Resist These 2 Errors With ALL Your Might [Acts 15:1-21]

Our church gathers every Sunday at 9:15a & 11a at Queen Creek Junior High.
20435 South Old Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek, AZ

OVERVIEW
As good, true, and beautiful as the gospel is, there has always been resistance to it. In Acts 15, we see the natural human inclination to fight against the reality that God forgives us simply because of our faith in Jesus — some Jewish leaders began forcing extra rules on new Christians. Peter, Paul, and the rest of the apostles give a wise response to these new Christians: they tell them to guide their hope back toward Christ alone, but also to guard their lives by following a way of life. The church today faces a similar issue. We’re either tempted to try and earn something that’s already been freely given, or we’re tempted to accept what’s been freely given without reorienting our lives in response. To follow Jesus is both to receive a free gift and to reorient our lives in response. We choose to put our trust in the person of Jesus and allow his free gift of grace to transform us as we submit more of our lives and desires to him.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Martin Luther
4:07 - Acts 15v1-10
09:40 - 3 categories of the law
13:17 - Acts 15v11
14:58 - “Just as Jesus was crucified between two thieves, so the gospel is ever crucified between these two errors.” Tertullian
15:15 - Enemy 1 – “You must believe and live right to be saved.”
17:48 - In an effort to avoid this enemy of Christianity, we have produced an anemic Christianity.
19:50 - The message of the Kingdom is to repent and believe in the person of Jesus, not just the payment of Jesus.
21:05 - “Does the gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural next step? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?” Dallas Willard
21:43 - Acts 15v12-21
24:47 - Enemy 2 – “God loves and accepts everyone just as they are.”
32:08 - Distinction without disconnection.
37:30 - At the table, we are dead to sin and alive to Christ.