Seed Thoughts #1

Seed Thoughts #1
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OVERCOMING SATAN (Rev. 12:11)

• Blood of Christ (Eph. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:18-19; 1 Jn. 1:7)
  
• Faith and confession (Rom. 10:9-10; Heb. 11:6)
  
• Martyr spirit (Lk. 9:23; Rev. 2:10)
  

CALLING JESUS ‘LORD’ (Rom. 10:13)

• Do we do what He commands? (Lk. 6:46; Matt. 7:21-23)
  
• Jesus is not our Lord if we do not obey Him (Rom. 6:16; Matt. 15:8-9)
  
• Have we surrendered our lives to Him? (2 Cor. 5:14-15,17)
  
• We cannot have divided allegiance (Matt. 6:24)
  
• Don’t fit Christ into your life—give up your life (Gal. 2:20; Col. 3:1-3)
  
• Have you ‘called on the name of the Lord’? (Rom. 10:13)
  
• How do we ‘call on the name of the Lord’? (Acts 2:21,37-38; 22:16)
  

WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THE LORD’S CHURCH?

• It is the body of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23; 1 Cor. 12:12-24)
  
• It contains all the saved (Acts 2:47; Col. 1:13-14)
  
• It is glorious (Eph. 5:25-27)
  
• It is sanctified (1 Cor. 1:2; 1 Pet. 2:9-10)
  
• It will be delivered up to God (1 Cor. 15:22-24)
  
• It is heaven bound (1 Thess. 4:14-18; Phil. 3:20-21)
  

BUY THE TRUTH AND SELL IT NOT (Prov. 23:23)

• What the truth can do for us
  
• Makes us free (Jn. 8:32)
  
• Sanctify us (Jn. 17:17-19)
  
• Save us (2 Thess. 2:13)
  
• Purify us (1 Pet. 1:22)
  
• Demand to hear the truth
  
• Demand to hear all the truth (Acts 10:33)
  
• Refuse those who bring different teachings (2 Jn. 9-11)
  
• Do not reject those who preach the truth (2 Tim. 4:1-4)
  
• God will allow us to believe a lie if that is what we want (2 Thess. 2:9-12)
  

GIVE ME THE BIBLE

• The 119th Psalm is a beautiful tribute to God’s word
  
• Read 119:18,33,35,40,72,89,93,97,103,105,130-131,148,160
  
• What God’s word does
  

• Light giver (Psa. 119:105; 2 Pet. 1:19)
  
• Motivator (Eccl. 12:11; cf. Acts 2:37-38; 7:54,57-58)
  
• Investigator (Heb. 4:12-13)
  
• Life-giver (Phil. 2:16; Jn. 6:63,67-68)
  

CAN WE UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE ALIKE? (Eph. 5:17)

• God is not the source of confusion (1 Cor. 14:33)
  
• We can understand the Bible alike (Eph. 3:3-4; 4:5; Jude 3; 1 Cor. 1:10)
  
• Things necessary to understand it alike
  
• Standard of authority (Jn. 12:48; 1 Cor. 2:10-11)
  
• Ability to understand (Eph. 3:3-4; 2 Pet. 3:15-17)
  
• Desire to understand (Jn. 7:17; 2 Thess. 2:9-12)
  
• Open mind (Acts 17:11)
  
• Honest heart (Lk. 8:15)
  
• We will be judged by God’s words (Jn. 12:48; Rev. 20:12)
  
• We may misunderstand the Bible differently, but we can never understand it
  differently!
  

JUST SUPPOSE HE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN

• Read Lk. 2:1-20
  
• No forgiveness (Heb. 9:22; Rom. 6:23; 3:23-26; Acts 13:38-39)
  
• No salvation (Acts 4:12; Eph. 2:1-2; Matt. 1:21)
  
• No hope (Eph. 2:11-12; Col. 1:27; Heb. 6:19-20)
  

THE JUDGMENT DAY

• Certainty (Heb. 9:27; 1 Jn. 4:17)
  
• The defendants
  
• All who are in the tombs (Jn. 5:28-29; Rev. 20:13)
  
• The saved and unsaved (1 Pet. 4:17-18)
  
• All people (Rom. 14:11-12; 2 Cor. 5:10)
  
• The judge (Jn. 5:22; 12:48)
  
• The evidence entered
  

• Our thoughts (1 Cor. 4:5; Jn. 2:24-25)
  
• Our words (Jas. 1:26; Matt. 12:36-37)
  
• Our actions (2 Cor. 5:10; Jn. 13:17)
  
• Our lack of action (Heb. 2:3; Jas. 4:17)
  
• The verdicts (Matt. 25:34,41,46)
  

THREE TYPES OF BELIEVERS

• Believe but do not obey (Jas. 1:22; 2:19,24,26; Acts 24:24-25; Jn. 12:42-43)
  
• Believe but do the wrong thing (Matt. 7:21-23; Rom. 10:2-3; 2 Thess. 2:10-12)
  
• Believe and do the right thing (Gal. 5:6; Jas. 2:21-24; Eph. 2:8-10)
  

THE MOST RELIGIOUS PERSON IN THE WORLD

• Satan knows the Bible from cover to cover (Matt. 4:6; cf. Psa. 91:11-12)
  
• His ministers spread false doctrine (2 Cor. 11:13-15; 1 Tim. 4:1)
  
• Satan is deceptive (Rev. 12:9; Eph. 6:11)
  
• He can blind us to truth and make us accept error (2 Cor. 4:3-4)
  
• Satan is the author of the doctrines of men (1 Tim. 4:1)
  
• Satan would advise us to be tolerant (Gal. 1:6-8; 2 Jn. 9-11)