Facts And Feeling

Good morning!

If you will remain standing for the reading

Before we get started, let’s pray for

- Romans 3:24-26

24. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. 

25. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,

26. for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he makes sinners right in his sight when they believe in Jesus.

Let’s pray

- Today we’re going to be talking about Truth and FACTS

“What is the truth?” and “why does the truth matter in my life?”

Today’s Title is

“Facts and Feelings”

Can you tell the difference?

It takes a very deep level of maturity

To be able to tell the difference between these 2

And even STILL we can let Feelings deceive us

If we FEEL strongly enough about something

We will automatically label it as “Truth”

Even if it’s not

We can

Read something online

Watch something on the News

Hear something from a friend

And if it “feeds” what we want to

Hear

The way we want to see it

Or how we FEEL

We will label it as Truth

Now some of you are saying

“Amen”

“That’s right!”

And you can’t even see that you do it too

This Sermon today isn’t going to make me friends

But that’s ok,

If at some point you don’t get upset with me

Or get challenged, or eve offended

I’m not doing my job

But before you get Upset

Stay with me, I think today will do you some good

No matter who you

Voted for

Democrat or Republican

News outlet you watch

Listen closely… it’s good you’re sitting down

We have the capacity to be WRONG

There’s no way 100% of your sources are RIGHT!

This is Statistically Impossible!

I know stating these Facts might get you all up in your Feelings

Now that we got that out of the way

Jesus tells us that you are blessed when you hunger for righteousness - Matthew 5:6

Or In other words

when you have a deep desire to be right with God.

NOT Man… But God

He promises that when you have this sort of hunger or thirst - you will be filled!

In order to embrace today’s passages,

It is first critical to understand an important concept

The concept of “truth.”

What is “Truth”

A truth is something that is a reality whether anyone knows about it or not.

There have been many truths throughout history that were “discovered.”

Gravity and the other laws of physics have only been discovered in the past couple hundred years,

In spite of the fact that they have always existed.

Truths exist outside of knowledge.

They are not dependent on human understanding or belief.

A truth has always been true and will always be true.

However, in the second half of the 20th century, people started to disrupt this understanding of the idea of truth.

Truth became “relative” as people began to believe more often that their beliefs have an effect on truth.

We see this daily in the

Social media platforms

News (no matter which one you listen to)

In the last few years -  people have started to think that their feelings are their truth. 

This is the exact opposite

Facts and Truth do not change based on Feelings

BUT just because Facts don’t change according to Feelings

Doesn’t mean that Feelings aren't real.

They are

Beliefs exist.

But that does not mean they are the truth.

A person can believe they can fly (SING: I believe I can Fly)

Or feel like they don’t need to breathe anymore in order to survive -

But that does not have any effect on reality.

Humans cannot fly without mechanical intervention,

You can jump out of a plane and for a moment FEEL

Like you’re flying,

Truth: YOU’RE FALLING!!!

Certain Humans can hold their breath as long as

24 minutes and 3 seconds.

But simply put, Humans cannot defy the truth that they must breath to survive.

If you take this understanding of truth and apply it to your understanding of the promises in the Bible, you will realize that the scriptures you read are making truth statements.

You are

Justified.

Redeemed  

You have peace.

You stand in grace.

You have hope.

These truth statements don’t come with question marks or conditions other than WHAT? - - - - FAITH!!!