1 00:00:01,900 --> 00:00:04,400 Well, it is kind of hard to believe that we come now to the 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,900 final service of our meeting. I hope it's been at a fine for 3 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:10,900 you. I've enjoyed it immensely and 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,500 even though perhaps it's been tiring for all of us, I hope 5 00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:17,700 that something been said or we study something together that 6 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:20,400 would encourage you or at least give you some knowledge to go 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,700 forth and maybe apply in some way to your life. 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,800 You know we began a little series on church history and I'm 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,500 going to have to really not only talk fast. 10 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,300 Tonight to get through the material but also to keep us 11 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:38,400 away because after that meal, you know, I have something. 12 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,500 I have something I need to say to this congregation. 13 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,500 You've got a problem and that is its your to hospital. 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,400 In fact, I think death by Hospitality might be a good. 15 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,300 A good book to write about this congregation and because I've 16 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:55,200 been fed, man, I've been fed so much by everyone in homes and 17 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:59,800 restaurants and I got to go home and fast a wild prey and, and 18 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:01,300 maybe become one of these ascetics. 19 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:05,300 It was About because wow, even though I've been walking every 20 00:01:05,300 --> 00:01:09,300 morning, it's just not cut it, so but thank you so much. 21 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:12,700 But anyway, tonight we have a lot to cover and I promise I 22 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:15,400 won't talk quite as long. Hopefully Lord willing as last 23 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,600 night or the night before, but we've been discussing church 24 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,200 history and even though it's a little bit punny, I mentioned 25 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:23,800 this the other day. But you know, when we look at 26 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,200 the church, who's in the middle of the church, well, you are, 27 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,200 you're in the middle of the church. 28 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,100 But really in reality, when we look at history, it's his story 29 00:01:31,100 --> 00:01:33,500 isn't it? It's the story about God and 30 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:36,200 about house, Providence makes things work. 31 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:39,000 And of course, as we've noted over the last couple of nights 32 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,100 you know the church was established. 33 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:45,500 But then very quickly began to apostasy Begin to Fall away and 34 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:49,300 so really the whole history of the church and I'm going to use 35 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:52,300 that term again tonight in an accommodating since because 36 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:57,100 obviously the Lord's Church retains, you know, the identity 37 00:01:57,100 --> 00:02:00,000 that is found in the New Testament but the church Begin 38 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,500 to Fall Away from the very Beginning really and still 39 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:06,700 continues to this day, to maintain those scriptural 40 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:09,600 principles that we read about in the New Testament. 41 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,500 And, of course, the plea of the churches of price has always 42 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:16,300 been to go back to the Bible to speak where the Bible speaks to 43 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:18,300 be silent. When the Bible is silent to do 44 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:20,400 Bible things. In Bible ways, to call Bible 45 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,800 things by Bible names, and, of course, that should indeed be 46 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,100 our motto. Now, as we've looked over the 47 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:29,600 last few nights, we have look basically at these facts. 48 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,200 And after I go through these four, five, Five Points very 49 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,400 briefly. You might say, well, why 50 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,700 couldn't you just said that the last couple nights we could have 51 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:38,000 been done with it? Well, the church was established 52 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 in 80 30 or 33, the apostles were living at that period of 53 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,500 time and of course the church continued. 54 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:48,400 Steadfastly in the apostles Doctrine very quickly after the 55 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,700 church was established and congregations were established 56 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,800 people began to depart from the faith, the Apostle, Paul warned 57 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,600 over and over. For example, in Acts 22, the 58 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,100 Ephesian Elders, that there would be men who would arise 59 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:05,300 even Their own ranks and would be as wolves among the flock. 60 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:08,200 And, of course, the Apostle Paul warned Timothy that there would 61 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,500 be a man of sin and that there would be an apostasy from the 62 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:13,900 truth. Well, that true, that happened. 63 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:16,800 And then, of course, along that same period of time, there was 64 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,400 persecution. First of all, by the Jewish 65 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,600 Nation, who obviously did not like being, you know, the 66 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,800 Christians. And then as the church began to 67 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,000 spread into the entire Known World of the day, the Roman 68 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,700 government began to persecute eat the Christians as well. 69 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:36,900 And we noted various Emperor's Diocletian, DCS and others who 70 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:41,500 tried to wipe out Christianity. Well, in about 300, a man, by 71 00:03:41,500 --> 00:03:45,800 the name of Constantine comes to power, emperor, Constantine, and 72 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,500 he espouses Christianity. At least as a religion that can 73 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:54,200 be useful to his political aspirations, and so he makes 74 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,600 Christianity legal, and we might think that's a good thing. 75 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:01,000 But the Edict of Milan, which he gave and 313, which made 76 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,500 Christianity, They legal also was a very bad thing because 77 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:09,200 from that point on what we see is that the church and again I 78 00:04:09,208 --> 00:04:12,600 use that term, broadly, the church began to be United with 79 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,700 politics. And so the church and the state 80 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,899 married, one another, and from that Unholy Union, came all 81 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:22,700 kinds of false doctrines last night. 82 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:25,200 We talked a little bit about some of the doctrines that have 83 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,800 been introduced into Christendom. 84 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,100 That cannot be found in the scriptures such as infant 85 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:33,500 baptism. ISM such as a special 86 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:40,000 priesthood, such has such as rather, the clergy laity system 87 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:44,500 and such as transubstantiation and other major doctrines that 88 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:47,200 were introduced at the Christians of the first century 89 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:51,600 knew nothing about. And of course, with time as the 90 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,600 politics and the Christianity of that day began to be more and 91 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,100 more coving gold, you have more and more corruption entering 92 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:03,300 into religion to Chris Dumb during the next several 93 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:05,200 centuries. Of course we talked about 94 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,300 Charlemagne just for a moment last night and the Holy Roman 95 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:12,100 Empire and how that was Pope Leo, the third, who crowned 96 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:14,800 Charlemagne. But it was with the caveat that 97 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,800 the pope really would control the Roman Empire and so it 98 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,500 became known as the Holy Roman Empire. 99 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:23,600 Well over the next several centuries from about 300 to 100 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,900 about 1700 ad. Those 1,400 years sometimes 101 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:31,300 called even the Dark Ages, there was an intervening. 102 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:35,100 You know, problem in darkness that crept into religion and it 103 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:40,500 was purely and holy corrupt, well, in 1517, Martin Luther and 104 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:45,100 others began to rise up in what we call the Reformation period. 105 00:05:45,100 --> 00:05:48,500 Now, that were just simply comes from the term reform. 106 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:52,200 They were trying to reform religion of that day. 107 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,300 They were trying to reform the Catholic Church. 108 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:58,500 They were not trying to restore New Testament Christianity. 109 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:01,500 That movement would come a bit later, but they were trying to 110 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:07,100 Reform, the Christianity of that day which was again Catholicism. 111 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:10,200 That's the period that I want to speak very briefly about tonight 112 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,200 and I want to notice some of the main points that lead up to and 113 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,000 include the Reformation. Now the Reformation was a very 114 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,700 pivotal Point even for us important for us even today 115 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:24,700 because it was during the Reformation period and 116 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:28,600 thereafter that even the New Testament began to be translated 117 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:31,000 into common tongue, such as German. 118 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:34,800 English and so on and so forth. It was during that period of 119 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,300 time, broadly speaking that men like William Tyndale would 120 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:42,000 translate For the First Time The Bible into English or at least 121 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,700 the New Testament and then Coverdale would come along and 122 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:48,000 finish the job as well as others throughout the centuries who 123 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,900 eventually leads us up to the King James version. 124 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,800 So there's a lot of formative events during this period of 125 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,900 time and it's also a period of time when the world is changing. 126 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:03,300 For example, in about 1455, we know that Verb popularized, he 127 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:06,500 really didn't invent movable type, but he popularized, the 128 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:10,100 movable-type printing press. And the first Bible that was 129 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:11,900 printed. The first thing was printed was 130 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:15,600 a Bible and it was lat. And so with the ability to print 131 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,400 literature and the ability to get the word out more quickly, 132 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,500 there came about really a Rene has on, it's a change, a world 133 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:27,600 changing, the atmosphere in which people were no longer as 134 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,600 ignorant and I use that in a classical sense as they once 135 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,700 were. Well, by the 15th century, we 136 00:07:33,700 --> 00:07:37,600 have such corruption in the Catholic church that there began 137 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,300 to be again. Some people who spoke out. 138 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,700 Now, one of those individuals, as I mentioned, was Martin 139 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:44,600 Luther. And one of the things that 140 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:49,300 precipitated Martin Luther's anger at the Catholic church was 141 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:52,700 the fact that there was a man by the name of John tessin now, 142 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:57,100 John tetzel was quite a Salesman and John tetzel realized at the 143 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,900 church, confers needed money. And so, John tetzel begin to 144 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:05,100 circulate Around Europe and he began to sales what was known as 145 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,400 indulgences now indulgences are really, I think, kind of hard to 146 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,700 explain and many think that it's really the payment for sin, not 147 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:14,800 yet committed and that's kind of right? 148 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:18,700 But in reality indulgences or the payment of physical money, 149 00:08:18,900 --> 00:08:23,200 so that the results of sin in purgatory could be diminished 150 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:28,600 and so you could prepay or pay for others for their sins. 151 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:31,700 So that the timing and Purgatory that hot Place. 152 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:34,200 If you will, where you supposedly went to sort of pay 153 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,299 for your sins before, later on, you are absolved of those sins 154 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:39,500 the, your time there could be reduced. 155 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,400 Well, of course, Martin Luther had a fit about that, Martin 156 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,000 Luther felt like that was an abuse of the church's power. 157 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,300 And by the way, ten Souls Ernie's, which were apparently 158 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:54,800 were substantial went into the building and the making of st. 159 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,600 Peter's Basilica, in Rome now, the st. 160 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,100 Peter's Basilica. Today, in Rome is the second 161 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:04,000 Basilica, the first I believe, burned way back in the early 162 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,600 days of this period of time, but nonetheless, it went into the 163 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,200 great coppers of the Catholic church. 164 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:15,300 And tetzel is credited with having a little bit of a phrase 165 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:17,700 that he would go around. Now, remember, by the way, 166 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:21,100 people at this time were superstitious the church, the 167 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:24,900 Catholic Church holds all power and let me throw this in because 168 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:27,000 I'm throwing in things from previous studies. 169 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,700 Remember the first I said that, the first draft I did was seven 170 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:32,700 parts. But nonetheless, you know, let's 171 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:35,900 think about this. You're a your of poor individual 172 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:39,500 in the English Countryside. You look over there are maybe in 173 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:41,600 your Italian Countryside, you look over there. 174 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,200 And here's this institution that has these great Cathedrals. 175 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:49,000 That has gold and silver and paintings that are Priceless on 176 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,500 their walls. You're going to be awed by that. 177 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:54,700 And so also the church was teaching that you needed to do 178 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:59,000 what they said to do in order to be saved and they held great 179 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 sway over the people. And so if a You should comes 180 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,700 along or some Emissary, from the Roman Pope, and he says, here's 181 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:08,300 what you must do. People are going to try to do 182 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,300 that. And that particular era of time, 183 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,800 well, tetzel came along selling these indulgences and he had 184 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:18,100 this phrase where he says, as soon as the coin in the Coffer 185 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,000 Rings, a soul from purgatory Springs. 186 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:24,500 Now, you know, Traditions kind of interesting because it's 187 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:26,600 really hard to say. Whether you really said that, 188 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,700 but it catches the drift he was selling these these the It's if 189 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:35,700 you will, we're by your time in purgatory or in punishment could 190 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:38,200 be reduced. We, you know, at this period of 191 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,500 time to people being superstitious would venerate 192 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:46,500 relics the Catholic Church would go about and get various items 193 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:50,500 skulls of supposed States pieces of wood supposedly coming from 194 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:54,200 the cross, and they would put them in the cathedrals of that 195 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,000 day. And people would venerate our 196 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,700 worship, those particular items because it was held that those 197 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:02,600 items had spiritual significance, Forget, and even 198 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,600 religious power. And so, then the sacramental 199 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,900 idea that if you worship or you venerated, are you did so many 200 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:12,500 things you could earn your salvation and these things could 201 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:15,900 help you. So, relics were sacred items, 202 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,600 venerated. And every Church, of course, 203 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,000 wanted either a saint or sacred item attached to it. 204 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,700 And so, there were pieces of the True Cross. 205 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:29,000 There were bones of the Apostles on display now, again, not 206 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,600 surely, the real Apostles are the real Ross because there's no 207 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,500 indication that we know where they are, but nonetheless, these 208 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:38,600 things were displayed as if they were. 209 00:11:38,700 --> 00:11:41,500 In fact, John Calvin, very interesting reformer as well. 210 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,800 Said that there were 15, sculls of John the Baptist and he says, 211 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,600 there was enough wood from the crosses of Jesus to build across 212 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,700 so tall that you couldn't see the top. 213 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:55,300 Now, he's also been reported to have said there was so much wood 214 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:57,700 for the crosses of Jesus little splinters that you could build 215 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:00,000 Noah's Ark. Now, whatever the point is, you 216 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,800 know, tradition, sometimes gives you A lot of stories that the 217 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,500 point is, is that you have all of these artifacts out there 218 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,600 which may or may not mean anything, but people are 219 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,100 venerating them and worshipping them as if they are real because 220 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:16,200 they believe it gives them some spiritual connection to God. 221 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:19,600 Now, I'm going to throw this in as just an aside but under st. 222 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,000 Peter's, Basilica in Rome, today is an area called the 223 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,600 necropolis. Now the crop of us the word and 224 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,900 simply means the city of the dead necropolis, and the 225 00:12:28,908 --> 00:12:32,100 necropolis is where supposedly Lee st. 226 00:12:32,100 --> 00:12:34,100 Peter is buried now a few years ago. 227 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:36,700 But difference when, you know, the Clinton France, cleanse, it 228 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:38,500 cleanse is everywhere. Glenn is everywhere. 229 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:41,900 You want to be Clinton perhaps were and I were in Rome and we 230 00:12:41,900 --> 00:12:44,900 were able to get a tour under st. 231 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:46,700 Peter's, Basilica up to the necropolis. 232 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:48,600 Now, I have friends that are Catholic. 233 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,200 There are sincere, wonderful people and I would never 234 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,800 besmirch, their religion, or I would never besmirch this in 235 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,700 Syria. But as we stood among the faith, 236 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,200 as we journey through the catacomb like Isles, Under st. 237 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,700 Peter's Basilica, the bones and the priests and the Pope's that 238 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:09,600 have been buried and then we came to the niche where bag 239 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:12,500 Peter if you look back through supposed it was buried, it 240 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:16,000 became very quiet. There was an honest, you know 241 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 that began to sort of circulate through the crowd and Clinton I 242 00:13:19,008 --> 00:13:22,700 just stood there and thought you know really is this really what 243 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:26,300 Christianity is all about. But this was a holy place and 244 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,300 there was supposedly I think some Holiness that people 245 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:31,200 thought they might gather you see? 246 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,400 Things haven't changed that much superstitious. 247 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,700 Haven't changed so much, even from this period in the 15th 248 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:40,600 century. Well, the society though is 249 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,300 changing, people were becoming more educated. 250 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:46,500 The power of the church was beginning to fail a little bit 251 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:48,500 and byte church. I mean Catholicism because it 252 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:52,400 was V, dominant religion of the day because they need for sure. 253 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,900 No one else had a presence. And two things happened that 254 00:13:56,900 --> 00:13:59,600 brought about really a great change. 255 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,900 And brought about the Reformation, One. 256 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:05,200 As I mentioned, a moment ago was the printing press by Gutenberg 257 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:09,800 Gutenberg printed the Bible for the first time, in about 1450 5, 258 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:11,900 there are some Gutenberg Bibles around today. 