{"id":575,"date":"2011-08-09T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T23:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:42","slug":"commanded-apostles-whom-he-had-chosen-vs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Commanded Apostles whom He had Chosen vs. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acts 1:1-2,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 25:14-30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: What was His Command? Matthew 28:19-20<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;If you love me keep my Commandments.&#8221; John 14:15<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Go ye&#8221; His own, his church, every child of God.<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Teach all.&#8221; Not always in a class room.<br \/>\nWhere they were when opportunity was presented.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Teach them to observe all things I have commanded you!&#8221;<br \/>\n5. &#8220;A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love another.&#8221; Very little work is done where active love for one another is absent.<br \/>\na. &#8220;By this shall all men know that ye are my Disciples.&#8221; John 13:34-35<br \/>\nb. &#8220;Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I will command you.&#8221; John 15:14<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: Who was the Command Given to?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. His own (Everyone is a Stewart). &#8220;Like a King going on a long journey.&#8221; Matthew 25:14<br \/>\n2. His money, his goods.<br \/>\n3. Everyone according to his ability.<br \/>\n4. Faithfulness the one thing required.<br \/>\n5. Every individual gave a personal report.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: &#8220;Ministers of Christ, Stewards of the Mysteries of God.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The Church was to become Stewards of the Gospel.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;It is required in Stewards that a man be found faithful.<br \/>\n3. Faithfulness was a definite attribute of the early church members.<br \/>\n4. They were ever conscious to being the only way God could reach a lost world with the good news.<br \/>\n5. We are all Gods Stewards, we all have talents for which we must give account.<br \/>\n6. A lost, Hell Bound world awaited them.<\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;My friend the house is yours.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> &#8220;How shall we escape if we neglect?&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> We shall give an Account.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acts 1:1-2,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 25:14-30 I: What was His Command? Matthew 28:19-20 1. &#8220;If you love me keep my Commandments.&#8221; John 14:15 2. &#8220;Go ye&#8221; His own, his church, every child of God. 3. &#8220;Teach all.&#8221; Not always in a class room. Where they were when opportunity was presented. 4. &#8220;Teach them to observe all things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}