The Truth (Part 1) by Evang Effiong Tom

THE TRUTH (Part 1)
By
Bro. Effiong Tom (Evangelist)
Sunday, November 8, 2015 1THE TRUTH (Part 1)
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SANGOTEDO, LEKKI

Introduction
• How do you think
we’ll get to heaven?
–By chance?
(something that
happens
unpredictably
without discernible
human intention or
observable cause.) -
an outcome decided
by chance.

Introduction (cont’d)
• Or as God designed?
–Matt 7:14,21
• 7"Because narrow is
the gate and difficult is
the way which leads to
life, and there are few
who find it. 21 ¶ "Not
everyone who says to
Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall
enter the kingdom of
heaven, but he who
does the will of My
Father in heaven.

Is Truth Important to You?
• Do you want your
family and friends to
tell you the truth once
in a while, or all of the
time?
• If you were charged
with a murder you did
not commit, would
you want the truth to
come out?

Is Truth Important to You?
• If I have come to you with an
idea of a business that could
give you One Million Naira if
you invent like Twenty
Thousand Naira, would you
want to know the truth
before you invent?
• If yes why then do you belief
all that you do in religious
without finding out the
truth?

Is Truth Important to You? (cont’d)
• If you want truth in these
areas, it appears that truth
really is important to you.
So what’s on the other
side of death?
• If God exists and your
destination after physical
death is based on the
choices you make in this
life, would the truth about
eternity be important?

• Hear what the Man with
high reputation of wisdom
has to say ...Acquire
“truth” and do not sell it—
wisdom, and discipline,
and understanding. (NET)
• 23 Truth, wisdom,
learning, and good sense
— these are worth paying
for, but too valuable for
you to sell. GNT (Prov
23:23)Sunday, November 8, 2015 7THE TRUTH (Part 1)

• Truth is the hidden treasure; Jesus Christ
says…“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure
hidden in a field, which a man found and
covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all
that he has and buys that field. –Matt 13:44
• Many slight the gospel truth, because they
look only upon the surface of the field
(gospel). But all who search the Scriptures, so
as in them to find Christ and eternal life, (John
5:39-40 [GNL]), will discover such treasure in
this field (gospel)

• Though nothing
can be given as a
price for this
salvation, yet
much must be
given up for the
sake of it. Luke
13:24 (NIV)

Why Truth is Important
• Why is it so important to understand and
embrace the concept of absolute truth in all
areas of life (including faith and religion)?
Simply because life has consequences for
being wrong.
• Giving someone the wrong amount of a
medication can kill them.
• Boarding the wrong plane will take you where
you do not wish to go.
• Eternity is an awfully long time to be wrong.

What is TRUTH?
• Dictionary.com: defines it as
• 1. The true or actual state of a matter: 2.
Conformity with fact or reality; 3. A verified or
indisputable fact.
• Pilate asked Jesus “What is truth”? (John
18:38)
• To you what is the truth?

What is The Best Way to Find Truth?
• I am sure you will agree that a person can
stumble into truth.
• We all guessed correctly on a few school tests.
But guessing or hoping to find the truth by mere
accident is obviously not the best way to make an
important decision.
• The following are three popular ways people use
to come to a conclusion that something is true.
• Which one would you pick to make a decision
where truth is vital?

(cont’d)
• 1. My feelings—it feels right, it gives me
purpose, hope and peace of mind, so I believe
it’s the truth. (Gen 37:26,27,31-33)
• 2. My family or someone (GO, Pastor) I trust,
believes it, so I do.
• 3. Evidence, consistency, best fit to the
evidence.

(cont’d)
• Approximately 95 percent of the hundreds of
people I have asked this specific question pick
the third option right away. But a strange
thing happens when I ask the same people if
they believe in the Bible (New Testament).
• Now the same people who just told me truth
was very important and evidence was the best
way to find it suddenly say their beliefs about
God are not founded on the evidence, but on
feelings or on what someone else believes.

(cont’d)
• Therefore, it’s likely that your current belief
about God is not based on evidence, either.
• The problem is that there are sincere followers
in every belief who claim to have found the
truth.
• Do all roads lead to heaven?
• The only legitimate way to be reasonably sure
our faith is placed in the truth is to examine
the objective evidence ourselves. as we would
with any major decisions.

(cont’d)
• Objective evidence
can be examined by
everyone and does
not change due to
emotions, feelings
or personal
experience.
• Let’s see these two
example in the
video.

Objective evidence can be examined by everyone

…and does not change due to emotions

(cont’d)
• I am not suggesting that
you completely ignore
your feelings, as they
can be helpful when you
have verifiable facts and
more than one solid
option. So keep your
feelings handy, but I
urge you to not place
them above the facts.

The Truth About Man’ Salvation
• It has always been by God’s designed.
– Gen 6:7,13,17; 7:16,23 (1 Pet 3:20; 2 Pet 2:5
– Num 21:4-9
– John 3:14-21
• "But he who does the truth comes to the
light…
• Acted according to truth.

• To act according to truth is to do as it found in
the New Testament.
– Example: Hear God’s word (Rom 10:17) -Believe
Rom 10:10a –Repent Acts 2:38; 17:30-31 –
Confess Christ Rom 10:10b; Acts 8:37 Be Baptize
Acts 2:38c, 41
• Paul Acts 22:16
• Simon and many others Acts 8:12-13
• Ethiopia, a eunuch Acts 8: 38
• Cornelius Acts 10:48
• The prison keeper Acts 16:33

•… to be continued.
•Thanks

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