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FAITHFULNESS TO THE TRUTH

TOPIC: FAITHFULNESS TO THE TRUTH TEXT: 2Jn.:1-11; 3Jn.:1-12. MEMORY VERSE: I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 3 John :4. CENTRAL TRUTH: Christians must resist error and follow the truth. INTRODUCTION In modern times, people tend to minimize the differences between religions. suggesting that many roads lead to God and that tolerance and inclusiveness are keys to being a progressive thinker. John did not see it that way. He used words like truth. love. commandments. deceivers, and antichrists. Believers must not fall into what amounted to the New Age enlightenment thinking of the first Century. Truth is incompatible with error. Evil is incompatible with good. Gaius and Demetrius were not of the same Spirit as Diotrephes. The Challenges to the Gospel are serious, demanding somber responses like being unwilling to host people who teach false doctrines. On the other hand, great joy comes when people help each other succeed, walking by

HOW TO EARN GOD’S COMPANIONSHIP

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TOPIC: HOW TO EARN GOD’S COMPANIONSHIP TEXT: Gen 5:21-24 MEMORY VERSE: “By faith Enoch was translate that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had his testimony, that he pleased God” (Hebrews 11:5) CENTRAL TRUTH : It is purity that qualifies a person both for heaven and the service of God. INTRODUCTION Enoch stood out as one of the few men in the scriptures who walk consistently with God His life on earth was brief compared with other men of his generation but he was the most remarkable and meaningful. Like all over men of his time, he was a family man, lived in a defiled and polluted world but he was like a lily that blossomed at the riverside. In spite of all that surrounded him, his affection was centered on heaven. Groaning in the spirit of the evil in his days, the spirit made him to prophesy the judgment of God upon Sinners (Jude 14-15). POINT 1 CONDITION FOR WALKING WITH GO