2. The Guardian of Truth

3. “In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,” (Ephesians 1:13)

4. “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” (John 17:17)

5. “…God’s household… is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.” (1 Timothy 3:15)

6. “…contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” (Jude 3)

7. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” (Matthew 5:11–12)

8. “If I profess with the loudest and clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God, except that little point, which the world and the devil are, at that moment, attacking, I am not confessing Christ however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.” (Martin Luther)

9. “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” (2 Timothy 4:3–4)

10. 3 C HARGES AS G UARDIANS OF T HE T RUTH 1. Support The Truth “ …I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets, ” (Acts 24:14)

11. 3 C HARGES AS G UARDIANS OF T HE T RUTH 1. Support The Truth “…our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters.

12. 3 C HARGES AS G UARDIANS OF T HE T RUTH 1. Support The Truth There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.” (2 Peter 3:15–16)

13. 3 C HARGES AS G UARDIANS OF T HE T RUTH 2. Preach the Word “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.” (2 Tim 4:1–2)

14. 3 C HARGES AS G UARDIANS OF T HE T RUTH 2. Preach the Word “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.” (MT 25:31–32)

15. 3 C HARGES AS G UARDIANS OF T HE T RUTH 3. Contend for the Faith “…contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”(Jude 3-4)

16. 3 C HARGES AS G UARDIANS OF T HE T RUTH 3. Contend for the Faith “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes…For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, ‘The righteous shall live by faith.’” (Rom 1:16–17)

17. The Guardian of Truth