Building on The Basics

``That Jesus is a god. That he was created by the father and therefore he is less than the father aka Arianism. But but to but if you're not if you're not tuned in, if you say, oh, yeah. Praise the Lord, brother. I I believe that Jesus is God. I I believe Jesus is savior of the world. But, you understand, they're ultimately, they're talking about a different Jesus. They're talking about a different God than the one that's revealed in scripture. And you and you may say, jeez, pastor. That's that's kinda harsh. [01:13:46] (42 seconds)  #DefendTheTrueJesus

To the Hindu, God presents himself this way. To the Christian, he presents himself this way. To the Buddhist, God presents himself this way. But but he he's he's all the same God. We all believe in the same God. Well, no. No. We we we don't. That's right. So if if if we're gonna know God, then we have to know the truth about who God is. That's that's why this matters. That's what I'm trying to say. That's why this matters. [01:00:46] (25 seconds)  #KnowTheTrueGod

Now the previous tests that John has been giving would be what I would call, action based. In other words, if you belong to Christ, this is what you'll do. This is how you'll act. This is what your life will begin to look like. They're action based. This test is accuracy based. He is moving into an intellectual thought moving into this theological discussion about about what we believe about God. [00:56:11] (35 seconds)  #DoctrineMatters

this kinda matters. This is kind of a big deal. And I believe that I said this at the beginning of this series, but as as we're reading John's letter, first John, it really as we make our way through all of all three of his letters, I I think there begins to to come this observation that we can make that there is an there is an inseparable and and inescapable connection between love and truth. Love as as God intend for us to understand it and truth. There there's this connection. [00:57:20] (30 seconds)  #LoveAndTruth

From people who attend churches that are light on theology and they fall prey to some deception that sounds good on the service, it looks good on the service, these people are so nice, and they're sucked into a a religion that that has them worshiping a god that's not god at all. [01:15:10] (21 seconds)  #TeachTruthNotTrends

I I I work with the Jehovah's Witness and that that lady is one of the nicest ladies I know. Yeah. Yeah. I I we have some Mormon neighbors and they're some of the best neighbors that we have. I know. But I'm a pastor. I'm an under shepherd, and part of my responsibility is to protect the flock. And that means revealing truth so that it ultimately reveals the lie, the untruth. By the way, do you know where the vast vast majority of Mormon and Jehovah's Witnesses converts come from? Not from the unchurched, from the church. [01:14:28] (41 seconds)  #ProtectTheFlock

if you belong to the body of Christ, if you're genuinely born again as John puts it in his gospel letter, then you will walk as Jesus walked. In other words, your your life, your actions will reflect the life and actions of Jesus. Not not not to his perfection, but that that his his desires become your desires. His morality becomes your morality. His You begin You understand? You walk in through life even though you don't get it right all the time, but you walk through life as as Jesus would have you walk. That that was the walking test. [00:47:11] (33 seconds)  #WalkLikeJesus

Today, I'm asking you to think well. Now I I hope that I would that I ask you to think well every week, but I'm asking you to think really well today, really well. Stay with me. Okay? Because I because, obviously, I believe that this this is important. I think it's important that we we know this. We've been beginning to see in in this latter part of first John chapter two, John has been laying out these what I've been called these tests for determining a person's spiritual condition. [00:46:04] (38 seconds)  #ThinkWellBelieveWell