now as a leader the Apostle Paul he set forth an example but guess what he also
set forth rules because that's what a leader ought to do right set forth an
example but also give rules or orders now go back to 1st Corinthians chapter
number 11 so he gave an example he says follow me as I follow Christ I love
people I want to see people saved and you ought to have that same desire and
adapt to that but he also set forth rules within the churches that he
established look at verse number two now I praise you brethren that ye
remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you so
I want you to notice there that ordinances is plural so it's more than
one okay and these ordinances that they're keeping Paul is praising them
for that that means they're doing the right things and therefore he's praising
them for that you guys see that so ordinances is plural means it's more
than one he said why do you bring that up well for the simple fact that there's
a lot of churches that have these practices and they base them oh they
call they basically have this ideology that the church only has two ordinances
and in fact if you've been a part of an independent fundamental Baptist they'll
often have a doctrinal statement or a sheet of paper that says Baptist and
they have like acronym it's like a Baptist acronym how many know what I'm
talking about okay they have and by the way my old church did it and most
independent Baptist churches do it because they basically copy and paste
what the other church does now what is the acronym Baptist well they'll say
this B is for biblical authority amen A is for autonomy of the local church in
other words we're independent amen all right P is for the priesthood of the
believers we believe that T is for two offices of the church which is referring
to the deacons and the bishops okay and then it talks about individual soul
liberty right I believe that separation of church and state but the one I don't
agree with is T you say what is the last T it's the two ordinances of the church
how many have ever heard that and they'll say this the two ordinances of
the church is what baptism and what yeah communion Lord's Supper and they'll say
those are the two ordinances of the church I heard of my whole Christian
life I mean if you've been an independent Baptist Church long enough
you're gonna hear something like that the Baptist acronym the church has two
ordinances well is that true does the church have really have two ordinances
you know the fact of the matter is the ordinance is basically an order so do we
only like when you guys come to church do we only do baptisms and Lord's Supper
no right in fact we have all kinds of orders that God gives us he tells us to
go out and sow in to keep yourselves from safe to keep yourself sanctified
abstain from fornication we ought to give tithes on the first day of the week
all kinds of orders that God gives us in his word it's not just baptism and the
Lord's Supper now you say well why do they do that then why do they say that
there's only two ordinances in the church and by the way I preached that
years ago as as a as a independent Baptist years ago I preached that many
times that there's two ordinances but I never really questioned it but in
actuality we'll get into the Lord's Supper tonight because we're gonna talk
about that tonight but in all reality it's not two ordinances of the church
the root of this teaching is actually found in Roman Catholicism and I'm
explaining to you why you see Roman Catholicism has a an order of
sacraments called the seven sacraments that one has to obey for salvation okay
you guys ever heard of the second sacraments or seven sacraments how many
of ever were Catholics before okay you know how many did all seven did you guys
anybody do all seven I think I did like two all right I think I went up to my
like confirmation and that was it now the seven sacraments are baptism
confirmation Eucharist which is they would we would call communion penance
anointing of the sick holy orders and matrimony and they say those are the
seven things you have to do to get to heaven now there's a problem with that
because holy orders is basically you becoming a priest so do all the ladies
go to hell or something or what like how does that work but these are the
sacraments now in the there's something called the Protestant Reformation okay
where there's people who were within the Catholic Church that protested the
Catholic Church right came out of the Catholic Church and they basically said
no we're Protestants we're Protestant Christians we're not Catholic but here's
the thing many of those Protestant Christians still adhere to the teachings
of the Roman Catholic Church they're a bunch of bastard children of the Catholic
Church there's nothing different about them okay but the only difference is is
this they'll say well there's not seven sacraments there's two sacraments and
they'll say this communion and baptism that's why the Protestants still
baptized babies you'll find throughout the years of you know the
Congregationalist and all these bastard children of the Catholic Church still
baptizing babies where do they get that from from the Catholic Church so the
Protestants had two sacraments and they literally called it sacraments there's
only two that said no there's not seven you have to do to be saved there's only
two communion and baptism and then some idiot Baptist decided to say well you
know I like that idea but we're not gonna call it sacraments because it
sounds too Catholic we're gonna call it ordinance and it's not to save it's just
you know something that the church does so that's how Baptists adopted that
stupid teaching that there's two ordinances of the church no Jesus said
you know because they'll tell you this they'll say well you know we only
observe there's only two ordinances that we observe Jesus said to observe all
things whatsoever I've commanded you along with you always all things not
just baptism is like oh we can't do that it's only baptism and community that's
the only thing we can observe no observe all things whatsoever I've
commanded you and he commanded us a lot okay there's a lot of commandments in
the Bible and so that's where that comes from do we only observe Lord's Supper or
just the baptism no we observe all things whatsoever God has commanded us
that's why we do our best in our church to preach the whole counsel of God you
know and I'm doing my best to preach through the Bible it's gonna take years
and years and years but we're gonna get it done we want to get it done because
God has commanded us to do so