259 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:14,900 In various museums, if you have 30 or 40 million dollars, you 260 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:18,100 might be able to pick one up, nonetheless, they're very rare 261 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:23,100 and it is again a watershed for the change. 262 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:25,000 Really? The flood that would begin to 263 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,500 occur in printing, Martin Luther who will notice in a moment was 264 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:32,400 a prolific printer and he printed More literature in 265 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:36,900 Germany than any other person in Germany, religious tracts 266 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:39,500 servants and so on and so far. But about this time there was 267 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:44,000 another change in religion that brought about a great amount of 268 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:48,500 fervor and that was a man by the name of Erasmus now. 269 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:52,900 Rasmus, he as it were went and he got the Greek manuscripts 270 00:14:52,900 --> 00:14:55,000 that were available at the time. There were only a couple of 271 00:14:55,008 --> 00:14:59,100 handful and he put together a new Greek texts called the 272 00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:02,400 Texas. Receptus the TR And it is from 273 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,500 the textus receptus that, then you start having the English 274 00:15:06,500 --> 00:15:08,900 Bibles printed. But now that was a change. 275 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:12,900 Because up until this point they had used the Latin Vulgate. 276 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:16,600 The Latin had grown corrupt and then change over the years. 277 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,600 People no longer read or spoke Latin the priest, spoke it. 278 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,200 But some of them didn't even know what they were saying. 279 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,000 They were just rattling off that which they had memorized. 280 00:15:26,100 --> 00:15:29,900 And so Rasmus and others felt like there needs to be a new 281 00:15:29,900 --> 00:15:34,200 base text on which The base, the Bible translation and then of 282 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,900 course others, like William tyndale's Coverdale Matthews and 283 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:40,900 others thought that it needed to be in the language of the 284 00:15:40,900 --> 00:15:43,400 people. So as these things begin to 285 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,400 happen, they all kind of come together. 286 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:49,300 At about the same time, you have a change in culture, you have a 287 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:52,700 changing Society, you have corruption in the church, the 288 00:15:52,700 --> 00:15:55,400 Catholic church and you have men like Martin Luther who are 289 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,900 finally willing to stand up and say enough already. 290 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:04,200 Now, Martin Luther was like Julian Mark, he did not want to 291 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,200 throw away. The Catholic church has missed, 292 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,900 his purpose, was not to create Lutheranism, now that's what 293 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:12,200 happened. But his purpose was not to 294 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:17,700 create a new religion. His purpose was to reform that 295 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:21,600 which he saw as being corrupt. And so he began to teach and 296 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,900 preach and he began to question the various doctrines of the 297 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:27,300 Bible, he entered a monastery at a very young age. 298 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:29,800 His father wanted him to be a lawyer, by the way, but he 299 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,400 decided to become a preacher. ER, and I'm sure that was just a 300 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,500 pointing for his father. But nonetheless, he began to 301 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:39,400 dedicate himself intensely to prayer, and to fasting. 302 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,800 And he was really almost a radical when it came to his 303 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,200 lifestyle, he was also a colorful individual because it 304 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,900 said that you can hear him at times jousting as it were 305 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:52,500 verbally with the devil using all kinds of expletives and all 306 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:56,300 kinds of terrible language. But nonetheless he was a priest. 307 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,700 He was a individual who wanted to reform the Catholic Church. 308 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:04,599 Well Rome Cam automation, he went to Rome. 309 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,800 He went to this place called. Well, I don't remember the name 310 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,900 of the church, but nonetheless, he comes to Rome and he sees 311 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,400 Christians, so-called at a place called the scale of sanctum. 312 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,200 Now, few weeks ago, when I was there with Ronnie, Wade visited, 313 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:25,099 this for the umpteenth time and what this is is supposedly, 314 00:17:25,099 --> 00:17:30,100 these are the steps that were brought from Palestine by 315 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:32,300 Constantine's mother. Other hellena. 316 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,600 Supposedly, the very steps in front of Pilots Hall that Jesus 317 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,700 stood up on when Jesus was being tried and convicted. 318 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,500 Now, of course we don't know about that, but nonetheless, 319 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:47,000 these steps were hauled from Palestine to Rome. 320 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:51,100 And people, even to this very day will pay Penance upon the 321 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:53,100 steps. They will get down on their 322 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:56,800 knees and they will walk up one by one, but you cannot walk up 323 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,900 these steps except on your knees that Ronnie. 324 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:03,200 Wait and wait outside becomes. Of them on their feet and the 325 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,500 guards got them right away. But nonetheless, you can go up 326 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:10,900 these steps on your knees. Praying all the way and again 327 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:16,800 demonstrate your Penance and get spiritual Merit from doing this. 328 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,200 Well Martin Luther saw this going on. 329 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:21,900 These are the same steps that were there in 1400 and Martin 330 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:24,600 Luther. Finally said, this is crazy. 331 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,900 The just should live by faith. Now let me say this real quick 332 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:30,700 and I don't have time to get into the darkness side of this. 333 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:34,200 But, you know, Sometimes such reformers or even religious 334 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,600 leaders such as Martin Luther, and John Calvin, and so on and 335 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,900 so forth. We give them sort of a bad rap 336 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,600 now. I don't believe their theology, 337 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,400 don't get me wrong, but considering their environment 338 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,800 Martin Luther. Yes, he did Focus way too much 339 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,300 on faith alone. In fact, he changed the biblical 340 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:55,000 definition of faith, and the purpose of faith and how Faith 341 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,900 Works to Faith, the low, but consider the environment. 342 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:03,300 He was in, he was in an Where the Catholic Church of the day 343 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:05,600 said you had to work such as this. 344 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:09,500 You had to bleed on your knees so to speak so that you could be 345 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:12,500 safe. So he reacts but he reacts too 346 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:15,500 far and I think that's something we need to keep in mind when 347 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:18,100 there are Trends and Winds of Change. 