Until He Returns UNTIL HE RETURNS DON’T BE DECEIVED

Until He Returns Matthew 24:3 - “Don’t let anyone deceive you.”

Until He Returns Charles Colson states in his new book, The Faith, that he wrote it about the basics of faith because most Christians don’t know what they believe,

Until He Returns and therefore they can neither understand nor defend the Christian faith- much less live it.

Until He Returns Tolerance=listening respectfully to all points of view and freely discussing them in one’s quest for the truth.

Until He Returns I. WHY BELIEVING THE TRUTH IS SO IMPORTANT.

Until He Returns -Without Truth the Gospel is Perverted. -Rejection of Truth Results in Biblical Illiteracy. -Rejection of Truth Leads to Ethical Confusion.

Until He Returns -Rejection of Truth Undermines Cultural Development. -Rejection of Truth Leads to False Gods.

Until He Returns II. HOW CAN WE KNOW WHO’S NOT TELLING THE TRUTH?

Until He Returns Matthew 7:15-20-“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do

Until He Returns people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad

Until He Returns tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”

Until He Returns -You can’t judge them by looking at the outside of a person. -Judge them by their motives. -Judge them by their fruit.

Until He Returns -Judge them by what they teach or say about Jesus.

Until He Returns 2 Corinthians 11:3-4:“But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion

Until He Returns to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the

Until He Returns one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.”

Until He Returns III. THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY WE MUST MAKE.