Digging Deep

1
Digging Deep

• But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not
  do the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me,
  and hears My sayings and does them, I will show
  you whom he is like He is like a man building a
  house, who DUG DEEP and laid the foundation on
  the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream
  beat vehemently against that house, and could not
  shake it, for it was founded on the rock. But he
  who heard and did nothing is like a man who built
  a house on the earth without a foundation,
  against which the stream beat vehemently and
  immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house
  was great. Luke 646-49

2
Dig Deeper Than Doctrines of Men

• And in vain they worship Me, teaching as
  doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew
  159
• Then they understood that He did not tell them
  to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the
  doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
  Matthew 1612
• Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test
  the spirits, whether they are of God because
  many false prophets have gone out into the
  world. 1 John 41

3
Dig Deeper Than Doctrines of Men

• As I urged you when I went into
  Macedonia--remain in Ephesus that you may charge
  some that they teach no other doctrine. 1
  Timothy 13
• If you instruct the brethren in these things,
  you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ,
  nourished in the words of faith and of the good
  doctrine which you have carefully followed. 1
  Timothy 46
• Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole
  households, teaching things which they ought not,
  for the sake of dishonest gain. Titus 111

4
Dig Deeper Than Family Religion

• Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. For
  me to write the same things to you is not
  tedious, but for you it is safe. Beware of dogs,
  beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation!
  For we are the circumcision, who worship God in
  the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no
  confidence in the flesh, though I also might have
  confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he
  may have confidence in the flesh, I more so
  circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of
  Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the
  Hebrews concerning the law, a Pharisee
  concerning zeal, persecuting the church
  concerning the righteousness which is in the law,
  blameless. Philippians 31-6

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Dig Deeper Than Family Religion

• But I make known to you, brethren, that the
  gospel which was preached by me is not according
  to man. For I neither received it from man, nor
  was I taught it, but it came through the
  revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of
  my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted
  the church of God beyond measure and tried to
  destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many
  of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more
  exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my
  fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated
  me from my mother's womb and called me through
  His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might
  preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not
  immediately confer with flesh and blood.
  Galatians 111-16

6
Dig Deeper Dont Go to God Only in Time of Need

• Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of
  grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to
  help in time of need. Hebrews 416
• I am the vine, you are the branches. He who
  abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit for
  without Me you can do nothing. John 155
• Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
  immovable, always abounding in the work of the
  Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in
  the Lord. 1 Corinthians 1558

7
Dig Deeper Dont Settle for an Acceptable
Social Life

• Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine.
  Continue in them, for in doing this you will save
  both yourself and those who hear you. 1 Timothy
  416
• And the things that you have heard from me among
  many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who
  will be able to teach others also. 2 Timothy
  22
• But you must continue in the things which you
  have learned and been assured of, knowing from
  whom you have learned them. 2 Timothy 314

8
Dig Deeper Than Having a Mere Form of Godliness

• But know this, that in the last days perilous
  times will come For men will be lovers of
  themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud,
  blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
  unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers,
  without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
  traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure
  rather than lovers of God, having a form of
  godliness but denying its power. And from such
  people turn away! 2 Timothy 31-5

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Dig Deeper Than Having a Mere Form of Godliness

• Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God
  for Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear
  them witness that they have a zeal for God, but
  not according to knowledge. For they being
  ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to
  establish their own righteousness, have not
  submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ
  is the end of the law for righteousness to
  everyone who believes. Romans 101-4

10
Dig Deeper Than Living a Good Moral Life

• There was a certain man in Caesarea called
  Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the
  Italian Regiment, a devout man and one who feared
  God with all his household, who gave alms
  generously to the people, and prayed to God
  always. Acts 101,2
• Who will tell you words by which you and all
  your household will be saved. Acts 1114
• And he commanded them to be baptized in the name
  of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few
  days. Acts 1048

11
Dig Deeper Than Living a Sincere Religious Life

• Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things
  contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. This I
  also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I
  shut up in prison, having received authority from
  the chief priests and when they were put to
  death, I cast my vote against them. And I
  punished them often in every synagogue and
  compelled them to blaspheme and being
  exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted
  them even to foreign cities. Acts 269-11
• Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council,
  said, men and brethren, I have lived in all good
  conscience before God until this day. Acts 231

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Dig Deeper Than Living a Sincere Religious Life
HEAR - So he, trembling and astonished, said,
Lord, what do You want me to do? Then the Lord
said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you
will be told what you must do. Acts 96 OBEY
And now why are you waiting? Arise and be
baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the
name of the Lord. Acts 2216 BE FAITHFUL
But I discipline my body and bring it into
subjection, lest, when I have preached to others,
I myself should become disqualified. 1
Corinthians 927
13
Dig Deeper Than Having a Superficial Knowledge
of the Word

• But we have renounced the hidden things of
  shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the
  word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of
  the truth commending ourselves to every man's
  conscience in the sight of God. 2 Corinthians
  42
• For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of
  God but as of sincerity, but as from God, we
  speak in the sight of God in Christ. 2
  Corinthians 217

14
Dig Deeper Than Having a Superficial Knowledge
of the Word

• For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
  transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
  And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms
  himself into an angel of light. 2 Corinthians
  1113,14
• Be diligent to present yourself approved to God,
  a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly
  dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 215

15
Dig Deeper Than Having a Superficial Knowledge
of the Word

• Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle
  (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by
  way of reminder), that you may be mindful of the
  words which were spoken before by the holy
  prophets, and of the commandment of us, the
  apostles of the Lord and Savior. 2 Peter 31,2
• You therefore, beloved, since you know this
  beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your
  own steadfastness, being led away with the error
  of the wicked but grow in the grace and
  knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ...
  2 Peter 317,18

16
Dig Deeper Than Group Religion
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the
Father is this to visit orphans and widows in
their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from
the world. James 127 Therefore, to him who
knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is
sin. James 417 Therefore, as we have
opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to
those who are of the household of faith.
Galatians 610 Let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good works and
glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew 516