[Part 59 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine Date: 5/5/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: In Acts 2:37 they ask the big question… “What do we have to do?”; If the Apostles understood this the way moderns understand it, they would have said “Repeat the prayer after me, and say with your mouth Jesus Christ is Lord, and you’re done”; But in Acts 2:38 Peter said that to call on the name of the Lord and be saved you must repent of your sins, get baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, and then you will receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost; The “whoever will call on the name of the Lord” is not a formula for salvation, it’s a statement of the availability of God’s salvation–whoever calls on the name of the Lord is going to be saved; Romans 10:12 – “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.”; If you come with an 18th Century Calvinist understanding of this, you get a doctrine that says conversion is you confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and Savior, therefore you’re saved; But if you have a restorationist hermeneutic and say “what did the Apostles do?…”; The passage in Romans is written to people that are already saved–Paul isn’t walking them through conversion, but pointing them back to the assurance of their conversion; We actually see such a conversion in Acts 2, with the same verse being quoted; We take the Apostles’ example and understand Romans 10 through the lens of how the Apostles preached those very same verses when they preached to sinners
[Part 58 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine Date: 5/5/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics:Romans 10:1-13; Often used as a formula for salvation… if you confess that Jesus Christ is Lord with your mouth then you’re saved; The question is, how did the Apostles do this?; Paul is quoting several passages from the Old Testament; Romans 10:13 – “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved“; Scholars believe Paul is specifically referring to a baptismal confession (in the waters of baptism, people are calling on the name of Jesus Christ, affirming Him as their Savior); Paul quotes from the Old Testament prophet Joel – “For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (quotation from Joel 2); We also see this in Acts 2–Peter preaches on the day of Pentecost, tells them that these people speaking with tongues is the fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy that God is going to pour out His Spirit on all flesh… and that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved
[Part 57 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine Date: 5/5/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: Hermeneutics – the art and science of how we interpret texts; There are different ways of going about reading different kinds of texts; The way restorationists approach Scripture: 1) A literal interpretation if and when possible (a command to “repent” would be interpreted literally), 2) Scripture is always above the history that followed it (it doesn’t matter what any subsequent theologian claims… what does the New Testament say?), 3) Apostolic pattern; Matthew 28:19, The Great Commission – “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost“–only Scripture in the New Testament that makes any sort of allusion to that; In the book of Acts, you have repeated accounts of people being baptized invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, never the language in Matthew 28:19; In the Epistles we learn that the practice was to baptize invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; Many references to Jesus’ name baptism, but no references to being baptized in “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”; If anybody knew what Jesus meant in Matthew 28:19, it was the Apostles; Trinitarian ideology was informed by Greek philosophy/understanding; Trinitarian language comes from the councils and creeds; Who gets to better understand Matthew 28:19?–the 1st Century Apostles who come from a Jewish background, or 4th Century Greek scholars?; When the Apostles go to baptize, they either disobey Jesus Christ throughout the rest of the New Testament, or they carried out His command exactly as He commanded it; We give preference to the Apostolic pattern… not to 3rd/4th Century patterns
[Part 54 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine Date: 5/5/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: After Jesus invests them with authority, the Apostles stand up in unison/agreement on the day of Pentecost; Ephesians 2:19-20 – “…built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone“; The Apostles are part of the foundation of the church; You don’t get Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Parham, Seymour, or anybody else in this foundation… you get the apostles, and prophets, and Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone; There is an Apostolic authority–we give preference to the Apostles; The early church themselves had a pattern of appealing to the Apostles; Acts 2:42 – “And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine…“; The Apostles got their doctrine from Jesus Christ and the guidance of the Holy Spirit; The early church recognized the authority that was vested in the Apostolic community; Jude 17 – “remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ“; Jude, the half-brother of Jesus, appeals to the Apostolic authority in that band of Apostles; The authority for New Testament doctrine lies in the teaching and proclamation of the Apostles
