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Our Greatest Challenge

Our Greatest Challenge. Must abide in Jesus word in order to know the truth and for the truth to make us free. Jn. 8:31-32

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Our Greatest Challenge

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  1. Our Greatest Challenge • Must abide in Jesus word in order to know the truth and for the truth to make us free. Jn. 8:31-32 • Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:31-32

  2. An Ever Repeating Cycle • For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 2 Tim 4:3-4

  3. An Isolated Problem? • "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' 23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' Matt 7:21-23

  4. A Love for the Truth • and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2Th. 2:10-12

  5. Everyone Has a Love for the Truth! Some of the Time

  6. Realms where Truth Matters • Courts – Truth, whole truth, nothing but truth • Hospital – right patient and location. • Pharmacy – right medication and dose • Auto shop – right part, color, size, etc. • Restaurant – right ingredients properly cooked • Manufacturer– Exact measurements / specs • Police – Always arrest only the guilty • Sports – Referees Umpires – enforce fair play • We expect/demand truth in all these areas.

  7. The Reason: (1) Truth Benefits (2) Truth Brings Success

  8. Truth matters! When: • only one thing will work. • it keeps us from making mistakes • it saves time, money and lives.

  9. Love for the truth: Material Creation • Can’t unlock any secret until you know the truth. • Chemistry; physics; anatomy; electricity; oil cannot be used unless we know the truth about them. • Success for finding the truth • Consequencesof violating truth • Immediate • Often spectacular or catastrophic!

  10. Love for the truth: Spiritual Creation • Can’t unlock any secret until you know truth. • Salvation, worship, inspiration, faith, purity, holiness, doctrine cannot be done effectively unless we know the truth about them.

  11. Truth or Consequences • Adam & Eve • Cain & Abel • Noah & Ancient World • Jesus – Truth will make you free Jn 8:31-32

  12. The Incongruity Scientist/Engineer works all week seeking God’s exact standards. Then goes to worship God with no interest at all in God’s exact standards. Same God who created physics, anatomy, and chemistry, wrote the Bible. Expects us to approach both of them exactiy the same way.

  13. Do we Study the Bible Like • getting change for a $20. • balancing our checking account. • a police officer is following us. • the doctor is assessing us. • taking prescription medication • cooking, sewing, cutting material. • a foul is called against our team.

  14. Do we listen to a Sermon Like • getting change for a $20. • balancing our checking account. • a police officer is following us. • the doctor is assessing us. • taking prescription medication • cooking, sewing, cutting material. • a foul is called against our team.

  15. God is Watching • It is obvious to him when we are more interested in our own benefits from truth. • He tests us to find out. • I Cor 1:26-29 • The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his deeds Jer 17:9-10

  16. Our Attitude toward God’s Word • Cain rejected for improper sacrifice.Gn 4:1-8 • Nadab and Abihu struck dead for failing to heed precise instructions. Lev 10:1-3 • Moses barred from promised land for striking rock and failing to honor God. Num 20:1-12 • Uzzah struck dead for failure to observe minor ordinance 100’s of years old. I Chr 15:2,13 • Jeroboam destroyed for changing the worship of God’s people. IKgs 12:25-33; 14:7-11 • Truth matters just as much in our service to God as it does in our occupation.

  17. An Ever Repeating Cycle • For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 2 Tim 4:3-4

  18. Today’s Fable • It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you are sincere. • Do we know where this came from? • What Scripture?

  19. Linus: on Halloween night the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch and brings toys to all good children! “You’re crazy!” says Charlie Brown. Linusretorts, “All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I’ll believe in the Great Pumpkin. The way I see it, it doesn’t matter what you believe just so you’re sincere.”

  20. Jesus Said • Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Jn 8:31-32 • Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. John 17:17-18

  21. A Simple Choice • He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him — the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. Jn 12:48-49 • And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Jn 8:32

  22. A Relaxed State A Day off Vacation No pressing duties

  23. An Intense State Grave Outcome Intricate Work Riveted Attention

  24. When God Speaks Attentive/Inattentive? Intense/Relaxed? Casual/Formal?

  25. God Spoke Nadab/Abihu Lev 10:1-3 I will be Glorified I Will be Sanctified

  26. Isolated Incidents? 1Jn 4:6; 2Jn 9-11; Rev 22:18-19 John Paul Gal 1:6-9; I Cor 4:6; I Cor 14:37 II Pet 2:1-4; 3:14-17 Peter

  27. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Jn 8:31-32

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