I want to be a Christian, because. . . .

1. I want to be a Christian, because. . . . I love the truth!

2. Lesson Text Page 1051 Love the truth: • 2 Th. 2:7-12 What is your commitment to truth?

3. Lesson Text Page 1051 Love the truth: • 2 Th. 2:7-12 What is your commitment to truth? We are living in a postmodern society!

4. Lesson Text Page 1051 Love the truth: • 2 Th. 2:7-12 What is your commitment to truth? We are living in a postmodern society! It’s nothing new (Ec. 1:9).

5. There is absolute truth! Page 579 God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21

6. There is absolute truth! Page 958 God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21 • Jn. 17:17

7. Ecclesiastes 12:10 The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.

8. There is absolute truth! Page 958 God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21 • Jn. 17:17

9. There is absolute truth! Page 955 God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21 • Jn. 17:17 • Jn. 14:6

10. John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

11. John 12:48 "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.

12. There is absolute truth! Page 955 God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21 • Jn. 17:17 • Jn. 14:6

13. There is absolute truth! Page 995 God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21 • Jn. 17:17 • Jn. 14:6 • Acts 26:24-25

14. Galatians 2:5 But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

15. There is absolute truth! Page 995 God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21 • Jn. 17:17 • Jn. 14:6 • Acts 26:24-25

16. There is absolute truth! Examples: • David moving ark • Paul in Athens Page 995 • Galatians God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21 • Jn. 17:17 • Jn. 14:6 • Acts 26:24-25

17. Acts 17:30-31 "Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead."

18. There is absolute truth! Examples: • David moving ark • Paul in Athens Page 995 • Galatians God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21 • Jn. 17:17 • Jn. 14:6 • Acts 26:24-25

19. Galatians 1:6-9 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!

20. Galatians 5:4 You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

21. There is absolute truth! Examples: • David moving ark • Paul in Athens Page 995 • Galatians God’s word is absolute truth! • Pr. 22:20-21 • Jn. 17:17 • Jn. 14:6 • Acts 26:24-25

22. I want to be a Christian, because. . . . I love the truth!