Intolerant

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Intolerant!?
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The only sin left

• America is sick of intolerant people, and its
  not going to tolerate them anymore! Daniel
  Taylor
• Professor at Bethel Seminary

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Changed Definition

• The traditional definition, now referred to as
  negative tolerance, is "to recognize and respect
  others' beliefs, practices, etc., without
  necessarily agreeing or sympathizing." But
  today's definition is vastly different. Referred
  to as positive tolerance, it says "every
  individual's beliefs, values, life styles, and
  truth claims are equal." Josh McDowell

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Deference not indifference

• Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not
  indifference to the truth. Ravi Zacharias
• Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to
  truth. Intolerance applies only to truth, but
  never to persons. Tolerance applies to the
  erring intolerance to the error. Bishop Sheen

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Real Issue

• Given that everyone agrees that some things
  should not be tolerated, the real issue should
  not be whether one is tolerant or intolerant, but
  what's included on one's list. Daniel Taylor

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Anti-Christs

• 18Dear 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 end of the world has come. 19These
  people left our churches because they never
  really belonged with us otherwise they would
  have stayed with us. When they left us, it proved
  that they do not belong with us. 20But you are
  not like that, for the Holy Spirit has come upon
  you, and all of you know the truth.

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• 21So I am writing to you not because you dont
  know the truth but because you know the
  difference between truth and falsehood. 22And who
  is the great liar? The one who says that Jesus is
  not the Christ. Such people are antichrists, for
  they have denied the Father and the Son. 23Anyone
  who denies the Son doesnt have the Father
  either. But anyone who confesses the Son has the
  Father also. 24So you must remain faithful to
  what you have been taught from the beginning. NLT

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Its all about Jesus

• His sinless, virgin, birth
• His incarnationfully God and fully man
• His perfect, sinless life of love
• His substitutionary death for sins

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Uncompromising Convictions

• His bodily resurrection from the dead
• His ascension into heaven where He sits in the
  seat of authority.
• His literal, physical, and imminent return
• The gift of the Holy Spirit who lives within us.

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Our Response

• Pursue truth.
• "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will
  set you free." John 832
• This means embracing all peoplenot all beliefs.
• Identify with justice.
• "Blessed are they who maintain justice, who
  constantly do what is right." Psalm 1063
• Justice used to be the number-one virtue in
  America. God calls us to "act justly."

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A loving response

• Act in love.
• "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil cling
  to what is good." Romans 129
• God does not call us to be tolerant of our
  neighbors. God calls us to love themat least as
  much as we love ourselves. Before we all nod our
  approval, we should take a sober look at what
  that might entail. Biblical love is always
  sacrificial love. Daniel Taylor

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