Stewardship of Truth (Doctrinal Bible Church in Huntsville, Alabama)

Doctrinal Bible Church

Pastor-Teacher Bill Wenstrom

Wednesday May 27, 2026

Stewardship Series: Stewardship of Truth

Lesson # 5

Another area of stewardship that the believer will have to give an account at the Bema Seat is that of truth.

God is “the God of truth” (Isa 65:16).

The psalmist declared, “Your law is truth” (119:142), “all Your commandments are truth” (119:151), and “the entirety of Your word is truth” (119:160).

God has the monopoly on truth since it is an attribute that helps to compose His divine essence (Psalm 31:5).

Those who live according to truth are living in reality whereas those who reject truth are living in unreality and under the lie of Satan.

Because of His perfect nature and will, God has to speak and act in truth; He cannot lie (1 Sam 15:29; Heb 6:18; James 1:17-18).

The Lord Jesus Christ is the truth of God since He is the Word of God incarnate (John 1:14).

All Jesus said was true, because He told the truth which He heard from God (John 8:40).

He promised His disciples that He would send “the Spirit of truth” (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13)-a Mentor and Teacher who would abide in them forever (John 14:16), testify about Jesus (John 15:26), guide them into all truth (John 16:13), and glorify Jesus (John 16:14).

God is truth.

The Spirit is truth and Jesus is truth (John 14:6).

Jesus and the revelation, which the Spirit of truth gave through His apostles, are the final, ultimate revelation and definition of truth about God, man, redemption, history, and the world. God and truth tied together just as sinful man is characterized by living a lie (Rm. 3:3-7).

This attribute of truth is expressed in the Word of God and is manifested in history through the fulfillment of prophecy both in the Person and Work of Christ and the church and Israel.

The unbeliever lives a lie because he is enslaved to the father of lies, Satan.

The believer has been delivered from the power of the lie at the moment he exercises faith alone in Christ alone who is the way, the truth and the life (Jn. 14:6).

Truth in the New Testament is divine reality or revelation.

The practice or application of the absolute truth of the Word of God is a response to God’s revelation of Himself and the Work of Christ at the Cross.

Obedience to truth begins with the thought process.

The believer must learn and apply truth to his thought process before he can have it manifest itself in words and actions (cf. Rom. 12:1-3).

Truth is of course connected to the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus calls him “the Spirit of Truth” (Jn. 14:17; 15:26; Jn. 16:7-11).

The Holy Spirit supernaturally directed the human authors of Scripture without coercing them, or destroying their literary style, personal vocabulary, or personality, God’s complete and connected thought was recorded in perfect accuracy in the original languages of Scripture, thus the original languages bear the authority of divine authorship as the exact mind and will of God (2 Pet. 1:20-21).

The Holy Spirit makes the absolute truth of the Word real and understandable to both the believer and unbeliever (Jn. 16:7-11).

At the moment of hearing the Gospel, the Holy Spirit makes the issue of salvation and Christ as Savior real to the unbeliever or understandable in order that he might make a decision to either accept or reject Christ as Savior.

After conversion, the Holy Spirit again makes the Word of God understandable to the believer so that he might make the proper application in their own life.

God the Holy Spirit reveals the will of the Father to the believer through the communication of the Word of God whether by the believer’s divinely ordained pastor-teacher or other believer’s operating under the royal priesthood.

The believer’s responsibility is to exercise faith in the Word of God meaning they must trust or take God at His Word.

Faith is characterized by obedience to the Father’s will as reveal by the Holy Spirit through the communication of the Word of truth.

It is both assent to truth and dependence upon the truth found in the Word of God and which the Holy Spirit to the believer reveals.

God’s truth is found in His revelation of Himself in the Person of Christ and the mind of Christ, which is the Word of God.

Truth in man is in response to truth in God and is to be acquired on the basis of a gift from God.

This gift comes by way of biblical instruction and also by way of the working of the believer’s true Mentor and Teacher, God the Holy Spirit in the life of believer.

The believer’s sanctification is accomplished by means of truth (John 17:17).

They are to let the Word of Christ, which is truth, richly dwell in their soul (Colossians 3:16).

They are therefore to diligently study the Word of truth to enrich their fellowship with the Lord and their worship of Him (2 Timothy 2:15).

The believer is also commanded to speak the truth to his fellow believer by means of God’s love (Ephesians 4:15).

Truth will set the believer free from sin and Satan (John 8:31).

Believers are to love each other according to the Word of truth (1 John 3:18).

They are to worship the Father by means of truth (John 4:23-24).

The truth of God is revealed to man in three ways: (1) By nature or creation (Psalm 19:1-6; Rom. 1:19-20). (2) The Living Word, i.e., the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:18; 1 Tim. 3:16). (3) The Bible in its original languages (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21).

We must understand that the Word of God is a treasure that has been entrusted to each one of us as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 1:13 Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. 14 Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. (NASB95)

Here the apostle reminds us that this message, the message about the Lord Jesus that brings men into an eternal relationship and fellowship with the eternal God of the universe, is both a treasure and a trust.

The only message (i.e. the Gospel) that brings men into the kingdom of God, reconciles them to God (John 14:6; Acts 4:12), and gives them eternal life and life more abundant (John 10:10) is truly a treasure beyond measure or a pearl of great value (Matt. 13:44-46).

In 2 Timothy 2:2, Timothy is charged with the responsibility of entrusting what he had learned from Paul to other faithful men who in turn would teach others and so on, and so on.

2 Timothy 2:2 The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. (NASB95)

As stewards of God’s Word we must evangelize the unbeliever.

We are not only royal priests but also royal ambassadors who have been entrusted with the privilege and responsibility of presenting the message of reconciliation, i.e. the Gospel to a lost and dying world (2 Corinthians 5:14-21).

In Romans 1:11-14, the apostle Paul is referring to the stewardship of “truth” meaning that Paul sought to communicate the Word of God to all men in order to multiply himself through evangelism and discipleship.

Romans 1:11 For I have been and continue up to the present moment to earnestly desire to visit all of you that I might impart a spiritual blessing to all of you with the result that all of you might be stabilized and strengthened. 12 Namely, that is, in order that it might cause me to be encouraged while among all of you by means of each other’s faith, both yours and mine. 13 Now, I absolutely do not want all of you to be ignorant spiritual brothers that I have often planned in order to come to all of you and was prevented so far in order that I might also produce some fruit among all of you. 14 I am at the present time obligated to both the Greeks and the barbarians, to both the wise and the ignorant. (Pastor’s translation)

Also, Paul is referring to the stewardship of “talent” meaning he functioned in his spiritual gift of apostle in order to provide the blessing of an eternal relationship and fellowship with Jesus Christ for all men.

Lastly, Paul is referring to the stewardship of “time” in that he was redeeming his time on earth for eternity by presenting the gospel to all men.