Week 1 - Is All of This True? 03/08/2026

And the father knows he's guilty. He's already examined the case. He's looked at the evidence and he already knows the son is guilty. And as the case begins to unfold, the father stands up from behind the desk. Lays the gavel down and takes the robe off and steps around and comes and get in place of the son. And takes the punishment himself You see, this is mercy and grace Being exposed to us. [01:47:22] (38 seconds)  #mercy-and-grace

Theological truth. God is immutable. Consistent in character. What does that mean? That because your pain, listen to me, this is an it's probably one of the most second most powerful things I'm gonna say. Your pain may explain your image of god but it does not define his nature. Your pain may define the image you've got of god but it doesn't change the nature of who he is. Amen. Maybe, [01:32:42] (34 seconds)  #pain-doesnt-define-god

So, he cannot be, watch this, emotionally unstable. Therefore, a being that sustains the universe does not wake up insecure. God doesn't need you to worship him to float his boat. He's a jealous god. Yes, because he loves you but he doesn't need you to float his boat. Right. And you can't, let me let me say something. You can't come with enough ammunition, enough doubt, with enough of anything else to make him doubt who he is. He's god. Hallelujah. And everything comes from him. Hallelujah. [01:31:59] (43 seconds)  #god-is-unchanging

Here's what I wanna tell you. If this thing called Christianity is false, if the resurrection is not real, everything we believe collapses, falls apart, and is of no value. But if it is true, let me talk to somebody that wants to hear something today. But if it is true, it changes everything. In other words, Christianity does not survive if the resurrection is not true. [01:18:14] (34 seconds)  #resurrection-changes-everything

Every person in this room and watching online has a theology. No doubt about it. You may not use that word but you have an internal image of who god is and that image shapes everything about what you believe and how you act. It shapes how you pray. It shapes how you handle failure. It shapes how you approach suffering. And it shapes how whether you will even approach god at all. [01:20:02] (38 seconds)  #theology-shapes-life

Many of us have heard the statement before from a friend, I don't believe in god anymore. Our children, listen to me, are coming home telling us things of that nature. To what we might ask, if I were you, what I would ask is, see, we wanna know why. But there's a better question that's more direct. Tell me, what is it about god that you don't believe in? They'll describe something that is an inaccurate picture of god every time. [01:28:29] (38 seconds)  #why-dont-you-believe

Now, if that's not a term that you're familiar with, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it but there's a many, there are many who are deconstructing their faith and one of the things that we find out is as they deconstruct their faith, two things are happening. One, they're left without reconstruction. How many of you know when a tornado comes through and it blows the house down, you don't have anywhere to live if you don't build the house back. That's what they're doing. They're deconstructing their faith but they don't have anything to build it back on. [01:11:49] (33 seconds)  #deconstruction-needs-rebuild

The second thing that alarms me in that is that when they come to the house of god and more importantly, when they come to the children of god and began to ask the hard questions, we don't have answers for them because we're not mature enough in the word. We're not rooted deep enough in the word that we have the answers for the hard questions. But Isaiah chapter one, god said, come, let us reason together. That tells me that god's not afraid of our questions. [01:12:22] (32 seconds)  #reason-together