[Part 53 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine Date: 5/5/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: The way we do theology is that we give preference to the Apostles; Justification by faith; Sanctification; New Testament; Apostolic authority – the Apostles had an authority that no other group of ministers had–it was invested in them by Jesus Christ; Matthew 10:40 – “He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.“; Accounts of baptism in the New Testament; Matthew 28:19 – Great Commission account; Jesus didn’t write the book of Matthew–you don’t get the choice to believe Jesus or the Apostles… you pretty much get to believe the Apostles; How do we “receive” the Apostles?–We receive their writings; John 17:20 – “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word“; Saving faith in Jesus Christ comes to us through the words of the Apostles, not the words of creeds and church traditions; Acts 2:14-47 – First sermon of the Christian church; Peter stands up authoritatively with the 11 Apostles in full agreement; You can’t pit Peter against other writings in the New Testament; You have the choice to accept or not accept the New Testament
[Part 50 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Restoring the Apostles’ Doctrine Date: 5/5/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: Restorationists would say the model for the “new birth” and Christian living is in the New Testament, and that’s what we should follow; If you don’t embrace that teaching, on what authority do you get to say that the normative experiences of the New Testament are no longer valid?; Speaking in tongues is a normative experience in the book of Acts, and seems to be linked with the reception of the Holy Spirit; If you say that speaking in tongues was for the apostles but not for today, on what authority can you say that?; Epistemology – How can you know something is true and on what authority?; Those questions go away when you simply lift up the New Testament as your model and follow it obediently; To what degree can you change the model and still have authentic Christianity?; Scholars admit that the New Testament pattern/model of baptism is submersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ–to what extent can you change the model and it still be authentic Christian experience?
[Part 46 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement Date: 4/28/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: This story shows us how a group of people went on a journey, trying to get back to what the Scripture says; They found out that when they obeyed Scripture, it lead them to an understanding that Spirit baptism is evidenced with tongues, it’s part of the “new birth”, and the only way people were baptized was invoking the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; Parham, Seymour, Azusa Street, Ewart, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Augustine–we glean from their insights, but our ultimate and sole authority is Scripture; Scripture is our starting point and our ending point; History of the United Pentecostal Church; Authentic practices, experiences, and beliefs revealed in the Bible; The ultimate conversation is not about the Reformation, or Azusa Street, or any other street… it’s about what has God revealed to us in His Word, and how we can be faithful to it
[Part 44 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement Date: 4/28/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: Frank Ewart said the apostles’ practice (of baptizing in Jesus’ name) was linked to their understanding that Jesus Christ was God manifested in flesh, not just one person of God manifested in flesh; Ewart claimed that the name of Jesus Christ was invoked in baptism by the apostles in full obedience to Matthew 28:19–they knew exactly what they were doing; We only have record of people being baptized in the New Testament in the name of Jesus; On April 15th, 1914, Ewart preached his first message on Acts 2:38, declaring that repentance, baptism in Jesus’ name, and the infilling of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues is New Testament salvation; He also associated the name of Jesus in baptism with the “oneness” of God; Divergence in Pentecostal history between trinitarian Pentecostals and oneness Pentecostals; Ewart and his fellow minister, Glen Cook, re-baptized each other in Jesus’ name; Standing against an established tradition–the Anabaptists got killed for doing this stuff; 300 years earlier in Europe, Frank Ewart and Glen Cook would have been killed
[Part 43 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement Date: 4/28/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: World-Wide Camp Meeting in Arroyo Seco, California in 1913; Robert McAlister preaches the baptism sermon–points out that in the New Testament they didn’t baptize by triple immersion in the trinitarian formula; A guy named John Schaeppe was in the audience–he began praying and studying, and in the middle of the night he ran through the camp screaming “I see it! I see it! I see it!”; He had an understanding of Jesus’ name baptism in the New Testament; McAlister later preaches his first sermon on the exclusive use of the name of Jesus in baptism in Winnepeg in 1913–30 people were baptized in Jesus’ name; McAlister began working with Frank Ewart, who concluded that the apostles baptized in the name of Jesus because Jesus was the full revelation of the Godhead bodily
[Part 42 of an ongoing series. Click here for Part 1.]
