Our Responsibility Towards the Truth

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Our Responsibility Towards the Truth
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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 831-32

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What is the Truth?

• I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
  comes to the Father except through Me.
• John 146

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What is the Truth?

• Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is
  truth.
• John 1717

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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

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1. Know the Truth
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1. Know the Truth

• Truly, these times of ignorance God
  overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere
  to repent.
• Acts 1730

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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 1248

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1. Know the Truth

• Therefore do not be unwise, but understand
  what the will of the Lord is.
• Ephesians 517

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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 23-4

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2. Value the Truth
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2. Value the Truth

• Buy the truth, and do not sell it.
• Proverbs 2323

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2. Value the Truth

• Buy the truth, and do not sell it.
• Proverbs 2323

How much will you take for this?
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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 37-8

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3. Obey the Truth
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3. Obey the Truth

• Since you have purified your souls in obeying
  the truth...
• 1 Peter 122

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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 28-9

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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 31, 57

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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

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4. Labor For the Truth
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4. Labor For the Truth

• We therefore ought to receive such, that we
  may become fellow workers for the truth.
• 3 John 8

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How Do We Labor in the Truth?

• Study - 2 Tim. 215
• Establish and encourage the faith of others - 1
  Thess. 31-2
• Spread the gospel - Acts 84
• Defend the gospel - Phil 117

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5. Love the Truth
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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 210

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My Responsibility To The Truth

• Know the Truth
• Value the Truth
• Obey the Truth
• Labor for the Truth
• Love the Truth

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Obey the Gospel Today!

• Believe in Jesus - John 824
• Repent of your sins - Luke 133
• Confess your faith - Rom. 109-10
• Be baptized - Mark 1616