Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/5_7_2017_3_Cautions_From_God.mp3</a"><br><br> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/5_7_2017_3_Cautions_From_God.mp3</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> Three Cautions From Acts 11<br> CAUTION: care taken to avoid danger or mistakes.<br> Acts 11:22 Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch. 23 When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord. 24 For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.<br> <br> 1. Stay Encouraged!<br> Encouragement: persuasion to do or to continue something.<br> A] What does God say?<br> B] What do spirit-filled believers say?<br> C] Prayer encourages and strengthens – you see the light at the end of the tunnel!<br> “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.”<br> <br> BUT encouragement doesn’t mean “tell me what I want to hear.”<br> <br> <br> Jehosaphat aligns with Ahab and seeks advice from the prophets: 2 Chronicles 18:13 [NKJV] “And Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, whatever my God says, that I will speak.”<br> <br> <br> Encouragement is found in obedience!<br> <br> <br> “But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded!” 2 Chronicles 15:7 (NKJV)\<br> <br> <br> <br> WHAT STEPS CAN YOU TAKE TODAY TO STAY ENCOURAGED?<br> 25 Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to seek Saul. 26 And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.<br> <br> 2. Stay Grounded in the Word.<br> <br> <br> 2 Chronicles 17:9-10 “So they taught in Judah, and had the Book of the Law of the Lord with them; they went throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people. And the fear of the Lord fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah…”<br> <br> <br> <br> Catholic, Coptic, and Protestant: The Great Schism<br> Pope / High ranking bishop / Pastor<br> Mary / Saints / Priests can marry / Purgatory<br> <br> <br> Mass [Knox and Mary queen of Scots] – once and for all sacrifice or repetitive?<br> <br> <br> In the book, Rome Sweet Rome: Our Journey to Catholicism, Scott and his wife Kimberly tell how they started looking at the Eucharist differently than Protestants: “One evening, we had an opportunity to be at a Mass where there was a Eucharistic procession at the end. I had never seen this before. As I watched row after row of grown men and women kneel and bow when the monstrance passed by, I thought, These people believe that this is the Lord, and not just bread and wine. If this is Jesus, that is the only appropriate response. If one should kneel before a king today, how much more before the King of Kings? the Lord of Lords? Is it safe to kneel or not? But, I continued to ruminate, what if it’s not? If that is not Jesus in the monstrance, then what they are doing is gross idolatry. So, is it safe to kneel (142)?”<br> WHAT STEPS CAN YOU TAKE TODAY TO STAY GROUNDED?<br> Oswald – “Don’t get impatient with others. Remember how God dealt with you with patience and with gentleness.
