Leviticus 06:01-07 Restoring First Century Christianity – audio

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Text: Leviticus 6:1-7

Introduction

• The word restore, or restoration, means to bring back to or to put back into a former or original state; a return of something to a former, or original condition like a building, stature, or painting.
• In our scripture reading (Leviticus 6:1-7), we learn the Law of Moses provided a plan of restitution to those whom were victims of robbery (Leviticus 6:4-5).
• Today, we want to focus our attention to bringing back Christianity, the church, to the original state it was in the first century when it was established to achieve the unity that Jesus prayed to His Father about (John 17:20-23).
• To restore Christianity, we must follow God’s plan (Colossians 3:17). A return to the total authority of the Bible as God’s Word is necessary to restore Christianity. A return back to the Bible (the original) in all things we must do, so we can speak the same thing & be of the same mind and same judgment (1 Corinthians 1:10).

Restoration Implies Man Has Left God’s Pattern

• It is unfortunately that man has left God’s pattern for him through the deceitfulness of sin. If you depart from the pattern God has laid down for us, you will
  (1) be separated from God (Isaiah 59:1-2)
  (2) Suffer the consequences of sin (Romans 6:23). Did not Nadab and Abihu suffer the consequences from leaving God’s pattern in regard to their service a priest (Leviticus 10:1-2)?
• In 1 Timothy 4:1-2, the Spirit teaches us that some will depart from the faith because they have submitted themselves to seducing spirits and doctrines of the devil. As a result of departing from the faith and God’s message, you have no fellowship or relationship with God (2 John 9-11).
• In Romans 10:1-3, Paul expresses his desire for his brethren to be saved but they could not because their religious zeal was not according to the Word of God and they were not willing to submit to the righteousness of God. The scribes and Pharisees are like the denominations of today because they vainly honor & worship God by teaching doctrines of men [a departure from God and His Word] (Matthew 15:8-9).

God Wants His Church Restored

• God wants members of the brotherhood of the Lord’s church to return to the original pattern for the church, and God’s wants members of denominations to leave their doctrines of men & false religious bodies, and be added to the original, the one true church and be saved (Acts 2:47).
• God wants His church to be restored to its’ plan of salvation (Acts 2:38), mission (Matthew 28:18-20), organization (Titus 1:5), and worship (John 4:24). But we have to be willing to bring back the church in all things to the original pattern which is contained in the Word of God (Acts 17:10).
• Are you ready to speak where the Bible speaks and be silent where the Bible is silent? Are you prepared to call Bible things by Bible names and do Bible things in Bible ways? Why not, restore Christianity today (1 Peter 4:11)?

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