348 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:22,300 Sometimes we need to be careful that we don't over react to. 349 00:19:22,308 --> 00:19:26,800 The change that is going on. Round about us, well, over time 350 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,000 Luther comes up with a list of grievances. 351 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:34,200 They're called the 95 Theses. Now by this time Luther is a 352 00:19:34,208 --> 00:19:37,300 priest up in a town called Vinton Berg Germany. 353 00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:43,600 And he takes this paper of 95 complaints and he Nails it to 354 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,000 the door of the Catholic church in that City. 355 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,200 Now he wasn't vandalizing. That was where people pin things 356 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,800 to make public announcements. And of course, the pope got word 357 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,400 of this. Others got word of this and he 358 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,700 was criticized, he was called before a court called the diet 359 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:03,100 of worms. Then it left a bad taste in his 360 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:06,200 mouth was the diet of worms would with died of arms, is 361 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,700 pretty nasty I.U snakes Court. It doesn't mean something you 362 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:12,800 eat, but nonetheless on April in April 1521, Luther was brought 363 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:18,800 before the diet of worms and Lutheran was tried as a heretic 364 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:21,900 or what he was preaching and they asked him to recant. 365 00:20:21,900 --> 00:20:25,000 They say just in, I what you've printed, you're not what you're 366 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,500 saying and that's where if you read the story of Luther, it 367 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:30,200 gets really kind of a hair-raising because he says, 368 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,300 unless idea. Convinced by the testimonies of 369 00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:38,500 scripture or by clear reason, I neither can or will make any 370 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:42,100 retraction since it is neither safe nor honorable to act 371 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:45,200 against conscience. And then there's that famous 372 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,900 phrase where he says, here I stand, I can do. 373 00:20:48,900 --> 00:20:52,300 No other help me God. In other words, even though he 374 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:55,400 might have been mistaken. Some of the theology, he was not 375 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,800 going to give it up. He was going to go to the death. 376 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,600 If that was what it was necessary. 377 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:06,700 Even mean What you was if indeed he had to and is Wellness rather 378 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:09,700 to stand for his sake. Well, the movement begins to 379 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:12,500 sprout, and there are many others across Europe. 380 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,400 Martin Luther, of course, in Germany between Glee up there. 381 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,900 You'll represent singly in Switzerland. 382 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:22,900 All of these men had different nuances of teaching but they all 383 00:21:22,900 --> 00:21:25,300 recognize that the Church of that day was corrupt. 384 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:30,200 John Knox down in Scotland, John Calvin in France from which we 385 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,400 get the calvinist. Take doctor's today and will 386 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,600 notice him just in just a few moments. 387 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:39,200 But the goal again, I've always been was not to establish or 388 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,300 return to the New Testament Church. 389 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:43,700 That was not on the horizon that was not in their mind. 390 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:47,600 Their goal was to reform the Catholic church. 391 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,700 Now, the problem with that is sometimes you can't reform 392 00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:55,500 something, sometimes you have to tear it down and start over, but 393 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:58,500 there were differences even among the reformers on theology, 394 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:01,100 for example, Martin Luther believed that side. 395 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:04,500 Let's allows now we still have that controversy going on in our 396 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:06,800 Brotherhood today. It's amazing that after 1500 397 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,300 years or so or whatnot. 15, I can just say 500 years. 398 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,400 We haven't solved it, but nonetheless blue thought that if 399 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,700 the Bible didn't specifically forbid, something that it was 400 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:19,600 allowed. Now, on the other hand, swingley 401 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,000 said, no silence forbids. If the Bible doesn't 402 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,300 specifically authorize something, then it is forbidden. 403 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:28,800 Now, there's a big difference between those two because you 404 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,100 see Luther would say well you can add what you Want as long as 405 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:35,800 it doesn't violate some positive command of scripture is legally. 406 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,300 Would say no you can't have it. Unless it's authorized we still 407 00:22:39,300 --> 00:22:41,300 fight over that preacher studies today. 408 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:45,100 You see these issues do affect us and our theology. 409 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:48,700 Even today, John Calvin do in my view. 410 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,500 Made the most dire inroads into Christendom because of his 411 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:55,700 theology. Now the other evening I noted 412 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:59,100 with you that John Calvin was a student of st. 413 00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:02,600 Augustine Augustine. One of the early church fathers, 414 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:07,400 so called in about 400 ad Augustine had become a Christian 415 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,400 having been converted by a man by the name of Ambrose and he 416 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,200 had come out of a false dualistic. 417 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,300 Gnostic Doctrine called medic is. 418 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:20,100 MM, the flesh was evil, the spirit was good, but the flesh 419 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:24,100 was evil and so then John Calvin, as he then begins to 420 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:27,900 study Augustine. He begins to incorporate, I 421 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:31,500 don't know, knowingly or unknowingly these ideas in Into 422 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:34,100 his own Theology. And so, he comes up with this 423 00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:37,400 idea of God's sovereignty, which God is Sovereign, but to the 424 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,900 point that he believed that God had control of everything even 425 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:43,900 against Free Will. And so he came up with What's 426 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:46,700 called the Tulip doctor. Now, this is not for jority, 427 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,800 this is not making fun, they will acknowledge that they 428 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,900 believe in tulip. In fact, have you ever heard of 429 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:53,900 the point that the idea of a five-point calvinist? 