Aug. 20, 2023

The Chaos of Lies

Confronting the Chaos Series 

Primary Text: John 8:44                                       

Last Teaching: Church Chaos

1)  Dead Love

Revelation 2:1-4:  To the angel of the church in Ephesus write….  I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance….  You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.  Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. 

DQ 1)  How has much of the modern organizational church forsaken Christ?

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2)  Spiritual Poverty

Revelation 3:14-17:  To the angel of the church in Laodicea write….  I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot.  I wish you were either one or the other!  So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.  You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.'  But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 

DQ 2)  What is spiritual poverty?

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This Week’s Teaching: 

1)  Truth Personified

John 14:6-7:  Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." 

DQ 1)  Define Truth.  

DQ 2)  How is truth foundational to living?

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2)  The Father of Lies

John 8:44:  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. 

DQ 3)  How do we know when something is a lie? 

DQ 4)  How does the demonic use elements of truth to make a 

            lie believable?

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3)  Church Lies

1 John 2:3-6:  We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands.  The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him.  This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 

Proverbs 12:22:  The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful.  

DQ 5)  What lies have you encountered within churches or ministries?

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4)  Interpersonal Lies

Colossians 3:9-10:  Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 

Proverbs 12:19:  Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment. 

DQ 6)  How do lies undermine interpersonal relationships?  

DQ 7)  How does the demonic use subtle lies to damage relationships?

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5)  The Spirit of Truth

John 16:12-13:  I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.  But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.  

DQ 8)  What inhibits our comprehension of truth? 

DQ 9)  How does the Holy Spirit guide us into truth?

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