1. CREATE IN ME REAL LIFE l John 17:1-3 These things Jesus spoke; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee, even as Thou gavest Him authority over all mankind, that to all whom Thou hast given Him, He may give eternal life. And this is eternal life, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

2. CREATE IN ME REAL LIFE l John 17:1-3 l What does it mean to know God? l John 17:1-3 l What does it mean to know God? 1.It is not just rules. 2.A relationship with God is more than just an emotional experience. 3.A relationship with God is not just wearing a mask.

3. CREATE IN ME REAL LIFE l John 17:1-3 l What does it mean to know God? l What is it? l John 17:1-3 l What does it mean to know God? l What is it? 1.John 10:1-4 2.A relationship with God is learning to trust the Shepherd’s voice.

4. THINGS OUR KIDS NEED TO KNOW l Some things are absolutely right and wrong. [1] As Creator, God has authority over us, Gen. 1:1 [2] God has given us a standard, revealed in scripture, II Tim. 3:16-17 [3]It is perfect - comes from the Creator, Jer. 10:6-7 [4]It is universal - it applies to every man, II Cor. 5:10 [5]It is constant - it does not change, Jude 3 [6]We are accountable to it, John 12:48; Matt. 7:21

5. l Some things are absolutely right and wrong. l Your choices have consequences. THINGS OUR KIDS NEED TO KNOW [1] Deut. 30:15-20 Israel’s Faced Two Choices: Serve God and prosper, reject Him and suffer [2]We face those same two choices. [3]Parents prepare their children to make right choices through discipline - right choices bless us -wrong choices bring suffering

6. l Some things are absolutely right and wrong. l Your choices have consequences. l You are accountable to God. THINGS OUR KIDS NEED TO KNOW For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.- II Cor. 5:10

7. l Some things are absolutely right and wrong. l Your choices have consequences. l You are accountable to God. THINGS OUR KIDS NEED TO KNOW He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. - John 12:48

8. WHY MAN NEEDS A PLAN FROM GOD BECAUSE: l GOD’S WAYS ARE HIGHER “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts” (IS. 55:9)

9. MAN-MADE PLANS l UNIVERSALISM – DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU DO SINCE GOD IS OF LOVE; HE COULD NEVER SEND ANYONE TO A PLACE OF ETERNAL PUNISHMENT “Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off” (ROM. 11:22) There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

10. MAN-MADE PLANS l CALVINISM – DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU DO, SOME ARE UNCONDITIONALLY CHOSEN FOR HELL AND OTHERS FOR HEAVEN “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone” (HEB. 2:9; cf. ROM. 2:11) There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

11. GOD’S SIMPLE PLAN FOR SALVATION hear believe repent confess baptism ACTS 3:22 JN. 6:29 LK. 13:3 JN. 12:42 1 PET. 3:21

12. WHICH OF THESE STEPS CAN WE EXCLUDE? hear believe repent confess baptism ACTS 3:22 JN. 6:29 LK. 13:3 JN. 12:42 1 PET. 3:21

13. hear believe repent confess baptism ACTS 3:22 JN. 6:29 LK. 13:3 JN. 12:42 1 PET. 3:21 “in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 THESS. 1:8) IS IT WORTH EXCLUDING WHAT THE LORD COMMANDS?