Without Seeing Him

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Without Seeing Him

• Studies in 1 Peter
• Chapter 18-9

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They had not seen Him, yet

• They loved Him
• They believed in Him
• They greatly rejoiced
• They hoped to obtain salvation

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What would lead men to this?

• Testimony

Hebrews 111 Faith is the evidence of things
hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
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There was eyewitness testimony

• Of Jesus
• Of His miracles
• Of His resurrection

1 Corinthians 156 After that He appeared to more
than five hundred brethren at one time, most of
whom remain until now, but some have fallen
asleep
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What would lead men to this?

• Testimony
• Confirmed testimony

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Mark 1619-20

• So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them,
  He was received up into heaven and sat down at
  the right hand of God.20.  And they went out and
  preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with
  them, and confirmed the word by the signs that
  followed.

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Hebrews 23-4

• how will we escape if we neglect so great a
  salvation? After it was at the first spoken
  through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those
  who heard,4. God also testifying with them, both
  by signs and wonders and by various miracles and
  by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own
  will.

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Secular History Supports the Record of the New
Testament

• Josephus, Jewish
• Tacitus, Roman
• Lucian, Greek
• Suetonius, Roman
• Pliny, Roman
• Thallas, Samaritan
• The Jewish Talmud

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What would lead men to this?

• Testimony
• Confirmed testimony
• Sensible testimony

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God provides sensible answers

• Does biology?
• Does paleontology?
• Do the earth sciences?
• Do the laws of physics?

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Psalms 191-4a

• The heavens are telling of the glory of God And
  their expanse is declaring the work of His
  hands.2. Day to day pours forth speech, And night
  to night reveals knowledge.3. There is no speech,
  nor are there words Their voice is not
  heard.4. Their line (sound) has gone out through
  all the earth, And their utterances to the end of
  the world.

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Romans 120

• For since the creation of the world His invisible
  attributes, His eternal power and divine nature,
  have been clearly seen, being understood through
  what has been made, so that they are without
  excuse.

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• NO evidence ever led one to reject the
  scriptures. Only a heart closed already does
  that.

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What would lead men to this?
What else speaks to A moral standard, A
concience, A Desire to worship, A Need for hope.

• Testimony
• Confirmed testimony
• Sensible testimony
• Needed testimony

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1 John 15-10

• God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness
  at all.6. If we say that we have fellowship with
  Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do
  not practice the truth 8. If we say that we
  have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the
  truth is not in us 10. If we say that we have
  not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is
  not in us.

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Ecclesiastes 311

• He has made everything appropriate in its time.
  He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so
  that man will not find out the work which God has
  done from the beginning even to the end.

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Acts 1726-28

• and He made from one man every nation of mankind
  to live on all the face of the earth, having
  determined their appointed times and the
  boundaries of their habitation,27. that they
  would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for
  Him and find Him, though He is not far from each
  one of us

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What would lead men to this?
No contradiction has ever stood up. No historic
or geographic fact ever proven false. Always
right!

• Testimony
• Confirmed testimony
• Sensible testimony
• Needed testimony
• Irrefutable testimony

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1 Corinthians 121, 18

• For since in the wisdom of God the world through
  its wisdom did not come to know God, God was
  well-pleased through the foolishness of the
  message preached to save those who believe.
• For the word of the cross is foolishness to those
  who are perishing, but to us who are being saved
  it is the power of God.

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Without Seeing Him Will You

• Love Him
• Believe in Him
• Rejoice with Him
• And as the outcome
• Save your own soul?