Tough Words?

Big English words?“Floccinaucinihilipilification”

○ Meaning: do or make nothing, very little, insignificant

Big Bible Words?“Jonathelemrechokim” (Ps. 56:1, title,

KJV)“Mahershalalhashbaz” (Is. 8:1, KJV)

“NO” is hard to sayWhen everyone wants you to say “yes”When it looks good/pleasing to the eyesWhen it appears threatening to utter

Examples of Failure to Say “NO”

Adam & Eve (Gen. 3:6)Contrast Daniel (Dan. 1:8)

Young Prophet (1 Kings 13:15-19)Contrast 1 Kings 13:8

David (2 Sam. 11)Contrast Joseph Gen. 39:7-10

“NO” Is a test of your character Requires a big person to say such a

small word properly Is required at times if we are going to

obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29) Is a barricade to keep the righteous from

traveling down the path of evil and doom (Prov. 1:10-19)

“If” – “CORE MEANING: a conjunction used to indicated the circumstances that would have to exist in order for an event to happen” (Encarta Dictionary)

“IF” –one of the BIGGEST words

Impact of “IF” in Scripture

Are you strong?Pr 24:10, “If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy

strength is small.”

Are you lazy and hungry?2 Thess. 3:10, “. . . If anyone would not work,

neither should he eat”

Impact of “IF” in Scripture

Do you love father and mother more than Christ? Luke 14:26, “If any man comes to me and

does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple”

Do you love Christ?John 14:15, “If ye love me, keep my

commandments.”

Impact of “IF” in Scripture

Do you want God’s goodness?Romans 11:22, “Behold therefore the

goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.”

Impact of “IF” in Scripture

Do you want forgiveness?Matt. 6:14, “For if you forgive men their

trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”

1 John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.○ Non-Christians must first repent and be baptized

into the death of Christ (Rom. 6:3,4)○ Christian must repent and confess sin (1 Jn. 1:9)

Impact of “IF” in Scripture

Do you want to be a new creature?2 Cor. 5:17, “Therefore, if any man is in

Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”○ Baptism is “into Christ” (Gal. 3:27)

Impact of “IF” in Scripture

Is your faith worthless?1 Cor. 15:17, “And if Christ be not risen,

your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.”

Do you want to avoid being destroyed by God?“If any man defile the temple of God, him

shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are” (1 Cor. 3:17)

2 Peter 1:5-7 Do you want to grow as a

Christian and secure heaven?

2 Peter 1:8-11 “For if these things be in you

and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” (v. 8)

Faith

Knowledge

Virtue

Temperance

Patience

Godliness

BrotherlyKindness

Love

• Fruitful

• Never Stumble

• Entrance Into Everlasting Kingdom

NO & IF