Christian Apologetics: Your Duty

"Christian apologetics is the reasoned defense of the Christian faith against objections, but also includes the setting forth of positive grounds for Christianity. It is the duty of all Christians, because:

The Apostle Peter commanded Christians: ‘Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.’
(1 Peter 3:15)
Jude’s inspired epistle said: ‘I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.’
(v. 3)
The Apostle Paul said: ‘We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ’
(2 Corinthians 10:5)."
ICR

What does the "Lord Jesus Christ" mean?

 "We just read in the book of Acts 20:21 repentance towards
God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

We have three words. Lord, Jesus, and Christ.

Lord means someone who has authority over you.
Many of us want Christ to be a savior but not a lord.
As a lord, He tells us how to live.
We want Him as a savior, not as a lord.
And so we say, "I have given my life to you, Jesus. Don't tell me how to......I'll decide that."
But Jesus must be Lord.

And so faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus. Q: What does that mean?
A: Savior.
In Matthew 1:21, the angel told Joseph, "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people."
Jesus means savior, one who saves, one who has salvation.
Lord means someone who rules and commands and has authority.

Now Christ means anointed - chosen which mean there's only one person who can save that person is Jesus.

His name is not Jesus Christ.

His name is Jesus.

Christ is His work." 

Randy Skeete

Paul on our Relation to the Triune Godhead

--The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, 

--and the love of God, 

--and the communion of the Holy Ghost, 

be with you all. Amen.

2 Corinthians 13:14

Paul SIMPLIFIES the Gospel

 Giving thanks unto the Father, 

I.

---which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

---Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, 

---and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son:

---In whom we have redemption through His blood, 

even the forgiveness of sins:

II.

And He is the head of the body, 

the church: 

who is the beginning, 

the firstborn from the dead; 
---And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, 

by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; 

by Him, I say, 

whether they be things in earth, 

or things in heaven.

SUMMARY:

---And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, 

---yet now hath He reconciled.

Colossians 1:12-14,18,20,21

The first 4 Commandments and the Mark of the Beast

The Mark of the Beast controversy assaults the first 4 on the table  of God's Commandments:

1) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3

It replaces via worship as God with the "Beast".

2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any

likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; Exodus 20:4,5

It replaces the worship of God with an "Image" to the Beast.

3) Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Exodus 20:7

It blasphemes the name of God by taking the place of God in adoration, veneration and worship.

4) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou

labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work....For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:8-11

It replaces God's Holy Sabbath Day (seal) with it's own counterfeit (mark).....the 7th day Sabbath is the Seal that identifies God as CREATOR---therefore He alone is God.

Summa Theologica of God's Love via Paul's Pen (SIMPLIFIED)

[The term "Summa Theologica" literally means "sum of theology"]

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, 

that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, 

of whom I am the foremost.

1 Timothy 1:15 ESV

Deep Things Of God (His Law)

 Do we then make void the law through faith? 

God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Romans 3:31

"The law (1) is divine virtue and wisdom assuming a visible form. 

The law of God…(2) is a copy of the eternal mind, (3) a transcript of the divine nature.” 

John Wesley

"He who becomes a partaker of the divine nature (1) will be in

harmony with God's great standard of righteousness, His holy law. (2) This is the rule by which God measures the actions of men. (3) This will be the test of character in the judgment." 

Ellen White

.... yea, the deep things of God. 

1 Corinthians 2:10 KJV

For God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the [Holy] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things [diligently], even [sounding and measuring] the [profound] depths of God [the divine counsels and things far beyond human understanding]. 

1 Corinthians 2:10 Amplified Bible

Attitude of God Towards the Sabbath down through the ages

--The 7th day Sabbath--

It was sanctified at Creation,

And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
Genesis 2:2,3

Reaffirmed in the Ten Commandments,

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy....But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work.....For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus 20:8,10,11

And upheld by Jesus and the apostles.

And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.....And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
Luke 4:16/Acts 13:14/44

Attitude towards the Holy Spirit down through the ages

The Charismatic Movement (speaking in gibberish tongues, signs, wonders, etc.) is reversing order.

* The Pharisees attributed the 

work of the HOLY SPIRIT to Satan.

Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat. When His family heard this they went out to restrain Him, for they said, He is out of his mind. 

The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, He is possessed by Beelzebul, and, By the ruler of demons He casts out demons.
Mark 3:20-22

* The Charismatics today are attributing the 

works of Satan to the HOLY SPIRIT.

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,...
2 Timothy 2:9

"It is dangerous to all who offer STRANGE FIRE. 

It is dangerous to all who offer corrupt worship. 

It is dangerous to declare things that the Holy Spirit has not done, 

has not said, would not participate in 

as works of the Holy Spirit." 

John MacArthur

Attitude towards the Law down through the ages

Back in the day--  they used the "Law" to kill Christ.

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God. John 19:7
Today-- they use the Christ to kill the "Law"
When they say that the "Law" was done away with at the Cross

How God did it....and Stamped it....and Redeemed it

He hath made the earth by His power, 

He hath established the world by His wisdom, 

and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion. 

Jeremiah 10:12

You Cannot "Un-bless" what God has Blessed

God made all 7 days....but He only BLESSED one....

And God blessed the seventh day,

and sanctified it:

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth,

the sea, and all that in them is,

and rested the seventh day:

wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, 

and hallowed it.

Genesis 2:3/Exodus 20:11

And from Jesus Christ, ....
--the first begotten of the dead, 
--Unto Him that loved us,
--and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

But He was wounded
for our transgressions,
He was bruised
for our iniquities:
the chastisement 

of our peace
was upon Him;
and with His stripes 

we are healed.
Ye are bought with a price.....
Revelation 1:5/Isaiah 53:5/1 Corinthians 7:23