Three Things That Jesus Did Not Say

HWFBC

4/7/2024

Scripture:

1 Timothy 6:20-21²⁰ O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” ²¹ for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.

Intro:

• People run with things, important for us to understand what the Bible tells us 
1. Know the Book!

Key Words:

• Timothy
1. How did they meet?  Acts 16:1-5
2. Timothy had a good reputation, Paul wanted Timothy to join them
3. A summary of the growth of Timothy and Paul’s relationship in Philippians
4. Philippians 2:19-24, ¹⁹ I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. ²⁰ For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. ²¹ For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. ²² But you know Timothy's proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel. ²³ I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me, ²⁴ and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.
5. Paul was discipling Timothy – DbJ, Tommy asked, Who is discipling you? Who are you discipling?
• Guard
1. Protect it with your life
2. Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) – Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. 
• Deposit
1. Paul deposited 20 years of experience serving God / Paul’s investment. 
2. Learn from others so we do not make the same mistakes.
• Avoid
1. Keep Away – Construction Road signs, always under constructions isn’t it!
2. Road signs that could have a spiritual context to it: 
• Dead End
• No Outlet 
• One Way 
• Irreverent babble
1. Irreverent – showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously. 
2. Commentary: “He (Timothy) should avoid the empty chatter that characterizes the world system and the opposing arguments of those who claimed superior knowledge.”  

• False knowledge
1. Bible tells us about fools.  
• Isaiah 5:20-21 – Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.  
• Romans 1:22-23 – Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 
• 2 Timothy 4:3 – For the time is coming when people will not ensure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.  
• Swerve
1. Not veer off, but swerve – an abrupt change of direction
2. Proverbs 4:20-27 – My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.  Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.  For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.  Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flows the springs of life.  Put away your crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.  Let your eyes look directly forward, and you gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.  Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.   

First thing Jesus did not say

1. Jesus did not say, follow your heart.
1. Worldly quotes about following your heart
1. Alfred Adler:  Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
2. Harold Becker:  Follow your heart and you will never get lost. 
3. Nicholas Sparks:  Always listen to your heart, because even though it’s on your left side, it’s always right. 
2. Biblical quotes
1. Matthew 4:19 – And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”  
2. Matthew 8:22 – And he said the him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
3. Matthew 9:9 – As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.”  And he rose and followed him.  
4. Matthew 10:38 – And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 
5. Matthew 16:24 – Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
6. Matthew 19:21 – Jesus said to him, “if you would be perfect, go, sell what you posses and give it to the poor, and you will have treasures in heaven; and come, follow me.”
7. Feed my sheep, 3x, Jesus describing how Peter would die, said to follow him.  John 21:19 – (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”  
3. Why you can’t follow your heart
1. Jeremiah 17:9 – The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
1. Our hearts are deceitful because of inherited sin nature
2. Heart is sick – can’t fix it, we need a new heart, essentially a new creation
1. 2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.  The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2. Galatians 5:16-17 – But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.  For the desires are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.  

1. Jesus did not say, live your truth. 
1. Worldly quotes about living your truth
1. Oprah – Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short. 
2. Dr. Steve Maraboli – Live your truth.  Express your love.  Share your enthusiasm.  Take action towards your dreams.  Walk your talk.  Dance and sing to your music.  Embrace your blessings.  Make today worth remembering.  
3. Joseph Curiale - If you are not living your truth, you are living a lie
4. Shannon Algeo – book entitled, Live your Truth; heal self doubt, Awaken your soul’s purpose, and live your badass life.  

1. Bible Verses about Truth:
1. John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the father except through me.”
2. John 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.   
3. John 1:14 – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.  
4. John 16:13 – When the Spirit of truth some, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 
5. Psalm 25:5 – Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.  Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.  
6. 1 John 3:18 – Little children, let us know love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.  
7. John 8:31-32 – So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. 

1. What is Truth?
1. Truth in its simplest form is telling it like it is.  
2. Law of non-contradiction:
1. Wikipedia, “In logic, the law of non-contradiction states that contradictory propositions cannot both be true in the same sense and at the same time.
2. It is impossible for a ball to red and not red at the same time. 

1. Jesus did not say: as long as you are happy.
1. Worldly Quotes
1. Amber Riley – As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.
2. Audrey Hepburn – The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – is all that matters.
3. Beyonce – Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.  
4. Dalai Lama – The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
2. Bible Quotes
1. Matthew 16:26 - Jesus said, “What will it profit a man if he gains the world but looses his soul.” 
2. John 15:11 – These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be in full. 
3. 1 Timothy 6:6-8 – But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.  But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.  
4. Matthew 16:24 – Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
3. The Cross
1. You will be persecuted for your faith in Jesus, social persecution, remember what a privilege it is to carry to cross of Jesus. 4/5 Devotional
1. You carry the cross after Him.  You have blessed company; your path is marked with the footprints of your Lord.   The mark of His blood-red shoulder is upon that heavy burden.  It is His cross, and He goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep.  Take up your cross daily and follow Him.
2. Do not forget, also, that you bear the cross in partnership.  It is the opinion of some that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it.  The is very possible. Christ may have carried the heavier part, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end.  Certainly, that is the case with you; you only carry the light end of the cross – Christ bore the heavier end. 
3. And remember, though Simon had to bear the cross for only a short while, it gave him lasting honor.  Even so, the cross we carry in only for alittle while at most, and then we shall receive the crown, the glory.  Surely, we should love the cross and instead, of shrinking from it, count it very dear, for it works out for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.  
4. Only One Life, ‘twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.   - CT Studd
1. You have one life; will you seek the happiness the world is promising, or you will “Seek first the kingdom of God”
2. Psalm 40:16 – but may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!
5. Psalm 37:4 – Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.  

Wrap Up:

1. Don’t follow your heart, follow Jesus
2. Don’t live your truth, live THE truth.
3. Carry the cross to eternal and everlasting happiness.

Only One Life, Twill Soon Be Past - by C.T. Studd

Two little lines I heard one day,
Traveling along life’s busy way;
Bringing conviction to my heart,
 And from my mind would not depart;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
 Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, yes only one,
Soon will its fleeting hours be done;
Then, in ‘that day’ my Lord to meet,
 And stand before His Judgement seat;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
 Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, the still small voice,
Gently pleads for a better choice
 Bidding me selfish aims to leave,

And to God’s holy will to cleave;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
 Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, a few brief years,
Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears;
Each with its clays I must fulfill.
 living for self or in His will;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
 Only what’s done for Christ will last.

When this bright world would tempt me sore,
When Satan would a victory score;
When self would seek to have its way,
 Then help me Lord with joy to say;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
 Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Give me Father, a purpose deep,
In joy or sorrow Thy word to keep;
Faithful and true what e’er the strife,
 Pleasing Thee in my daily life;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
 Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Oh let my love with fervor burn,
And from the world now let me turn;
Living for Thee, and Thee alone,
 Bringing Thee pleasure on Thy throne;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
 Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, yes only one,
Now let me say, “Thy will be done”;
And when at last I’ll hear the call,
 I know I’ll say “twas worth it all”;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
 Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, ’twill soon be past,
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
And when I am dying, how happy I’ll be,
 If the lamp of my life has been burned out for Thee.