TITLE: Listen to God Shout TEXT: II Tim. 3:16, I Peter 1:20ff, Hebrews 1:1-3 THEME: God has spoken...

TITLE: Listen to God Shout

TEXT: II Tim. 3:16, I Peter 1:20ff, Hebrews 1:1-3

THEME: God has spoken to us so that we might know Him.

Questions

• “Why did the people who bought into these destructive philosophies not see the evil in them?”

Questions


• “How do we know that we are not being influenced today by a philosophy that has its own potential for devastation and corruption?”

Questions


• “How do we know that we are not being influenced today by a philosophy that has its own potential for devastation and corruption?”

• “How do we even know how to measure what is right or wrong, good or bad, holy or unholy?”

STATEMENT

I believe Western Civilization has lost the capacity to know how to answer these questions making us vulnerable to repeat the past.

I. The Premise: Science is the only means to discover reliable truth.

A. God cannot be proven scientifically.

The Vienna Circle

Believed that the only reliable truth was that which could be proven scientifically.

Kurt Gödel

• The first theory stated that there will always be statements about nature that are true, but that are unprovable within the system.

Kurt Gödel

• The first theory stated that there will always be statements about nature that are true, but that are unprovable within the system.

• The second theory shows that such a system cannot demonstrate its own consistency.



B. Therefore, claims of divine supernatural revelation are suspect.




C. Science has proven the Bible is wrong.

Science has proven the Bible is wrong.

Three Problems– First, when they try to support their claim they

reveal their ignorance.



reveal their ignorance. – The second thing that happens is that they do

not give it serious consideration.



reveal their ignorance. – The second thing that happens is that they do

not give it serious consideration.– The third thing that happens is they cannot

come up with any real evidence that they have proven the Bible is wrong.





D. Science always takes precedent when it conflicts with scripture/





D. Science always takes precedent when it conflicts with scripture.

E. The Bible is filled with internal contradictions and errors.

The Ebla Tablets.

II. The Problem:

A. God exists and He is intelligent, powerful and able to make Himself known.

II. The Problem:


B. Science cannot address the relevance or validity of divine revelation.

II. The Problem:


B. Science cannot address the relevance or validity of divine revelation.

C. God will not force Himself on anyone who does not to accept Him.

Romans 3:11-12

“There is no one righteous, not even one;

11 there is no one who understands;

there is no one who seeks God.

12 All have turned away,

they have together become worthless;

there is no one who does good,

not even one.”


God cannot be proven scientifically.



D. Flawed philosophies have hindered them from seeing the truth.

Higher Criticism

Views scripture from a naturalist perspective- like Grimm’s fairy tales.

Higher Criticism

Hegel- added the evolutionary theory to the study of scripture.

Higher Criticism


German Rationalism- Introduced the JEPD theory or Documentary Hypothesis.

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Higher Criticism


German Rationalism- Introduced the JEPD theory or Documentary Hypothesis.

Dialogic Rationalism: Hegel introduced was the Dialogic Approach.





D. Flawed philosophies have hindered them from seeing the truth.

E. The bias toward naturalism hinders them from seeing what the evidence supports.

1910-1915 BIOLA University

Sent out nearly a million copies of what came to known as “The Fundamentals” from which we get our word “Fundamentalism.”

III. The Biblical Response: There is a God and He has spoken so that we might know Him.

God reveals himself through creation, scripture and Jesus.

III. The Biblical Response: There is a God and He has spoken so

that we might know Him.

God reveals himself through creation, scripture and Jesus.

A. Creation- speaks of God’s creativity, intelligence and power.

III. The Biblical Response: There is a God and He has spoken so

that we might know Him.God reveals himself through creation, scripture and Jesus.

A. Creation- speaks of God’s creativity, intelligence and power.

B. Scripture- is inspired by God- (II Tim. 3:16, II Peter 1:20ff, Hebrews 1:1-3)

I Timothy 3:1

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.”

II Peter 1:20-2

“Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. 21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”

III. The Biblical Response: There is a God and He has spoken so that we

might know Him.God reveals himself through creation, scripture and Jesus.

A. Creation- speaks of God’s creativity, intelligence and power. We have already spoken of that.

B. Scripture- is inspired by God- (II Tim. 3:16, II Peter 1:20ff, Hebrews 1:1-3)• God reveals Himself in history.

III. The Biblical Response: There is a God and He has spoken so that we

might know Him.God reveals himself through creation, scripture and Jesus.


B. Scripture- is inspired by God- (II Tim. 3:16, II Peter 1:20ff, Hebrews 1:1-3)• God reveals Himself in history.• God reveals Himself through men.

Hebrews 1:1-3

“1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.”

Hebrews 1:1-3

“3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”

III. The Biblical Response: There is a God and He has spoken so that we might know

Him.God reveals himself through creation, scripture and Jesus.



C. Jesus- The divine person and nature of Christ is affirmed in history.

• Christ recognized the authority of scripture: quotes it, Matt. 5:17-18

Matthew 5:17-18

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”

John 10:34-35

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’? 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside…”

John 17:17

“Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.”

John Warwick Montgomery

“Christ attitude toward the OT was one of total trust, nowhere, in no particular, and on no subject did he place Scripture under criticism.”

John 16:13

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come”

III. The Biblical Response: There is a God and He has spoken so that we might know

Him.God reveals himself through creation, scripture and Jesus.



C. Jesus- The divine person and nature of Christ is affirmed in history.

• Christ recognized the authority of scripture: quotes it, Matt. 5:17-18

• Jesus is the way the truth and the life. John 14:4-6

John 14:6-7

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

Mike Bullmore

“So as we look throughout the Old Testament … we see it is increasingly easy to detect the specific contours and the specific content of the gospel …. The gospel is [in the Old Testament] in utero.”

II Corinthians 11:13-15

“For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”

Matt Woodley

“The Bible clearly warns us that it's not easy to listen for God's voice. There will be plenty of "counter coaching" from the culture, the devil, and from our own distracted hearts. As my son said, "That's part of the game.”

Matt Woodley

“We have to deal with it all the time." And there's only one way to combat spiritual counter-coaching: know the voice of Jesus, hanging on every word as we trust and obey him—even when the crowd tells us to do something else.”

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