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: The Pentecostal Movement Date: 4/28/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: William Durham got the conversation going for people trying to get back to what Scripture says–back to what New Testament salvation is; The next big issue in the Pentecostal movement–”the new issue”; The entire Pentecostal movement is founded on restorationist principles; Charles Parham asked the question, “What does the Bible say about Spirit baptism?”; Processing everything through Scripture instead of history and creeds; The “new issue” leads to Jesus’ name baptism and an acknowledgment of the “oneness” of God; Christocentric worship, theology, and vocabulary; Exaltation/elevation of the name of Jesus; Before the “new issue”, there were already some who baptized invoking the name of Jesus Christ–Charles Parham, Andrew Urshan, etc.
Ministry:New Life Church of Austin, TX
Full Podcast: Claims of Orthodoxy: Who Is Right? Date: 4/7/10 Speaker: Rodney Shaw Topics: Struggle over the identity of Jesus Christ–the apostles had it figured out; Secular philosophy and other religious ideas creep into the church; Church becomes divided among itself, calls major councils to define who Jesus Christ is; First Council of Nicaea; Council of Chalcedon; Classic trinitarian dogma; Language that was used to speak of the Godhead, Jesus Christ, and the Incarnation was not language of revelation (biblical language)… it came from Greek philosophy of the day; Christianity with a layer of Greek philosophy; Vocabularies superimposed on Christianity–fundamentally altered the understanding of things like the Godhead and who Jesus Christ is; Major church split in 1054; The East becomes the Orthodox Church (Greek speaking), the West becomes the Roman Catholic Church (Latin speaking)
Russ Dizdar from Preemption Broadcast discusses the authority Christ has given us to overcome all the power of the enemy…
Show:Preemption Broadcast Full Podcast: HOW TO USE YOUR SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY Date: 12/19/09 Host: Russ Dizdar Topics: Accept the spiritual authority of Christ to overcome all the power of the enemy; Renounce fear; The authority Jesus gives is part of mission; Luke 10:19 – “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.“; Deliverance is a compassionate thing; Mark 5:1-20; Authority is needed because Satan is the god of this age that we live in–he has authority over every unsaved person; Wherever anybody gives him room, he gets rights (and the demonic gets rights); There is more demonic manifestation now than ever in all of history; Even if all hell comes out on the field, believers have been given authority to trample demonic presence wherever it’s found, and to overcome
Frank Lordi from the Frank & Chris Show discusses being comforted by the Holy Spirit in the face of WHATEVER lies ahead…
Show:The Frank & Chris Show
Full Podcast: The Frank and Chris Show- Episode 85
Date: 12/23/09
Host: Frank Lordi Topics: God has led a lot of us to a peaceful place; Look back in the past and see what other people have gone through for Him; People who overcame by giving their lives for Jesus Christ; He’s not going to strand us in our moment of need–He’s not going to leave us; The Holy Spirit is THE Comforter; Blessed to have come to grips with whatever it is that’s coming; He’s there for us–we’re never alone in anything we have to face; It’s an awesome feeling once that sinks in; If this stuff keeps you up at night, just be praying that He’ll be there and will comfort you; He will make Himself known to you; Through God we find a comfort unlike anything we have known before
Show:Preemption Broadcast Full Podcast: THE GENETICS OF THE INCARNATION….changes everything Date: 12/20/09 Host: Russ Dizdar Topics: Don’t be pushed into being silent about Christ, the incarnation, the angels that declared good news of great joy, and God’s favor to mankind; Don’t be silent about the most incredible, supernatural event in human history; We need to be proclaiming the prophecies about Christ’s coming… they blow Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and all the rest out of the water because they were always accurate and there’s more of them (almost 300 prior to the appearance of “Logos” Christ in human flesh); Don’t be silent, celebrate Christ, talk about Jesus; We tell children not just the story, but the historic reality of God’s visitation in this world; We get to tell them of the birth of God in human flesh, of how it occurred, and take them to the Scriptures and show them; Don’t let the world get in the way of celebrating, announcing, and being a witness for Jesus Christ; There iseternal, saving power in the name of Jesus
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