Listener’s Copy

THE DA VINCI CODE DECEPTION

TEST THE SPIRITS … TRUST IN GOD

I. KEY CONCERNS AND QUESTIONS

A. Four KEY questions are raised by the Book (DVC):
1. Was Jesus married and did He have a child?
2. Is the DVC a reliable source of world and church
history?
3. Can we trust the Bible and God’s Word as truth?
4. Did no one believe Jesus was divine until 300
years after His death?

II. HISTORY & ECCLESIOLOGY (study of the church)

A. The DVC is a__________—a work of __________
B. Nothing historically or in church history points to
Jesus being married or having children.
C. We can ___________________________________
“And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I
will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not
overcome it” (Matthew 16:18).
III. RELIABILITY OF BIBLICAL TRUTH
A. The Bible is _____________ and _______________.
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for
teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in
righteousness…” (2 Timothy 3:16).
B. NT books were part of the “Canon” (meaning rule or
standard). The Gnostic Gospels were ____________
______________.
“But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light,
so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done
has been done through God” (1 John 3:21).
V. CLOSING
A. Ultimately deciding on what and whom to build our
faith
“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord,
continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him,
strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and
overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one
takes you captive through hollow And deceptive
philosophy, which depends on human tradition and
the basic principles of the world rather than in Christ.
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily
form…” (Colossians 2:6-9).

C. The Bible warns against ______________________. The REALITY is found in ______________________!

“But there were also false prophets among the “…The reality, however, is found in Christ” (2
people, just as there will be false teachers among Colossians 2:17).
you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies,
even denying the sovereign Lord who brought them”
(2 Peter 2:1).

IV. CHRIST’S DIVINITY

A. Jesus was fully _____ and fully _______________.
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling
among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the
One and Only, who came from the Father, full of
grace and truth” (John 1:14).
B. We’re Christ’s ______________________________.
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,
that we should be called children of God! And that is
what we are!” (1 John 3:1)
“Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of
God and co-heirs with Christ…” (Romans 8:17).