How Do You Know?

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How Do You Know?

• Some parents can be trusted, others cannot
• Ahaz was an evil father, 2 Kgs. 161-4
• Hezekiah did not trust his father, 2 Kgs. 181-7
• Manasseh did not trust Hezekiah, 2 Kgs. 211-6

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How Do You Know?

• Can you trust your parents?
• Yes with many things
• No regarding your soul
• You must investigate truth for yourself

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How Do You Know?
View Parents Objectively
Determine the Standard of Truth
Compare Upbringing to Standard
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How Do You Know?
View Parents Objectively

• May be deceived or deceiving you,
• 2 Tim. 313 Titus 33
• Raised in error themselves
• Never questioned beliefs practices
• May want to believe it, despite doubts
• May want you to believe it for family tradition

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How Do You Know?
View Parents Objectively

• May be willfully ignorant of Gods word,
• 2 Pt. 35
• Afraid of consequences
• Do not want to accept reality

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How Do You Know?
View Parents Objectively

• May be apathetic toward religion afterlife,
• Mt. 257, 8
• Busy with job
• Pursuing entertainment
• Caught up in hobbies
• Unwilling to face mortality

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How Do You Know?
View Parents Objectively

• May be religiously sincere, but sincerely wrong,
• Mt. 721-23 1514
• Dedicated zealous
• Devout
• Full of hope

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How Do You Know?
View Parents Objectively

• Few parents are committed to the truth,
• Mt. 713, 14 2 Tim. 13-5
• Must develop own faith, Acts 1711
• Cannot go to heaven on parents faith, 2 Cor.
  510
• Be your own person

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How Do You Know?
Determine the Standard of Truth

• Are your parents the standard of truth?
• Ask a teenager!
• Observe various beliefs in different homes
• Man not the standard, Jer. 1023

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How Do You Know?
Determine the Standard of Truth

• Is science the standard of truth?
• Changing theories
• Lack of knowledge
• False knowledge, 1 Tim. 620, 21

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How Do You Know?
Determine the Standard of Truth

• Are religious organizations the standard of
  truth?
• Which one would be right?
• Are they all right?
• Man not the standard, Prov. 1412

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How Do You Know?
Determine the Standard of Truth

• The Bible is the standard of truth,
• Jn. 1717
• Revealed by God, 1 Cor. 29-13
• Unchanging, 1 Pt. 122-25
• All else a lie, Rom. 34

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How Do You Know?
Compare Upbringing to Standard

• Were you taught about the one true God?
• Created the world in six days, Gen. 1
• Made man in His image, Gen. 126, 27
• Rules over the world now

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How Do You Know?
Compare Upbringing to Standard

• What were you taught about religion?
• Christianity, Jn. 146 Heb. 86
• One true church, Eph. 122, 23 44-6
• One faith, Eph. 44-6 1 Tim. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• False doctrine damns souls, 1 Tim. 41-5 2 Jn. 9

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How Do You Know?
Compare Upbringing to Standard

• Were you taught Gods plan of salvation?
• Hear, Rom. 1017
• Believe, Rom. 109-13
• Confess, Rom. 109-13
• Repent, Acts 319
• Be baptized, Acts 238
• Be faithful, 2 Pt. 218-22

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How Do You Know?
View Parents Objectively
Determine the Standard of Truth
Compare Upbringing to Standard
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How Do You Know?

• Some parents can be trusted, others cannot
• Ahaz was an evil father, 2 Kgs. 161-4
• Hezekiah did not trust his father, 2 Kgs. 181-7
• Manasseh did not trust Hezekiah, 2 Kgs. 211-6

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How Do You Know?

• Can you trust your parents?
• Yes with many things
• No regarding your soul
• You must investigate truth for yourself