Seeing Isn’t Always Believing 1^st in series, Treasure Hunters
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1. How much of your faith in Christ is emotional and how much is intellectual? What would an outsider observe if they watched you pray and worship? 2. Is it appropriate to talk about feelings and a person’s faith? 3. Pastor Scott said that God places pain and suffering in the lives of each and every believer in Christ. Do you think this is fair of God? Why do you believe God does this? 4. Do you agree that reading the Gospel’s account of Jesus is better than actually being present in the first century to see Jesus with your eyes? Why or why not?
			Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, ^9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:8-9 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look. 1 Peter 1:10-12 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. ^17 For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. Matthew 13:16-17
				August 10, 2008 Scott Maze “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” Proverbs 13:24 “Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.” Proverbs 22:15

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1. Suffering is not an Äccident. “In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials” 1 Peter 1:5 When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, ^22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. Acts 14:21-22 “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted…” 2 Timothy 3:12 “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 2. Where You Get Your Joy Matters. “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23	3. You Must See it to Believe it. and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation, ^21 but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.” Romans 15:20-21 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? ^15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” ^16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” ^17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. Romans 10:14-17
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		August 10, 2008 Scott Maze