That You Might Know The Exact Truth

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That You Might Know The Exact Truth

• Luke 11-4

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Introduction

• Wanted Theophilus to know for sure
• Many doubt
• No confidence
• Can be certain
• Not cleverly devised tales (2
  Peter 116)
• Not done secretly (Acts 2626)

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The Problem of Doubt

• Great men doubted
• Moses (Numbers 114, 8, 18-20, 21-23)
• Elijah (1 Kings 1914-18)
• Disciples
• Survival (Matthew 823-27)
• Resurrection (Matthew 2817 Mark 1612-14 John
  2024-28)

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All Have Doubts

• Doubting not a sin in and of itself
• Planted by Satan (Genesis 33, 4)
• Sin to harbor doubt (James 15-8)
• Sin when we act in doubt
• Act consistently with our faith (Romans 1422,
  23)
• Self-condemned

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All Have Doubts

• Remove doubt before sinning
• Have convictions
  (Daniel 314-18 Acts 419, 20 527-29)
• Doubting God and His word are unjustified

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Live In Certainty

• What we know (2 Timothy 314-17)
• Abiding in it (v. 14)
• Not assumed certainty (2 Timothy 15)
• Foundation
• Knowledge (Luke 11-4)
• Faith (2 Timothy 112)

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Live In Certainty

• We can know
• Keep commandments (1 John 24, 5)
• Love one another (1 John 413)
• Written for this purpose (1 John 513)

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Live In Certainty

• Value of Scriptures
• Make us complete (vv. 15-17)
• Know what to do (John 644, 45)
• Know what is immoral
  (Galatians 519-21)
• Identify the work of the church (Ephesians
  412-16 1 Timothy 315)

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Conclusion

• Are you sure about eternity?
• Do you want to live in certainty?