Review Back to Basics!

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Review Back to Basics!

• John 146
• Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and
  the life. No-one comes to the Father except
  through me.
• John 147
• If you really knew me, you would know my Father
  as well. From now on, you do know Him and have
  seen Him.

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The Truth

• John 832
• Then you will know the truth, and the truth will
  set you free.
• John 836
• So if the Son sets you free, you will be free
  indeed.

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Lied to and imprisoned

• John 844-45
• You belong to your father, the devil, and you
  want to carry out your father's desire. He was a
  murderer from the beginning, not holding to the
  truth, for there is no truth in him. When he
  lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a
  liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell
  the truth, you do not believe me!

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So who do you believe?

• Lets be honest!
• John 832
• Then you will know the truth, and the truth will
  set you free.
• Are you living in obedience to the truth He has
  shown you? Are you living FREE?
• Romans 122
• Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this
  world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
  mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
  what God's will is his good, pleasing and
  perfect will.

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A check up, how do you face life?
Symptoms Secure Confident Active At peace Welcome
challenge Purposeful Hopeful Full of faith

• Symptoms
• Anxious
• Fearful
• Lack confidence
• Lack of purpose
• Behaving badly
• Apathy (Comfy)
• Doubting
• Poor prayer life

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• Philippians 46-7
• Do not be anxious about anything,
• but in everything, by prayer and petition,
  with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
  And the peace of God, which transcends all
  understanding, will guard your hearts and your
  minds in Christ Jesus.

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Listen to Him!

• 2 Timothy 112b
• . because I know whom I have believed, and am
  convinced that He is able to guard what I have
  entrusted to Him for that day.
• Romans 838-39
• For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
  neither angels nor demons, neither the present
  nor the future, nor any powers, neither height
  nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,
  will be able to separate us from the love of God
  that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Be certain who you are listening to

• Prepare yourself to be in His presence
• Exodus 3019-20
• Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and
  feet with water from it. Whenever they enter the
  Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water so
  that they will not die.

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• Exodus 337-11
• Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it
  outside the camp some distance away, calling it
  the "tent of meeting". Anyone enquiring of the
  Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the
  camp. And whenever Moses went out to the tent,
  all the people rose and stood at the entrances to
  their tents, watching Moses until he entered the
  tent. As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of
  cloud would come down and stay at the entrance,
  while the Lord spoke with Moses. Whenever the
  people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the
  entrance to the tent, they all stood and
  worshipped, each at the entrance to his tent. The
  Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man
  speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return
  to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son
  of Nun did not leave the tent.

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There is a Price (very costly)

• Exodus 3521-22
• and everyone who was willing and whose heart
  moved him came and brought an offering to the
  Lord for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all
  its service, and for the sacred garments. All who
  were willing, men and women alike, came and
  brought gold jewellery of all kinds brooches,
  ear-rings, rings and ornaments. They all
  presented their gold as a wave offering to the
  Lord.
• Exodus 3529
• All the Israelite men and women who were willing
  brought to the Lord freewill offerings for all
  the work the Lord through Moses had commanded
  them to do.
• Are you willing?

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Wait for Him

• Be Patient
• Exodus 3428-29
• Moses was there with the Lord forty days and
  forty nights without eating bread or drinking
  water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of
  the covenantthe Ten Commandments. When Moses
  came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets
  of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware
  that his face was radiant because he had spoken
  with the Lord.

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• Ps 253 Indeed, none of those who wait for You
  will be ashamed
• Ps 255 Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For
  You are the God of my salvation For You I wait
  all the day.
• Ps 2714 Wait for the LORD Be strong and let
  your heart take courage Yes, wait for the LORD.
• Ps 625 My soul, wait in silence for God only,
  For my hope is from Him
• Ps 11981 My soul languishes for Your salvation
  I wait for Your word.
• Ps 14711 The LORD favors those who fear Him,
  Those who wait for His loving-kindness.

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A choice

• Psalm 10612-14
• Then they believed his promises and sang his
  praise. But they soon forgot what he had done and
  did not wait for his counsel. In the desert they
  gave in to their craving in the wasteland they
  put God to the test.
• Isaiah 4030-31
• Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men
  stumble and fall but those who wait for the Lord
  will renew their strength. They will soar on
  wings like eagles they will run and not grow
  weary, they will walk and not be faint.

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Walk in the flesh or SpiritPractice His Presence

• John 424 - God is spirit, and his worshippers
  must worship in spirit and in truth.
• Rom 85-6 - For those who are according to the
  flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh,
  but those who are according to the Spirit, the
  things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the
  flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is
  life and peace,
• Gal 524-25 - Now those who belong to Christ
  Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions
  and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us
  also walk by the Spirit.

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To sum up!

• Do you listen to what He says?
• Will you wait for His word?
• Will you believe what He says?
• Will you be obedient?
• 1 Sam 1522b .Behold, to obey is better than
  sacrifice and to heed than the fat of rams.

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• Numbers 624-26
• "The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make
  his face shine upon you and be gracious to you
  the Lord turn his face towards you and give you
  peace."