1. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
John 17:17 (NKJV)
17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

2. Nature of Truth
John 17:17

3. Does Truth Exist? Statement – “Truth does not exist”
Is that statement true or false?
If it is false, then truth exist
If it is true, then truth exist
Logical to believe that truth does exist

4. Desire for Truth John 18:33-38 Pilate asked, “What is truth?”
We might ask the same question today
Many wonder what the truth is
Looking at the various doctrines…

5. Can we know the truth? Is truth attainable?
How do we know what is truth and that we can believe it?
Jesus said, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32

6. We can know the truth! Great news! We can know the truth!
The question that remains is…What is truth?
Jesus made a very important statement to that effect in Jn. 17:17
“Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth.”

7. Is God’s word the truth?
How can we be sure, in a world filled with lies?
God of truth – Deut. 32:4; Is. 65:16
God cannot lie – Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18
Bible, history, nature, all prove Him true

8. Truth proved true God’s promises have always come true
Warnings & prophesies have always come to fruition
What about statements in the Bible that are lies?

9. Lies in the Bible? Gen. 3:4 – Satan’s lie
Bible records what is true, in that it was true that Satan spoke those words
We need to understand that the facts are recorded, even if they are spoken as lies

10. Nature of Truth Truth is universal
For all men, everywhere, at all times
Matt. 28:19-20
Each generation is to teach all that Christ commanded

11. Nature of Truth
If this is true, we should still be preaching the same gospel to everyone today
Acts 17:30 – All men everywhere to repent
Tells us that the truth is universal

12. Nature of Truth Truth is final
Matt. 24:35 – “My words will by no means pass away”
Jude 3 – faith = once for all delivered
Compare that to the sacrifice of Jesus being once for all (Rom. 6:10; Heb. 9:12,26; 10:10)

13. Nature of Truth Truth is unchangeable
We, nor anyone else has a right to change what God said
Gal. 1:6-9
Even if an apostle or an angel changes truth, he is accursed

14. Truth for us
Words of the Bible are still just as true today as they ever were
It’s still true that you need to be a part of God’s kingdom to go to heaven
It’s still true what we need to do to become a child of God