STUDY SHEETS for FFC for Sunday – August 7, 2016

Scoffers scoff, and mockers mock. It’s what they do.

(2 Chronicles 36:16 NLT) But the people mocked these messengers of God and despised their words. They scoffed at the prophets until the LORD’s anger could no longer be restrained and nothing could be done.
(Proverbs 1:22 ESV) How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
(2 Peter 3:3 ESV) Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
(Acts 17:32 ESV) Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
(Galatians 6:7 ESV) Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Our faith is not blind faith. We have good reason to believe our God. We intimately know the Person we trust. We live in him and in his words. We know that he is true and what he says is true because it is plain and clearly perceived in the world around us.
We have evidence to support our belief system because we have a written, accurate account from the only eye witness. What we observe fits this written account because the written account is true.
We have no need to suppress the truth because truth is the foundation of our belief system. Those who oppose our written account—God’s word, the Bible—have a tremendous obstacle in their quest. They must suppress the truth of God that his entire creation, including humans, gives witness to.

Message Title: “Noah and the Great Flood”