Chapter 4 - Lessons On Loyalty Flashcards
Jesus was accused for misleading people and teaching them to evade taxes. Luke 23:2
Jesus was accused of being part of Belzebub for casting out devils. Luke 11:15
(KJV) And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
(KJV) But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils
Paul was accused of being mischievous, disturber of peace and a ring leader. Acts 24:5
Paul was accused for attempting to desecrate or make the temple unholy. Acts 24:6
(KJV) For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
(KJV) 6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
All pastors will be accused
(KJV) For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Openness breads full persuasion
Like openness about finances and your visions
- Your loyalty must be to the higher authority
1 Co 11:1
(KJV) Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
- A loyal person does not withhold information
1 Co 5:1
1 Co 1:11
Esther 2:21,22
(KJV) It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife
(KJV) For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you
(KJV) In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. 22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name.
- Loyalty is based on principles and not emotions.
- Jonathan was principled. 1 Samuel 20:13
(KJV) The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.
- Loyalty will cost you relationships and friendships
James 4:4
Luke 14:26
I Samuel 20:32,33
(KJV) 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
(KJV) If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
(KJV) 32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done? 33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David
Lesson 6: Loyalty May cost physical things.
Moses chose rather to suffer affliction. Hebrews 11:24-25
(KJV) By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Lesson 7: Loyalty demands analysis
- Analyze the past. 2 Tim 1:6
1a. Analyzed the individual concerned. 2 Tim 3:14,
b. 2 Timothy 3:10-11
c. Did the Pastor go to the nightclub? 1 Tim 5:19
(KJV) Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
(KJV) But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
(KJV) 10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me
(KJV) Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
Lesson 7. Continuation.
Analyze the form of words you have heard. 2 Tim 1:13, Acts 17:11
(KJV) Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
(KJV) These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so
Lesson 7++ Analyze the word of God
Romans 16:17
Ecc 1:9
Luke 6:40
(KJV) Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them
(KJV) The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
(KJV) 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
