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:

•  ASSEMBLY AT JERUSALEM --TIGHT
•  ASSEMBLY AT CORINTH--LOOSE

                              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