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Sermons by Pastor David Whitney, Senior Instructor of Institute on the Constitution and pastor of Cornerstone Free Church in Arnold, MD.

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SUNDAY October 26, 2025

Order of Worship

Theme: As disciples of Jesus Christ we are to put off every aspect of stealing and to put on righteous work in accordance with God’s Law in order to be able to help our fellow man.

Welcome & Call to Worship
“Great is Thy Faithfulness” #139
“Redeemed” #516
Prayer & Children’s Lesson
“Train Up A Child” Hymns & Songs pg. 15
“Be Strong in the Lord” #734
Offering - “The Solid Rock” #526
Responsive Reading - Christ’s Priesthood #381
Congregational Prayer
Hearing God’s Word
“Defeating the Kleptocracy”- Pastor Whitney
Responding to God’s Word
“Are You Washed in the Blood” #330
Benediction and Postlude

“Defeating the Kleptocracy”
45th In our series the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians

I. The Glorious Resurrection Body - Revelation 21:4
* A. One Thousand Years of Peace and Perfection
* 1. Satan bound for the entire time - Revelation 20:1-3
* 2. The saints reigning with Christ- Revelation 20:4
* B. There will be perfect security for all of everyone’s one’s God given rights
* 1. No one will be permitted to hurt or destroy - Isaiah 11:4-9
* a. Even the animal kingdom will be at peace
* b. No crime, no violence, and no war will be allowed to take place
* 2. The picture of peace and prosperity - Micah 4:4
* a. The Hebrew mind held that with a vine and fig tree you would have abundant provision for life
* b. “Under his own…” Private property will exist in the Millennial Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ

II. The Eighth Commandment and Private Property Rights
* A. Repentance for a disciple of Jesus requires putting off stealing - Ephesians 4:28
* 1. Theft violates God’s law in that it attacks the God given right of fellow human’s to the property they have justly acquired
* 2. Labor is good, it existed before the Fall - Gen. 2:15, 20
* a. The Divine commission was to take dominion over Creation, not to abandon it - Genesis 1:28
* b. God blessing is on good work, that which does not violate God’s Holy Law
* 3. Charity is voluntarily giving what God has entrusted to us - there is no such thing as civil government Welfare

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