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Spirit and Truth

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conversation about where to worship

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you are Made up of the things you are taught combined with the things you have experienced.

WORSHIP

is a life style

If you don’t have Spirit and experience it is hard to worship

if you don’t have truth what are you worshiping?

Truth

Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Greek (New Testament) 237 ἀλήθειαἀλήθεια (alētheia), ας (as), ἡ (hē): n.fem.; ≡ DBLHebr 622; Str 225; TDNT 1.232—LN 70.3–70.4

truth, i.e., that which is in accord with what really happens, facts that correspond to a reality, whether historical (in the time/space continuum) (; ), or an eternal reality not limited to historical fact

Why is truth so important?

why are facts important

Can truth be relevant?

Truth is absolute

Where does truth come from?

morals?

You can’t have a law without a law giver

Jesus = Word

The students calculated that the odds against one person fulfilling all eight prophecies are astronomical-one in ten to the 21st power (1021).

To illustrate that number, Stoner gave the following example: “First, blanket the entire Earth land mass with silver dollars 120 feet high.

Second, specially mark one of those dollars and randomly bury it.

Third, ask a person to travel the Earth and select the marked dollar, while blindfolded, from the trillions of other dollars.”¹k;lThe

eight prophecies we’ve reviewed about the Messiah were written by men from different times and places between about 500 and 1,000 years before Jesus was born.

Thus there was no opportunity for collusion among them.

Notice too, the specificity.Bible scholars tell us that nearly 300 references to 61 specific prophecies of the Messiah were fulfilled by Jesus Christ.

The odds against one person fulfilling that many prophecies would be beyond all mathematical possibility.

It could never happen, no matter how much time was allotted.

One mathematician’s estimate of those impossible odds is “one chance in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion.”³

Most documented

Case for Christ "The quantity of New Testament material is almost embarrassing in comparison with other works of antiquity," he said.

"Next to the New Testament, the greatest amount of manuscript testimony is of Homer's Iliad, which was the bible of the ancient Greeks.

There are fewer than 650 Greek manuscripts of it today.

Some are quite fragmentary.

They come down to us from the second and third century A.D. and following.

When you consider that Homer composed his epic about 800 B.C., you can see there's a very lengthy gap." ""Very lengthy" was an understatement; it was a thousand years!

There was in fact no comparison: the manuscript evidence for the New Testament was overwhelming when juxtaposed against other revered writings of antiquity-works that modern scholars have absolutely no reluctance treating as authentic.

​ ESVJesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me.

​ ESVSo Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Truth and us

​ ESVAnd by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.

By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

​ ESVI am the vine; you are the branches.

Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Truth is that we need the word

what does it say about us

we need the perfect combo of truth and spiritJesus and Spirit

Partly because the enemy is the father of lies

dressed like an angel of lightRoaring lion

Spirit

Without Experiencing God Heaven will be unobtainable

Let’s explain

If God is SpiritSpirit points people to God

you are Made up of the things you are taught combined with the things you have experienced.

There is a balanceYour Experience of God must be refined by the truth of Goddon’t feel God? rely on truth of God

Can’t only rely on feelings The heart is decietfulThere is none righteoussTruth Next week

Without Experiencing God Heaven will be unobtainable Let’s explain

If God is SpiritSpirit points people to God

​ ESVAnd when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

​ ESVTherefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!”

and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

Woman at the wellShe experienced Jesus by the truth spoken to her

​ ESVJesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

The woman answered him, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband.

What you have said is true.”

​ ESVThe woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ).

When he comes, he will tell us all things.”

Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

We must have a personal experience with GodWe have to keep seeking a personal experience with God

husband and wife have to keep getting to know each otherIts called a relationship

You are what you experience

​ ESVThe good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

If you havn’t experienced how can you show the world?

BALANCE

There is a balance

Your Experience of God must be refined by the truth of God

don’t feel God? rely on truth of God

Can’t only rely on feelings

The heart is decietful

There is none righteouss

Relationship

whos job is it?

yours

BUT DOESN’T END THERE

​ ESV“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did.

Can this be the Christ?”

​ ESVMany Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”

So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

And many more believed because of his word.

They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”