Where does the Bible say to take it to the Scripture?
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:10 am
Where does the Bible say to take it to the Scripture?
Christ came to give us a Kingdom/Church. Luke 22:29-30; "And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
John 20:21-23; "So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on [them], and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
Matt 21:43+45; ""Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. Now when the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived that He was speaking of them. "
We see Christ giving the Church to Peter and the Apostles. Matt 16:18+18:18, "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
Christ said "take it to the Church". Mat 18:15-18; ""Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. "Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
We see this in practice in Acts 15.
Paul tells Timothy that the Church is the Truth. 1Tim 3:15, "but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."
We see the offices in the Church. Ephesians 4:11-13; "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, "
Titus 1:7 "For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,"
1Tim 3:1 "This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work."
The Church keeps the offices going. Acts 1:20; "For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take. "
Acts 6:6; "whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them. "
This follows the OT Church all the way back to Moses. Exodus 18:25 "And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. "
Deut 17:8-9; "If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses. And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge [there] in those days, and inquire of them; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment. "
I think this is reasonable to go to the Church. Nowhere do I see take it to the Scripture!
Christ came to give us a Kingdom/Church. Luke 22:29-30; "And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me, that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
John 20:21-23; "So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on [them], and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
Matt 21:43+45; ""Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. Now when the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived that He was speaking of them. "
We see Christ giving the Church to Peter and the Apostles. Matt 16:18+18:18, "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
Christ said "take it to the Church". Mat 18:15-18; ""Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. "Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
We see this in practice in Acts 15.
Paul tells Timothy that the Church is the Truth. 1Tim 3:15, "but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."
We see the offices in the Church. Ephesians 4:11-13; "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, "
Titus 1:7 "For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,"
1Tim 3:1 "This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work."
The Church keeps the offices going. Acts 1:20; "For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take. "
Acts 6:6; "whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them. "
This follows the OT Church all the way back to Moses. Exodus 18:25 "And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. "
Deut 17:8-9; "If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses. And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge [there] in those days, and inquire of them; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment. "
I think this is reasonable to go to the Church. Nowhere do I see take it to the Scripture!