Worldview/ Understanding the Fundamentals of My faith - 5
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Acts 17:14-15 (NLT) 14 The believers acted at once, sending Paul on to the coast, while Silas and Timothy remained behind. 15 Those escorting Paul went with him all the way to Athens; then they returned to Berea with instructions for Silas and Timothy to hurry and join him.
1. Other Worldviews - Acts 17:14
2. Self-existing God - Acts 17:22-23
3. Creation– value of human life -Acts 17:24-26
4. Salvation - Acts 17:27-28
5. Truth is God/Bible - Acts 17:30
6. Rapture/Judgement/End of Times - Acts 17:31-34
7. Man’s choice/Free will - Acts 17:32-34
Over the next several weeks we will be looking at Acts 17:16-34 and using it as the basis for our theme “Let Me Introduce to my God!”
30 “God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him. 31 For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.” 32 When they heard Paul speak about the resurrection of the dead, some laughed in contempt, but others said, “We want to hear more about this later.” 33 That ended Paul’s discussion with them, 34 but some joined him and became believers. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the council, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
There are 3 points that we will discuss that is derived from these verses.
5. Truth is God/Bible - Acts 17:30
6. Rapture/Judgement/End of Times - Acts 17:31-34
7. Man’s choice/Free will - Acts 17:32-34
Today we will look more in detail on point #5.
5. Truth is God/Bible - Acts 17:30
Since we have arrive at the point of reality that God is sovereign and that ultimately He will judge the world we must look to His instructions, the Bible to see what he has instructed us to do.
We concluded that the God of the Judeo Christian belief is the only true God and he is truth.
What then is truth?
What then is truth?
TRUTH (אֱמֶת, emeth; ἀλήθεια, alētheia). Factuality, faithfulness, firmness, reality, reliability.
The Lexham Bible Dictionary Old Testament
Old Testament
The most common term for “truth” in the Old Testament is אֱמֶת (emeth). The semantic range of אֱמֶת (emeth) includes factuality and validity as well as faithfulness, firmness and reliability. In the Septuagint, it is most often translated using ἀλήθεια (alētheia). πίστις (pistis) or δικαιοσύνη (dikaiosynē) are also occasionally used. Truth can be predicated of people as well as propositions.
The Lexham Bible Dictionary (New Testament)
New TestamentThe most common terms associated with truth in the New Testament are ἀλήθεια (alētheia, “truth”), ἀληθής (alēthēs, “true”), ἀληθινός (alēthinos, “true,” “real”), ἀληθεύω (alētheuō, “to tell the truth”), and ἀληθῶς (alēthōs, “truly”). These words are used in three senses:
1. As Factuality: Truth may be used to convey a sense of being in accordance with fact or reality, as opposed to being false or in error. This is the dominant sense of “truth” in the New Testament. Frequent uses include:• To characterize a quality of speech, indicating honesty or sincerity (Mark 5:33; John 4:18; 8:40; 16:7; Acts 26:25; 2 Cor 7:14; 12:6).
• To contrasts telling the truth with lying (Rom 9:1; Eph 4:25; 1 Tim 2:7).
• To describe the gospel (2 Cor 4:2; Gal 2:5, 14; Eph 1:13; Col 1:5; Heb 10:26; 3 John 3–4).
The Lexham Bible Dictionary (As Reality)
2. As Reality: Truth may be used to describe that which is real and genuine, as opposed to fake or only an imitation. It also describes that which is complete versus incomplete.
• Jesus is the true light (John 1:9).
• The Father desires true worshipers (John 4:23–24).
• Jesus’ body is true food (John 6:32, 55).
• Jesus is the true vine (John 15:1).
• The truth of God is exchanged for a lie (Rom 1:25).
• Jesus ministers in the true tabernacle (Heb 8:2; 9:24).
• Love must be performed not with words, but in truth (1 John 3:18).
The Lexham Bible Dictionary As Faithfulness and Reliability
As Faithfulness and Reliability
Though truth as faithfulness or reliability is more common in the Old Testament, it is used in the New Testament in Rom 3:4, 7, and 15:8.
Key Passages
Ps 86:11
Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
Pr 23:23
Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Is 59:14–15
Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter. So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice.
Jn 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Jn 18:37–38
Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What…
1 Ti 2:3–4
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
John 1:14–17 (NKJV)
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ ” 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
3 And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.
1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
32 He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but how few believe what he tells them! 33 Anyone who accepts his testimony can affirm that God is true. 34 For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit. 35 The Father loves his Son and has put everything into his hands. 36 And anyone who believes in God’s Son has eternal life. Anyone who doesn’t obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under God’s angry judgment.”
What is being establish here in these verses is the fact that God is truth. There can be no truth that that which comes from God. It is a fact that the God who created the universe and all that is in it has ultimate knowledge. This is the foundation of truth, it is found only in the one who knows all things.
What is being establish here in these verses is the fact that God is truth. There can be no truth that that which comes from God. It is a fact that the God who created the universe and all that is in it has ultimate knowledge. This is the foundation of truth, it is found only in the one who knows all things.
Truth -
The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 5, Q–Z (I. Biblical Terminology)
It is ascribed not only to statements (e.g., Ruth 3:12)
but also to behavior (Gen. 24:49)
and to promises (2 Sam. 7:28).
It is associated with kindness (Gen. 47:29),
with justice (Neh. 9:13; Isa. 59:14),
with sincerity (Josh. 24:14).
The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 5, Q–Z (II. Three Concepts of Truth)
II. Three concepts of truth. Biblical usage suggests these three related concepts:
II. Three concepts of truth. Biblical usage suggests these three related concepts:
(1) moral truth, . Moral truth. Truth is an attribute of God. As such the term speaks of his integrity, his trustworthiness, his faithfulness.
(2) ontological truth, and Ontological truth. Arising from the concept of one who is wholly trustworthy is the further concept of one who is truly what he purports to be, rather than being a deceiver, living a fiction, or being an imperfect example.
(3) cognitive truth. C. Cognitive truth. A further outcome of moral truth is that one speaks truth and not falsehood. In God, truthfulness stems from omniscience, so that the attribute of truth refers in part to his perfect knowledge (Job 28:20–26; chs. 38–39). Since he is creator, whatever we know depends on him.
The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 5, Q–Z (C. Cognitive Truth)
While in the NT the cognitive concept of truth is evident (e.g., Mk. 5:33; 12:32; Rom. 1:25), it is applied particularly to the message of Christ and his apostles (Jn. 5:33; 8:31–47; Rom. 2:8; Gal. 2:5; 5:7; Eph. 1:13; 1 Tim. 3:15; 1 Jn. 2:21–27).
33 You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.
25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
We can now conclude that The message of Jesus and his apostles are truth:
We can now conclude that The message of Jesus and his apostles are truth:
Gal. 2:5; 5:7; Eph. 1:13; 1 Tim. 3:15; 1 Jn. 2:21–27
21 So I am writing to you not because you don’t know the truth but because you know the difference between truth and lies. 22 And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist. 23 Anyone who denies the Son doesn’t have the Father, either. But anyone who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 24 So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father. 25 And in this fellowship we enjoy the eternal life he promised us. 26 I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray. 27 But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.
5 to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
15 but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
The faithful messenger speaks the truth from God, and in responding to the truth the believer accordingly trusts the God from whom the message comes. Faith is both assent to truth and dependence on God. A man is therefore said to “do the truth” when his assent to the message and trust in God are evident in his “moral truth” or faithfulness (1 Jn. 1:6–8; 2:4; 3:18–19).
All truth is God’s truth.
All truth is God’s truth.
The last two depend logically on (1), while (3) depends logically on (1) and (2). In each case the basis of truth is in God, the source and standard of (a) righteousness, (b) being, and (c) knowledge.
Silva, M., & Tenney, M. C. (2009). In The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Q-Z (Revised, Full-Color Edition, Vol. 5, p. 946). The Zondervan Corporation.
Example Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Over turning the money changers table
Jesus demonstrated that he was truth and that everything concerning him must exhibit truth. He went into the temple the place where truth should be demonstrated and found that lie was at the center.
Their worship was a lie. Their attitude towards worship was a lie. They pretended that they were worshipping in spirit and truth however they were just lying.
Fast forward to our modern day worship and what we see is that many have replace the truth of the Gospel for a lie.
COVID and the exposure of the corruption in the church; preparing for the new season.
2020 was truly a 20/20 Vision
13 It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. 14 In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money. 15 Jesus made a whip from some ropes and chased them all out of the Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers’ coins over the floor, and turned over their tables. 16 Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them, “Get these things out of here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!” 17 Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me.” 18 But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.” 19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?” 21 But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.
Jesus’ first cleansing of the temple is described in John 2:11–12 as having occurred just after Jesus’ first miracle, the turning of water into wine at the wedding in Cana. John makes it clear that it was “after this” that He went to Capernaum, where He “stayed for a few days.” Then in the next verse (verse 13), John tells us that the “Passover of the Jews was at hand” (NKJV). These verses trace Jesus’ movements over a short period of time from Cana in Galilee to Capernaum and eventually to Jerusalem for the Passover. This is the first of the two times Jesus cleansed the temple. The Synoptic Gospels do not record the temple cleansing mentioned in John 2, instead only recording the temple cleansing that occurred during Passion Week.
Matthew 21:12-17; Luke 19:45-48; Mark 11:15-19
15 When they arrived back in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people buying and selling animals for sacrifices. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, 16 and he stopped everyone from using the Temple as a marketplace. 17 He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.” 18 When the leading priests and teachers of religious law heard what Jesus had done, they began planning how to kill him. But they were afraid of him because the people were so amazed at his teaching. 19 That evening Jesus and the disciples left the city.
The second cleansing of the temple occurred just after Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem the last week of His life. This second cleansing is recorded in Matthew, Mark, and Luke but not in John. There are differences in the two events, aside from their being nearly three years apart. In the first cleansing, temple officials confronted Jesus immediately (John 2:18), whereas in the second cleansing, the chief priests and scribes confronted Him the following day (Matthew 21:17–23). In the first event, Jesus made a whip of cords with which to drive out the sellers, but there is no mention of a whip in the second cleansing. So there are two recorded occasions when Jesus cleansed the temple—the first time at the beginning of His public ministry, and the second time just after His triumphal entry into Jerusalem shortly before He was crucified.
Next Week....
6. Rapture/Judgement/End of Times - Acts 17:31-34
7. Man’s choice/Free will - Acts 17:32-34