Knowledge

I work to understand a little bit Good?

Next week when My daughter is back Quando Taylor volta Deixa eu colocar de novo a letra na parede Deixa eu ver na parede Porque ela sabe mexer na parada Daí But next week Next week we will have the words On the wall Okay? Alright, here we go You ready? The last two weeks We've talked about truth What truth is You know, what is truth O que é verdade And we've talked about reality What's real O que é real Porque hoje em dia as pessoas falam que a verdade é algo relativo So que quando você mesma Para entender o que é verdade A verdade não pode ser relativa It has to be absolute It has to be something fixed Truth can't change

But reality Can change Reality depends Today you can be poor Tomorrow you can be rich Today you can be happy Tomorrow you can be sad So your reality can change But the truth Never changes So I want to talk a little bit Tonight about Knowledge Conhecimento Knowledge Knowing God When I met my wife Lisa We were in YWAM In Jocum And they have a saying Their slogan A lema deles Knowing God And making Him known Conhecendo Deus And that was their saying But in order to make God known You need to know something about Him You can't tell people about God If you don't know anything about God But then my question is tonight What do you know about God?

What do we know about God? Do you know anything, Lex? What do you know about God?

A little bit But what? What do we know? Is He purple? Is He an old man? Is He dead? No He's not dead He's not dead He's dead But He's not dead Right? Yes Right Right Can you make Let me ask you a question Here's a question Can you make God known Without knowing Him? Você pode fazer Deus conhecido Sem conhecer Ele? Yes or no?

Yes Yes Yes But in order to truly represent Him For example John Piper John Piper is my favorite preacher He's my favorite author And I don't know Him As a person I'm not friends with Him But I tell everybody about Him Read His books Listen to His sermons Because He's really good And But I can make Him known But I don't know Him But it's a big difference When you actually know the person Because if someone says John Piper Is dumb Well That's their opinion And maybe they think he's dumb I can't really defend Him Because I don't know Him I don't think He's dumb But I don't know Because I don't I don't know Him And so that's where

Knowing Somebody Makes a difference Instead of knowing About Him Only ones who Can truly Make God known Are the ones That really Know Him The rest of them Just portray Him A lot different Like they're just Passing information along God is Big God is Good God is We can say those things But if we don't really know Him There's no conviction Nós não temos convicção De quem Ele é Podemos falar muitas coisas Sobre Deus Ele é grande Ele é bom Ele é amor Ele não sei o que Ele Ele Ele Ele Sem conhecê-lo Mas quem conhece ele Quando eles falam dele Falam de uma maneira Bem diferente If I talk about my wife Lisa The way I talk about her

Will be different Than the way Alex Talks about her Because I know her And the feelings I have For her Are strong And they're deep And if someone says Something bad about my wife Alex would go That's not very nice You probably shouldn't say that But if someone says Something bad about my wife To me I'll punch him in the mouth And so So it's different One of the biggest problems That we see with Christianity Today Understanding One of the biggest problems That we see with Christianity Today Is that the church Is full of A bunch of people A lot of people That are just Passing information along They're talking about A God

That they don't really know They don't have A personal relationship With him They don't really know him In a real way They know who he is But they don't Spend time with him They don't pray They don't read their Bibles They don't care They just have their days And they They do everything normal During the day But they don't stop To talk with him Because They don't have A real relationship Their knowledge of God Consists in a lot of Memorized facts Conhecimento de Deus Consiste de muitos Fatos decorados De quem Deus é Citando versículos Da Bíblia But It lacks Authenticity Não tem algo Autêntico Lá Eles só estão Falando de algo

Que eles conhecem Por ter tantos anos Na igreja But knowledge Knowledge Consists in having The truth And knowing That you have it Because you know Why What you think Is true Do you understand that? Knowledge is having The truth Você tem a verdade Você sabe que Você tem a verdade E você sabe De Por que Você sabe Que é verdadeira For example One plus one Is Two Um mais um é dois We know that's true We know it's true We have knowledge Of it And we know It's true Because it's A known fact That one It has proof Yes You can prove That it's Right Um What is truth? Truth is something Absolute Truth doesn't change You don't have

