These days it’s easy to see life the way we want to. We can filter our images, pick the news we want to hear, and listen only to the viewpoints that agree with us. When we do that, we start to distort our view of the world. The same thing can happen to our view of God. We reshape our perception of Him into what we want to believe, or what we want to think about others. Jesus came to bring us the truth about God and His plan for us, and it doesn’t always sound like what you may think. This series cuts through the noise of the world’s perceptions of Jesus and what it means to follow Him, in ways that may be surprising to some people. It plays off the idea of memes as jokes, rhetorical devices, and sources of misinformation to debunk popular misconceptions and bring clear truth.
Series: THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID
Message: Go Do What Makes You Happy
Text: John 8:2-11
Pastor Tom Cogle
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Jesus did not say:
· Go into all the world and preach whatever makes people happy.
· Whoever wants to be my disciple must affirm themselves, avoid the cross, and follow their own heart.
· Ask and it will be given to you—because God is your Celestial Sugar Daddy.
This is what Jesus did say:
Jesus declared, “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
WHY DO WE GIVE INTO THE TEMPTATION TO SIN?
· It’s fun!
Sin promises satisfaction at the cost of disobedience to God and eventual pain to you.
Why do so many of us end up giving in to temptation?
· Without a belief in absolute truth, then truth is defined by whatever makes us happy.
We tend to look for happiness in all the wrong places.
Holiness isn’t mutually exclusive of happiness; in fact, they are very, very related.
Our God is faithful, and He will always give you a way out.
Every temptation is an invitation to depend on Christ!
Remorse – I got caught; I’m sorry.
Repent – To turn to something higher.