Restoration History-PART ONE
TEX:IITIM 1;13
AIM: TO BRING US BACK TO THE ORGINIONAL BLUEPRINT.
INTRODUCTION:
A. WHAT IS RESTROATION
1. RELIGION: BECOMES APART OF ONE’S LIFE. SIMPLY PUT, IT IS EXTENSION OF ONES FAITH. OUR FAITH WILL NEVER BECOME SOCIAL,
UNTIL IT BECOMES PERSONAL. “…I BELIEVE THEREFORE I SPOKE…”(ROM.4:13).
A. RELIGION AS WE KNOW IT TODAY HAS BECOME A FAITH “ABOUT” INSTEAD OF
ONE CENTERED IN JESUS
B. THIS IS WHY WE A CONTINUAL RENEWEL OF GOING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL BLUEPRINT OF THE WORD.
2. THE FRUIT OF THIS TYPE OF RELIGION=INSTITUTINAL RELIGION.
A. CHURCHES CAN LOSE ALL RESEMBLANCE TO THE ORININAL CHURCH.
B. THIS LEADS TO IMPERSONAL RELIGION. (IITIM3:5)
C. CYCLES THAT RELITION RUNS IN:
(1. OBLIVIOUSNESS-VERY ZEALOUS AT FIRST.
(2. COMPROMISE-TONE DOWN YOUR PREACHING(ITIM.41-4).
(3. THE “ACTS SAKE”, JONAH SYNDROME, CONCERNED WITH THE BUILDING AS MOST IMPORTANT.
D. THEY QUENCH THE SPIRIT OF GOD (ITHESS.5:19)
*ONE BECOMES LEGALISTIC AND OUTWARD IN THEIR RELIGION. THEY LOSE
IDENTITY-DEATH IS IMMEMIENT.
E. O.T. EXAMPLES:2KINGS 18:4;23:1-20.RESTORATION BRINGS A CLEANSING AND
GIVES VIBRIANT GROWTH TO THE CHURCH.REMEMBER, TRUE PROGRESS IS MADE BY GOING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER. THEREFORE, RESTROATION
IS OUR POWER. (REV.1:3).
I. HISTORY OF SUCH MOVEMENTS
A. CATHOLIC HISTORIANS-BURIED MUCH EVIDENCE OF “RESTORATION MOVEMENT”.
ARCHEOLOGY HAS FUTHERED THIS ALONG IN RECOVERING MUCH OF THE PAST.
B. SOME MOVEMENTS IN THE PAST:
1. CATHERS PURITANS 2ND. CENT. ROMAN EMPIRE STRONG ORGANIZATION-PULLED
AWAY AT THIS TIME.
2. PRICILLIAMISTS 4TH. CENT. SPAIN-CALLED PEOPLE BACK TO THE PATTERN IN THE N.T. –BEHEADED
3. VIGILANTICS-4TH-FRANCE:PREACHED TO THE POOR, SOLD ALL THAT THEY HAD.
4. WALDENSES-12TH-FRANCE:BELIEVED IN ONE HEAD OF THE CHURCH;AND APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY.
5. JOHN HUSS-15TH.BOHEIAM. BURNED AT THE STAKE.
6. ANABAPTISTS-16TH.GERMANY, CZECH.HOLY SPIRIT-MOVEMENT, MIRACLES ETC.
7. PILGRIMS, PURITANS, CONGREGATIONALISTS 16-17TH.
8. JA;DEMS. ERVOMG-LET COLLEGE STUDENTS IN HIS HOUSE-ALEXANDER C CAMPBELL WAS ONE OF HIS STUDENTS.
II. RESTORATION IN BIBLICAL VIEW
A. RESTORATION PLEA UNITY:JOHN 17:21-WORLD BELIEVES WHEN THE CHURCH IS
UNITED.
1. HISTORICAL PRECEDENT:
* CATHOLIC, CHURCH OF ENGLAND, GREEK ORTHODOX-WE ARE RIGHTCHURCH BECAUSE WE CAN TRACE OUR HERITAGE.
2. NATIONAL CHURHC-STATE WILL DETERMINE WHAT THE CHURCH WILL DO.
3. TYPES OF UNITES DESPITE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
A.MERGER-DESPITE THE TRUTH
B. FELLINGS-FEELINGS ARE THE BASIS AND NOT THE TRUTH(IIPET.1:3).
C. ECUMENICAL VIEW-ALL RELIGIONS ARE TRUE NO MATTER WHAT THE BIBLE STATES (COL.2:20-23).
B. BIBLE VIEW CONCERNING RESTORATION.
1. BELIEVE JESUS BUILT WHAT HE WANTED (MATT. 16;16-18).
2. Church WARNED AGAINST APOSTASY(I&II TIM. 4:1-4)
3. RIGHT THING TO DO IS BUILD WHAT JESUS HAD BUILT. PATTERN PRINIPLE.(ROM.6:17).GREEK TUPOS-FORM PATTERN.
C. THE KINGDOM: (MK. 1:14-15).
D. THE CHURCH
1. ROOTED IN ETERNITY-BEFORE TIME AND SPACE (EPH. 1:3FF).
* FOUNDED ON APOSTOLIC TRUTH (MAT. 16:18-19;ACTS 2:42;EPH.2:20;4:11-16).
2. CHRIST THE HEAD EPH. 1:22-23-FORM;POLITY, UNITY, AND WORSHIP.
E. SCRIPTURAL RESTROATION
1. JUDE 3
2. CONTRAST TO:
A. TRADTION (IITH.2:15;COL.2:8;MK. 7:1-3).
B. SECTARISM-DENOMINATIONALISM-WEBSTER, A PART THAT BREAKS FROM THE EST. CHURCH. (I COR. 1:10;16:18-19).
3. PIETISM-FEELINGS
A. MT. 7:21-23
B. IITH. 2:9-11
C. NON-APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY (JN.16:13;IjN. 4:1-6;EPH. 2:20;ACTS.242).
