WHAT’S UP WITH THAT?
January 13 & 14, 2024 // Pastor Mike Berry
1. THE WORD OF GOD IS
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
2 Timothy 3:16–17, NIV
2. THE WORD OF GOD IS
“To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:31–32, NIV
TWO BIGGEST LIES OF THE ENEMY TODAY:
A. RELATIVISM - the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute. There is no absolute truth.
B. UNIVERSALISM - The belief that all humankind will eventually be saved.
“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6, NIV
3. THE WORD OF GOD IS
“I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll. And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.”
Revelation 22:18–19, NIV
4. THE
“The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.”
1 Corinthians 2:14, NIV
“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12, NIV
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21, NIV
5. THERE IS A WAY
A. Choose a
B. Choose a
C. Understand the
— Who wrote it?
—To whom was it written?
— What is the purpose?
D. Read
E.
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”
James 1:22, NIV
6. YOUR
“I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
Philippians 4:13, NIV
7. THE BIBLE IS GOD’S PLAN TO REVEAL HIS
A. Get up and begin with
B. Speak
You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
You are not in your sins anymore you are a new creature, and you are the righteousness of Christ.
You are God’s workmanship you are his masterpiece created to do good works which God has prepared for you to do.
God has plans for you, to prosper you, not to harm you, to give you a whole in a future.
No eye has seen no ear has heard; no mind is conceived the things God has prepared for you.
God has chosen you and appointed you to bear fruit, fruit that will last.
Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
God loves you. He will never leave you or forsake you. There’s nothing you can do to make God love you any less.
He who began a good work in you will carry it to completion.
You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you!
C. End with
“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. ”
Ephesians 1:18–19, NIV
Action Steps: How can you grow in studying God’s word? Do you make time daily to study the Word and allow God to speak to you? What is your place and plan to study God’s word? How can you do a better job of sharing the power of God’s word with your family? How can you do a better job of sharing the power of God’s word with the world?