Time for a Checkup Matthew 9:913

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Time for a CheckupMatthew 99-13
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Introductory Thoughts

• Why make a visit to the doctor for a check up?
• We go to the doctor for a check up even when we
  think we are well in order to find out for sure
  if we are well!
• Sometimes, when we feel well, we find out that
  we are not well at all!
• Today let's have a spiritual check up with the
  great physician

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The Check Up Begins
The Dreaded Weigh In Extra pounds carried due
to burdens and cares of life They can be
lost by letting God handle them - 1 Peter
57 Blood Pressure Pulse Too High or Too
Low Possible causes
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The Check Up Begins
Temperature Are you cold? Matthew 2412 -
Revelation 24-5 Are you hot? Romans
1210-11 Are you lukewarm? Revelation
315-19 Our Temperature is an indicator of how
we feel
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The Check Up Begins

• If our temperature is cold or lukewarm, we need
  the
• Great Physician to examine
• our heart for a weak faith!
• A weak faith indicates poor spiritual health
• Worry - Matthew 625, 30
• Fear - Matthew 826
• Doubt - Matthew 1431
• Human reasoning - Matthew 168

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Further Testing

• We will need an MRI of our
• spiritual heart!
• We are looking for the three components of a
  strong faith
• Conviction (Intellect)
• Trust (Emotions)
• Surrender (Will)

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Further Testing

• A Strong Faith
• Conviction - Intellect
• Based on Evidence
• 2nd Timothy 112
• John 2030-31
• 2nd Peter 116
• Luke 11-2
• Hebrews 111
• 2nd Corinthians 57

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Further Testing

• A Strong Faith
• Trust -Emotions
• Dependent upon the Trustworthiness of Jesus
• Romans 419-21
• Mark 922-24
• Luke 51-13
• Luke 825
• 1 Corinthians 19

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Further Testing

• A Strong Faith
• Surrender - Will
• Obeying the Direct commands
• Faith obedience inseparable! - Romans
  15, 1626
• Faith without works, is dead - James
  217
• John 666-69
• Our responsibility is to surrender - Thats
  faith!

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Test Results

• Are you convicted?
• As those were on the Day of Pentecost
• Do you trust in Jesus?
• As Martha did - John 1121
• Are you willing to surrender?
• As Paul and many others did in Acts
• If so, Jesus, the Great Physician, will give you
  a clean bill of health