Michael Haykin: Preaching God’s Word in the Early Church
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2017
- In this session, Dr. Haykin considers the contributions of some of the great preachers in the early church and evaluates what lessons can be drawn for the church today.
This message is from our 2017 Winter Conference, Scripture in the Early Church: • Scripture in the Early...
Excellent sermon teaching. Haykin was my favorite Prof in seminary. Approachable, intelligent, and highly well read. A deep asset to the modern church
Thank you for posting these so we can view them online. Very important info that needs to be in our daily conversations
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I wish people could hear this instead of Andy Stanley's antibiblical garbage.
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I do not buy into the idea that very few people had or could afford bibles or scripture. It is true that there were no fully bound copies of all of Scripture available, but individual books of scripture were available. To be sure, John Chrysostom was *continually* urging the members of his congregations to procure and read the scriptures, OR have them read to them. No loving minister would urge his people to obtain something beyond their reach, which is why I do not buy into that concept espoused here.
Min 2:57. Whats the value of talking about the Early Church? I can answer that. The value is that the Early Church was Catholic with Bishops, Priests and Deacons with Seven Sacraments. The One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church. God Bless 🙏🏻
- the priests that you won’t find anywhere in the New Testament because Jesus is our high priest. And we are all a nation of kings and priests who are children of God. Minus the seven sacraments that you won’t find in the New Testament. Minus the apocalyptic church part. The apostles started the church as in the Catholic Church a.k.a. universal church and that term was coined 170 years later. There’s no such thing as apostolic succession. The simple fact is, one of the prerequisites to be an apostle was that you were taught directly by Jesus Christ. The last of those was called John and he’s long since dead and gone. So for clarification the early church had no idea of the seven sacraments they didn’t teach the mass there were no priests and there was no such thing as apostolic succession. 😁
Sola Scriptura--Scripture alone
This does not mean that tradition or councils are not considered. It means that the Scriptures alone are the final and the highest authority. Everything that the Scriptures address are to be used as the final word on that topic. All things that we learn from other sources must be compared to Scripture, and if they do not match Scripture or if they contradict Scripture, then we are not to affirm them. The Bible says not to exceed what is written, (1 Corinthians 4:6).
Sola Christus--Christ alone
This position means that Christ Jesus is the only means of salvation (John 14:6), the only mediator (1 Timothy 2:5), and that Jesus is the only human revelation of God. In other words, God has revealed himself in the person of Jesus, and no other person who's ever lived is God in flesh as Jesus is, (John 1:1, 14).
Sola Gratia--Grace alone
This means that we are saved from our sins and damnation by the unmerited grace of God alone without any of our works. Grace is the completely unmerited, undeserved favor of God that he bestows upon us. The grace of God is completely motivated out of his own character and is his kind intention and merciful action upon various individuals. Thus, we are saved from his righteous judgment by his unmerited and under earned favor, and there is nothing that we can or have done that can move God to be gracious to us.
Sola Fide--Faith alone
This means that we are saved from our sins by faith alone in Christ Alone and not by faith and anything we do whether it be baptism, church membership, good works, sincerity, or anything. God is the proper object of faith. When we have faith in the work of Christ and his sacrifice on the cross, we are justified (Romans 5:1).
Soli Deo Gloria--the Glory of God alone
This means that God alone is the one who is to receive all the glory. He alone is the author and finisher of our salvation and works all good things through our lives. He has revealed himself in the person of Jesus in great humility and love died on the cross, bearing our sin (1 Peter 2:24). So that we might enjoy his presence forever. We are to live for him and glorify him (Isaiah 43:7).
@@user-jy5ff3zo3u If there is no apostolic succession, then why did the apostles teach this to their own apostles?
“Our Apostles, too, were given to understand by our own Lord Jesus Christ the office of the bishop would give rise to intrigues. For this reason, they appointed the men mentioned before, and afterwards laid down a rule once for all to this effect: when these men die, other approved men shall succeed to their sacred ministry”.
- Clement of Rome (a disciple of Peter and Paul), “Epistle to the Corinthians”, 96 AD.
Although the early Christian writers loved and honored the scriptures (as we all do), they did not teach sola scriptura as they saw the Church as the absolute authority in matters of doctrine and faith.
"It is incumbent to obey the presbyters who are in the Church-those who, as I have shown, possess the succession from the apostles; those who, together with the succession of the episcopate, have received the infallible charism of truth, according to the good pleasure of the Father. But [it is also incumbent] to hold in suspicion others who depart from the primitive succession, and assemble themselves together in any place whatsoever, either as heretics of perverse minds, or as schismatics puffed up and self-pleasing, or again as hypocrites, acting thus for the sake of lucre and vainglory. For all these have fallen from the truth".
- Ireneaus of Lyons (a disciple of Polycarp of Smyrna), Against Heresies, 4:26:2, 180 AD
The early Church fathers taught the Petrine Primacy and the authority of the Papal office.
“The Lord says to Peter: ‘I say to you,’ he says, ‘that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.’ . . . On him [Peter] he builds the Church, and to him he gives the command to feed the sheep [John 21:17], and although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single chair [cathedra], and he established by his own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity. Indeed, the others were that also which Peter was [i.e., apostles], but a primacy is given to Peter, whereby it is made clear that there is but one Church and one chair. So too, all [the apostles] are shepherds, and the flock is shown to be one, fed by all the apostles in single-minded accord. If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he imagine that he still holds the faith? If he [should] desert the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he still be confident that he is in the Church?”
- Cyprian, The Unity of the Catholic Church 4; 1st edition [A.D. 251]).