WHY DO YOU DO, WHAT

YOU ARE DOING?

 2 CORINTHIANS 5:14

14 For Christ’s love compels us,

because we are convinced that one
died for all, and therefore all died.
 2 CORINTHIANS 5:15

15 And he died for all, that those who

live should no longer live for
themselves but for him who died for
them and was raised again.
WHY DO YOU BELIEVE,
WHAT YOU BELIEVE?
 ATTRIBUTES OF TRUTH

1. Truth is not truth because the majority of people believes it.

2. Truth does not cease to exist because you refuse to believe it.

3. Truth does not depend on our feelings.

4. Truth must correspond with facts.

5. Truth is narrow and exclusive.

 THINK CRITICALLY

Two contradictory or opposite truth

claims cannot both be true at the same
time and in the same sense.
 JOHN 14:6

6 Jesusanswered, “I am the way and the

truth and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me.
 2 MOST IMPORTANT
QUESTIONS OF OUR LIVES
 ACTS 22:3-4

3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up

in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly
trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as
zealous for God as any of you are today. 4 I
persecuted the followers of this Way to their death,
arresting both men and women and throwing them into
prison,
 ACTS 26:9, 11

9 “I
too was convinced that I ought to do all that was
possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

11 Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to

have them punished, and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I
was so obsessed with persecuting them that I even hunted them
down in foreign cities.
 ACTS 22:6-7

6 “About noon as I came near Damascus,

suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed
around me. 7 I fell to the ground and heard a
voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute
me?’
QUESTION NO.

1
 ACTS 22:8-9

8 “‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked.

“ ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are
persecuting,’ he replied. 9 My companions saw the
light, but they did not understand the voice of
him who was speaking to me.
QUESTION NO.

2
 ACTS 22:10

10 “‘What shall I do, Lord?’ I asked.

“ ‘Get up,’ the Lord said, ‘and go into
Damascus. There you will be told all that
you have been assigned to do.’
QUESTION NO.

1
 QUESTION NO. 1

3 tests to know if the Lord is your Lord.

1. Test of LOVE

2. Test of OBEDIENCE

3. Test of SECURITY
 QUESTION NO. 1

WHO ARE YOU LORD?

FOR PAUL IT WAS JESUS

 1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-5

3 Forwhat I received I passed on to you as of first

importance: that Christ died for our sins according to
the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was
raised on the third day according to the
Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and
then to the Twelve.
 1 CORINTHIANS 15:6

6 After that, he appeared to more than five

hundred of the brothers and sisters at the
same time, most of whom are still living,
though some have fallen asleep.
 1 CORINTHIANS 15:7-8

7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the

apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to
me also, as to one abnormally born.
 1 CORINTHIANS 15:9-10

9 For I am the least of the apostles and do not

even deserve to be called an apostle, because I
persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the
grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to
me was not without effect. No, I worked harder
than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of
God that was with me.
DR. SIMON GREENLEAF

He wrote the
RULES OF EVIDENCE

Professor at
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
 RULES OF EVIDENCE

• Are the witnesses HONEST?

• Are the witnesses BELIEVABLE?
• Are there enough WITNESSES?
• Are the witnesses CONSISTENT?
 HOW THE APOSTLES DIED?

• PETER and PHILIP were crucified.

• MATTHEW was killed by the sword.

• MARK was dragged to death by horses through Alexandrias streets.

• LUKE died by hanging.

• JAMES THE GREATER was beheaded.

• JAMES THE JUST was thrown down from a pinnacle of the temple
after refusing to deny Jesus Christ.
 HOW THE APOSTLES DIED?

• THADDEUS (JUDE) was killed by arrows.

• THOMAS was run through with a spear in India.

• BATHOLOMEW (NATHANAEL) was whipped to death in Armenia.

• MATTHIAS was stoned and then beheaded.

• PAUL was beheaded

• ANDREW was crucified in Greece.

 ANDREW’S LAST WORDS

"O beloved cross! I have greatly longed for thee. I rejoice to see
thee erected here. I come to thee with a peaceful conscience and
with cheerfulness, desiring that I, who am a disciple of Him who
hung on the cross, may also be crucified.“

"The nearer I come to the cross, the nearer I come to God; and
the farther I am from the cross, the farther I remain from God."
 HOSTILE SOURCES

“JESUS…arose after death, and exhibited the

marks of his punishment, and showed how his
hands had been pierced by nails.”

Phlegon, Roman Historian

 HOSTILE SOURCES

“At this time there was a wise man who was

called Jesus.. Pilate ordered him to be condemned
and to die. And those who had become his
disciples did not abandon his leadership. They
had reported that he had appeared to them three
days after his crucifixion and that he was alive.”

Flavius Josephus
 AFTER TRIAL

“The resurrection is one of the best documented

events in the history of man”

Dr. Simon Greanleaf

QUESTION NO.

2
 QUESTION NO. 2

WHAT SHALL I DO, LORD?

 ACTS 26:16

16 But rise and stand on your feet; for I have

appeared to you for this purpose, to make
you a minister and a witness both of the
things which you have seen and of the
things which I will yet reveal to you.
 ACTS 26:18

18 to open their eyes, in order to

turn them from darkness to light,
and from the power of Satan to God, that
they may receive forgiveness of sins and an
inheritance among those who
are sanctified by faith in Me.’
 If the resurrection is a fact, then
everything that Jesus says should be
true!!
 MATTHEW 13:49-50

49 Soit will be at the end of the age. The

angels will come forth, separate the wicked
from among the just, 50 and cast them into
the furnace of fire. There will be wailing
and gnashing of teeth.”
 REVELATION 21:3

3 AndI heard a loud voice from heaven saying,

“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and
He will dwell with them, and they shall be His
people. God Himself will be with them and
be their God.
 REVELATION 21:4

4 And God will wipe away every tear from their

eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow,
nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the
former things have passed away.”