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Good morning.
It’s an exciting day as we get ready for VBS to start tonight.
It’s Game On! 6 days of kids hearing that they can have a relationship with Jesus.
And we’re going to use sports as a way to teach kids the gospel.
At North Hills that’s not a big jump for us because many of eat, sleep and live sports.
On Friday night, we saw something pretty amazing.
Lebron James who is arguably the greatest basketball player of all time got swept by arguably the best team of all time.
My guess if you have noticed that the colors of our VBS shirts match the colors of the Warriors I’m going to go out on a limb and say that isn’t an accident.
It’s actually pretty amazing to watch Lebron put up 51 and still lose.
But being the best player doesn’t translate to success if you’re alone.
So what makes the warriors special?
there is something in an among the warriors that is greater than that which is in and among the Cavaliers.
The greatest player can’t just look his team in the eye and say, I’ve got this.
Especially not when the other team has something greater.
And no I’m not going to say they have Jesus.
The warriors had a greater spirit of unity, and teamwork where they put the needs of the team over individual needs.
And you don’t want to just invite anyone into that.
That chemistry could easily get messed up by one more big ego who is all about himself.
The warriors are going to be selective about who they let in.
Ok so they say if you can’t preach a sermon everywhere…don’t preach it anywhere.
I’m pretty sure I couldn’t preach this sermon effectively in Chicago.
At least not this introduction.
So here’s what I’m saying.
The warriors are greater than the sum of each individual player.
Many of you work jobs where this makes sense.
Add one bad apple and the work place takes a downturn.
One bad musician in a band messes everything up.
We can’t do anything alone.
We need others.
That is what makes Christianity so special.
We are better together.
We have a spirit of Unity that binds us together.
And while all are invited, the church is called to be selective on who gets to teach and lead.
we are even selective on who gets to be a member.
That’s not to say you can’t come.
All are welcome, but not all get a voice.
How do we know who speaks for God?
We’re continuing our study of 1 John.
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John is encouraging the young church to walk faithfully with God.
And today John is going to warn this church that there are those who are trying to deceive them.
is the main text that we are going to key in on because it is a great reminder in times of struggle.
1 john
Big Idea: Lean in to the Holy Spirit.
Spirit is not strictly a Christian concept.
WE talk about spirit all the time.
You can have school spirit.
A spirited person is usually excited.
You can have a spirit of negatively.
you can drink spirits.
The Holy Spirit is a different kind of spirit in that He is the Greatest spirit.
But we often lose him in the lesser spirits of the world.
Let’s continu
1 john 4:1-3
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Consider the Source.
Ironically the Bible, the Church, Jesus, your pastor actually encourages you to be a skeptic.
There is too much riding on this for us to get this wrong.
And a lot of damage is done when we just believe whatever sounds good.
Don’t believe everything you hear.
Don’t trust everyone you meet.
It seems like there are a lot of people who want to lead us astray.
Many of us have actually been burned enough that this comes easy.
We naturally question everything.
But the question then comes up, “Who can you trust?”
Trust is something that can take years to earn but can be lost in a split second.
When deciding whether or not to believe something, we need to consider the source.
Has this person earned our trust?
Have they burned us before?
Do they have a reputation of being reliable?
Or are they constantly posting clickbait lies on Facebook?
Even for pastors we can be accused of embellishing stories in our sermons.
People will ask, was that story true or were you just preaching?
That’s why I only tell true stories.
When it comes to faith, it is vitally important that we know who we can trust.
In John warns us again that false teachers and antichrists are going to try and deceive us.
Back then, they didn’t have a book store to go buy a Bible or even a smartphone to download and app to check to make sure that what someone saying is true.
John gave them a way to for the early church to test anyone who would come and try to teach them....“anyone who says that Jesus came in the flesh is from God…if not don’t trust them.”
Back then one of the quickest ways to tell if someone was lying was to check to see what they taught about Jesus.
Back then the biggest false teachers were the gnostics who taught that the physical world was evil.
They taught that Jesus or the Logos was not human but a Spirit that indwelled Jesus’s earthly body.
It was also offensive to them that Jesus would die.
Pretty much John is saying, don’t believe anyone who holds to gnosticism.
Don’t associate with them.
Don’t entertain them.
They will try to lead you astray and what they say will actually sound good.
A good comparison today would be health wealth and prosperity preachers.
Because they always point to themselves instead of Jesus.
If a pastor’s preaching is more about himself than jesus....don’t listen to him (or her).
Now John isn’t writing to a single person, but a group of people that he’s hoping will be united in themselves.
So no one should ever have to discern whether something is true or not by themselves.
We should be able to go to eachother.
Now really quick.
a lot of people have been burned by the church.
How can you trust when you’ve been burned before.
The truth is that the it’s not the church per se that we’re trusting, but we’re trusting in what makes the church great.
Just because you’ve been burned by a doctor doesn’t mean you should swear off modern medicine.
The truth is that the it’s not the church per se that we’re trusting, but we’re trusting in what makes the church great.
No matter what the basis for our decision to trust someone, we need to trust someone greater.
2. Trust Someone greater.
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