The Truth Is Like

A Big-Mac©Personal Evangelism is our purpose.

Review Of The Last Lesson

Our responsibility is to teach people. We realize there are people not

familiar with the Bible or its concepts.

We look to the example of Jesus on how to teach others.

Focusing upon the truth of God’s word and recognizing that truth will bring about salvation.

Why This Approach?

Now you are probably thinking that I have gone bonkers.

But wait a few minutes before you pass judgment.

Let's see where I’m coming from. These comparisons just might surprise you.

THE LOCATION

First we know where NOT to find the Big-Mac©

Library, Shoe store, City Hall, quarter store, hardware store, in fact most stores

(obviously this was written before Wal-marts brought McDonalds into the stores)

Our homes, the rodeo arena, our favorite hunting or fishing spots, etc.

You will not find it at Subway, China Palace, Taco-Bell, Sonic, or Shooters.

The Location:

o We will find a Big-Mac where it belongs.

o At McDonalds.

o Everywhere and anywhere you find a McDonalds, you will find a Big-Mac.

o This is where it was created, and this is where it was trademarked, and this is where it is marketed.

The Location:What does this have to do with

the truth?1st, we learn where not to find the truth.Smutty magazines, love novels, science

books, most restaurants and retail stores, etc.

The Location of the Truth

Food you find in a restaurant. ----- Truth you find in a church.

As you can not find a Big-Mac in just any restaurant, you cannot find the truth in just any church.

You can only find it in the church that serves it.

How can you get it?Matthew 7:7 (NKJV) "Ask, and it

will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

You go to the right place and ask for it by name.

I want a Big-Mac.Try asking for that at Wendy’s or

Burger King, and see what happens.

Can You Change It? Someone might go in and ask for a Big-mac

but add tomatoes or take off the pickles or use mustard instead of the special sauce.

People usually treat the truth this way, They do not like it in its purity, so they take away, add to, or change the ingredients.

If you want it some way other than what it is, go to Burger-King where you can "have it your way".

The bible warns us to take the word as it is, without compromise.

What Makes Up A Big-Mac?

• Many people remember the ingredients of a Big-Mac.

• It is the same in all the McDonalds stores.

• Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame-seed bun.

• What if you only got one beef-patty?

• Would it be a true Big-Mac?

What happens when you change it?o When you change the ingredients, it becomes just

another sandwich or in our spiritual application, another doctrine.

o When you change it, it ceases to be what it was intended to be.

o Many people are ignorant of what the Bible contains.

o Many who are ignorant of scripture still try to explain it, and they do such a poor job.

o 2 Timothy 3:16 (NKJV) "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."

Does Everybody Like It?

Many people do not like Big-MacsIn the same way, many do not like the truth.That becomes evident by how they treat it.Just do not ask for it.If get by accident, trade it in or throw it

away.Tell others you do not like it.Make up stories about why others should

not enjoy it.

It Is Satisfying.

When you find it you are satisfied (usually).

You are filled. One's a meal, unless you are

some sort of pig.The Truth should work the same

way.

Does It Last?

Only for a short time.One helping is not enough for sustenance of

life. You must constantly receive nourishment in

order to live, so you need to go back for more or find nourishment of other sorts,

continually.

Is One Helping Enough?

o Much like the physical food, one helping will not last a lifetime,

o We must continuously seek the nourishment for our spiritual health.

o 2Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. (KJV)

o Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

o Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

AAAAHHHHH! Or UGH!!!

Reward or Punishment---depending on if you like it.

Many people enjoy it, they would not have sold billions had

people not liked it.McDonalds tried other sandwiches and

discontinued them because they did not sell,

Still, some people do not like it.

AAAAH or UGH!!!

The truth is enjoyable to someand hard to swallow for others. As Jesus taught, the one's who enjoy it are far fewer than

those who despise it. Matt 7:13-14. The straight and narrow that

leads to life vs the broad and crooked that leads to destruction.

Simple, yet Complicated

The Big-Mac is simple and detailed at the same time.

The most simple way to look at a Big-mac is that it is food.

You could dig deeper and know the ingredients, and you could even scientifically examine to see the individual ingredients and their origins and characteristics.

A pathologist could examine a piece of meat and tell where it came from.

A biologist could tell where the onions and lettuce came from and so forth.

Even the wheat to make bread can be examined.

Simple Yet Complicated.

Now the TRUTH.Perhaps complicated is not the right

word, even though some make it that way.

Deep would be better in describing the truth of God’s word.

It is simple enough to understand,And deep enough to immerse

ourselves into it to gather all the knowledge and treasures therein.

A sacrifice is required.

In order to receive it, you must make a sacrifice.

You must pay for it. $2.39 now. You trade your money for what

you want. Sometimes it was on for $.99,

or some other special.

A sacrifice is required.

In order to receive the truth, we must make some sacrifice. We must give up or change our feelings,

emotions, and in many cases, our lifestyle when we are exposed to the

truth and decide to accept it.

It Is Decision Time

• Am I as bonkers as you thought a little while ago?

• Or does this make sense.

• Can you think of some other comparisons along this line.

• Next we will do some comparing of the church with McDonalds.

• Such logic does not work with every fact, but there are many learning tools we can gather to teach us these things

ConclusionTeaching others about the truth is as easy as

teaching them about something they know about.

You draw parallels in your teaching, so that they can understand the basic points.

These points are really simple to comprehend, and thus the truth can be learned in much the same way.

Are you doing your part to teach others?