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In This Episode
Put On the Glasses
Our First Experience With Apologetics
Death Is the Number One Marketing Tool
The Doomerang
End Times and the Win-Win
Contend
Ashamed of Little, Offended by Much
Unholy Agreements and the Four R’s
Scripture in this episode
All passages New Living Translation.
Matthew 6:24
They Live - put on the glasses and the money says “This Is Your God.”
““No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Ecclesiastes 3:4
A wedding and a funeral in the same week, and a biblical worldview sees both as celebrations.
“A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.”
Isaiah 64:6
“Doesn’t that just mean being a good person?”
“We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.”
Romans 3:23
Good’s not good enough.
“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.”
Revelation 22:20
Maranatha - either way, it’s a win-win.
“He who is the faithful witness to all these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon!” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!”
Matthew 24:36
Even the Son does not know the day or the hour.
““However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.”
1 Thessalonians 5:2
Like a thief in the night - which is why the predictions keep failing.
“For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night.”
Jude 1:3-4
Contend - the NLT says defend, and verse 4 says the danger wormed its way inside the church.
“Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to his holy people.”
“I say this because some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches, saying that God’s marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. The condemnation of such people was recorded long ago, for they have denied our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
1 John 2:18, 22
Not one antichrist - many, and it was already the last hour 2,000 years ago.
“Dear children, the last hour is here. You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, and already many such antichrists have appeared. From this we know that the last hour has come.”
“And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist.”
2 Timothy 1:7
We have not been given a spirit of fear.
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”
Revelation 12:17
John Eldredge - you live in a love story set in a world at war.
“And the dragon was angry at the woman and declared war against the rest of her children—all who keep God’s commandments and maintain their testimony for Jesus.”
Matthew 7:16 and Galatians 5:22-23
The fruit test for every agreement you make.
“You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?”
“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,”
“gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!”
1 Peter 2:25
The Shepherd and Guardian of your soul.
“Once you were like sheep who wandered away. But now you have turned to your Shepherd, the Guardian of your souls.”
Colossians 1:22, Deuteronomy 28:6 and 28:13, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 8:31
Replace the lie with what God says - the third of the Four R’s: recognize, renounce, replace, resist.
“Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.”
“Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed.”
“If you listen to these commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today, and if you carefully obey them, the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom.”
“For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.”
“What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?”
James 4:7
The fourth R - resist.
“So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
2 Corinthians 10:3-6
Take every thought captive.
“We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do.”
“We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.”
“We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.”
“And after you have become fully obedient, we will punish everyone who remains disobedient.”
Colossians 4:2
The Daily Grind - ask someone if you can pray for them.
“Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.”
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