Biblical Illiteracy

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Will God Bless America?

• Hosea 41-10

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Lacking Knowledge

• Churches are affected from a lack of teaching
  Heb 512-13
• For though by this time you ought to be
  teachers, you need someone to teach you again the
  first principles of the oracles of God and you
  have come to need milk and not solid food. For
  everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled
  in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe

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Lacking Knowledge

• Churches are affected from a lack of teaching
  Heb 512-13
• Can lead to apostasy Eph 413-14
• Parents are charged to teach their children Deut
  66-7, Prov 226, Eph 64
• We will be held accountable
  1 Sam 312-14

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• God and His Word are inseparable
  1 Cor 25, 10-12
• We cant have faith Rom 1017
• faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word
  of God.

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• God and His Word are inseparable
  1 Cor 25, 10-12
• We cant have faith Rom 1017
• We cant please God Heb 116
• Without faith it is impossible to please Him,
  for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
  and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently
  seek Him.

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• God and His Word are inseparable
  1 Cor 25, 10-12
• We cant have faith Rom 1017
• We cant please God Heb 116
• We cant be sanctified from sin John 1717
• Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• God and His Word are inseparable
  1 Cor 25, 10-12
• We cant have faith Rom 1017
• We cant please God Heb 116
• We cant be sanctified from sin John 1717

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• W cant have apostolic insight Eph 33-4
• By revelation He made known to me the mystery
  (as I have briefly written already, by which,
  when you read, you may understand my knowledge in
  the mystery of Christ)

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• W cant have apostolic insight Eph 33-4
• We cant have freedom from sin John 831-32
• If you abide in My word, you are My disciples
  indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the
  truth shall make you free.

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• W cant have apostolic insight Eph 33-4
• We cant have freedom from sin Rom 616
• Do you not know that to whom you present
  yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's
  slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to
  death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• W cant have apostolic insight Eph 33-4
• We cant have freedom from sin Rom 617
• But God be thanked that though you were slaves
  of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form
  of doctrine to which you were delivered.

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• W cant have apostolic insight Eph 33-4
• We cant have freedom from sin
  John 831-32, Rom 616-17
• We cant know God John 644
• No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent
  Me draws him and I will raise him up at the last
  day.

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• W cant have apostolic insight Eph 33-4
• We cant have freedom from sin
  John 831-32, Rom 616-17
• We cant know God John 645
• It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall
  all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who has
  heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.

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Lacking Knowledge

• We do ourselves the most harm
• W cant have apostolic insight Eph 33-4
• We cant have freedom from sin
  John 831-32, Rom 616-17
• We cant know God John 644-45
• We wont be able to avoid eternal destruction 2
  Thess 18-9

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Overcoming a Lack of Knowledge

• Develop desire for the Word Psa 197-10

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1 Peter 22-3

• As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the
  word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you
  have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

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Overcoming a Lack of Knowledge

• Develop desire for the Word Psa 197-10, 1
  Peter 22-3
• Develop a desire for God Psa 421-2, Jam
  48, Psa 11997-98, 102-104
• Then we can teach others 2 Tim 22
• 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.

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Overcoming a Lack of Knowledge

• Develop desire for the Word Psa 197-10,
  1 Peter 22-3
• Develop a desire for God Psa 421-2,
  Jam 48, Psa 11997-98, 102-104
• Then we can teach others 2 Tim 22
• Be prepared for the assemblies Heb 1024-25