Your truth And Alexa has truth And Elise has truth Sebastian has truth I have truth Joan has truth No There's only one truth There's only one truth Only one thing Can be right And everything else Is wrong So what we Get to Is we have Religion Where we have To be Careful In religion To differentiate To separate Um Knowledge Uh The things That we know To be true To be fact From opinion I think I think Because What we see Most in the church Today Is a lot of people Saying I think I think This about God Well I I think This about God Well he Thinks that And she Thinks this And everybody Thinks Everybody has An opinion Which is

Dangerous It's why we Have a Baptist church When we Have a Methodist Church We have A Presbyterian Church We have Assembly Of God Church Why we Have all These Different Churches Because Everybody Has different Thinks I think And he Thinks And I Think And I Think And we Don't Think The same I have My Opinion Consists In not Being sure That you Have the Truth An opinion Isn't Based on Truth It's Based on Now Having a Certainty Of the Truth It's It's Not Being Sure Whether What You Say Is True Or False I Think That Elias Has Three Cars In His Garage He Has Three Cars But I Never Went To Your House And I Never Looked In

Your Garage So I Don't Know How Many Cars You Have Right Eu Penso Que Elias Tenham Três Carros Na Garage Nele Mas Eu Nunca Foi Na Casa Dele Para I Na Garage Para Ver Mas Eu Penso Eu Penso E Alex Só Pensa Que Tem Dois Então A gente Não Vai Ser Amigo Mais Porque Ele Pensa Diferente Do que Eu Então Ele Vai Fundar A Coisa Dele Faz Minha Porque Eu Penso ! Ten Três ! Penso Que Tem Dois Opinion Is Is When You're Not Sure Because You Don't Know Why It's True I Don't Know Why I Think This But I Think It I'm Not Sure I'm Not Sure Most Christian Conversations Most Christians Talking With Each Other The Whole Thing Is Revolving

Around Opinion And That's Why You Always Hear Him Saying I Think I Think I Think And You Hardly Ever Hear Anybody Say I Know I Know This I Know Jesus Rose From The Dead That I Know But I Think I Think That Judas Was Really Sorry Or I Think That Pilot Was Really A Good Person Or I Think We Think Things And We Know Very Few Things But You Don't Hardly Ever Hear People Talking About I Know This I Know That It's All I Think I Think I Think I Think And That's Why People Argue And That's Why People Don't Get Along Very Well Because Everybody Has Their Opinion When You Have Truth Through Knowledge You Know Why It's True You

Understand It When You Have Truth Only Through Right Opinion You Have Truth And You Do Have Truth You Have Truth But You Don't Know Why It's A Truth And That's A Lot Of Christianity Is That I Have A Right Opinion On Something I Have The Truth But I Don't Know Why I Don't Know Why Because A Lot Because We Don't Study The Bible Anymore We Don't Spend Time ! We Spend Time Listening To People We Listen To Our Pastors We Listen To Our Friends We Listen To A Preacher On TV We Read A Book And So All Of Our Opinions Are Based On What Somebody Else Told Us And Not Something That We Actually Studied And Learned And That We Know

So We Say I Think Because My Pastor Said This So I Think And Because My Friend Said This So I Think But The Bible Says This So I Know So We Get To That Opinions Can Be Right Or Wrong You Can Have A Right Did You Ever Have A Wrong Opinion You Thought Something And Then Later On You Went Whoops That Was Wrong I Was Wrong Oh No Imagine That I One Time One Time I Thought I Was Wrong But I Was Wrong I Was Right No Opinions Can Be Right Or Wrong Knowledge I Know Knowledge Can't Be Right Or Wrong Knowledge Can Only Be Right Because Knowledge Is Based On Truth And Truth Can't Be Wrong Philosophical It It Is Very Deep Wow Doubt

Doubt You Know What Doubt Is Right I Doubt Doubida I Doubt Hmm And Belief Doubt And Belief Are Relative To Opinion They Never To Knowledge You Can Only Doubt An Opinion You Can Only When You Say I Doubt Something You Are Doubting Truth You Are Doubting An Opinion When I Believe Something I Believe An Opinion Of Something But Things And As Far As Truth Aren't Relative They're Absolute So We Start Getting These Relatives We Bring In Doubt And We Bring In Opinion And We Bring In Belief I Think And It's All Relative That We Say In Matters Of Opinion That Everyone Has A Right To Their Own Opinion Everyone Can Have Their

