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Why One Way
Secular: Trip to Boston
* Tourists… not staying long…
* Asked for direction to a meeting point…
* Given a map and warned!!
* The Big Dig
* $3m per day $1B per year
* Remove 16 million cubic yards of dirt… tunnels 8-10 lanes
* Build bridges 14 lanes
* 3.8 million cubic feet of concrete (2400 aces at 1 foot thick)
* We thought we knew better…
* Map seemed to show something else…
* Navigate our own route…
* Hit a traffic jam beyond any traffic jam every created in all of human history!!
Biblical:
* We are tourists… we need to heed the warnings and follow the directions…
* We are in search of truth… in search of hope… in search of the ONE WAY…
* John Texts…
Personal: We have tried
* A Recipe
* A building project
* A math problem (did not hear or understand…)
* … the directions make the result more certain…
Bridge:
Directions valid because:
* By Manufacturer or expert
* They have been tested
* How do we know we know we have the plans, blueprint, directions… WHY ONE WAY?
Body:
1) The Church and the World
a. 60’s bumper sticker
b. most everyone who went to church understood ONE WAY
c. Somewhere along the line many churches decided we needed to “embrace” the world’s value
d. NIV 1 John 3:13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
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NIV Luke 6:26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.
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2) Objectivity
a. Continuity –
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Survival - Persecution
Criticism
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Teachings - Prophecy
History
Character ~/ Frankness (real heroes… real people)
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Influence - Lives (Transformed)
World
b. John 17:15-17 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.
Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
c. 2 Peter 1:20-21 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation.
For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Truth… founded in God not man
Objective truth…
So much of the error in our society is subjectivism…
What is good for me…
What do I like…
What makes me feel good…
True faith accepts the objective truth of Scripture!!
3) Rationality
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It makes sense
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Not about feelings
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Not about experience
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It is about fact
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It is not contradictory
c. 1 Cor.
14:33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.
d. Post-modern – No truth…
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Tolerance… accepting all as true…
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Post-modernism is itself is oxy-moronic… it makes the claim that truth is unknowable… a claim with the presupposition that itself is true…
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We are willing to be swept along without understanding that it is a faulty understanding
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We know some things are absolutely true…
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The weight of evidence also tells us that our Bible is true… The lives that are changed by the power of the Word of Christ – the gospel… gives us evidence to our faith…
e. Luke 16: 17 It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
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Power of God in meaning
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Study ~/ Meditate ~/ Pray ~/ Understand ~/ Live
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Not an Incantation
Rationality – our Bible makes sense!
4) Veracity
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The Bible is Truth
b. God is truth
c. Everything we need to know for life and godliness is contained within…
d. 2 Peter 1:3-4 3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
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