All In | Part 1 – How Do You Know That You Know God?

Today we will be celebrating with a water baptisms immediately following the service.

For more info please visit: www.olc.church/baptism

ALL IN | PART 1 – HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU KNOW GOD? | 04.24.22

P. Rhett Barden

Proverbs 29:18 (MSG) If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; but when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.John 10:10 (NIV) … I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. Deuteronomy 30:19 (NLT) “Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! God. γινώσκω (ginōskō)

To know .“God isn’t looking for religion.  He’s looking for relationship.”1 John 2:3 (NIV)  We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.Matthew 22:37–40 (NIV) Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”John 13:34–35 (NIV)  “Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”1 John 3:18–19 (NIV) Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:1 John 4:7–8 (NIV) Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

ALL IN BEGINS WHEN YOU…

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1 John 4:15–17 (NIV) If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.  And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us…Romans 10:9 (NIV) If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved..

Acts 2:41 (NIV) Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.Matthew 28:19 (NIV) Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,1 Peter 3:21 (TLB) In baptism we show that we have been saved from death and doom by the resurrection of Christ; not because our bodies are washed clean by the water but because in being baptized we are turning to God and asking him to cleanse our hearts from sin.Ephesians 2:8–9 (NIV) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith— and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.“Water Baptism is a public declaration of my faith in Jesus Christ.”

Matthew 10:32–33 (NIV) “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.Acts 2:38 (NIV) Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you…