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How Do You Know?

How Do You Know?. Some parents can be trusted, others cannot Ahaz was an evil father, 2 Kgs. 16:1-4 Hezekiah did not trust his father, 2 Kgs. 18:1-7 Manasseh did not trust Hezekiah, 2 Kgs. 21:1-6. How Do You Know?. Can you trust your parents? Yes: with many things

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How Do You Know?

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  1. How Do You Know? • Some parents can be trusted, others cannot • Ahaz was an evil father, 2 Kgs. 16:1-4 • Hezekiah did not trust his father, 2 Kgs. 18:1-7 • Manasseh did not trust Hezekiah, 2 Kgs. 21:1-6

  2. How Do You Know? • Can you trust your parents? • Yes: with many things • No: regarding your soul • You must investigate truth for yourself

  3. How Do You Know? View Parents Objectively Determine the Standard of Truth Compare Upbringing to Standard

  4. How Do You Know? View Parents Objectively • May be deceived or deceiving you, • 2 Tim. 3:13; Titus 3:3 • Raised in error themselves • Never questioned beliefs & practices • May want to believe it, despite doubts • May want you to believe it for family tradition

  5. How Do You Know? View Parents Objectively • May be willfully ignorant of God’s word, • 2 Pt. 3:5 • Afraid of consequences • Do not want to accept reality

  6. How Do You Know? View Parents Objectively • May be apathetic toward religion & afterlife, • Mt. 25:7, 8 • Busy with job • Pursuing entertainment • Caught up in hobbies • Unwilling to face mortality

  7. How Do You Know? View Parents Objectively • May be religiously sincere, but sincerely wrong, • Mt. 7:21-23; 15:14 • Dedicated & zealous • Devout • Full of hope

  8. How Do You Know? View Parents Objectively • Few parents are committed to the truth, • Mt. 7:13, 14; 2 Tim. 1:3-5 • Must develop own faith, Acts 17:11 • Cannot go to heaven on parents’ faith, 2 Cor. 5:10 • Be your own person

  9. How Do You Know? Determine the Standard of Truth • Are your parents the standard of truth? • Ask a teenager! • Observe various beliefs in different homes • Man not the standard, Jer. 10:23

  10. How Do You Know? Determine the Standard of Truth • Is science the standard of truth? • Changing theories • Lack of knowledge • False knowledge, 1 Tim. 6:20, 21

  11. How Do You Know? Determine the Standard of Truth • Are religious organizations the standard of truth? • Which one would be right? • Are they all right? • Man not the standard, Prov. 14:12

  12. How Do You Know? Determine the Standard of Truth • The Bible is the standard of truth, • Jn. 17:17 • Revealed by God, 1 Cor. 2:9-13 • Unchanging, 1 Pt. 1:22-25 • All else a lie, Rom. 3:4

  13. How Do You Know? Compare Upbringing to Standard • Were you taught about the one true God? • Created the world in six days, Gen. 1 • Made man in His image, Gen. 1:26, 27 • Rules over the world now

  14. How Do You Know? Compare Upbringing to Standard • What were you taught about religion? • Christianity, Jn. 14:6; Heb. 8:6 • One true church, Eph. 1:22, 23; 4:4-6 • One faith, Eph. 4:4-6; 1 Tim. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 • False doctrine damns souls, 1 Tim. 4:1-5; 2 Jn. 9

  15. How Do You Know? Compare Upbringing to Standard • Were you taught God’s plan of salvation? • Hear, Rom. 10:17 • Believe, Rom. 10:9-13 • Confess, Rom. 10:9-13 • Repent, Acts 3:19 • Be baptized, Acts 2:38 • Be faithful, 2 Pt. 2:18-22

  16. How Do You Know? View Parents Objectively Determine the Standard of Truth Compare Upbringing to Standard

  17. How Do You Know? • Some parents can be trusted, others cannot • Ahaz was an evil father, 2 Kgs. 16:1-4 • Hezekiah did not trust his father, 2 Kgs. 18:1-7 • Manasseh did not trust Hezekiah, 2 Kgs. 21:1-6

  18. How Do You Know? • Can you trust your parents? • Yes: with many things • No: regarding your soul • You must investigate truth for yourself

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