Jun. 08, 2025

Grow Up!

Truth

Primary Text:  John 16:13                 

Last Teaching:  Grow Up! – Faithfulness

1)  Fidelity

Galatians 5:22-23:  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

1 John 1:9:  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

2)  Rewards of Faithfulness
Matthew 25:14-21:  Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them….  After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them….  “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant!  You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.  Come and share your master’s happiness!’”  

This Week’s Teaching:

1)  Rejoice Rightly

1 Corinthians 13:4-7:  Love… keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  

DQ 1) What is truth (John 18:38)?

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2)  The Truthful One

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

Revelation 19:11-13:  I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True.  With justice he judges and makes war….  He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 

DQ 2) Explain how Jesus is the Truth. 

DQ 3) How do justice and truth go hand in hand?

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3)  True Law

Psalm 119:137-142:  Righteous are you, O Lord, and your laws are right.  The statutes you have laid down are righteous; they are fully trustworthy….  Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true.

Psalm 19:7-11:  The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul….  The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart.  The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes….  They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey….  By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. 

DQ 4) What is the law of God?  From where does it originate?  

DQ 5) What does knowledge of the truth of God produce in the human mind?

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4)  The Spirit of Truth

John 14:15-17:  If you love me, you will obey what I command.  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever--the Spirit of truth.  The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him.  But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

John 15:26:  When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.

John 16:13:  But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.  He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.  

DQ 6) How does the Holy Spirit guide us into all truth?

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5)  True Freedom 

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

DQ 7) How is truth integral to freedom?

DQ 8) How does the truth set you free?

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