Carefully examine your relationship with God!
1. Beware of the broad way
2. Beware of false teaching
3. Beware of an unstable foundation

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Carefully examine your relationship with God!

1. Beware of the broad way

Why the broad way?

• Easy: the path of least resistance
• Popular: everyone else is…
• Desirable: follow your heart!
• Security: safety in numbers

You can’t follow Jesus and look like the world.

We are defined differently: character, happiness, authenticity, selfless motivation, confidence… resting in a relationship with God.

2. Beware of false teaching

What fruits should we look for?

• Grows what the vine grows (John 15:1-8)
• Repentance (Matt 3:8)
• Light and truth (Eph 5:8-9)
• Righteousness (Phil 1:11)

Watch out for:

• Legalism – saved by works
• Prosperity gospel – material blessing for all believers
• Universalism – all ways lead to God
• Redefining Jesus
• Anything man-centered

3. Beware of an unstable foundation

The only security we have is (1 Cor 3:11):

• God’s Word understood as pointing to Jesus
• Jesus as revealed in God’s Word
• Continual trust and obedience in response to our relationship with Him

Everyone will face storms:

• The final judgment at the end
• Testing during this life (God’s mercy!)