Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzik. We're so glad you joined us today.

We've heard and even repeated catchy band-aid phrases that seem comforting and empowering.

Phrases like, God helps those who help themselves. Speak your truth. Follow your heart.

But did you know the Bible doesn't say any of that?

In this study, we'll turn to Scripture to expose commonly repeated misconceptions

and find freedom and true power in the life-changing truth of God's Word.

Please turn in your Bibles to the Old Testament book of 2nd Samuel.

2nd Samuel chapter 7.

So somebody beat me to the punch many years ago, just to show you there's nothing new under the sun.

Here's a kid's book called,

Hey, that's not what the Bible says. So when you open it up, it says, in the beginning,

God created everything else. Then God created Adam and Eve. Don't you go out? I'm reading to you out of a children's book.

Perfect people in a perfect world. The only thing that God asked of Adam and Eve is that they

not eat of the fruit of a special tree. So they didn't. And all the people of the world lived happily ever after, forever and ever, the end.

And you turn the page and it says in big letters,

hey, that's not what the Bible says.

Then it gives you the real story.

Then the second story in the book,

years later, a whole bunch of people lived on the earth.

The people wouldn't quit sinning.

So God told a man named Noah to build a giant boat called an ark.

All the people of the world got on Noah's ark.

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