1. Truth Matters “The Truth Concerning Freedom!”
John 8:32; Galatians 5:1; Peter 2:15-16

2. Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

3. “The central act of my administration and the greatest event of the 19th century.” Abraham Lincoln

4. “Arbeit Macht Frei” or “Work Liberates”

5. Auschwitz II

6. Auschwitz Liberation January 27, 1945

7. How ironic, a movement that has nothing to do with being a woman, nothing to do with liberation, and nothing to do with progress for the good.

8. to better understand the freeing nature truth brings to our lives
Purpose:
to better understand the freeing nature truth brings to our lives

9. I Beliefs Always Have CONSE- QUENCES
A. Wrong Beliefs Result in Bad Consequences
B. Ignorant Beliefs Result in Bad Consequences

10. Ephesians 4:17-18
“This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk in, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart.”

11. I Beliefs Always Have CONSE- QUENCES
A. Wrong Beliefs Result in Bad Consequences
B. Ignorant Beliefs Result in Bad Consequences
C. Connection Between Beliefs and Consequences

12. George Barna Director of Barna Research Group
“Truth may be a wonderful concept, but many teens don’t have sufficient interest in such an ‘impractical’ or ‘unrealistic’ concept to explore further.”

13. II Answering Life’s Big QUES- TION
A. Every Truth is Not All Import- ant

15. II Answering Life’s Big QUES- TION
A. Every Truth is Not All Import- ant
B. Truth Matters in Life’s Big Questions

16. How we answer these big questions of life will determine what kind of life we live here and where we will spend eternity…

17. III Freedom is Biblical Truth APPLIED
A. Truth Related to Life’s Challenges

18. Our whatever society is a perfect illustration of what relativism is all about…

19. Subjectivism enslaves those who think there is no “truth”…

21. III Freedom is Biblical Truth APPLIED
A. Truth Related to Life’s Challenges
B. Truth Related to Christian Living
C. Truth Related to Spiritual Security

22. Christianity claims to be whole truth and dares to oppose views that are false… Christianity is the only religion that considered FALSE precisely because it claims to be true in an exclusive sense…

24. Conclusion and Summary:
Isn’t this what our Lord declared from the CROSS when He yelled, “It is FINISHED!”? Therefore, know the truth, love the truth, worship the truth… You can count on it: THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE!