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EXTREMES IN THE ASSEMBLIES
READ: Gal 2:4,5--2 Cor 12:21
INTRO: Some places I go I am extremely "loose" and other
"tight"
Where do we draw the line?-- yardstick
THERE WERE TWO:
JERUSALEM
1)-TRADITIONALISM-RITUALISM Handing down from one
generation to another-customs--habits
(a) Meats Acts 10:14--1 Cor 8:
(b) Eating with Gentiles Acts 11:3-Gal 2:12
(c) Circumcision Acts 15:5--21:21
Names--Brethren--Halls--Chapels-
Order in meetings-Sitting same seats--passing the bread the
same way--Opening with a hymn--ollections just after the cup--
etc.
Are we following traditions?
2)-LEGALISM-EXTERNALISM--Living by the principle of law
and not grace Acts 21:20-15:1,5,24-Rom
6:14,15-Gal 2:21--
WE are not under its CURSE or CONDEMNATION==Love fulfil all law
EXTERNALISM--Gal 6:12--2 Cor 10:7-- 2 Cor.5:12
TODAY:--hair--clothes--suits--T.V.
Should be right in these things--but from the inside out
3) SECTARIANISM--heresy=="divisions arises from
opinions"--Gal. 2:12
Read--Acts 21:20,21 Note V. 20--
Rom 14:1..not receiving others circles of assemblies today
Are we following traditions?
CORINTH
1) IINTELLECTISM-rationalism--human wisdom--Judges
"every man did..."
First three chs. 1 Cor.1:-3:
APPLY:
We have to have a resident worker We must have a name P.B.
We must have individual cups--purely intellectionism!
2) LIBERALISM--individual freedom
Uncovered sisters 1 Cor 11:
Women speaking Ch.14:
Confusion of gifts Ch. 14:
Order at the Lord's supper 11:
3) ECUMENICALISM--All inclusive--
There was no within and without
1 Cor 5:11--Eating at other tables 1 Cor 10:--No
separation 2 Cor, 6:14,17
How are we to deal with extremes
Tit 1:13--Rom 16:17 --IF WE TOLERATE-- WE ACCEPT--WE APPROVE--WE DO
Paul--Jerusalem--Gal 2: 4,5