Conclusion: The Lie Revisited
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J.D. Greear
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Can you remember the last time you went through a period of intense doubt?
In this episode of “12 Truths & A Lie,” Pastor J.D. talks about the most famous doubter of all time-Thomas-and shows us how we can deal with our doubts. Many of us think that our doubts disqualify us spiritually. But doubt is like a raised foot: It can step backwards in unbelief, but it can also walk forward in faith.
You’ll learn what to do with your doubts, as well as what God says to you in the midst of your doubt. Like Thomas, you may not get all of your questions answered. But you may get something even better-a love too wonderful for words.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to Ask Me Anything where Pastor J.D. Greer answers your questions. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm Matt Love, and we have got a bonus episode for you this week. So go ahead and check this out. |
| 0:32.6 | The whole point of this podcast series has been that whether you're a Christian or not, you've dealt with doubt. |
| 0:38.7 | That's the lie. Twelve truths and a lie. The lie is that the presence of doubt makes you a bad |
| 0:44.9 | Christian or makes something defective about your faith. Maybe you aren't a Christian because |
| 0:49.2 | you've had some doubts about God and you concluded, well, I just must not be cut out for belief. |
| 0:54.5 | Y'all, here's the thing. Almost every conscientious Christian I've ever known has had doubts. |
| 1:00.6 | If you're in that category, maybe we believe differently. I believe in Jesus and I'm convinced |
| 1:05.6 | the Bible is the word of God, but I promise you we've had a lot of the same questions. |
| 1:09.9 | And so I want to return to that image that |
| 1:12.6 | Charles Spurgeon had that we talked about at the beginning. And that is that doubt is like a foot |
| 1:18.1 | that is raised, a foot that is poised. It can go forwards or backwards. It's true. Doubt can |
| 1:23.6 | drive you backwards into unbelief, but it's also true that you'll never actually grow deep |
| 1:27.8 | in your faith unless you pick that foot up and ask the question and express the doubt and wrestle with it. |
| 1:32.6 | It encourages me, honestly, and it's almost a strange encouragement, but most of the Bible, most of our |
| 1:38.2 | Bibles was written by people who had deep questions with God and even what you would call doubts, |
| 1:45.7 | people who were waiting and saying, |
| 1:50.5 | God, I believe in your goodness, but I don't see it. And I'm confused right now as to what I'm seeing or not seeing. What I want to show you today in this final episode here of our little |
| 1:54.4 | series is I want to show you how Jesus taught us to deal with our doubts. Again, I want you to hear |
| 1:59.1 | what I'm saying, not how never to have them. He never said that, but what to do with our doubts. Again, I want you to hear what I'm saying. Not how never to have them. |
| 2:01.4 | He never said that, but what to do with them when we do have them. Here's a radical thought. |
| 2:06.6 | What if you learned to doubt your doubts? I get that phrase from Tim Keller, and I've always loved it. |
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