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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