430 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:56,200 You have five-point calvinist, some will say no, I'm a 431 00:23:56,208 --> 00:24:00,800 three-point calvinist. Well, the Five Points, RT ulap, 432 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,800 Depravity total heredity proud of you. 433 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,000 In other words, we are born in sin, we can't even believe 434 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,700 unless God does a special miraculous work on our life. 435 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,300 Number two unconditional option because we're born in sin when 436 00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:18,100 we then come to God. We are unconditionally elected. 437 00:24:18,300 --> 00:24:20,100 In other words. God chooses, who's going to be 438 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:22,300 saved? Who's going to be lost? 439 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:25,200 We are predetermined and those that are predetermined to be 440 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,000 saved. Then have had Christ died for 441 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,600 them and them alone. That's called limited atonement. 442 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:33,500 Now we Believe that Jesus died for the whole world, we believe 443 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:35,800 that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all 444 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,100 should come to repentance. Calvin said, no, Christ, only 445 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:42,100 died for the elect. The rest are damned to hell no 446 00:24:42,100 --> 00:24:45,500 matter what they want to do, and so there's a limited atonement. 447 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:49,000 Now, if you're part of the limited atonement group and 448 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,600 you're part of the saved, then since God saved you, and decreed 449 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,400 that, there's nothing you can do be lost and of course, in order 450 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,600 to be saved, God's going to give his grace to you. 451 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,300 That Grace is not going to Able to be resisted, that's 452 00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:04,700 irresistible Grace. And when God does that, then 453 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:06,500 you're going to persevere forever. 454 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:09,800 You're going to be saved, once saved, always saved. 455 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,900 So, this doctrine of tulip becomes, really the basis for 456 00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:18,600 most of the reformed and the churches that came from the 457 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,100 Reformation that are around us today. 458 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,500 In fact, one of the things of the two doctrines that separate 459 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:28,000 I believe the Churches of Christ from other groups, one is the 460 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,700 idea of the Calvinism. And the other is 461 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:35,800 premillennialism those two doctrines again are not spouse 462 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,700 by the Churches of Christ, but almost everyone in the 463 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:41,400 denominational world today will believe in once saved, always 464 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:46,200 saved for some form of Calvinism and pre millennialism. 465 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,000 Well, that's another subject for another time. 466 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:52,600 But, you know, again, from the Reformation, it didn't solve 467 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,000 anything. It just began to Splinter and, 468 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,700 you know, some things, as I mentioned, you just can't fix. 469 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:03,500 You can't make us. Purse out of a sow's ear. 470 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,600 You just can't do it. You've got to start over. 471 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,700 And so then these men miss the point, they were trying to take 472 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:14,100 something that was inherently corrupt, that had a structure of 473 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:15,900 leadership as we noted last evening. 474 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:19,300 That was inherently sinful and wrong, and we're trying to 475 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:24,400 reform it that will not work. Well, go buy them a few hundred 476 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,100 more years. We get now to the 1800s 1700s 477 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:31,000 1800s, and we begin to see them people. 478 00:26:31,100 --> 00:26:33,700 In the denomination's. Now by this time, many 479 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:36,400 denominations have split give the Baptists Presbyterians and 480 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,700 methodists. You have all these demon 481 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:41,500 domination Lutheran's that had begun to split and Splinter and 482 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:45,400 their begin to arise a few men, A Few Good Men, Who said, you 483 00:26:45,408 --> 00:26:48,700 know what, the Reformation didn't work. 484 00:26:49,300 --> 00:26:53,300 So what we need to do is we need to restore Christianity. 485 00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:56,600 Now, I use the term restoration with a bit of a caveat and that 486 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,000 is this. I don't believe personally that 487 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,800 the church ever disappear. I don't believe that the church 488 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,300 had to be totally restored in the sense that it, you know, was 489 00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:08,500 never around. I believe that somewhere. 490 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,500 Probably in those groups that Catholics called Heritage during 491 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,600 the Middle Ages. There were faithful. 492 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,800 Christians meeting now, I can't prove that but that's my own 493 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,300 belief. I base that upon even today 494 00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:22,600 finding congregations once in a while but we know nothing of 495 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:25,400 that are virtually the same. As we are, they've taken the 496 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,800 Bible that done back to it and you know what? 497 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,100 When you plant seed you get the same crop. 498 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:32,800 If you plant corn, you're going to get corn, they had planted 499 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,900 the word of God and they got new testament Christians. 500 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:38,300 So I believe that probably every we're around the world. 501 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:39,900 There were already some places around the world. 502 00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:42,700 There were no Jews and Christians but nonetheless man 503 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:45,400 began to say, we need to get back to the Bible. 504 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,100 We need to restore New Testament Christianity. 505 00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:53,300 But this time of course there was a dearth of biblical 506 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:56,100 knowledge. There was a confusion and the 507 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:58,100 religious World there were again. 508 00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:01,200 And as even today, we go on. We see world. 509 00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:04,100 Jim circulating around you know, you should we said we needed to 510 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:06,300 go to the world. Now they've come to us and of 511 00:28:06,308 --> 00:28:08,400 course, it does provide quite an opportunity. 512 00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:14,000 I like the quote from CBS CS Lewis, but as Carol Lewis 513 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,900 Carroll was here, that's it. When he speaks of, you know, 514 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,400 Alice in Wonderland. She says I knew I was this 515 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,600 morning but I changed a few times since then, you know that 516 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,600 sort of is reflective of the religious world. 517 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,700 You know, denomination on, by the way, did I shoot 518 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,900 denominationalism? By the way, it's really Dead. 519 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,700 You know, today, methodists and Baptists. 