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Acts 20:30 · BSB
20:30 Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
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…it's clear that one of the duties of the elder is to protect the church from false teaching you see that over and over again in scripture this isacts 20 verses 28 through 31be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock among which the holy spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the flock of god which he purchased…
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…gospel of Jesus Christ, it is another gospel. It is a false teaching. One of the passages that I find the most disturbing in the entire Bible isActs chapter 20, verses 28 through 30. The Apostle Paul is making his way back to Jerusalem for Passover, and he stops on the coast of Ephesus, and he calls the elders to him. And in…
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…people who are growing in their faith. He does not like people who are repenting from sin. He wants you back. He's going to come after you. And inActs chapter 20, verses 29 through 30, this just happens to be one of those verses where Paul is talking to the church in Ephesus and he's kind of giving them direction and listen to…
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…God, to guard the flock. They themselves to make sure that the savage wolves won't come in and speak perverse things and drag away the disciples.Acts chapter 20, verses 28 through 30. We have four other men who are in the ministry of being deacons, servants of the body of Christ, serving each other, and see it, serving the…
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…in him. We're not building disciples for ourselves and kingdoms for ourselves. I hope. That's what false shepherds do. Paul warns about it in inActs, chapter 20, verse 30. He says, Men will arise from among your own selves, drawing after drawing disciples after themselves, not sparing the flock. That's what false…
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…find in Acts chapter 20. There, Paul had warned the church about a potential of heresy, a potential of doctrinal drift, but it hadn't yet happened.Acts chapter 20, verses 29 to 31says, I know, and he's speaking by the way, the Apostle Paul has gathered together the pastors, the elders of the church in Ephesus. He's meeting…
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…those shepherds have ushered me into my destiny. And that's how it works. That's why God gives us pastors to equip us to fulfill our destiny. Amen.Acts 20, verses 28 to 30, keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought…
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…deal with that error and to do so sometimes very forcefully and sometimes very publicly. So our passage that we're going to be looking at today isActs 20:28–32. Let's read them together here. And again, this is in the context of Paul's address to the Ephesian elders. And I'll give you a little bit of the…
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…deal with that error and to do so sometimes very forcefully and sometimes very publicly. So our passage that we're going to be looking at today isActs 20:28–32. Let's read them together here. And again, this is in the context of Paul's address to the Ephesian elders. And I'll give you a little bit of the…
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…them. 31 Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears. (Acts 20:28–31NASB) Threats from without and threats from within; that's what we have to guard against. Second Peter 2:1—Peter warned, “False prophets also arose…
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…want to. And you need to stop too if you're doing it. So how do we deal with the spirit? How do we deal with it? Let's look at some scriptures.Acts 20, verse 28 to 31. Paul is in Ephesus. He's going to say goodbye to them. And then he makes this statement. Please understand that this is going to happen in almost…
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…of hours or days. In the early church, it would take decades for nonsense to spread. Today, it's just spread in chat rooms all over the place.Acts 20:30says, “From among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.” This is why Paul warned the…
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…a congregational responsibility this includes elders giving leadership to it but it also includes you it it it is always a shuddering thing to readActs chapter 20 verse 28 through 30where Paul saying his farewell to the Ephesian elders and he says pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit…
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…to happen to themselves. Paul gives us to strong threats. Two Ministries being ripped apart. Can I show you them? It's in Acts. 20 verse 29, thenActs 20 verse 30, Acts 20 verse 29. He's sitting with the Elders of the Church of Ephesus and he's giving them a final set of instructions before he departs from…
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…of the way of God, and yet they're teaching a false doctrine, teaching heresy. So he's writing, he's saying, listen, they're rebellious. InActs chapter 20, verse 29 through 31, it says, I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Men will rise up from your own number and…
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…upholding truth, is to protect ourselves from error . In the book of Acts, one of the last instructions that Paul gives to the elders is found inActs 20:28-30. He says, “Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God,…
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…and with many tears, not to cause you pain, but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. Thirdly, Paul was grieved by false teachers.Acts chapter 20, verse 29 through 31. We're about to read here. I know that after my departure, fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. And from among your own…
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…to do some stuff. You need to earn God's favor. You need to eat this and do that and live like that. And then God will love you and save you. InActs 20 verse 30Paul warns them. That even from among their own number. People will arise. Twist the truth and draw away disciples for themselves. Saying if you do…
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