. 5).
Our Restoration Heritage When men today—and the people that follow them—“stand off” (apostasia) from that pattern, they move away from the correlation that must exist between heaven and earth for one to be in favor with God.
Our Restoration Heritage G. K. Wallace wrote: “The restoration plea is an earnest entreaty to bring back the church of our Lord into its original state. A plea to restore assumes that an original existed and was lost. The restoration plea assumes a pattern existed and could and should be restored” (Wallace 269).
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