Episodes
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
08-25-19 Kevin Goins - The Truth About the Truth that sets us free, conclusion
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
“The Truth about the Truth that Sets us Free” (Conclusion) John 8:30-36
John 8:32 has been used by all sorts of people to promote all sorts of ideas. But a biblical text cannot mean whatever we want it to mean. What is the truth about the truth that sets us free?
I First, the truth that sets us free isn’t only for the believer. In fact, it’s actually directed at the non-believer (8:30).
II Second, there is a truth that can set us free (8:31a).
III Third, to be set free by the truth, we must use our head (8:32).
IV Fourth, the truth is a person (8:31-32).
V Fifth, being set free by the truth can be ______________ to people (8:33).
A. When Jesus says he has a truth that can set them free, they get offended, for _____ reasons:
1. First, it offends their __________ pride.
2. Second, it offends their ____________ pride.
B. They were offended by something Jesus said and so they refused to __________ in him.
VI Sixth, the freedom which the truth brings is freedom from the _________ of ______ (8:34).
A. In verse 34, for the twelfth time in John, Jesus begins a statement with “________, ________.”
B. The truth Jesus is stressing is that ____ makes us ________.
C. Sin is not simply an ______, sin is a ________.
D. Sin is a power which stirs up the desire to find pleasure ___________ God.
VII Seventh, the only truth-teacher who can set us free is the ______ (8:35-36)
A. In the ancient world families consisted of two kinds of people: _______ and __________, with all the rights of family members, and _________, who had no permanent place in the family.
B. It was a tradition in Roman households in biblical times for the _______-______ son, when he became a man, to release all the slaves he had grown up with.
VIII Jesus is the one who gives us freedom, but there is something we need to _________ this freedom.
A. First, to be free you need d___________.
B. Second, to be free you need a__________.
C. Third, to be free you need o_____________.
D. Fourth, to be free you must have a h________ e_________.
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
08-18-19 Kevin Goins - The Truth About The Truth That Sets Us Free, part 2
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
“The Truth about the Truth that Sets Us Free” (Pt 2) John 8:30-36
John 8:32 has been used by all sorts of people to promote all sorts of ideas. But a biblical text cannot mean whatever we want it to mean. What is the truth about the truth that sets us free?
I The truth that sets us free isn’t only for the believer. In fact, it’s actually directed at the non-believer (8:30).
II There is a truth that can set us free, but many are skeptical of this (8:31a)
III Third, to be set free by the truth, we must use our _________ (8:32).
A. Verse 32 does ____ say what we Bible-believing Christians should ___________ it to say.
-Over and over the Bibles says we must _________. Yet here Jesus says we must __________.
B. One of the greatest issues of the Christian life has always been the relationship between f________ and f___________.
The Bible does not take an _____-intellectual approach to the Christian life because it was God who created our ________ as well as our spirit.
D. An anti-intellectual approach to the Bible is actually more in keeping with the __________ approach to the Bible.
IV The truth is a __________(8:31-32).
A. The truth that sets us free is objective fact, but these facts are not about ________; these facts are about a __________.
B. You cannot know the truth without being a disciple of Jesus, and you cannot be a disciple of Jesus without having a p___________ c____________ with him.
C. If truth is focused on a __________, then we need that _________ to know the truth.
V We Evangelicals aren’t comfortable talking about ________.
-When we act as if faith is all we have, that there is nothing we can know, we drive ___________ __________ out of the church and we face our culture with ________.
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
08-04-19 Kevin Goins - The Truth About the Truth That Sets Us Free
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
“The Truth about the Truth that Sets Us Free” John 8:30-36
John 8:32 has been used by all sorts of people to promote all sorts of ideas. But a biblical text cannot mean whatever we want it to mean. What then is this text actually saying?
I This text is one of the best k_______ and most q_________ in the Bible.
II What is the truth about the truth that sets us free? The truth that sets us free isn’t only for the ___________. In fact, it’s actually directed at the ____-___________.
A. The one who is not yet in the Kingdom of God has a more __________ need for the truth that sets us free than the believer.
B. Who is Jesus __________ to in this text?
1. It seems as if Jesus is addressing these words to b__________, but there is good reason to ___________ that.
a. First, that expression, “many put their faith in him,” is not as _______________ as it sounds.
b. Second, Jesus just said that people cannot truly believe in him until he is c____________.
c. Third, these people chose to believe b_________ they heard all they needed to hear.
2. Those who most need to hear what Jesus says about truth are people who do ____ ______ know Jesus.
III There _____ a truth that can set us free but that is a very d__________ statement in our world today.
A. There are some who say there is ___ _______ ________ as truth.
B. There are some who believe truth exists, but only certain _______ of truth can be known.
C. Jesus said there is truth and it is found in ______ ____________, but for this truth to change us we must ______ to it
D. To live in his truth means two things:
1. We must get it into our _______ through _________.
2. We must ______ what it says.