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
We Need a Reality Check
Part 4
November 8, 2015 • Lee McKinney