2. Colossians 1:3-6 Whatever Happened To Truth?

3.  Cardinal statement - Proverbs 23:23  Old Testament principle (Psa. 119:142)  New Testament principle (Jn. 17:17)  Truth and salvation are irrevocably joined together (Eph. 1:13)  Jesus emphasized the importance of truth (Jn. 8:31-32) A Valuable Commodity

4.  We are begotten (born again) by the truth (James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:23)  Truth factors into judgment  Contrast in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-17

5. 2 Thess. 2:10-12 Perish Did not receive the love of the truth They had heard the truth They did not want the truth 2 Thess. 2:13-17 Salvation Belief of the truth Stand fast & hold Called by gospel Loved us Given us Establish you

6.  There is no desire for truth in most religious circles  Too busy seeking numbers and contributions  More interested in advancing toleration  Virtual elimination of sin minimizes any need for truth  Prefer a sanitized version of the truth  In short, the truth of God’s word just GETS IN THE WAY! Where Is Truth Today?

7.  Some attempt to obfuscate the truth  Deliberate failure to identify right/wrong  Redefine or reinterpret the teachi ng  Are we not seeing an enactment of 2 Timothy 4:4?

8.  Notice John 1:14, Jesus was “full of grace and truth”  Many want Jesus in regard to grace  However, the same do not want Him in regard to truth  How fitting are the words of Jeremiah 5:1  See 2 Timothy 3:7

9. “Buy the truth and sell it not” (Prov. 23:23)

10. “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4)

11. “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15)

12. “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15)

13. “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth” (2 Cor. 13:8)

14. “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ” (Eph. 4:15)