What Should we trust?
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Announcements:
Announcements:
Student leadership
Student leadership
We will be starting Student leadership Saturday October 24 at 10:30.
Student leadership is meant to be something that challenges you as students to become the next generation of leader leaders within the church, your home and your school
If you are serving in the kids room, tech booth or anything in the church, you should join leadership
And if you're looking for just another group to hang out, have fun and joke around this might not be for you. It will be fun. We will have a great time, but we are going to focus on growing in our relationship with Christ as leaders specifically.
If you would like to join, please talk to myself or your group leader and I will get you connected with the information you need
Trunk or Treat
Trunk or Treat
Trunk or treat is coming and we will need your help. October 31 Saturday we will be giving out candy and inviting the community to hear the gospel
As students we are going to be the ones helping make sure every trunk has enough candy and is ready to go for every group
Sarah 🤍 and I will also be putting a trunk together and I would like to get some ideas from you guys for what our trunk could be
In previous years, we did a pirate ship. If you have any ideas, please let us know!
Get connected:
Get connected:
If you are not connected, please go ahead and text “GB Students” To this number that will put you in our GroupMe where I sent updates and information
This is also a great thing for your parents to join as well so please take a picture of it. Show it to your parents and help them get connected as well.
We will also be doing a Student theme night coming up.
We will also be doing a Student theme night coming up.
It's beginning to look like fall and the weather is starting to turn so we are going to do a fall flannel night
Wear your favorite flannel or go buy a flannel from the thrift store
We will have donuts and hot cider, and we will do a bunch of fall games and activities outside before we go to our different groups.
This is gonna be a great thing to invite your friend too
Some of the activities will be our beloved Apple smash
Pumpkin smash
And a bunch of other fall group games
We will be doing possibly guys versus girls to see who the fall flannel champions are
October 18th Make sure to invite a friend it's gonna be a night to remember!
But with all that said, let's go ahead and head outside for our game
Intro:
Intro:
All right guys let's go ahead and grab a seat and get started
If you have your Bibles open up to the book of Matthew chapter 4 Looking at verses one through 11
And while you're looking, wanna ask you a question how many of us know what the word hypocrite means???
Hypocrite (noun): a person who claims or pretends to have certain beliefs, principles, or standards but behaves in a way that contradicts them.
What that means is for someone to say, they think believe one thing and then do or say something else
When I was a freshman, I used to say to the middle schoolers do as I say not as I do whenever someone would call me out on something…
And in our world, there's a lot of people that claim something but contradicted…
We see people that say they believe in a product yet their actions say they don't
The idea here is if you were a NBA basketball player and you were signed with Nike you have some Nike shoes that were made just for you
And instead of wearing those shoes to play basketball, somebody catches you wearing under Armour or Adidas or a different brand…
Showing that maybe in principle you like Nike shoes, but in practice you don't…
Today we're gonna look at Jesus we're gonna see how he lived and we're not gonna find hypocrisy.
We're not gonna find inconsistencies.
Jesus demonstrates that his word is what we need in our time of need
Before we get into it, let's pray…
Before we get into it, let's pray…
Text:
Text:
1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
How many of us after one night would be hungry???
Have y'all ever been hungry enough to basically eat whatever someone would give you you were just starving?
That's where Jesus was at. He's at the point where the hunger felt unbearable…
3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
Who is the tempter?
So the devil the temper comes to Jesus and what did he say???
“If you are the son of God” He dares him he defies the truth of who he is attacks his own pride and begins to see if he will respond to defend himself
And how does Jesus respond in verse for?
Let's read it together
4 But he answered, “It is written… “
It is written…
Pause…
Jesus does not stand on his own authority which he easily could have…
He doesn't do warfare in his own strength. He doesn't fight back in the flesh, but he fights back in the spirit using God's word…
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Bible, the word of God is living in active
It is a weapon of warfare against the enemy, and our enemy is the same enemy that Jesus had
Our enemy is the tempter… The devil… The demonic forces the demons around us that want to bring us to sin…
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
The thief, the enemy, the devil has come to
Steal your joy
Kill your love for God
And destroy your testimony…
And he came and attacked Jesus wanting to steal to kill and destroy the son of God
And Jesus knew this wasn't a physical battle, but a spiritual one…
Look at Ephesians 6:12-13
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
And Ephesians continues in verse 17
17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
Jesus didn't just believe that God's word was true… He didn't just believe that God's word was the only way to fight temptation and to fight the enemy…
He actually lived it out, saying it is written…
4 But he answered, “It is written, “ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”
Attack number one destroyed…
5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple
6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “ ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “ ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ”
Now the devil begins to twist scripture, taking it out of context, trying to get Jesus to sin to fall into his temptation to submit to what the devil is saying
But Jesus responds once again with truth in context…
7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”
Attack number two is now disabled by God's word…
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
9 And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
And at this point, this is the strongest push of temptation the devil has ever given him…
And it's a temptation the devil will use against you and me..
He will show you a twisted version of God's plan.
God sent Jesus to live the life. We could not die the death that we deserve on the cross so that we could be saved….
His mission was to save us so that he could have us as his own…
To establish his kingdom on earth among men
And the devil is offering him a shortcut a quick and easy way to get the end result without the suffering without the pain without the payment
All it would cost would be for Jesus to submit himself To the enemy…
And in your life, people may try to twist scripture to make you believe in something that's not true or do something that you should not
People might use your weak moments in order to get you to do things you should not
And maybe even people will offer you the easy way instead of the right way
And our response to these things must be the same as Jesus, which is to turn to God's word…
To turn to truth…
10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “ ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’ ”
11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.
Jesus is not just pointing you and me to the word he Also needed it in his life…
The scripture say that he was tempted in every way that we are yet without sin…
And this wasn't Just because he was a son of God, though that's the only reason he was able to be perfect from birth to death
But it's because he relied on his father's word… His word scripture, the Bible if we are to believe in Jesus as savior, we are to believe in his word as ultimate and final authority
If you're ever tempted to do anything in life that goes against God's word, you must fight that with the truth
The Bible is the most true thing in the entire universe without it we would not have truth
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Jesus is not a hypocrite. His life was shaped and guided by his relationship with God and fueled by the word of God….
And I'm not talking the New Testament. It wasn't written yet we're talking about the Old Testament.
Genesis, Exodus Leviticus numbers, Deuteronomy all the way to where we see the New Testament begin…
His word is perfect and if it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me…
Tonight as you break into your growth community groups, we're gonna talk about the inerrancy of scripture
And that means that scripture is without error…
Even the Bible we have today is 99.9% accurate to the original manuscripts that we have that date back to thousands of years ago…
18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
His word is perfect and Pastor Chuck preached an amazing sermon on all the reasons that we have to believe that scripture is accurate
That the Bible is true…
And I would encourage you to go and listen to that sermon and dive deep into why we believe in scripture
I hope you enjoy your growth communities and I hope we dive deep and pay attention and learn about why we believe in the Bible
And how we are to use the Bible in our daily lives
Let's not be hypocrites and say scripture is good, but never read it… Say that we believe in the Bible, but we have no idea what it says…
Let's go ahead and pray…
