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Introduce self...
Pray...
Introduce series:
For advent this year, I am going to preach through 4 simple truths...
On the surface, these truth’s seem to be little more than platitudes, but through careful examination I hope to scratch the surface and demonstrate their rich depth.
1 Timothy 6:12 (ESV)
Fight the good fight of the faith.
Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called...
Paul says that faith is something we must fight for...
Paul says that eternal life is something we can “take hold of...”
These four simple truths are:
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God is GREAT - so we don’t have to be in control
God is GOOD - so we don’t have to look elsewhere
God is GLORIOUS - so we don’t have to fear others
God is GRACIOUS - so we don’t have to prove ourselves
These four truths were originally packaged like this in Tim Chester’s book, “You Can Change.”
He calls them the “4 G’s” and that seems pretty helpful...
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My prayer for this series:
Renewal
Equipping
Salvation
Renewal - to remember and embrace the truth about God - to be refreshed...
Equipping - Practical equipping in the fight of faith - sanctification - closing the gap between what we say we believe, (what we know to be true), and how we actually live our lives -- the fruit we bear on a daily basis.
Underlying assumptions for this series:
Every sin is a result of believing a lie
Repenting of sin is not merely changing behavior (although it includes that)
The solution to sin is not “trying harder”
Sin is idolatry.
Wrong belief about God
We must believe what is true about God, and what is true about us in light of the gospel
These 4 simple truths address a great deal of false belief in our life.
Belief is root.
Behavior is fruit.
The Bible is clear: Our behavior and even in large part our emotions are the direct result of our beliefs...the true beliefs of our hearts.
What you deeply hold to be true will flow out of you.
“Water bottle analogy”
Real faith is head, heart, and hands.
Few Christians would read the 4 G’s and have any issue with them intellectually…
God is GREAT - so we don’t have to be in control
If the sun were a soccer ball,
Earth would be the head of a pin at the 26 yard line,
Jupiter would be the size of a grape and not even on the football field...
The largest star we know of using this scale would be as tall as the Empire State Building...
They pointed the Hubble telescope at an “empty” patch of sky… This is what they found.
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How much empty space does that represent?
If you were to hold a dime at arms length, this would only represent Roosevelt’s eye on that dime.
And our God created it all.
OUR.
GOD.
IS.
GREAT.
This is one of my favorite passages...
Or turn to the Psalms:
Looking through a telescope is amazing.
I love that our God reveals his greatness to us.
And I love how he did it...
Looking through a microscope, you will find a world equally wonderful as when you look through a telescope...
Luke 12:7 (ESV)
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered...
100 billion Neurons
100-1000 trillion neuro connections
The human body is made up of 37 trillion cells
The human genome, which is your DNA written out, the code that tells your cells how to build your body, would fill 130 thick volumes.
No spaces.
Hebrews 1:1–3 (ESV)
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
Jesus created everything.
Jesus holds everything together, ever galaxy and every star, every brain and every genome...
OUR.
GOD.
IS.
GREAT.
Our God is GREAT… and get this… he CARES for you.
Well I don’t feel cared for.
You don’t know everything.
God does.
Stop trusting in your self and start trusting in God.
This gets us back to the first “G”
God is GREAT - so we don’t have to be in control
Our false belief that we are in control of things
Or our false belief that we need to control all things
Causes a great deal of harm in our lives.
What is the fruit of thinking you are in control or fighting to be in control?
Fear (Is something greater than God?)
Anxiety/worry
Over-working, busyness, exhaustion
An inability to rest/relax/sabbath
Seeking to control people and things
Seeking security in money and the fruits of your own labor
Seeking security in relationships and trying to control those relationships
Feeling stuck inside your emotions, circumstances, and abilities (if you think you are in control, then you are the limiting factor)
Easily frustrated/angered (things you think you control don’t go like you want)
Impatient
Self-exulting (You think you are greater than God, or maybe God’s right hand man)
When we see these things pop up in our lives, we should remind ourselves that God is Great!
We should fight the fight of faith and believe better what is true about God.
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