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We Need a Reality Check

Part 4

November 8, 2015 • Lee McKinney

What is Truth? We need a Reality Check!!

John 18:37-38a

What is Truth?

Truth= agreement with fact or reality.

Relativism= individuals create for themselves moral and truth claims

TOLERANCE= sympathy for or acceptance of feelings or habits that are not one’s own.

New Tolerance= sympathy for and full acceptance of feelings habits of everyone.
HOW DO we MAKE Moral and Ethical decisions about TRUTH?

*Eph. 4:14 I Tim. 4:1-2

1Kings 21:20

Jude 1:3

Isaiah 50:6-8 WHO WILL CONTEND WITH ME!!

Our reality bears witness to the Truth!

We need a “Reality Check”

2 Corinthians 13:4-5

Truth= agreement with fact or reality.

Reality= “actual existence”

What is our reality?

John 1:14

Our Faith is grounded on the TRUTH not Clarity!

2 Cor. 5:7

Galatians 2:10 He is the Artist; we are His art work!

The truth of our existence is found in him; NOT OUR perception of reality…….

The Truth of our reality must be revealed; It cannot be held as self evident.

REV. 3:14-18

Phil 3:3-9

Galatians 2:20

Hebrews 12:2-3



HOW DO WE FIND GOD”S TRUTH FOR OUR REALITY??

John 17:17

How does God convey His Word? “How do I discover the Truth of My reality”

Hebrews 1:1-5 The life of Christ as portrayed in scripture is God’s Truth!

The Logos of God!

Romans 15:4

Psalm 119:18-19

LUKE 8:40-48

The Rhema of God! Special Revelation from God!

Psalm 63:4-8