Matthew 16:18-20
Part 1 – Last Week
1. The Promise To Found It
2. The Promise To Build It
This week:
3. The Promise Of Christ to Triumph It – Vs. 18c
. Possibilities for what the church will face
. A. Attacks on the church by Satan himself
. B. Death will not stop the building of the church
. . Isaiah 38:9-11, Job 38:17, Psalm 9:13, 107:18
. . The death of His people does not stop the church
. . . “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church” – Tertullian
4. The Promise Of Christ to Authorize It – Vs. 19
. Revelation 1:18, Matthew 28:18, John 20:21-23
. ‘Binding’ or ‘loosing’ is on the basis of acceptance of Christ and the gospel
. Matthew 18:15-20 – Church discipline