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Brethren, I would ask you this:
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Do you really know what you believe
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about the Lord Jesus Christ?
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I mean, do you really
know what you believe?
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When you've got a son with lymphoma,
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you begin to ask the question:
what do I really believe?
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You know right here in
this space where I stand
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there was a body yesterday.
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When you're a young woman
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with two young children
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and you're standing in front
of an open casket
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with your husband in it,
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you start asking yourself
what you really believe.
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Do we know what we really believe?
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See, this is what lifts us
out of childishness.
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Because this idea of waves
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and this idea of wind -
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that's an idea of storms
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and they come.
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And what he says is they're doctrinal.
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We get hit with truth and error -
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lots of error, bad doctrine.
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You know what it does.
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It tests what we believe.
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It's constantly pulling us
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and we're confronted by waves
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and winds and storms of bad teaching
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and waves and winds and storms
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of what life brings upon us.
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And the issue is:
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what do we really believe?
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Do you really know where your hope is set?
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When things don't go your way;
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when the bottom begins to fall out;
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when the foundations are giving way,
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do you really know what you believe
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about the Son of God?
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And you don't want to leave
that part off the end.
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This is not just "the faith" in
some ambiguous way.
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What do you really believe
about the Lord Jesus Christ?
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What do you really
believe that He is to you?
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Who is He?
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You see, this is the issue
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with mature manhood.
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Yes, it's that we rightly
handle the oracles of God.
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It's that we know them.
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It's that by practice our
powers of discernment...
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but I'll tell you this,
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Paul is very specific here.
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Paul is specific about the Scripture,
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about what we believe,
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and it's got to do with the Son of God.
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That's the issue.
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Do you believe that Jesus Christ
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is the sure, steadfast
anchor of your soul
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when the devil rushes in? And he will.
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Because he's looking for opportunity
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and he's looking for people to devour.
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And we see what he did to Job.
And we see what he did to Peter.
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We see that he came upon
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And he's looking for opportunity
with each one of us
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when he rushes in.
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Have you so tried and proven
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the Lord Jesus Christ
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that you know exactly where to run?
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Have you so tried and proved
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the promises - all those promises -
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that we can stand back
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and on the good, sunny day we can say:
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Oh, all those promises are
yes and amen in Christ.
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But I'll tell you when the storms come,
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you know where the children go?
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They go to the Internet.
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Where do the children go?
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They go to the TV.
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Where do the children go?
They go to the distractions.
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They go somewhere else.
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They go to whatever
sedative in this world.
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Have we tried and proven Christ
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that we know He's our only refuge?
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You see, this is what brings people
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up out of childishness, childhood.
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Do you have an arsenal of promises
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that you have tried and proven?
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This excerpt was taken
from the full sermon:
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No Longer Children
