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Welcome to Calvary!
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Grill Out: Sept. 17 Noon - 2 Hotdogs & Hamburgers Ice Cream Bake Sale Proceeds: Youth
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Welcome to Calvary!
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How do you defend that Jesus is God to a Jehovah’s Witness?
Tonight’s Lesson: How do you defend that Jesus is God to a Jehovah’s Witness? Next Week’s Lesson: How do you defend that God made the world in 6 days?
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When a Jehovah’s Witness knocks on your Door
How to Respond? When a Jehovah’s Witness knocks on your Door
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Last Week: God exists. God is Trinity, 1 God with 3 persons. God is to be feared, loved, and trusted above all things.
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Last week: What is doubt? Learning how to understand the world!
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Last Week: 4. Result: Ask Good Questions! Seek Good Answers.
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The Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh
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5. God is orderly, likes beauty!, likes complex things.
Last Week: 5. God is orderly, likes beauty!, likes complex things.
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There has to be a first _____________
Last Week: There has to be a first _____________ God wants us to have Faith! Faith that is seen is not faith! Hebrews 11
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Last Weeks Memory Verse: Psalm 53:1
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Last Weeks Memory Verse: Psalm 53:1
P: The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
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Tonight’s Memory Verse: John 1:1, 15
“In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God… the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
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When a Jehovah’s Witness knocks on your Door
How to Respond? When a Jehovah’s Witness knocks on your Door
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What do you say?
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What do you say? Gently close the door!”
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1 Corinthians 10:13-14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.”
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Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in idolatry?
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that Jesus is not God but a god! Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet.
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What might you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpc4ygCQeP M
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What do we believe about Jesus?
Jesus is true God!
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Jesus is true God! In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God.
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When did Jesus get created? Never
Questions: Who is the Word? Jesus When did Jesus get created? Never Jesus is true God
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Philippians 2:6-7 “…who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men.”
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What do we believe about Jesus?
Jesus is true Man!
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Jesus is true Man! Jesus wept!
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Philippians 2:7-8 “…but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
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3. Jesus Loves You! 1. I am valuable! 2. Jesus gives Me purpose.
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Call Jesus by His Name: 1. Don’t call him Allah, Buddah, or Vishnu – He is Jesus 2. Jesus is Jealous for ___________________
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Deuteronomy 32:15-17 Israel (Jeshurun) got fat and disrespectful. (You got fat! You were stuffed! You were gorged!) They abandoned the God who made them and treated the rock of their salvation like a fool. 16 They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. 17 They sacrificed to demons that are not God, to gods they never heard of.
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Are you jealous?
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God is Jealous for You!
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Call Jesus by His Name: 1. Don’t call him Allah, Buddah, or Vishnu – He is Jesus 2. Jesus is Jealous for You
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What do you say?
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What do you say? “Open the door cautiously!”
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2nd Way to Respond to Jehovah’s Witness:
21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 22 And have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
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1. Keep Yourselves in God’s Love!
How?
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2. Have mercy on doubters How?
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Show Mercy
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Show Mercy
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3. Snatch them out of the fire?
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This Week: Be careful not to play with fire!
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