"The Apostles' Teaching" (The importance of true, solid doctrine)

 

There is a war on for your soul.

Get together with other believers.

There is no need to suffer in secret.

Sundays at 11am, in-person from 13 September

On Brook Street in-person FK12 5JQ and continuing online through Zoom at

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From Sunday Sermon 6 December:

Acts 2:42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

When the bible tells us that disciples

"devoted themselves to the apostles'  teaching",

What do you think when you hear the phrase?

"apostles'teaching"

The Teaching or Doctrine of the apostles?

• What do you believe?    

• Why do you believe it?   

Hear some words of Jesus and descriptions of His doctrine:

Matthew 16:6, 12

6 "Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

12 …he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

(watch-out! bad teaching gets into your head)

Mark 4:2 And he was teaching them many things in parables…

(good teaching calls for practical applications)

Luke 4:32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority.

John 7:16 So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Jesus' teaching is the Doctrine of God

The other writers in the bible 'hitch their wagons' to the truth of Christ:

Eph. 2:19-20

 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,

but you are fellow citizens with the saints

and members of the household of God,

 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,

Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

1 John 1:5

"This is the message we have heard from Him, and proclaim to you…"

The apostles teaching, is the teaching of Christ.

What do you think when you hear the phrase?

"apostles'teaching"

"My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me."

"This is the message we have heard from Him, and proclaim to you…"

• Jesus' teaching is the Doctrine of God
• The apostles teaching, is the teaching of Christ.

John 21:24-25 "...the disciple...bears witness of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his witness is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail,

I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books which were written.

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God

and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives.

It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. (NLT)

• The Bible contains the written word of God The teachings of Jesus and His apostles

when you hear the phrase "apostles' teaching"

it should draw us back to the Bible.

This is the historic record of their teachings.

We read, listen to, study and otherwise seek to understand the bible,

so that we too might know and devote ourselves to God's truth.