"WHO ARE YOU WITH?"
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Are you with Jesus or are you against Jesus?
How do you know if you love God?
19 We love, because He first loved us.
5 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
9 “Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
23 O love the Lord, all you His godly ones! The Lord preserves the faithful And fully recompenses the proud doer.
10 Hate evil, you who love the Lord, Who preserves the souls of His godly ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
1 I love the Lord, because He hears My voice and my supplications.
37 And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 “This is the great and foremost commandment.
33 and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
3 but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
5 May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ.
10 For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.
5 Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
5 but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:
15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
17 But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.
20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Proposition - For the next few minutes I am going to ask you to do stop what you are doing and listen to God’s Word. We are going to see that each of MUST 1) choose our Road, 2) choose our prophet, 3) choose our disciple, and 4) choose our foundation.
Interrogative question - Are you with Jesus or against Him? (there is no middle ground)
There are nearly 4,000 recognised faiths around the globe. However, almost 75 percent of the people follow one of the five main faiths which include Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
1. Choose your Road - vs. 13-14
1. Choose your Road - vs. 13-14
13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 “For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
2. Choose your Prophet - vs. 15-20
2. Choose your Prophet - vs. 15-20
Matthew 7:15–20 (NASB95)
15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 “You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?
17 “So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 “A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 “So then, you will know them by their fruits.
3. Choose your Disciple - vs. 21-23
3. Choose your Disciple - vs. 21-23
Matthew 7:21–23 (NASB95)
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
OT References -
8 Depart from me, all you who do iniquity, For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.
41 “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;
27 and He will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from; depart from Me, all you evildoers.’
4. Choose your foundation - vs. 24-27
4. Choose your foundation - vs. 24-27
Matthew 7:24–27 (NASB95)
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
25 “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
26 “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 “The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
SO WHAT??
Friends let me put a few questions before you this morning -
What road have you chosen?
What kind of prophet are you falling?
What kind of disciple are you?
What kinda of foundation do you have?
Is the Bible True and Reliable?
Interesting Facts About the Scriptures -
Interesting Facts About the Scriptures -
Written over 1500 years
Written on Three different continents
40 different authors
40 different life styles
3 different languages
Greek
Hebrew
Aramaic
On average, there are 100 million bibles printed each year. It’s projected that there are more than 6 billion Bibles currently in print – 140% more than the estimated 2.5 billion copies in print as of 1975.
The number of bibles sold on average has more than doubled in the US since 1950 with:
20 million bibles sold each year
1.66 million bibles sold each month
384,615 bibles sold per week
54,945 bibles sold every day
2,289 bibles sold per hour
38 bibles sold per minute
6.4 bibles sold every 10 seconds
In addition to the bibles sold, another 115,055 bibles are given away or distributed every day
The US accounts for a quarter of newly printed bible sales every year
14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
12 “And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”