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“What is the Truth?”

“If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

John 8:31-32

“What is the Truth?”

“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

John 14:6

“What is the Truth?”

“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”

John 17:17

“What is the Truth?”

1. Divine, everlasting fact; not dependant upon our acceptance

2. The truth, not one of many truths

3. Brings a promised blessing

4. Also brings responsibilities

1. Know the Truth

1. Know the Truth

“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.”

Acts 17:30

1. Know the Truth

“He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him - the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.”

John 12:48

1. Know the Truth

“Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”

Ephesians 5:17

1. Know the Truth

“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

1 Timothy 2:3-4

2. Value the Truth

2. Value the Truth

“Buy the truth, and do not sell it.”

Proverbs 23:23

2. Value the Truth

“Buy the truth, and do not sell it.”

Proverbs 23:23

“How much will you take for this?”

2. Value the Truth

“But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ .”

Philippians 3:7-8

3. Obey the Truth

3. Obey the Truth

“Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth...”

1 Peter 1:22

3. Obey the Truth

“But to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness - indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish…”

Romans 2:8-9

3. Obey the Truth

“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth?”

“You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?”

Galatians 3:1, 5:7

3. Obey the Truth

“For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”

3 John 3-4

4. Labor For the Truth

4. Labor For the Truth

“We therefore ought to receive such, that we may become fellow workers for the truth.”

3 John 8

How Do We Labor in the Truth?

• Study - 2 Tim. 2:15• Establish and encourage the faith of

others - 1 Thess. 3:1-2• Spread the gospel - Acts 8:4• Defend the gospel - Phil 1:17

5. Love the Truth

5. Love the Truth

“…and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

2 Thessalonians 2:10

My Responsibility To The Truth

• Know the Truth

• Value the Truth

• Obey the Truth

• Labor for the Truth

• Love the Truth

Obey the Gospel Today!

• Believe in Jesus - John 8:24• Repent of your sins - Luke 13:3• Confess your faith - Rom. 10:9-10• Be baptized - Mark 16:16