Coming to the End of the Beginning
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Where is our trust under the sun? What’s worth living for?
Trust in the authority of Scripture.
Trust in the authority of Scripture.
Using truth wisely builds up.
Using truth wisely builds up.
Judgment and resurrection make fearing God and obeying Him of ultimate importance.
Judgment and resurrection make fearing God and obeying Him of ultimate importance.
Why wisdom and not just law?
17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
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4 Answer not a fool according to his folly,
lest you be like him yourself.
5 Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his own eyes.
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Doing good to people is more righteous than just not doing evil to them
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The relationship of wisdom to law
Trust in the authority of Scripture.
Trust in the authority of Scripture.
Scripture is our sole and sufficient rule of faith and practice.
The authority of Scripture vs other good books
Logic
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
25 My soul clings to the dust;
give me life according to your word!
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Judgment and resurrection make fearing God and obeying Him of ultimate importance.
Judgment and resurrection make fearing God and obeying Him of ultimate importance.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Fearing God is the true foundation for life
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11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Making disiples - Witnessing to parents....
1 Cor 3:11-17
Fearing God is the true foundation for life
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Fearing God is the true foundation for life
Fearing God is the true foundation for life
My next step today is...
Where do you need to fear God? Where do you need to do good?
Where do you need to trust Scripture?
David McCullough in his book Mornings On Horseback tells this story about young Teddy Roosevelt: Mittie (his mother) had found he was so afraid of the Madison Square Church that he refused to set foot inside if alone. He was terrified, she discovered, of something called the "zeal." It was crouched in the dark corners of the church ready to jump at him, he said. When she asked what a zeal might be, he said he was not sure, but thought it was probably a large animal like an alligator or a dragon. He had heard the minister read about it from the Bible. Using a concordance, she read him those passages containing the word ZEAL until suddenly, very excited, he told her to stop. The line was from the Book of John, 2:17: "And his disciples remembered that it was written, 'The ZEAL of thine house hath eaten me up'" People are still justifiably afraid to come near the "zeal" of the Lord, for they are perfectly aware it could "eat them up" if they aren't one of His. Our Lord is good, but He isn't safe.
David McCullough, Mornings On Horseback.