You Can Handle the Truth Week 1
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
What is truth speaking to me?
Bad Behavior
Bad Beliefs
“What is truth?”
— John 18:38
Proverbs 14:12 — There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
My Truth / Your Truth
Fads
Family
Friends
Feelings
Failures (Sin)
Colossians 2:8 — Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual principles of this world, rather than from Christ.
Galatians 1:6-7
I am shocked that you have so quickly turned from God, who chose you with his gift of undeserved grace. You have believed another message, when there is really only one true message. But some people are causing you trouble and want to make you turn away from the good news about Christ.
We don’t plant weeds — We pull weeds.
Romans 1
18 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth through unrighteousness.
21 Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him or give thanks to Him as God, but became futile in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
23 They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves.
25 They turned the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Turned the Truth
Twisted the Truth
Error indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should not at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.
— Irenaeus
11%
Inconvenience
Inaccuracy
Authoritative Scripture
John 21:25 — Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
The Holy Bible
2 Timothy 3
12 Everyone who wants to live showing true devotion to God in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13 People who are evil and cheat others will become worse and worse. They will fool others, but they will also be fooling themselves.
14 But you should continue following the teaching you learned. You know it is true, because you know you can trust those who taught you.
15 You have known the Holy Scriptures since you were a child. These Scriptures are able to make you wise. And that wisdom leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is given by God. And all Scripture is useful for teaching and for showing people what is wrong in their lives. It is useful for correcting faults and teaching the right way to live.
17 Using the Scriptures, those who serve God will be prepared and will have everything they need to do every good work.
We want to align our lives to the Bible, not align the Bible to our lives.
The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.
— Charles Spurgeon