Church Theology What is Truth

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Church TheologyWhat is Truth?

• Bristol Bible Chapel
• Feb. 3, 2008

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Last Time

• The True Church -- Ecclesiology
• Matthew 1618
• Jesus promises that He will build His church
• What or Who is this true church?
• The true church, composed of the whole number of
  regenerate persons from Pentecost to the
  Rapture (1 Cor.1552), united together and to
  Christ by the baptism of the Holy Spirit
  (1Cor.1212-13), is the body of Christ of which
  He is the Head (Eph.122-23). As such, it is a
  holy temple for the habitation of God through the
  Spirit (Eph.221-22) is one flesh with Christ
  (Eph.530-31) and espoused to Him as a chaste
  virgin to one husband (2 Cor.112-4).
  C.I.Scofield, Systematic Theology

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Last Time

• What does the Church do?
• We have an obligation to the absent Lord Jesus
• Live our lives in a right relationship (salvation
  and godliness) to Jesus, and patiently WAIT for
  His return
• We have an obligation to our fellow church
  members
• WORK out our salvation as we serve the Body of
  Christ
• We have an obligation to the lost world around us
• WATCH for opportunities to share the love of
  Jesus to the lost and dying world

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Last Time

• 1 Timothy 215
• But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how
  thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of
  God, which is the church of the living God, the
  pillar and ground of the truth. (KJV)
• Pillar a support or column
• Ground to prop or to make stable to settle
  firmly foundation
• LETs PRAY

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The TRUTH

• A Few Good Men (1992)
• Lt. Kaffee (Tom Cruise) JAG
• Col. Jessup (Jack Nicholson)
• I want the Truth Son, you cant handle the
  truth.
• What is the Truth?
• Jesus - I am the way, the truth (John 146)
• The Word - Thy word is truth (John 1717)
• As Church members, our mission is to be actively
  involved in supporting the truth of Jesus Christ
  as He is revealed through the Word of God.

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The TRUTH behind our Salvation

• Major Text Romans 826-33a
• God Elected (chose) us for salvation
• Eph. 14 and 1 Pt. 12
• According as he hath chosen us in Him before the
  foundation of the world
• - And -
• Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the
  Father

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A Warning

• As we talk about subjects like foreknowledge and
  predestination, these are very profound, very
  deep truths and as we try to understand them with
  our limited minds, as we try to grasp the purpose
  of God, we have to remember that we're embarking
  upon a journey into a realm of truth for which we
  are not fully equipped.  In other words, we have
  to recognize at the beginning that we're going to
  get in pretty deep and we're going to get in way
  over our head, in fact we're going to be beyond
  our capability to comprehend.  We're going to
  journey into the divine infinity of divine
  purpose and no higher pursuit than that exists
  and we have limits as to how far we can really
  go.
• Quote from John MacArthur

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Elect / Chosen

• Eklegomai
• verb
• to pick or choose out for one's self
• Tense Aorist (simple past tense)
• Voice Middle (subject is the doer for his own
  benefit)
• Mood Indicative (a fact)
• It is Gods sovereign right to select whom He
  wants
• Divine election of Israel, the Church of Angels

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The TRUTH behind our Salvation

• The PURPOSE for PROGRESS of Salvation
• Romans 829-30
• For whom he did foreknow, he also did
  predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
  Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
  brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them
  he also called and whom he called, them he also
  justified and whom he justified, them he also
  glorified. (KJV)

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The Purpose

• To be conformed into the image of Jesus
• Symmorphos
• adjective
• having the same form as another, similar,
  conformed to, fashioned like unto
• Eikon
• noun
• a likeness, i.e. (literally) statue, profile, or
  (figuratively) representation, resemblance

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The Purpose

• Why does He want to make us like Christ?  So that
  there will be many brethren among whom Christ
  will be the firstborn.  Firstborn is the word
  prototokos and it means the premiere one, not in
  chronology, it means the firstborn was always the
  most notable child, the one who inherited
  everything, the one who had the rights and
  privileges and honors, it's the position of
  preeminence.  You see, God had a plan and the
  plan was that there would gather around Christ a
  redeemed humanity made in His image who would
  view Him as preeminent and thus forever and ever
  and ever they would praise and honor and glorify
  His name...and that's why we were saved.
• Quote from John MacArthur

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The Progress Five Verbs

• Tense Aorist (simple past tense)
• Voice Active (subject is the doer)
• Mood Indicative (a fact)
• Putting them all togetherwhat God did for each
  of us.
• Having known beforehand what He would do, He made
  the decision to call you by name and declare you
  perfectly righteous for the expressed purpose of
  giving you the glory of the living God.

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Foreknow

• Proginosko
• to have knowledge before hand
• Only 4 other uses in the NT
• Acts 265 Paul before Agrippa
• Rom. 112 Israel
• 1 Pt. 120 Jesus
• 2 Pt. 317 warnings

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Predestinate

• Proorizo
• to foreordain, to decide beforehand
• Only 4 other uses in the NT
• Acts 428 Prayer after Peter/John release
• 1 Cor. 27 wisdom of God
• Eph. 15 adoption as sons
• Eph. 111 Gods purposes

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Called

• Kaleo
• to invite, to name, to give a name to, to
  personally invite
• 138 uses in the NT
• 2Pe 13 According as his divine power hath given
  unto us all things that pertain unto life and
  godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath
  called us to glory and virtue.
• 1Jo 31 Behold, what manner of love the Father
  hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
  the sons of God

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Justified

• Dikaioo
• to declare, pronounce, one to be just or
  righteous
• 36 uses in the NT
• Ro 320 Therefore by the deeds of the law there
  shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by
  the law is the knowledge of sin.
• Ro 324 Being justified freely by his grace
  through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus
• Ro 326 To declare, I say, at this time his
  righteousness that he might be just, and the
  justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
• Ro 328 Therefore we conclude that a man is
  justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

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Glorified

• Doxazo
• to make glorious, adorn with luster, clothe with
  splendor, to impart glory to something, to render
  it excellent
• 54 uses in the NT
• Joh 171 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up
  his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is
  come glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may
  glorify thee
• Joh 174 I have glorified thee on the earth I
  have finished the work which thou gavest me to
  do.
• Joh 175 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with
  thine own self with the glory which I had with
  thee before the world was.
• Joh 1710 And all mine are thine, and thine are
  mine and I am glorified in them.

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The TRUTH

• What is the Truth?
• Jesus - I am the way, the truth (John 146)
• The Word - Thy word is truth (John 1717)
• As Church members, our mission is to be actively
  involved in supporting the truth of Jesus Christ
  as He is revealed through the Word of God.

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• Having known beforehand what He would do, He made
  the decision to call you by name and declare you
  perfectly righteous for the expressed purpose of
  giving you the glory of the living God.
• Paraphrase of Rom. 829-30

Having known beforehand what He would do, He made
the decision to call you by name and declare you
perfectly righteous for the expressed purpose of
giving you the glory of the living
God. Paraphrase of Rom. 829-30
Having known beforehand what He would do, He made
the decision to call you by name and declare you
perfectly righteous for the expressed purpose of
giving you the glory of the living
God. Paraphrase of Rom. 829-30
Having known beforehand what He would do, He made
the decision to call you by name and declare you
perfectly righteous for the expressed purpose of
giving you the glory of the living
God. Paraphrase of Rom. 829-30