Discerning Truth and Unity in Faith
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"All right, good morning, church So glad that you are here To worship with us today And happy Team Life Sunday This is a Sunday that we do About once a month And definitely on growth track Sundays Where you see everybody wearing Their four Percival shirts And yeah, Mike, I see you flexing You got it You flexing it a little bit And we wear these just as Just a show of unity And doing this together And the people that are wearing these shirts And many other people may have them And forgot to wear them today That kind of signifies They are on Team Life Which is a gathering of people Who are serving Making a difference here At Percival Baptist Church So take a moment today Whenever you see somebody With a shirt on To say thank you For whatever they do Whether it's, you know, Safety and security Or coffee Thank you to the coffee people Or baby holding Or helping during the week With administrative stuff Whatever it is AV people Say thank you to them Whenever you see them And if you're interested In being part of that team That's one of the reasons That we do growth track Every month or so And that's tonight Four to seven o 'clock And it is one of the ways But that's the pipeline For getting on to What we call Team Life" [00:22:08] (78 seconds)
"True or false questions, they're designed to be tricky. And I've designed a few tricky ones for you today. Biblical true, false questions. All right. This is not a test. and you don't have to answer if you don't want to, right? I'm not trying to check you if you're right or wrong on this, all right? We want you all here. If you're wrong on these, we really want you here because we want to help you get them right. No, I'm kidding. Here's some tricky true -false Bible questions. Here's the first one. True or false? Noah took two of every kind of animal onto the ark. Okay. All right." [00:29:03] (37 seconds)
"The answer that I have on the screen is false. Okay. And here's why. Is he took, if you go back and read the story, he took two of every kind of unclean animal. He took seven of every clean animal onto the ark. He took seven because if you look at the story, there were some sacrifices afterwards and they were allowed to eat meat afterwards and they needed more animals than just two. Otherwise, that would be a problem. However, I did have someone point out to me, true -false can be tricky because he did take two of every animal. And I was like, ah, so you're all right." [00:29:40] (45 seconds)
"Is that for every person who has read this over the last 2 ,000 years, this matter is urgent. Right? It is urgent and it needs to be decided now. If I could summarize this verse for you, it would be like this. Is that there are people coming against Christ and people who are against Christ and every person in all the time needs to decide it is an urgent matter, true or false, and they need to do it before it's too late." [00:35:05] (31 seconds)
"That oftentimes people will determine what is true by who says it the loudest or who says it the most often or how many people say it. But no matter how loud they yell it or how many people share it or how many people say it, that is not the determiner of truth. Did you know that? It also doesn't matter how sincere they are. It doesn't matter how much they believe it. That is not the definition of truth. And you may be here today and you may have a very fluid definition of truth. By nature, truth can't be fluid." [00:35:41] (38 seconds)
"They come from within the church, and they split off and form their own groups based on their interpretations or manipulations. And it is important to stay in the context of the local church, not because she's perfect, far from it, but because it is a gathering of imperfect people who are looking at the perfect one together. For all of us, it is important, not just because God said to, which should be enough, but because we all need each other. We need accountability. We need refinement. We need course correction." [00:43:15] (36 seconds)
"Jesus wasn't ashamed of that identity either, because in one of the most literally trying times of his earthly life, as he stood before the high priest and was questioned before he was handed over to the Roman authorities, who then, you know, sentenced him to crucifixion and death, the high priest asked him in Mark 14, are you the Christ, the son of the blessed? And Jesus said, I am. And you will see the son of man seated at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven. So, Jesus can either really be the Christ or he is a liar." [00:50:12] (36 seconds)
"Because if he wasn't fully God, then he can't conquer hell, death, and sin. If he wasn't fully man, then he can't be the full sacrifice, the real sacrifice for our brokenness and our sin. Then he must be both. But suffice to say that there are many antichrists or false teachers that will fail on this point that God is a trinity. Because the only way that they can elevate themselves in their own teachings is to demote Jesus." [00:52:29] (34 seconds)
"Does God give us people to teach us? Yes. Scripture actually says that he gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, and teachers. Or he does give us those, but hear me this. You do not need man's teaching to get to God. You do not need man's teaching to get to God. He gave us his word. He gave us his Holy Spirit so that we would personally be able to have a relationship with him. We don't need the Pope." [00:56:06] (29 seconds)
