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What Is Truth?

What Is Truth?. Part Four The Right Attitude Toward Truth. Postmodernism vs. the Bible. Part 1: Our modern world is suffering from truth decay … among many, truth is no longer 1) knowable, 2) absolute, 3) objective), or 4) universal

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What Is Truth?

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  1. What Is Truth? Part Four The Right Attitude Toward Truth

  2. Postmodernism vs. the Bible • Part 1: Our modern world is suffering from truth decay … among many, truth is no longer 1) knowable, 2) absolute, 3) objective), or 4) universal • Part 2: The Bible speaks of things that are true and of the nature of truth (truth is what conforms to reality) • Part 3: One’s attitude and responsibility toward truth is not always what it should be (Isa. 59:14-15; Jer. 7:27-28)

  3. Postmodernism vs. the Bible • Part 4: One’s attitude and responsibility toward truth can be right (1 Kings 22:16)

  4. We Must Procure Truth • The search for truth is not merely limited to a search … truth must be obtained and secured • “Buy the truth and sell it not…” (Prov. 23:23) • “you shall know the truth” (Jn. 8:32) • “received from us the word of the message … as it is in truth” (1 Thess. 2:13) • “come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4)

  5. We Must Practice Truth • The search for truth is not merely an academic pursuit or a hypothetical and theoretical exercise … truth must be put into use daily • “he that does the truth” (Jn. 3:21) • “worship in spirit and truth” (Jn. 4:23-24) • “obedience to the truth” (1 Pet. 1:22) • “thy children walking in truth” (2 Jn. 4)

  6. We Must Proclaim Truth • The search for truth is not merely personal … truth must be preached to others for their good as well • “in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation” (Eph. 1:13) • “the pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15) • “handling aright the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15) • “fellow-workers for the truth” (3 Jn. 8)

  7. We Must Plead Truth • The search for truth is not merely a casual pursuit; but we must beseech, implore, and entreat others to come to the truth as well • “speaking truth in love” (Eph. 4:15) • “repentance unto the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 2:25)

  8. We Must Protect Truth • The search for truth is not merely an impersonal object … truth must be personally defended against all attacks • “the truth of the gospel might continue” (Gal. 2:5) • “walked not uprightly according to the truth” (Gal. 2:14) • “Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth” (Eph. 6:14)

  9. We Must Praise Truth • The search for truth is not merely an obligation forced upon us … truth must be praised and adored in our life • “every one that is of the truth” (Jn. 18:37) • “rejoices with the truth” (1 Cor. 13:6) • “we can do nothing against the truth” (2 Cor. 13:8) • “established in the truth” (2 Pet. 1:12)

  10. Postmodernism vs. the Bible • We can know truth (John 8:32) and God wants us to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4) • We are created by God and we are to follow his wisdom, not our understanding (Prov. 3:5; Jer. 10:23) • We cannot know all there is to know, but we can know God’s truth (Deut. 29:29; Eccl. 12:12-14)

  11. Postmodernism vs. the Bible • Truth does not decay, only those who hear it (Isa. 59:14-15; Jer. 7:28) • We can be certain about what God wants for us (1 Jn. 5:13) • There is nothing as good as the truth; there is no substitute for truth!

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