The Da Vinci Code Exposed

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The Da Vinci Code Exposed
Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community Church
June 4, 2006
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• Dan Brown, former school teacher, author of
  several books of fiction
• On New York Times Best Seller list, sold 46
  million copies in 40 languages
• There are nearly 50 books debunking the Da Vinci
  Code book

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I. The Plot...

• Secular author promoting a Humanistic World-View.

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• A Harvard Professor Langdon receives an urgent
  call from the police for help. The Curator of an
  Art Museum has been found murdered with a
  mysterious encrypted message written in his
  blood... hence the search for the secret of the
  Holy Grail begins...

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Secret, Higher Knowledge?
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• Did Da Vinci really use his art to communicate
  secret knowledge?
• Is it true the Gospels dont tell us the true
  story of Jesus?
• Why do we only have 4 Gospels instead of 80 as
  Brown stated?
• Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene and had a
  baby?
• Did Jesus really designate Mary Magdalene to head
  His church?
• Is the legend of the Holy Grail actually the
  blood line of Christ?

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• Quote from page 1 of the The Da Vinci Code
  book...
• "FACT   All descriptions of artwork,
  architecture, documents and secret rituals in
  this novel are accurate."

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• The marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene is part
  of the historical record.

FALSE
FALSE
The Bible is a product of a man, my dear, not of
God... Page 231
Leigh Teabing
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FACTS FICTION FACTION

• We are all entitled to our opinions, but we are
  not entitled to our own facts

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It was a quick romp, largely fun to read, if
rather predictable and preachy. This is a good
airplane book, a novelistic thriller that
presents a rummage sale of accurate historical
nuggets alongside falsehoods and misleading
statements.
Margaret M.Mitchell
Associate Professor of NT at University of
Chicago Divinity School
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II. The Problem...

• Attempts to Dethrone God while Deifying man.

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(Gnostic Gospels... Mary, Philip, Judas)

• Gnosticism a special transcendent knowledge
  beyond Christian doctrine known only by elites.

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Three Relentless Enemies

• 1. The World
• 1 John 519 We know that we are children of God,
  and that the whole world is under the control of
  the evil one.

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Three Relentless Enemies

• 1. The World
• 2. The Flesh
• Romans 87-8 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God.
• Galatians 517 For the sinful nature desires what
  is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is
  contrary to the sinful nature. They are in
  conflict with each other, so that you do not do
  what you want.

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Three Relentless Enemies

• 1. The World
• 2. The Flesh
• 3. The Devil
• Ephesians 611-12 11 Put on the full armor of God
  so that you can take your stand against the
  devil's schemes. 12 For our struggle is not
  against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
  against the authorities, against the powers of
  this dark world and against the spiritual forces
  of evil in the heavenly realms.

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The Devil...

• 2 Corinthians 44 The god of this age has blinded
  the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see
  the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,
  who is the image of God.
• 1 Peter 58 Be self-controlled and alert. Your
  enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion
  looking for someone to devour.

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III. The Proof...

• Identify Counterfeit by knowing Truth.

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TRUTH...

• 1 John 221 I do not write to you because you do
  not know the truth, but because you do know it
  and because no lie comes from the truth.
• John 831-32 ...If you hold to my teaching, you
  are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know
  the truth, and the truth will set you free."

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Be Assured of...

• The Authority of Gods Word!
• 2 Peter 121 for prophecy never came by the will
  of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were
  moved by the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Timothy 316 All Scripture is God-breathed and
  is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and
  training in righteousness,

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• Titus 12 a faith and knowledge resting on the
  hope of eternal life, which God, who does not
  lie, promised before the beginning of time,

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• Matthew 2435 Heaven and earth will pass away,
  but my words will never pass away.
• Matthew 518 I tell you the truth, until heaven
  and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not
  the least stroke of a pen, will by any means
  disappear from the Law until everything is
  accomplished.

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• John 1717 Sanctify them by the truth your word
  is truth.
• Romans 1017 So then faith comes by hearing, and
  hearing by the word of God.

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Be Assured of...

• The Divinity of Jesus Christ!
• John 11-3, 14 In the beginning was the Word, and
  the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He
  was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all
  things were made without him nothing was made
  that has been made... 14 The Word became flesh
  and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his
  glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came
  from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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• John 858 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered,
  "before Abraham was born, I am!"
• Matthew 123 "The virgin will be with child and
  will give birth to a son, and they will call him
  Immanuel"--which means, "God with us."

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Creed of Nicea quote,

• We believe in one God, the Father, Almighty,
  Maker of all things visible and invisible and in
  the one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
  begotten of the Father, only-begotten, that is,
  from the substance of the Father God from God,
  Light from Light, Very God from Very God,
  begotten not made, of one substance with the
  Father, through whom all things were made
• JESUS IS TRULY GOD!

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• John 1030-33 30 I and the Father are one." 31
  Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, 32
  but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many
  great miracles from the Father. For which of
  these do you stone me?" 33 "We are not stoning
  you for any of these," replied the Jews, "but for
  blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be
  God."
• John 2028 Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my
  God!"

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Apparently in Johns Day some were being led
astray by Gnosticism...
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• 1 John 41-6 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.
• 2 By this you know the Spirit of God Every
  spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come
  in the flesh is of God,
• 3 and every spirit that does not confess that
  Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.
  And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which
  you have heard was coming, and is now already in
  the world...

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• 4 ...You are of God, little children, and have
  overcome them, because He who is in you is
  greater than he who is in the world.
• 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as
  of the world, and the world hears them.
• 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us he
  who is not of God does not hear us. By this we
  know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

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