Fact Check 2

We are starting a new series today

I am very excited about

Called fact check

How many of you have ever been told something before

Afterwards you were like

EHHHH I don’t know if thats legit?

How many of you right int he moment have said that?

When you fact something. what do you do????

What do we go to??

We use books

Videos

Google

Articles

The news

We use the resources that we have to be able to determine if something is true or false

WHY DO I SAY ALL THAT?

Because very often we don’t

There are tons of time that we don’t

How many of you have been told something by someone and totally believed it,

and later found out it was totally not true

it happens more often than you think

So as we go through this series

We are going to be looking at the things that are said in our culture very often, that are not true.

Now Disclaimer

These aren’t all like curse words

Anti god phrases

But they are phrases that we often hear

Or maybe we even say

But They Go against the truth of what the Bible teaches

Why talk about this?

I think it is important for us not only because

We need to watch the things that we say

But because it is easy to just do what everybody else is doing

Its easy to just go with the flow

my prayer is not only that you would scripture better

But know better the character of God

Intro 2

The phrase and mentality that we are going to talk about today is

the phrase “Thats My truth.”

How many of you have ever heard someone say that before?

or maybe “Thats how I see it”

or “Thats my interpretation”

In very recent years

This thought process has become atlot more prevelnt

Last week we talked about how we live in a world

Thinks it can do whatever it wants to do all the time

Likwise we live in a world

That thinks truth can be whatever we want it to be

For some of us

This may seem obvious

But when there are people in our life that don’t know the Lord

They have no sense of the Bible

They don’t have a sense of the truth that comes from God

And because of that they live in constant state of questioning

“is this thing real”

“is that thing real”

When you do that long enough

You start think and feel

I can have my own truth

Something that is real to me

All that being said

I want to talk about truth this morning

Not only how do we know what is true

But likewise

How do we make sure that we are not falling into this train of thought of “My truth”

1. Always Always Always Always go to scripture first

This may sound so obvious for some of us

But we always go to the Bible first when searching for truth

Because the entire Bible is true and perfect

There is nothing in this book that is just a story

There is nothing in this book that could have been false

Everything in here is exactly what God wanted it to be

Why is that so important

John 1:1–3 “In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him.”

In the beginning was the Word

However the Bible also tells us that in the beginning was God

meaning that everything found in the Word is directly from God

God used these people of this world to write his words

So if we want to know what the truth is we go to the one that is perfect

Why does that matter so much?

This is the one place that you can find the confirmed word of God

Yeah there is prayer

Yeah there is importance in church and sermons \

But this is the living breathing word of God

YOU CAN’T GET THAT ANYWHERE ELSE

Here is what I want you to hear this morning

The Bible should be your go to tool in your tool box

How many of you know my father-in-law Darrin

Maybe youv’e seen him in here

He does sound for us once a month

Next time you see him say hi

But I remember when Delaney and I first Got married

Darrin gave me a random tool bag

with hand-me-down tools

I remember there was 1 specfic tool that he gave me that always stood out

That was this level

I have used this thing so much

I remember he saw me using it one time

He told me how when it used to be his

How much he used it

He started talking about all of these different things

For the longest time

That was his go to Level

if he needed one

Thats what he used

Why do I say all of this?

The same way that that level was the go-to tool

Thats how your Bible should be in your life

We all can be better about how much we read

And how much time we spend in the word

Likewise we need to know

that God gave us that tool for a reason

Use the tool of the Bible

It is so important that we do that

2. The Truth isn’t always easy to know

1 Corinthians 13:12–13 “Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.”

Paul is talking in this scripture about the gifts of the Spirit

I love as he is talking about it

He says that “He see’s things incomplete”

But one day when we spend eternity with the Lord in Heaven

everything will be made clear for us

In other words

There are things in life now we don’t fully understand

and things that we don’t fully know the answers too

How many of you can realte to that?

You feel like there are things that you don’t fully know the answers to?

