The “Bottom Line” Truths

Heb. 1:1-3

1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;

3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and up-holding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Heb. 1:1-3

The “Bottom Line”

The “Bottom Line”• We long for the simple truth, honesty

The “Bottom Line”• We long for the simple truth, honesty

• “Cut to the chase”

The “Bottom Line”• We long for the simple truth, honesty

• “Cut to the chase”

• “Here’s the rub”

The “Bottom Line”• We long for the simple truth, honesty

• “Cut to the chase”

• “Here’s the rub”

• “Where the rubber meets the road”

The “Bottom Line”• We long for the simple truth, honesty

• “Cut to the chase”

• “Here’s the rub”

• “Where the rubber meets the road”

• “Give me the bottom line”

The “Bottom Line”• We long for the simple truth, honesty

• “Cut to the chase”

• “Here’s the rub”

• “Where the rubber meets the road”

• “Give me the bottom line”

• Are there “bottom line” truths?

Three “Bottom Line” Truths

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?• The Eternal Existence Principle

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?• The Eternal Existence Principle

25 The baptism of John—where was it from? From heaven or from men?

Matt. 21:25

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?• The Eternal Existence Principle

• The Design Principle

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?• The Eternal Existence Principle

• The Design Principle

4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.

Heb. 3:4

“The heavens declare the glory of God . . . The fool has said, ‘There is no God’ ”

Super Moon 221,000 Miles from the Earth

Tarantula Nebula450,000 Solar Masses

Sombrero Galaxy50,000 Light Years Across

800,000,000,000 Stars

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?• The Eternal Existence Principle

• The Design Principle

• The Movement Principle

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?• The Eternal Existence Principle

• The Design Principle

• The Movement Principle

28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'

Acts 17:28

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?• The Eternal Existence Principle

• The Design Principle

• The Movement Principle

• The Life Principle

28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'

Acts 17:28

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?• The Eternal Existence Principle

• The Design Principle

• The Movement Principle

• The Life Principle

• The You Principle

28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'

Acts 17:28

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?

• Has He revealed Himself to you?

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?

• Has He revealed Himself to you?

41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.”

John 9:41

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?

• Has He revealed Himself to you?

48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

Luke 12:48

Three “Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?

• Has He revealed Himself to you?

• Is that revelation in Jesus & the Bible?

1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;

3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and up-holding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Heb. 1:1-3

He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty.

Then, for three years, he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a home. He didn't go to college. He never lived in a big city. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things that usually accompany greatness.

He had no credentials but himself. He was only thirty three when the tide of public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While he was dying, his executioners gambled for his garments, the only property he had on earth. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave, through the pity of a friend.

Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race I am well within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that one solitary life!

“Bottom Line” Truths• Is there a God?

• Has He revealed Himself to you?

• Is that revelation in Jesus & the Bible?

Consequence of These Truths

Four “Bottom Line” Truths• There is a God

• He has revealed Himself to you

• That revelation is in Jesus & the Bible

• You cannot “just buy into” parts of His revelation in Jesus and the Bible

He Has Revealed Himself

He Has Revealed Himself

• Believe in Him John 3:16

He Has Revealed Himself

• Believe in Him John 3:16

• Repent (yield to Him) Acts 17:30

He Has Revealed Himself

• Believe in Him John 3:16

• Repent (yield to Him) Acts 17:30

• Confess Christ Rom. 10:9

He Has Revealed Himself

• Believe in Him John 3:16

• Repent (yield to Him) Acts 17:30

• Confess Christ Rom. 10:9

• Baptized to be saved Acts 22:16

He Has Revealed Himself

• Believe in Him John 3:16

• Repent (yield to Him) Acts 17:30

• Confess Christ Rom. 10:9

• Baptized to be saved Acts 22:16

Added to His Kingdom, His Church

He Has Revealed Himself

• Believe in Him John 3:16

• Repent (yield to Him) Acts 17:30

• Confess Christ Rom. 10:9

• Baptized to be saved Acts 22:16

Added to His Kingdom, His Church

• Be faithful until deathRev. 2:10