Love Rejoices in Truth
Pastor Phil Vance
November 8, 2015
Highlights:
1. Telling the truth is a characteristic of Love.
2. If you want to know the truth, you must know the bible.
3. Christians are to be in the world but not of it. We are in it to save it with the truth – not of it to partake of it’s lies.
Discussion Questions:
1. Share together how a change of perspective, has helped you to see that what you thought was true was not.
2. Soaking in the word of God takes time. Share together some “soaking” strategies for personal devotional time.
3. Who is the Lord asking you to lovingly bring truth to?
Key Scriptures and Quotes:
– Ephesians 4:11-15
Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.
-Trickery: artifice or fraud
Artifice: clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive.
Fraud: in law, deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain
1 John 4:4-6
But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them. But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception.
D.L. Moody this book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book.