"The Truth Will Set You Free" by Wade Webster

Equipped Workshop hosted by Lehman Avenue church of Christ

April 20, 2024 - Saturday 9:00AM Auditorium Speaker

Speaker: Wade Webster

Three Truths of the Truth - (John 8:32)

• Truth is Personal
  • Gal. 6:5 - For each will have to bear his own load.

• • Rom. 2:6-9 - He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
• • Prov. 23:23 - Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

• • Col. 1:5-6 -5 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 6 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,

• • 1 John 2:21- I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

• • Heb. 10:26 - For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

• • 2 Tim. 2:15 - Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

• • Eph. 6:14 - Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

• • 1 Pet. 1:22 -Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

• • 3 John 1:3 - For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.

• Truth is Perceivable

  • John 18:37-38; cf. - Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

    After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.

  • Mat. 27:18 - For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.

  • 1 Tim. 2:3-4 - This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • 1 Tim. 4:3 - who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • 2 Tim. 2:25 - correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,

  • 2 Pet. 1:12 -Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.

  • 1 John 2:21 - I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

  • Psa. 119:79 - Let those who fear you turn to me,
    that they may know your testimonies.

  • Psa. 125 - Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
    which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
    2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
    so the Lord surrounds his people,
    from this time forth and forevermore.
    3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest
    on the land allotted to the righteous,
    lest the righteous stretch out
    their hands to do wrong.
    4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good,
    and to those who are upright in their hearts!
    5 But those who turn aside to their crooked ways
    the Lord will lead away with evildoers!
    Peace be upon Israel!

  • John 14:6-7 - Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • Phil. 3:10 - that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

  • 2 Tim. 1:12 - which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.

  • 2 Tim. 3:15 - and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Truth is Powerful
  • Heb. 4:12; cf. - For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

• • Psa. 33:9 -For he spoke, and it came to be;
    he commanded, and it stood firm.
• • Rom. 1:16 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

• • 1 Thess. 2:13 - And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

• • John 15:3 - Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

• • John 17:17 - Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

• • Acts 20:32 - And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

• • Jam. 1:21- Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• • John 8:33-36 -They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

    34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave[a] to sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

  • Rom. 6:17-18 - But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
• • Jam. 1:25 - But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4wyzLbWR6s

Duration 38:04