Pastor Michael Adams continues the series "The Simple Life" with part two of "Small Tweaks to Giant Peaks: In The Know" in this Sunday morning celebration.Small Tweaks to Giant Peaks: In The Know
Pastor Michael Adams
Sunday, January 15, 2012
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Small Tweaks to Giant Peaks Week Two - In the Know
Philippians 1:9-10
New Living Translation (NLT)
9 I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. 10 For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return.
Our Lives Consist of:
What we think
What we know
What we say
What we do
What if what we know isn’t real?
What if the truth we believe is a lie?
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Matthew 22:29
New Living Translation (NLT)
29 Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God.
John 5:39-40
New Living Translation (NLT)
39 “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! 40 Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life.
64% of adults and 83% of teenagers believe that truth is relative
3 People “In the Know”
Luke 7:36-50
36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. 37 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. 38 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them.
39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!”
40 Then Jesus answered his thoughts. “Simon,” he said to the Pharisee, “I have something to say to you.”
“Go ahead, Teacher,” Simon replied.
41 Then Jesus told him this story: “A man loaned money to two people—500 pieces of silver to one and 50 pieces to the other. 42 But neither of them could repay him, so he kindly forgave them both, canceling their debts. Who do you suppose loved him more after that?”
43 Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt.”
“That’s right,” Jesus said. 44 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume.
47 “I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.” 48 Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.”
49 The men at the table said among themselves, “Who is this man, that he goes around forgiving sins?”
50 And Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
1. Simon “knew”
Who he was
Who the Messiah would be
Who Jesus was
He “knew” who the woman was
2. The Women “knew”
Who Simon was
Who she was
Who Jesus was
* Knowing the Truth begins with humility
Proverbs 1:7
7 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge,
* Knowing the Truth requires intimacy
“Let your hair down”
* Knowing the Truth will cost you everything
We can’t afford to “pay the man behind the curtain no attention”
John 8:32
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
* only the truth you know will bring freedom
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