I think that holds true for all of us

We don’t always get stuff

I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING

“Adam you just told us to use the Bible”

Thats true

You should

And there are so many things in the Bible

that are clear as day about how we should live

The 10 commandments

Love your neighbor as yourself

faith without works is dead

But don’t get me wrong

There are times that we can still become confused

There are situations that you are put in

Our relationships with friends or families

Where we don’t have the answers of what we should say

What we should do

Sometimes not even what we should think

We don’t always know the truth

And what I want to you about that this morning

THATS OKAY

There are times when you are not going to always get things right the first time

There are times that you may mix things up

follow something that isn’t the truth

Its important for us to know

Because some of us are perfectionist out there

And you want to know the right theological question to every single answer

Believe me I get it

I was that kid

I get so wound up in wanting to have logical black and white answers to everyhting about God

There are some things that just come down to faith

We have learn to be okay with that

Here is what I want you to hear this morning

Its okay for us to question. its not okay to quit

How many of you know who that is?

Thomas Edison, who knows what he is famous for?

In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the Light bulb

Thomas Edison during his many trials

went through thousands upon thousands of tests trying to create the light bulb

And what stands out to me

Which is probably one of his most famous quotes

That many of you have maybe heard before

Thomas Edison was once asked about his many many many failures trying to create the light bulb

His response was this:

“I haven’t failed 10,000 times. I just learned 10,000 ways that don’t work.”

Why does that stand out to me so much

It stands out because is shows the power of not quitting

could you imagine if Thomas Edison Did quit

If he did give up

Man I a thankful for lights

But I say that even more so because in our walk with God there are many times that we want answers

“God why is this like this”

“God how come this happened”

I believe so often because of

lack of patience

Peer pressure

also false teaching

whats popular on social media

We don’t continue to go to the Lord

I would go even farther to say

Some of us are so close to recieving direction from the Lord

But we give up before he can give it to us

WE ARE SO SO CLOSE

But we quit

We give up

I want to remind you this morning to not give up

God’s timing is perfect

3. “Your truth” will always be a downgrade from God’s

John 8:31–32 “Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.””

How many of ya’ll know what Hot keys are?

Hot keys are various keyboard combinations that you can click that will do different things

And the reason they are called hot keys

Because usually it is faster to press the key combinations

Than it is to click to do the thing you want it to do

What some you guys know?

Cntrl + C Cntrl + V Copy and past

Can I will never forget when I learned one specifc hot Key

And that is only one windows computer

But it is The windows key + L

Why did this matter so much to me

At my old job they used to always make us lock out our work computers

So this was so much faster than having to click to lock out the computer

Why do I say all of this?

in my brain before

I thought the only way that I could log out of the computer was by clicking through all of these menus

I thought that was it

Thats the truth

Thats just how it has to be down

When in reality that so wasn’t true

There was a whole other way to do it

So much faster so much easier

So much better

The same exact thing applies to “our truths” that we create

This may not apply to all of us

But I gaurntee you think of someone in your life

that is convinced you about something in their life

Could be a friend

Family member

You found out at some point that that thing was not true

This will only work if you do it this way

God only cares about me if I go to church on Sundays

This friend will only listen if I treat them this way

They will only let me fit in if I act this way

I want to tell you today

Don’t forfeit the truth of the Lord for what you have created

It is always so much cheaper

Even if the truth that you have created you think sounds better

“Oh I can date whoever I want to”

“I can say what I want. They can just deal with it”

“I can drive however fast I feel like”

Sounds better

But its not better

Becauase its not true

Don’t get into the habit of convincing yourself of things that aren’t true

God knows what is best for us, and his plan is better than anything we can come up with

4. Don’t keep the truth to yourself

Romans 10:14–15 “But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!””

I remember when I worked at Meijer

There was one night that I was closing the store completely by myself

Which normally never happened

I remember I am walking through the store

I get this phone call

“Hey we just had a customer come into the store and they said that an old man fell off his scooter in the parking lot”

“Oh crap”

“Is Kelly here?”

“What about Erik”

“You are the only manager closing tonight”

I had this moment where I realized I was it

I was the only person that was going to be able to help

But even more there is paperwork

Reporting

Emails

Phone calls

All sorts of stuff that you have fill out when someone gets hurt

I say all of that

becasue I was the only one with information to do that

I was the only one with the know how to make that happen

FOR SOME PEOPLE

You may be the only person they interact with that knows the truth about who God is

We can know the truth, but our responsibility is to take action

i am not saying that you are going to save the world over night

But we know the truth of who God is

We should not just keep that for ourselves

Because the truth is

People want to know the truth

We have talked about this on Wednesday

ALL PEOPLE ask

Who am I?

Why am I here?

Whats the point to all of this?

Only God has those answers

“Your truth” won’t tell you that