Let’s open our Bibles to Matthew 7:15-20 It's Just Not Happening!

Let’s open our Bibles to

Matthew 7:15-20

It's Just Not Happening!


The Religious World I.



Forgiveness without FAITH and REPENTENCE.

John 8:24“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

Acts 17:30Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,



Remission of sins without BAPTISM.

Romans 6:17-18But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Mark 16:16“He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.”

Acts 8:36Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?”

Romans 6:3-4

Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.



Security in Christ without OBEDIENCE.

Hebrews 6:4-6For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.


The Religious World The Church

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The Church II.

Growth without Diligence.

2 Peter 1:5

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

John 4:35-36Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.


The Church II.

Growth without Diligence.


The Church II.

Growth without Diligence.Diligence without Love.

Romans 10:1

Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved.

1 Peter 2:17

Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Matthew 22:37Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’


The Church II.

Growth without Diligence.Diligence without Love.


The Church II.

Growth without Diligence.Diligence without Love.Love without Concern.

Acts 2:44-47

Psalm 133:1Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!


The Church II.

Growth without Diligence.Diligence without Love.Love without Concern.


The Religious World The Church Christians

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III.


ChristiansIII.•Satisfaction without Sacrifice.

Luke 14:26-33



•God’s Love without Chastening.

Hebrews 12:5-6

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:

“My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”




•Happiness without Holiness.

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the man

Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,

Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

Ephesians 4:24and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

1 Thessalonians 4:7For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

Hebrews 12:14Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Hebrews 11:25choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin





•Closeness to God & the World.

James 4:4Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

John 15:19“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

Hebrews 11:7By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

1 Corinthians 15:33Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

John 17:15-17“I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”





•Closeness to God & the World.

How do we first enter the Light?

Walking in darkness Romans 3:23; 6:23 Hear God’s Grace given Ephesians 2:8 Believe in Jesus as Christ

John 3:16 Repent (turn to Jesus)

Acts 2:38 Confess Jesus

Acts 8:37 Baptized to wash away sins Acts 22:16

1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Walking in darkness Romans 3:23; 6:23 Hear God’s Grace given Ephesians 2:8 Believe in Jesus as Christ

John 3:16 Repent (turn to Jesus)

Acts 2:38 Confess Jesus

Acts 8:37 Baptized, newness of life Romans 6:3-4

How do we FIRST ENTER the Light?

Each step is needed for the next step.

Let’s open our Bibles to Matthew 7:15-20 It's Just Not Happening!

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