Own Opinion You Have A To Your Opinion You Have A Right You Have A Right To My Opinion On The Subject But No One Ever Says That You Have A Right To Your Own Knowledge You Have A You Have A You A Conhec You Have ! Conhec ! But You Can't Have A Different Knowledge Because Knowledge Is Something Fixed God Is God God Created The World And You Can't Have A Different Opinion No I Think It Was Evolution It's An Opinion But Evolution Is Not True So It Can't Be Another Knowledge It's Just An Opinion Um Plato Did You Hear Plato Plato Socrates Those Philosophers Namles Pasados Plato Tells Us That Knowledge And Only Knowledge

Is Teachable Opinion Is Not Teachable Because It's Not Founded In Reason It Has No Principles It Has No Roots Or Grounds And Things For Which It Can Be Demonstrated You Can't Teach Opinion Because Opinion Doesn't Have Proof You Can't Prove An Opinion You Can Indoctrinate Indotrina Uma Opinion Mas Você Não Pode Ensinar Uma Opinion Na Verdade Porque Não Tem Prova Doesn't Have Proof You Can Only Truly Teach Knowledge Porque Você Tem Como Provar Que É Verdade Que É Real Que É Certo Muito Doido Essas paradas Mas A razão Que Estou Tentando Abordar Essas Assuntos Assim O Que É Verdade Que Realidade Porque Quando A gente Sai

Dess Prédio Hoje À Noite Nós Temos Um Mundo Lá Esperando A Para Próxima Semana Quem Pensa Nessas Coisas É Quando A gente Tenta Abordar Os Assuntos Com Eles Sobre Verdade Sobre Conhecimento Sobre Realidade Eles Vão Fazer Um No Com Nossas Cabeças Se A gente Não Está Ligado Com Tudo É Relativo Tudo Depende Da Sua Opinião Mas A gente Vem Falar Está Errado That's That's Why We Talk About This Stuff ! It's Kind of Preparing Us One We Learn English A We Hear A Little Bit Of English And We Understand It But Then To We Go Out And We Go To Talk With Our Friends And We Go To Talk With People That We Work With We'll We'll Understand

What They Think And We'll Understand Why It's Wrong And We'll Know How To Talk To Them Not Not Yelling At Them But To Explain To No That's Not True Because Truth Truth Can't Be Relative And Still Be Truth Truth Has To Be Absolute In Order To Be Truth So Why Is It Here's My Question Another Question Why Is It That Christians Have A Lot Of Opinions Today We Have Lots Of Opinions But It Seems ! Like Just A Little Bit Of Knowledge Why Is That Why Do You Think Anybody Have An Idea Why Why Do Christians Have So Many Opinions But Little Knowledge Why Is That What Is Lacking Actually Their Knowledge Is Then False Right Right

Actually End Up Changing Opinion Because Their Knowledge Is Wrong So Their Knowledge Isn't Based On Truth It Is Based On Error The Only Truth Is God The God Of The Bible And The Rest Are All Opinions About Who This God Is But They Are Wrong Opinions So We Go And We Take Them The Truth Then They Realize Oh And I Thought Was Wrong Because They Don't They Don't Know That It's Right Because You Can't You Can't Know That An Error Is Right But Yeah That's Why We Have To Go To Tell Them But Yeah I Think The Reason Why Christians Have

They're Preaching Psychology They're Preaching Nice Ideas They're Telling People That God Wants Them To Be Rich And They Say A lot Of Stuff That Sounds Nice And Everybody Feels Good When They Go Home But They Didn't They Didn't Preach Anything On The Bible And So People And So You Have Two People Are To Blame Two Persons Are To Blame I Think Pastors Are To Blame For Very Little Knowledge In Christians Today Because Pastors Aren't Preaching A Lot Of The Bible Or Teaching The Bible They Just Kind Of Get A Nice Sermon And Make Everybody Laugh Or Feel Good And They Go Home Or And Then When The People Leave The Church Like

We're Talking About They Don't Read Their Bibles They Don't Study Their Bibles They Don't Pray They Don't Talk To God So You Have A People Full Of Opinions I Think I Think I Think I Think But What Do You Know I Don't Know For instance Like I was saying today Christians And This Isn't An Insult This Is Truth Christians Have Never Been So Dumb Dumb Dumb Christians Have Never Been So Dumb As Dummy Dummy Stupid Uh Huh Os Crentes Nunca Nunca Foram Tão Estupidos Em Relação Do Que Eles Crê E De Quem Eles Crê Hoje Em Dia É Uma É Burra Na Verdade Um The Christians Today Don't They Don't Know Why They Believe What They Believe

They Really They Really They Dumb And In A Sense That They Don't Understand Why They Believe What They Believe Or Who They Believe In They Just Have Opinions Like For For A Of A

Leave Is Wrong Like Let Me Let Me Tell You One Thing Have You Ever Heard Someone Say God Loves You And Has A Wonderful Plan For Your Life You Heard That Is That True Yes Or No Based On What What's Your Proof Does The Bible Say That No No Do We Right But Can We Tell A Martyr Somebody That Dies When They're 25 Years Old Stabbed By An Indian Somewhere Can We Tell Them That God Loves Them And Has A Wonderful Plan For Their Life Maybe Can We Tell Somebody Who When They're 13 Years Old A Little Girl Who's Raped By Her Uncle And She Dies Being Raped By Her Uncle ! Can We Tell All The People In Ethiopia Starving Of Hunger

Millions Of People Dying Of Hunger Can We Tell Them God Loves You And Has A Wonderful Plan For Your Life No We Can't No We Can't Because Wonderful Is Relative But Wonderful For Them It's Not Wonderful It's Terrible And There's A lot Of People Who Have Terrible Lives In This World Everybody's Life Isn't A lot Of Christians A lot Of Christians Have Terrible Lives 70% 70% Of The Christians In The World Are Being Persecuted Today 70% That's Not A Wonderful Life Persecution Is Not Wonderful It's Hard It's Hard So That's Something That We've Heard And We've Told People It's An Opinion But It's Wrong It's Not Right Opinion

Because The Bible Doesn't Promise The Bible Promises Suffering If You Want To Live A Holy Life You'll Be Persecuted Yeah Se You Want To Live A Vida Piedosamente You Will Be Perseguido It's Not To It's Not To To To To To To To To Another One God Understands Your Sin Have You Heard That When Somebody Sins Somebody Says ! Deus Entenda Seu Pecado Is That True? Does The Bible Say That? Does The Bible Say That God He's Okay If You Sin Because Well He Understands No The Bible Says That He's A Righteous Judge So It's Another Thing Here's Another One God Wants You To Be Prosperous Have You Heard That One God Wants You To Be

Rich God Wants You To Have A New Car God Wants You To Have A Nice House But Then Once Again If We Go To The Bible Where Does It Say That Here It's Somebody's Opinion But It's It's Wrong God Wants You To Be Healthy You Know Healthy Is Saud Deus Is It True Because Sometimes Christians Are Sick Sometimes Christians Die Of Cancer And If God Wants Them To Be Healthy Why Aren't They Healthy Because God Is All Powerful Right See Deus Poderoso E Nada Pode Impede A Vontade Dele Sendo Soberano Se Ele Quer Que Alguém Seja Saudável Como A Pessoa Fica Doente E Morre Doente O Que Que Venceu A Vontade De Deus Quem Tem A Vontade Maior

Do Que Deus Que A Vontade Dele Não Rolou So We Say A Lot Of Things As Christians Because We Hear It We Hear From Other Christians We Hear It From The Pulpit From Preachers We Read It In Books Or Magazines But The Truth Is Is That God Sometimes Makes People Sick God Sometimes Kills People Do You Know That If You Read Remember Judah Judah Who Was One Of The Sons Of Isaac Judah Had Three Sons Remember And The First Son Married Tama He He He He Did I don't Know What He Did He Did Something Bad And The Bible Says God Killed Him God Killed The Guy Oh What's That God God Kills People God God Killed Him Right He Murdered Him

So Then Tamar Was Given To The Second Son Remember And The Second Son Didn't Want To Make Her Pregnant So When They Had Sex He Pull Out And Would Make Her Pregnant And So God Got Mad At Him And What Did God Do He Killed Him God Killed Two Guys And So Judah Sent Her Away Go Away You're Wrecking My Family And Of course We Know The The Third Son Is A Little Bit Weird Because Sometimes God Just Kills People So I Think Killing Is Worse Than Sickness I Think But So If You Ask Someone As To Why They Say These Things You Know God Loves You And Has A Wonderful Plan For Your Life Or God Understands Your Sin Or God Wants You