520 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:36,500 They'll circulate with each other within each other's 521 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:38,700 pulpits. You know, you can hire one man 522 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:40,100 over here. This one to this Theological 523 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:43,000 Seminary, he may not even have the same nomenclature or 524 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,100 monikers, you do religiously, but that doesn't matter because 525 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:50,100 he is the local preacher. So denominationalism in many 526 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:53,000 ways is dead. And today, in many ways, we're 527 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,900 in it, it's just as much confusion as there ever was. 528 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,600 But back to the very idea here of going back to the beginning 529 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,500 newt. To make Christianity. 530 00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:07,100 So the seed of the word of Jesus himself, spoke of sowing the 531 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:10,000 seed of the word. And so, there were men who began 532 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,000 to arise say, you know, if we get certified seed and we throw 533 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,500 out the weeds man, made doctrines the ologies Creeds, 534 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,200 and we simply go back to the Bible. 535 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,200 Then we're more liable to get new testament, Christians, and 536 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,400 that makes logical. Sense, does it? 537 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,100 We want to plant pure seed and we want to To plant that in 538 00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:35,700 every generation. And when we do then we're going 539 00:29:35,700 --> 00:29:39,200 to get Christians, pure New Testament Christians in every 540 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,600 generation. Well, you know, the restoration 541 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,400 movement restoring actually began in Europe with men like 542 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,600 Campbell and others, but along the Eastern Seaboard of the 543 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,700 United States. In very much the same time 544 00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:55,800 period. Various men, begin to arise men 545 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,500 like Abner, Jones Elias myth, though, these were 546 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:01,600 denominational men, but they also realize that Other 547 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,500 denominations were not biblical and so they began to teach. 548 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:07,000 Let's go back to the Bible and even though the movement was 549 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,800 formative at this period of time, it was in its infancy. 550 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:15,600 These men began to blaze a trail for others who would follow and 551 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,700 preach. Let's go back to the Bible. 552 00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:21,000 Now here's where I'm going to truncate a tremendous amount of 553 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,700 material and basically just say that as time rolled on a man, 554 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:29,100 first of all, by the name of Alexander Campbell came to this 555 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:33,200 world with his father. Thomas Campbell and they began 556 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,100 to came to this world came to the new world. 557 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:37,400 I should say. They came from Scotland and 558 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,400 Ireland, they came and they began to preach back to the 559 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,700 Bible. In fact, there's a very 560 00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:45,000 interesting book, I would recommend it is written story 561 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 for him. It's by a man, I believe nothing 562 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,800 Cochran Cochran, the fool of God and it's a delightful account of 563 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:57,300 Thomas and Alexander Campbell's Coming to America and their plea 564 00:30:57,300 --> 00:31:02,000 for Christian restoration. So delightful account I'd But 565 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000 there was another man by the name of Barton Stone. 566 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,700 Barton stone is known as a frontier preacher. 567 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,500 He was preaching much of the same doctrines that Campbell was 568 00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:14,300 they met, they began to compare notes. 569 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,900 There are movements joined and of course, from that, of course 570 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:20,600 we get. Then the movement that later 571 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,700 would become the Christian Church Disciples of Christ 572 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:24,800 Churches of Christ, and so on and so forth. 573 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,000 Now, that's another history. You can read West's book search 574 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,800 for the Ancient Order if you like this series. 575 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:31,200 There are many books that are out. 576 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,600 There that are very good. If they're interested in simply 577 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,400 reading about the restoration movement, or you can go back and 578 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,600 read the original documents such as Alexander. 579 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,700 Campbell's Millennial Harbinger, you know, Alexander Campbell was 580 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:46,800 quite the man, Bethany West Virginia was where he lived. 581 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,700 He had his own printing, press, he would get up in the morning, 582 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,700 early enough and stand. If you actually, if you go 583 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:56,300 there, you been there. Frank, if you go there, there's 584 00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:00,100 a kind of a outdoor study that he is still exist and he would 585 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:02,800 stand in, he would get there. Early in the morning and he 586 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,100 would write standing up, they always wrote standing and he 587 00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:10,200 would write enough that morning to keep his printers busy all 588 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,900 day long. Now, if I get anything written, 589 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:16,800 even an email in the morning, I'm doing pretty well but 590 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,000 Alexander Campbell would get up early. 591 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,300 I mean, really early by the Light of the pole, lamp, and 592 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:24,500 right. And not that morning to keep his 593 00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:27,500 printers busy all day long. He was also the postmaster of 594 00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:29,800 Bethany West Virginia, and, of course, that gave him the 595 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,100 ability to send things out. Posthaste nonetheless, these two 596 00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:38,400 movements emerged, and they merged basically, on for timely 597 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,900 principles. In other words, the restoration 598 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:44,800 movement came down to basically these four things. 599 00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:50,600 Number one Christ Reigns Christ is the head of the church. 600 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:55,300 Not Martin Luther, not John Calvin, not King Henry the 8th, 601 00:32:55,300 --> 00:32:59,000 not all those guys back in the rest formation but Christ that 602 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000 was the one of the non-negotiables. 