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Introduction
Illustration: Our perception of good news reporting is often impacted by our beliefs and view of the world.
In order to change our views, good news must both engage our mind and penetrate our heart.
Much of todays news engages our emotions and feelings without ever challenging our thinking.
Example: Today’s news paper stories.
Headlines are meant to catch your attention.
Once they get your attention, does the news paper article go deeper than just the headline?
Body
The Good News goes deeper when:
Heard Word Unites With Faith ()
When the good news is proclaimed, when the WORD of God is preached and it unites with faith, a chain reaction occurs in the life of the believer.
Illustrate: Ears of faith
With what do you listen to the gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ?
Verizon 2006 Commercial campaign:
Luke 8:11-15
With what do you listen to the gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ?
Your mind and heart (or just emotions & a physical need you want met at the current moment)- God wants to meet our heart felt needs
Illustrate: The women who came looking to draw water that must be drawn from deep down in a well and encounters the WORD who offers the gift of God which is living water that if she drinks, she will never thirsts again.
But she must believe (have faith) in order to understand what Jesus means.
John 4:10
What do you hear when the good news is proclaimed?
Some people hear and are benefited, provided assistance by the message because they have decided to trust Jesus- to put their faith in Jesus, the ears of their faith is listening!
While others hear and are not helped or assisted at all- they do not experience spiritual healing and transformation
While others hear and are not helped or assisted at all- they do not experience spiritual healing and transformation
John 4:21-
Illustration: Believers enter the LORD’s rest whereas non-believers do not enter the LORD’s rest
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Deut
Faith Produces God Obeying Hearts ()
Now faith operates supernaturally on the inside of the believer in Jesus Christ.
Now your faith reacts or responds to the good news through the power of the inward dwelling Holy Spirit.
John 14:
Obedience Provides Rest ()
God’s WORD Examines The Heart ()
The WORD of God is living- uniformly attested & valid yesterday, today, and tomorrow
And Active- causes something to happen
Efficient i.e. (not wasted, does not return void) sharper than any two-edged sword- cuts efficiently
Penetrates (goes in)- piercing to the division of soul and of spirit-
Deep- of joints and of marrow- goes deep likened to through flesh and deep into the bone marrow
Why?
Discerning the thoughts- able to judge thoughts (content of thinking and reasoning)
Discerning the intentions- purpose and attitude of thinking
why you thinking what you think?
of the heart (heart of the matter) what causes you to do what you do?
Reveals- no creature is hidden from his sight
all are naked exposed (reveals you for what you are)
to the eyes of him to whom we must give account
Illustration: Surgeon Specialist in the operating room has to cut deep in order examine what is the underlying issue of an internal illness that is manifested outwardly.
The WORD is not only the surgeon but also the pathologist
The WORD of God is living- uniformly attested & valid yesterday, today, and tomorrow
And Active- causes something to happen
Efficient i.e. (not wasted, does not return void) sharper than any two-edged sword- cuts efficiently
Penetrates (goes in)- piercing to the division of soul and of spirit-
Deep- of joints and of marrow- goes deep likened to through flesh and deep into the bone marrow
Why?
Discerning the thoughts- able to judge thoughts (content of thinking and reasoning)
Discerning the intentions- purpose and attitude of thinking
why you thinking what you think?
Illustrate: 2006 Verizon Commercial: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
of the heart (heart of the matter) what causes you to do what you do?
Reveals- no creature is hidden from his sight
all are naked exposed (reveals you for what you are)
to the eyes of him to whom we must give account
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Psalm 51:8
Conclusion
Illustration: A husband and wife were discussing the possibility of taking a trip to the Holy Land:
James 1:21
Husband: Wouldn’t it be fantastic to go to the Holy Land and stand and shot the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai?
Wife: It would be better if we stayed home and kept them.
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