Exposing Counterfeit Christianity: Three Spiritually Life-Changing Truths we should "Know!" | Pastor John Black | 07-15-18

Date:  July 15, 2018

Text:  1 John 5:16-17 (HCSB)

Series:  1 John, Exposing Counterfeit Christianity

Title:  Three Spiritually Life-Changing Truths We Should “Know!”

Pastor John Black

 

Listening Guide

I. Three Spiritually Life-Changing Truths we all should “know”

1. We have the power to be Victorious over Sin.
2. We belong to God, not to the World.
3. Jesus Christ is our one and only true God.

II. John’s final precautionary word of instruction

•    We must guard ourselves from idols.

             Idolatry is anything you love, enjoy, and pursue more than God.

III. How do we “Guard” ourselves from idols?

We must . . .

• Reveal them in our lives. (See listening guide appendix below.)

           Possible problem points in my life include:

• ____________________________
• ____________________________
• ____________________________

• Repent of them from our lives.
• Return our hearts to the Lord.
• Resist them in the future.

 

 

Listening Guide Appendix

Questions to reveal potential idols in my life:

• What preoccupies or rules my heart, my thoughts, my time?
• What compels me, controls me, drives me, motivates me?
• To what does my heart cling?
• What competes for my time with God?
• What gives me a sense of worth?
• What defines my identity before others?
• What do I crave?
• If everything was to be taken away what is the one thing I could not bear to live without?
• Am I looking to something or someone to provide what only God can?
• What do family or friends think may be an idol in my life?
• Where did I devote most of my time last week?
• Where did I expend most of my energy last week?
• Where do I spend most of my money?
• What prohibits me from serving and worshiping God faithfully?