1. (TRUTH MATTERS) “The Truth Concerning Truth!” John 8:31-32

2. You can use this single term and have a total conversation over a variety of subjects. For example…

3. There’s another word that remains on the scene. I heard Chuck Colson speak about this word at Taylor University. The word is whatever…

5. Purpose: to better learn our need to face the truth concerning truth

6. IYour Beliefs are Your CHOICE A.You Have a Belief System

7. …Everyone has some kind of belief system they have chosen in order to deal with life…

8. IYour Beliefs are Your CHOICE A.You Have a Belief System B.Your Belief System is Your Responsibility

9. Romans 1:25 “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator – Who is forever praised. Amen.”

10. IIYour Beliefs Determine Your BEHAVIOR A.This is True Even When Your Beliefs are Wrong

11. If you think God is distant, uninvolved and removed… will you pursue a close relationship with Him?

12. IIYour Beliefs Determine Your BEHAVIOR A.This is True Even When Your Beliefs are Wrong B.You Will Act Out Your Beliefs

13. Proverbs 4:23 “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.”

14. IIIYour Beliefs May be Utterly FALSE A.Belief in Something Doesn’t Make it True

15. God is real not because we believe in Him… nor is He false just because she doesn’t believe in Him…

16. IIIYour Beliefs May be Utterly FALSE A.Belief in Something Doesn’t Make it True B.Acting on a Belief Doesn’t Make it True

17. 10.All your problems are somebody else’s fault… 9.This world owes you happiness… 8.You’ll be happy if you get whatever you want… 7.There never is a reason to be guilty… Top Ten Talk Show Myths:

18. 6.Man is basically good… 5.All beliefs have equal validity… 4.The answer lies within you… 3.Pornography and perversion are innocent… 2.You can have it all… 1.You shouldn’t have to wait for anything… Top Ten Talk Show Myths:

19. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”

20. IVYour False Beliefs Produce BONDAGE A.Friendly Fire Sometimes Kills

21. The English warship HMS Scheffield was hit and ultimately destroyed by a missile their computer said was “friendly fire”…

22. IVYour False Beliefs Produce BONDAGE A.Friendly Fire Sometimes Kills B.There is a Liberating Truth

23. Conclusion and Summary 1.I Will Pursue the Truth

24. Winston Churchill said it, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry away as if nothing happened.”

25. 2 Thessalonians 2:10 “…They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.”

26. Conclusion and Summary 1.I Will PURSUE the Truth 2.I Will PRACTICE the Truth

27. Matthew 7:24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”

28. Conclusion and Summary 1.I Will PURSUE the Truth 2.I Will PRACTICE the Truth 3.I Will PROMOTE the Truth

29. John 14:7 “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through Me.”