"And the true or false question is posed to you. Do you agree? See, that is true. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. There is no one else who lived a perfect life, who died a death they didn't deserve, who rose from the dead, but Jesus. There's no one else that has the power to save you but Jesus. True or false, do you believe that? You've got to decide." [01:00:50] (28 seconds)
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"True or false questions, they're designed to be tricky. And I've designed a few tricky ones for you today. Biblical true, false questions. All right. This is not a test. and you don't have to answer if you don't want to, right? I'm not trying to check you if you're right or wrong on this, all right? We want you all here. If you're wrong on these, we really want you here because we want to help you get them right. No, I'm kidding. Here's some tricky true -false Bible questions. Here's the first one. True or false? Noah took two of every kind of animal onto the ark. Okay. All right." [00:29:03] (37 seconds)
"The answer that I have on the screen is false. Okay. And here's why. Is he took, if you go back and read the story, he took two of every kind of unclean animal. He took seven of every clean animal onto the ark. He took seven because if you look at the story, there were some sacrifices afterwards and they were allowed to eat meat afterwards and they needed more animals than just two. Otherwise, that would be a problem. However, I did have someone point out to me, true -false can be tricky because he did take two of every animal. And I was like, ah, so you're all right." [00:29:40] (45 seconds)
"Is that for every person who has read this over the last 2 ,000 years, this matter is urgent. Right? It is urgent and it needs to be decided now. If I could summarize this verse for you, it would be like this. Is that there are people coming against Christ and people who are against Christ and every person in all the time needs to decide it is an urgent matter, true or false, and they need to do it before it's too late." [00:35:05] (31 seconds)
"That oftentimes people will determine what is true by who says it the loudest or who says it the most often or how many people say it. But no matter how loud they yell it or how many people share it or how many people say it, that is not the determiner of truth. Did you know that? It also doesn't matter how sincere they are. It doesn't matter how much they believe it. That is not the definition of truth. And you may be here today and you may have a very fluid definition of truth. By nature, truth can't be fluid." [00:35:41] (38 seconds)
"They come from within the church, and they split off and form their own groups based on their interpretations or manipulations. And it is important to stay in the context of the local church, not because she's perfect, far from it, but because it is a gathering of imperfect people who are looking at the perfect one together. For all of us, it is important, not just because God said to, which should be enough, but because we all need each other. We need accountability. We need refinement. We need course correction." [00:43:15] (36 seconds)
"Jesus wasn't ashamed of that identity either, because in one of the most literally trying times of his earthly life, as he stood before the high priest and was questioned before he was handed over to the Roman authorities, who then, you know, sentenced him to crucifixion and death, the high priest asked him in Mark 14, are you the Christ, the son of the blessed? And Jesus said, I am. And you will see the son of man seated at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven. So, Jesus can either really be the Christ or he is a liar." [00:50:12] (36 seconds)
"Because if he wasn't fully God, then he can't conquer hell, death, and sin. If he wasn't fully man, then he can't be the full sacrifice, the real sacrifice for our brokenness and our sin. Then he must be both. But suffice to say that there are many antichrists or false teachers that will fail on this point that God is a trinity. Because the only way that they can elevate themselves in their own teachings is to demote Jesus." [00:52:29] (34 seconds)
"Does God give us people to teach us? Yes. Scripture actually says that he gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, and teachers. Or he does give us those, but hear me this. You do not need man's teaching to get to God. You do not need man's teaching to get to God. He gave us his word. He gave us his Holy Spirit so that we would personally be able to have a relationship with him. We don't need the Pope." [00:56:06] (29 seconds)
"And the true or false question is posed to you. Do you agree? See, that is true. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. There is no one else who lived a perfect life, who died a death they didn't deserve, who rose from the dead, but Jesus. There's no one else that has the power to save you but Jesus. True or false, do you believe that? You've got to decide." [01:00:50] (28 seconds)
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