01-27-13 AM - Answering Our Culture, pt. 2

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Answering our Culture #2 There is no absolute truth.
John 8:31; 14:6

Tooth fairy?  Santa Claus?  Easter Bunny?                                                    

• They feel that absolute truth is too hard, if not impossible to find.
• Too many charlatans.
• Relativism, has no accountability to a standard.

1.  IF TRUTH IS RELATIVE, THEN. . .

A.  All spiritual truth is valid.

Jesus says He is the only truth and only way to the Father is through Him.     Islam claims that Christianity is false.

B.  Persuasion is not allowed - tolerance is king.

C. No moral absolutes.

II. IF TRUTH IS ABSOLUTE, THEN. . .

A.  It can be found.

Definition:  Truth must be objective (true for all people), universal (true in all places), and constant (true for all times).                                                        

The words "truth", "true," and "truly" appear in the Bible 338 times.  Jesus says, "I tell you the truth," 80 times in the Bible.

 What is going to be the final authority for my life?  What's standard will

B.  It must be acted upon.

John 8:31 - To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.  32, Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

C.  Anything untrue must be rejected.

John 14:6:  Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."

III. COMMITMENTS

1. I commit myself to seeking the truth.

2 Timothy 4:3-4
3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

2.  I commit myself to living the truth.

James 4:17 Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

Eph. 4:14-15 We will no longer be like children, forever changing our minds about what we believe because somebody has told us something different or cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth.  Instead, we will lovingly follow the truth at all times - speaking truly, living truly - and so become more and more in every way like Christ.

3.  I commit myself to believing the truth.