603 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,200 To the Bible rules. It is God's word. 604 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:07,000 There is a pattern that is recognized and that's very 605 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,400 important. Because, you know, today we have 606 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,800 left in our postmodern world, pattern is mm, I don't mean in 607 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,200 the church necessarily although it has affected us. 608 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,500 But I mean, in the religious world, most folks in the 609 00:33:18,508 --> 00:33:20,900 religious world at a dump believe, there's a pattern, they 610 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:23,800 do believe it really matters what you do and worship. 611 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:28,100 But the Reformation restoration period was based upon pattern, 612 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:31,200 the pattern being the New Testament and the rejection of 613 00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:35,300 Reads. Now, as with anything again, not 614 00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:40,500 only in the Reformation period where things begin to split and 615 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,100 began to Splinter. Even today in the post 616 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:47,800 restoration, period things are still beginning to Splinter or 617 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,000 naughty beginning. They are stutter, think about 618 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,400 just from the Churches of Christ that you know, how many 619 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,400 different groups there are? No exception Churches of Christ. 620 00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:57,000 There are cup Churches of Christ. 621 00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:59,100 There are cups. No class of Churches of Christ, 622 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:01,100 there are classes. No cups Churches of Christ, 623 00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:02,300 there. Churches of Christ of leaving. 624 00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:04,500 Premillennialism there are Churches of Christ that believe 625 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:08,500 in institutions it goes on and on and on and on and on you see 626 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:13,199 what's the solution? The Bible going back to the 627 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,500 Bible. And unfortunately even today 628 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:20,199 there are divisions. Paul said that shouldn't be a 629 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,500 zero to Corinth. He said, there are divisions 630 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:24,600 among you I hear that from the house of Chloe and he said, I 631 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,500 somewhat believe it. He said some say, I'm appalled 632 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:28,300 by the policy other sickness, I'm of Christ. 633 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:30,800 It says Christ. Divided was Paul crucified for 634 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,500 you. Well, certainly not. 635 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,600 And so Paul, even in the first century gave the initial plea 636 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,900 that Campbell and stone and others. 637 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:43,900 And even today we give and it is let us go back to the Bible. 638 00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:47,100 Well, that leads us into our final point and that is what 639 00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:48,800 should we do in the 21st century? 640 00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:53,900 Now, we may have to adapt our approach but we never adapted. 641 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:57,300 Ali doctrines are pure but we may have to adapt our approach. 642 00:34:57,300 --> 00:34:58,900 You know, there are people coming to this country who don't 643 00:34:58,900 --> 00:34:59,700 know. Jesus. 644 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:03,200 You can't teach them about the Are folks until they know Jesus, 645 00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:06,200 you can't teach them about one cup until they know what the 646 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,300 church is. Now that doesn't mean we have to 647 00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:12,300 wait forever to teach them those things but we may have to adapt 648 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:15,200 our approach. But what we've got to do is go 649 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,000 back and teach the same things goth. 650 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,200 Roy speaking. That Jesus is the son of God 651 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:22,700 much like Paul did in Athens, you know, on Mars Hill. 652 00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:26,300 That's an interesting study because Paul takes those folks, 653 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,400 we are, they were pagans worshipping an unknown God. 654 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:34,000 And he says he Him. I declare to you, we take where 655 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,100 people are and we begin to nurture and bring them along to. 656 00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:42,100 Hopefully, we are Guardians. And of course, how do we do 657 00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:43,400 that? Exactly. 658 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,200 Like they did in the first century. 659 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,500 They continued steadfastly in the apostles Doctrine. 660 00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:54,300 Well, that's the study tonight. And there is again, no doubt 661 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:59,300 tons and tons of material that we could have included and. 662 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,400 But I wanted to go ahead and give you a kind of A 663 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,000 finalization of the end of the story, if you will, the rest of 664 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,400 the story because the Reformation started by Martin 665 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,200 Luther didn't work. And today arguably the Catholic 666 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:18,000 church is as corrupt As It Ever Was and unfortunately the 667 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,600 various denominations that split off from Martin Luther John 668 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,900 Calvin and zwingli others didn't work either. 669 00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:31,700 And so the only thing we can do is continue day by day year by 670 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:34,800 year, Generation by generation to plead to go back to the 671 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,700 Bible. Now we have to be careful that 672 00:36:37,700 --> 00:36:40,500 we don't allow even our view of the Church of Christ become 673 00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:43,000 secular or denomination done denomination. 674 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,500 Because if we ever quit questioning and I don't mean 675 00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:51,800 that in a negative way but if we net if we ever quit determining 676 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,200 that we need to go back to the Bible. 677 00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:57,200 Then surely traditions of men will creep in and we'll begin to 678 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,200 hold those things as high as we do Doctrine and pretty soon. 679 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,800 We're no different than the pre-reformation church. 680 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,100 And so we have a great job ahead of us tonight but I think we can 681 00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:09,500 do it. I think again that God has the 682 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:12,500 same power today that he had then you know, Paul said I'm not 683 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:16,000 ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of Salvation 684 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,400 to the Jew first and also to the Greek, except for therein is the 685 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,500 righteousness of God revealed from Faith to Faith for, as it 686 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:25,900 is written, the just shall live by faith. 687 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:30,300 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 688 00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:36,100 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 689 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,100 would like any additional information, or you would like 690 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:42,300 to receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 691 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,800 Please email us at info at her Church of Christ 692 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,700 Bakersfield.com. 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