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  1. 1d ago

    A Call to Unity

    Pastor Paul Takach teaches on Philippians 2:1-4, addressing the ever-present danger of disunity in local churches and the biblical command to preserve unity through humility and selfless love. He outlines the passage in two parts: the motivation for unity (verse 1) and the practice of unity (verses 2-4). The motivation rests on the believer's experience of God's grace—consolation in Christ, comfort of His love, fellowship of the Spirit, and affection and mercy from God—which Paul uses as "if" statements that are actually certainties for Christians. The practice of unity involves being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, and of one mind, which Takach grounds in shared doctrinal confession. He warns against selfish ambition and vain conceit (empty glory), citing Diotrephes in 3 John and the sons of Zebedee in Matthew 20 as negative examples, and calls believers to esteem others as more important than themselves, looking out for others' interests. He references John Owen's rule on maintaining unity and cites Romans 12:10, 1 Corinthians 10:24, and John 13:34-35. The practical application extends to marriages, giving, and daily interactions—listening attentively, deferring on secondary issues, and serving without seeking recognition. Takach emphasizes that true humility cannot be manufactured by self-effort; the resource is Christ Himself, who humbled Himself to death on the cross (Philippians 2:5-11). Believers must meditate on Christ's person and work, flee to Him, and let His mind dwell in them, which alone produces genuine gospel transformation and...

  2. 2d ago

    Give, Gave, Given…

    Give, Gave, and Given The central message of "Give, Gave, and Given" is that salvation begins, continues, and finishes with what God has given in and through His Son. John 17 repeatedly uses the language of giving: the Father gave Jesus authority, gave Him a people, gave Him words, gave Him a work, and gave Him glory. Jesus then gave His people the Father's Word, gave His life for them, gave them His glory and mission, and promises ultimately to bring those the Father gave Him home to be with Him. The message emphasizes that these truths are all interconnected. We cannot celebrate that the Father gave Jesus His words while rejecting the truth that the Father also gave Him a people. Jesus says, "They were Yours, You gave them to Me." Rather than being afraid of biblical words such as election, chosen, grace, or given because they have sometimes been argued over or mishandled, believers should humbly receive everything Scripture teaches. The answer to badly taught doctrine is not avoiding doctrine, but handling God's truth faithfully. John 11 provides a powerful picture of God accomplishing purposes that men themselves did not understand. Caiaphas argued that Jesus should die in order to preserve the Jewish nation politically, but God was speaking something infinitely greater through his words: Jesus would die not only for that nation, but "to gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad." Caiaphas was thinking Rome and self-preservation; God was accomplishing redemption. That same truth appears in Pilate. Pilate believed he held authority over Jesus, but Jesus reminded him that he could have no authority unless it had been given from above. Pila

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