2. Let’s open our Bibles to
Matthew 7:15-20

3. It's Just Not Happening!

4. It's Just Not Happening! I.
The Religious World

5. It's Just Not Happening! I. The Religious World Forgiveness without
FAITH and REPENTENCE.

6. John 8:24
“Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

7. Acts 17:30
Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

8. It's Just Not Happening! I. The Religious World
Remission of sins without BAPTISM.

9. Romans 6:17-18
But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

10. Mark 16:16
“He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.”

11. Acts 8:36
Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?”

12. Romans 6:3-4
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

13. It's Just Not Happening! I. The Religious World
Security in Christ without OBEDIENCE.

14. Hebrews 6:4-6
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

15. Hebrews 6:4-6
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

16. Hebrews 6:4-6
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

17. Hebrews 6:4-6
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

18. Hebrews 6:4-6
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

19. Hebrews 6:4-6
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

20. It's Just Not Happening! I.
II.
The Religious World
The Church

21. It's Just Not Happening!
II.
The Church
Growth without Diligence.

22. 2 Peter 1:5
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

23. John 4:35-36
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

24. It's Just Not Happening!
II.
The Church
Growth without Diligence.

25. It's Just Not Happening! II. The Church Growth without Diligence.
Diligence without Love.

26. Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved.

27. 1 Peter 2:17
Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

28. Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

29. It's Just Not Happening! II. The Church Growth without Diligence.
Diligence without Love.

30. It's Just Not Happening! II. The Church Growth without Diligence.
Diligence without Love.
Love without Concern.

31. Acts 2:44-47

32. Psalm 133:1
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
     For brethren to dwell together in unity!

33. It's Just Not Happening! II. The Church Growth without Diligence.
Diligence without Love.
Love without Concern.

34. It's Just Not Happening! The Religious World The Church Christians I.
II.
III.

35. It's Just Not Happening! Christians III.
Satisfaction without Sacrifice.

36. Luke 14:26-33

37. It's Just Not Happening! Christians III.
Satisfaction without Sacrifice.

38. It's Just Not Happening! Christians III.
Satisfaction without Sacrifice.
God’s Love without Chastening.

39. Hebrews 12:5-6
And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
     “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,
     Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
     For whom the Lord loves He chastens,
     And scourges every son whom He receives.”

40. It's Just Not Happening! Christians III.
Satisfaction without Sacrifice.
God’s Love without Chastening.

41. It's Just Not Happening! Christians III.
Satisfaction without Sacrifice.
God’s Love without Chastening.
Happiness without Holiness.

42. Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man
     Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

43. Ephesians 4:24
and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

44. 1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

45. Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

46. Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin

47. It's Just Not Happening! Christians III.
Satisfaction without Sacrifice.
God’s Love without Chastening.
Happiness without Holiness.

48. It's Just Not Happening! Christians III.
Satisfaction without Sacrifice.
God’s Love without Chastening.
Happiness without Holiness.
Closeness to God & the World.

49. James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

50. John 15:19
“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

51. Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

52. 1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

53. John 17:15-17
“I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”

54. It's Just Not Happening! Christians III.
Satisfaction without Sacrifice.
God’s Love without Chastening.
Happiness without Holiness.
Closeness to God & the World.

55. It's Just Not Happening!

56. How do we first enter the Light?
Walking in darkness Romans 3:23; 6:23
Hear God’s Grace given Ephesians 2:8
Believe in Jesus as Christ John 3:16
Repent (turn to Jesus)
Acts 2:38
Confess Jesus
Acts 8:37
Baptized to wash away sins Acts 22:16
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

57. Each step is needed for the next step.
How do we FIRST ENTER the Light?
Walking in darkness Romans 3:23; 6:23
Hear God’s Grace given Ephesians 2:8
Believe in Jesus as Christ John 3:16
Repent (turn to Jesus)
Acts 2:38
Confess Jesus
Acts 8:37
Baptized, newness of life Romans 6:3-4
Each step is needed for the next step.