does truth exist? 1. many today believe there is no absolute truth 2
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I. All truth is grounded in the nature of God and His word Deut. 32:4 [4] He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 3TRANSCRIPT
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Does Truth Exist?
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• Many today believe there is no absolute truth
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I. All truth is grounded in the nature of God and His word• Deut. 32:4• [4] He is the Rock, his work is perfect:
for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
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Ps. 119:142,151
• [142] Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.• [151] Thou art near, O LORD; and
all thy commandments are truth.
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It is impossible for God not to be true --- Titus 1:2
• [2] In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began
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Heb. 6:18
• [18] That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
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•II. What the Scriptures teach concerning truth
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•1. There is spiritual truth – without it no one can learn how to
please God
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There is truth - Jn. 8:31-32
• [31] Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;[32] And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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Truth is revealed in the word of God - Jn. 17:17
• [17] Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
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2 Tim. 2:15
• [15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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•2. To be of practical value the truth must
be KNOWN
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Jn. 8:32
• [32] And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
•Know = To take in knowledge; to recognize, perceive and understand
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1 Tim. 2:4
• [4] Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
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2 Tim. 3:7
• [7] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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•3. Man must love truth
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• By love we mean “a passionate devotion to understanding and living the truth”.
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2 Th. 2:10
• [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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• The following passages show the type of attitude that one must have toward God’s truth if we want to be pleasing to Him
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Job 23:12
• [12] Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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Mt. 5:6
• [6] Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled
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Jn. 7:17
• [17] If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
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Acts 17:11
• [11] These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
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Those who do not love the truth –Rom. 1:28
• [28] And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
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•4. We must believe the truth
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2 Th. 2:10-12• [10] And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.[11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:[12] That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Look at the young prophet who believed a lie – 1 Kings 13• Vs. 18 “But he lied unto him”• Vs. 26 “It is the man of God, who
was disobedient unto the word of the LORD”
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•5. Knowing the truth we must obey the commands of the
truth
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1 Pet. 1:22
• [22] Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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1 Jn. 1:6
• [6] If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
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1 Jn.2:4
• [4] He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him
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Rom. 6:17-18
• [17] But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.[18] Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
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•6. Things we should do and things we
should not do concerning the truth
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2 Pet. 1:12
• [12] Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
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Gal. 5:7
• [7] Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
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2 Tim. 2:15
• [15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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Eph.4:15
• [15] But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
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2 Jn. 4
• [4] I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
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3 Jn. 3
• [3] For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
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3 Jn. 8
• [8] We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
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Rom. 1:18
• [18] For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
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2 Tim. 3:8
• [8] Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
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Titus 1:14
• [14] Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
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