Does God exist

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Does God exist?

• Can we know? Can we be sure?
• Psalm 4610

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Why do you believe in God?1 Peter 315

• How do you convince someone that
• God is real
• Bible is the word of God
• Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God
• Answer On the basis of evidence
• Careful how we assess the evidence
• Fool wicked deny God, Psa. 141 104
• One body of evidence is Jesus

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Faith that God Exists is Based on Evidence Heb.
116, 1

• The evidence of the material world, Heb. 113
  Rom. 120
• Evidence is before us, Isa. 4025-26
• Things that are made, Psa. 191
• The evidence of Jesus, Jno. 171-4

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Jesus is Evidence that God is Real John 149-11

• To believe in Jesus one must believe in God, Jno.
  1244-45
• Show that Jesus is the Son of God you show that
  God is real
• Claim Jesus reveals God to man, Jno. 118 (Col.
  115 Heb. 13)

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There is Evidence that Jesus is the Son of God
Matt. 1613-17

• Claim The Father gave evidence that Jesus is
  Son of God, Jno. 537 818
• Peter correctly assessed the evidence
• We can and must assess the same evidence, Jno.
  751

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The Evidence His WorksJohn 517-18, 36
1030-36

• Assessed by Nicodemus, Jno. 32
• Believe the works, Jno. 1037-38
• Written for our belief, Jno. 2030-31
• Enemies did not deny, Jno. 1147-48
• Attributed to devil (Matt. 1222-24)
• Killed him, Jno. 1149-50, 53

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The Evidence His WordsJohn 813-14

• His personal testimony, Jno. 813-14
• No man spoke like him, Jno. 746
• Did not seek personal glory, but honor for the
  one who sent him, Jno. 718
• Spoke with authority, Matt. 728-29 Jno. 1247-50

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The Evidence His LifeJohn 718

• No unrighteousness in him
• No deceit in his mouth, 1 Pet. 222
• Never convicted of sin, Jno. 846
• Why do you not believe Me?
• Took liars to convict him, Matt. 2659

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Assessing the EvidenceJohn 819 146-11

• A non-existent God has no Son!
• The evidence for Jesus as the Son of God has
  withstood withering attacks for 2,000 years
• Examples Matt. 1616-17 2754
• Can you judge what is right? Luke 12
  54-57

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Rejecting the EvidenceJohn 1237

• It does not agree with human wisdom, 1 Cor.
  121-25 (Rom. 122, 28)
• It means there is a standard of truth, Jno. 146
  (11, 14) 1246
• Many love darkness of sin, Jno. 319-21
• Some are not willing to do what Jesus says, Jno.
  716-17

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Rejecting the EvidenceJohn 1237

• It is not what some have always believed, Jno.
  145-46
• It means some I love are lost in sin, Jno.
  316-18
• The emotional stumbling block (318)
• Because of what others will say or do, Jno.
  1242-43

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God Does Exist!

• JESUS IS OUR PROOF
• What will you do with Jesus?
• What will Jesus do with you?
• (Jno. 1238, 47-50)