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Six Foundational Truths
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| My first question is, what are the six foundations? | |
| We started this a little bit last time you're with us before lightning struck, but what are the six foundational truths that every Christian must know? | |
| Could we start there? | |
| That'd be great. | |
| You know, I want to say when you watch the kind of role that you just showed on television, people are being shaken in their faith. | |
| People are just being shaken. | |
| In fact, I got a phone call from somebody yesterday who said, what are we supposed to do? | |
| We're just so shaken by everything that's going on. | |
| And this is why it is so very important that people know what they believe and they really be founded on a very strong foundation. | |
| Because when your foundation is strong, you are not shakable. | |
| And when you come to Hebrews chapter 6, the writer of Hebrews lists six things that every Christian needs to know. | |
| And in fact, he says you can't really go on to other things until first you have these things in place. | |
| And the first is repentance from dead works. | |
| Brother Jim and Laurie, this is so important that if you do not understand repentance, you're not even saved. | |
| Secondly, it mentions faith toward God. | |
| What in the world does that mean? | |
| Well, it's very important for us to all know what it means. | |
| Then number three, it says the doctrine of baptisms. | |
| And isn't that interesting? | |
| It's plural, which means there's more than one baptism. | |
| Then it mentions the doctrine of the laying on of hands. | |
| That's amazing to me that the laying on of hands would be right in the middle of all these heavy-duty doctrines. | |
| Then it mentions the doctrine of resurrection of the dead. | |
| And finally, the doctrine of eternal judgment. | |
| These are the absolute foundations of our faith. | |
| And unfortunately, because today there's not a lot of verse-by-verse teaching in the church, people are not being established in these basics. | |
| And you know, I thank God for inspirational preaching and motivational preaching. | |
| There's a place for all of that. | |
| But unfortunately, it has totally usurped the place of verse-by-verse teaching of the Bible. | |
| But the Bible says these are six foundational truths that your life has to be built upon. | |
| For example, repentance from dead works. | |