Causing Division in the Church

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Why does Doctrine seem to be causing division in the church. Should we seek to keep church unity at the cost of doctrinal truth? How does this all relate to Steven Furtick and Elevation church? You can get more at http://apologiastudios.com. Be sure to like, share, and comment on this video. You can partner with us by signing up for All Access. When you do you make everything we do possible and you also get our TV show, After Show, and Apologia Academy. In our Academy you can take a course on Christian apologetics and learn how to witness to Mormons. Follow us on social media here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ApologiaStudios/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/apologiastudios?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apologiastudios/?hl=en

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The sovereign. Exactly. Were you going to say something? I was just going to say, I think sometimes like people get mad when you criticize a leader they like.
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Right. When you're talking about them. And one of the things I like to tell people when they get mad is, oh, you're causing division, you're causing strife.
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These things are important. It's necessary. And basically the unity of the visible church cannot be upheld at the expense of biblical truth.
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Meaning, division is caused by truth. Proper division.
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Right. Like the scriptures talk about that. You're to cast people out. You're to separate out false teachers.
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That's what you're supposed to do. The epistles in the New Testament, in Jesus himself, they always talk about correcting false teaching.
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Almost all of them, universally. Why do they say that? Because it's an important thing that we are called to do.
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Right. Well, and so, and like what you've described is sort of an outpouring from what we see from churches like this, which is don't cause any division.
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The point is to get people to come into church so that they're saved one way or another. And then there's this fictional idea of togetherness and like in community and all this stuff that's not real because there's no help for anyone who's struggling.
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There's the, you know, the counseling is poor or whatever. I mean, they might have good programs, but at that level, you can't, you can't shepherd people with thousands of people.
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Right. You can't access a celebrity. No. Right. So, yeah, so that's our starting point.
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God's totally sovereign. If he's not sovereign, he's not God. He's not somewhat sovereign. He's not kind of sovereign. It's all or nothing.
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Right. And if you attempt to pit Jesus somehow against the prior revelation of God, that's already revealed clearly who
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God is and that he's not thwarted, then you have a major problem because Jesus is the second person of the
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Trinity. He's God in the flesh, so he can also not be thwarted. His purpose is the same as the father and as the spirit.
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Right. Jesus, his own words, all that the father gives to me, come to me and I will never lose him.
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John 6. Talking about drawing and all of those men will come to him. Yeah. That is the power of God. Right.
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Every person that the father draws comes to Christ. There's no preventing them. Right. It's the sovereign work of God, changing hearts of stone into hearts of flesh, giving people new desires, new loves.
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That's what we're talking about here. We're not talking about the, you know, some sort of, as Norman Geisler put it, divine rape.
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We're talking about the loving act of God, changing men's hearts, changing them from sinners who hate him, who curse his name every day, to ones who love him and want to worship him.
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It's a beautiful act. God's sovereignty is not something to fear. It's something to take refuge in, to glorify him for, to love him for.