Sunday Service Sermon 5.25

Committed to Truth – Part 2
Acts 2:42

Review – definition of truth
The Greek word means “hiding nothing.”
The Hebrew word means “faithfulness“ and “duration.”
In short, truth is simply telling it like it is; it is the way things really are, so that any other viewpoint is false or wrong.
Truth is ____________________ _________.

When there is ________ some things must be __________.

The philosophy of ___________ has consequences.

What truth did the Apostles teach in the early church?
• They did not have the doctrine of ___________.
• They did not have the prophecy of __________.
• They did not have the practical wisdom of ___________.
They had only the stories of the life of Jesus and His words as told through the Apostle’s eyewitness accounts and understood considering the Old Testament.
When the people were devoted to the Apostle’s teaching, they were learning how Jesus fulfilled what the Old Testament taught. The Truth of Jesus Christ is the foundation of all truth, especially for the church.

What does this mean for the church today?
• We must be devoted ____________ of the whole Bible
• We must be ______________ of what people are teaching
• We must not let _____________ or _____________
___________________ influence what the Bible says
• We must base all our _____________ and ________________ on the truth of Scripture
• We must keep ________ as the focal point of all we believe

Matthew 16:15-18
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”