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  DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE
  by Tim Conway
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of truly knowing and
believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, especially in times of trials and
challenges. It highlights the need to have a solid foundation in Christ
to withstand the storms of life, including false teachings and personal
struggles. The speaker urges listeners to deeply examine their faith and
relationship with Jesus, ensuring that He is the anchor of their souls
and the ultimate refuge in times of trouble.

Topics: "Faith in Trials", "Christ as Our Anchor"
Scripture References: Hebrews 6:19, Ephesians 4:14, 1 Peter 5:8, James 1:6, Psalm 46:1

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of truly knowing and believing in
the Lord Jesus Christ, especially in times of trials and challenges. It
highlights the need to have a solid foundation in Christ to withstand
the storms of life, including false teachings and personal struggles.
The speaker urges listeners to deeply examine their faith and
relationship with Jesus, ensuring that He is the anchor of their souls
and the ultimate refuge in times of trouble.

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Brethren, I would ask you this, do you really know what you believe
about the Lord Jesus Christ? I mean, do you really know what you
believe? When you've got a son with lymphoma, you begin to ask the
question, what do I really believe? You know, right here in this space
where I stand, there was a body yesterday. When you're a young woman
with two young children and you're standing in front of an open casket
with your husband in it, start asking yourself what you really believe.
Do we know what we really believe? See, this is what lifts us out of
childishness.

Because this idea of waves and this idea of wind, that's an idea of
storms and they come. And what he says is they're doctrinal. We get hit
with truth and error.

Lots of error, bad doctrine. You know what it does? It tests what we
believe. It's constantly pulling us.

We're confronted by waves and winds and storms of bad teaching and waves
and winds and storms of what life brings upon us. And the issue is what
do we really believe? Do you really know where your hope is set? When
things don't go your way, when the bottom begins to fall out, when the
foundations are giving way, do you really know what you believe about
the Son of God? And you don't want to leave that part off the end. This
is not just the faith in some ambiguous way.

What do you really believe about the Lord Jesus Christ? What do you
really believe that He is to you? Who is He? You see, this is the issue
with mature manhood. Yes, it's that we rightly handle the oracles of
God. It's that we know them.

It's that by practice, our powers of discernment. But I'll tell you
this, this comes down. Paul is very specific here.

Paul is specific about the Scripture, about what we believe, and it's
got to do with the Son of God. That's the issue. Do you believe that
Jesus Christ is the sure, steadfast anchor of your soul? When the devil
rushes in, and he will, because he's looking for opportunity and he's
looking for people to devour, and we see what he did to Job, and we see
what he did to Peter, we see that he came upon the Lord Jesus Christ,
and he's looking for opportunity with each one of us.

When he rushes in, have you so tried and proven the Lord Jesus Christ
that you know exactly where to run? Have you so tried and proved the
promises that are given? All those promises that we can stand back, and
you know, on the good sunny day we can say, oh, all those promises are
yes and amen in Christ. But I'll tell you, when the storms come, you
know where the children go? They go to the Internet. Where do the
children go? They go to the TV.

Where do the children go? They go to the distractions. They go somewhere
else. They go to whatever's sedative in this world.

Have we tried and proven Christ that we know He's our only refuge? You
see, this is what brings people up out of childishness. Childhood. You
have an arsenal of promises that you have tried and proven.

This excerpt was taken from the full sermon, No Longer Children.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/qSCnAfrmk7k.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/tim-conway/do-you-know-what-you-really-believe/
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