To Be Prosper ! To Be Rich Or God Doesn't Want You To Be Sick He Wants You To Be Healthy If You Ask Somebody Why Do You Believe That Why They Will Tell You Well I Think It's An Opinion Is What They Think There's No There's No Basis For Truth They Don't Say I Know Like If You Ask Me Are You Going To Go To Heaven Or Hell When You Die I Going To Heaven And They'll Say Well How Do You Know You're Going To Heaven And I'll Say Because I Know That Jesus Died On The Cross For My Sins I Know That He Paid My Debt He Rose From The Dead And His Bible His Word Says That Those That Believe In Him Will Go To Heaven And I Believe

In Him So I Know I Don't Have To Say I Think I Hope I Know I Know So Getting There What Is It That We Know About God We Know That He Loves Sinners We Know That He Sent His Son To Die For Sinners We Know That He Forgives Sinners We Know That He Saved Sinners We Know That Those That Believe In Him Will Go To Heaven We Know That All Of Us Are Called To Tell Other People About Him To Witness To Share The Gospel We Know These Things Because It's Right Here It's In The Bible We Know We Know We Know Because God Told Us In His Word And Those Are The Things That We Need To Hold !

pela verdade, e não vamos brigar pela opinião. Você vê tantos amigos, tantos pastores, amigos, separando por brigas sobre opiniões. Mas esquece do que é importante. Opinão se torna a coisa maior no mundo, e agora nem fala mais com ele. Herético, né? E daí joga o cara fora. Mas nós precisamos agirar para isso. Porque eu comecei no começo. E aí, quando o tema é to know God e make Him known, então a pergunta é como nós conhecemos? Como nós podemos conhecer? Como? Help me out. Como? Como? Como nós conhecemos?

Com Ele. E se você tem um relacionamento, o que você faz? Eu falo.

Eu falo. read about him what else can we do go to church sing to him mostly just talking with him yeah just listening to him let him talk reading the bible we say do you want to know God do you want to do you want to do you want to do you want to do you want to no yes we say that we want to but the question becomes do we take the steps do we do what we need to do to know him que a maioria das pessoas na igreja falam eu quero conhecer Deus mas também a maioria das pessoas não tomam os passos necessários para conhecer ele and that's where we get to this thing of knowing God if we're going to make God known to the world

we have to know him personally we have to really stop and say God help me to spend more time with you help me to pray more help me to read your bible more help me to just stop and listen to you because I want to make this world know who you are but if I don't know who you are personally I'm just going to go out and just tell him a bunch of stuff that I memorized that I've heard but I want to go out and I want to tell people like I know you have I seen Esse bicho tem algo diferente. E também tem aqueles que começam a falar, você fica... O cara conhece muito. Mas parece algo que está faltando, né? Muitos teólogos conhecem muitas coisas sobre Deus.

Mas quando eles falam de Deus, eles falam de uma maneira mais educada, mais estudada. Mas não falam pessoal. Eles conhecem sobre Deus. Mas não conhecem Deus. E conhecem de verdade não é somente sobre fatos, mas algo pessoal.

Ok? Do you understand that? Do you understand all of it? Or almost some of it? Is it good? Good. Good. Lord, I thank you for tonight. I thank you that you're a God that we can know. Not a God that we only have to know about, but that we can truly know who you are. God, that we don't have to base our faith on opinions. We don't have to tell people what we think, but we can tell people what we know. God, help us to get beyond just what we think. I thank this. I thank that. Help us to get to a point where we really know you. and we can make you known in a way that's real. Not just spitting back information, but really telling people what you have done in our lives

and who you are to us. God, thank you for everyone who is here tonight. Lord, I pray that you would help us to put into practice, Lord God, to take the steps necessary to truly know you, to truly know who you are.

That when we have a chance to talk with people who don't know you, that we can tell them what we know and not what we think, Lord. We just thank you for tonight. We pray you just bless everyone as we go back to our homes. In the name of Jesus, amen. Amen. Amen.