Series “#OOTD” – Sermon #3  “Divine Truth” 

Series “#OOTD” – Sermon #3  “Divine Truth” 

Ephesians 6:10-13 (TPT) “Now my beloved ones, I have saved these most important truths for last: Be supernaturally infused with strength through your life-union with the Lord Jesus. Stand victorious with the force of his explosive power flowing in and through you.

Put on God’s complete set of armor provided for us, so that you will be protected as you fight against the evil strategies (wiles KJV) of the accuser! Your hand-to-hand combat is not with human beings,

but with the highest principalities and authorities operating in rebellion under the heavenly realms. For they are a powerful class of demon-gods and evil spirits that hold this dark world in bondage.

Because of this, you must wear all the armor that God provides so you’re protected as you confront the slanderer, for you are destined for all things and will rise victorious. (Stand NKJV).”    Prophetic Outcome

People who base there relationship with God on their performance are only as free and satisfied as they are able to sustain their performance. 

Those who choose to be clothed by God are completely satisfied and free because of His performance.

Sunday Prayer West Point: Make us choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be contented with half truth when the whole truth can be won. Endow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear when right and truth are in jeopardy.

Ephesians 6:14 (TPT) “Put on truth as a belt to strengthen you to stand in triumph.,…” 

(AMP)  “So stand firm and hold your ground, having tightened the wide band of truth (personal integrity, moral courage) around your waist …”

Acts 28:16 “Now when we came to Rome, … but Paul was permitted to dwell by himself with the soldier who guarded him.”

God prepared a winning strategy and provided effective armour.

****** Picture Of Roman Soldier Belt *************

Victory or defeat is determined by the loins. Strength is in the loins.

The roman soldier kept his money, his sword, his writing instruments, and his garments tucked in his belt. 

A person not established in truth will be poor, defenseless, misunderstood, and unkempt.

Deuteronomy 33:11  “Strike the loins of those who rise against him, And of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”

1 Peter 1:13 “Therefore gird up the loins of your mind,…”

If you don’t fix yourself in truth you pervert all other instruments of war.

Truth is the first piece of armour.  Truth is the central piece of armour.

Not the accumulation of information but foundational sincerity of heart.

Victory or defeat is determined by the loins. Strength is in the loins.

The roman soldier kept his money, his sword, his writing instruments, and his garments tucked in his belt. 

A person not established in truth will be poor, defenseless, misunderstood, and unkempt.

2 Timothy 2:15 “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

Notice the different tense:

First three pieces of armour:  “having girded your waist with truth,”(NKJV)

Second three pieces of armour:  “Taking up”

The first three are armour that you establish yourself in continually.

John 18:37-38 (AMP) “This is why I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the Truth. Everyone who is of the Truth [who is a friend of the Truth, who belongs to the Truth] hears and listens to My voice. Pilate said to Him, What is Truth?”

Abraham Lincoln on Truth: “How many legs would a sheep have if you called its tail a leg?” They quickly answered, “Five!” The President then said, “No, it would only have four legs. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.”

George Barna in “Virtual America” “72% of Americans agree, There is no such thing as absolute truth; two people could define truth in totally conflicting ways, but both could still be correct.” (pp.83, 283) “71% …there are no absolute standards that apply to everybody in all situations.” (pp. 85, 230)

Barna also discovered that 53% of those who claim there is no such thing as absolute truth identify themselves as born-again Christians (p. 83).

42% of those who identify themselves as evangelical Christians agree that there is no such thing as absolute truth (p. 83).

“Unfortunately, correcting people’s mistaken assumptions about Bible content is made nearly impossible by their self- assurance about their beliefs. Even if they are exposed to good Bible teaching they typically fail to absorb that input because they think they already know it all.” George Barna

The History Of Truth: 

1. Pre-modernism:– Authorities and tradition establishes truth. 

2.  Modernism:– Only what can be scientifically proven is truth.

3.  Post-modernism:– Every man for himself is truth.

Truth :– (alethia) the unvieled reality at the basis of and agreeing with the appearance; the manifested and veritable essence of matter.

Truth:— An objective standard by which reality is measured. Fidelity to an original or standard. Truth is that which conforms to reality.

What is reality?  What is the objective standard?

“To ascend towards God is to walk into a furnace of truth where falsehood is extracted from our souls. … Each ascending step upon the hill of God is a thrusting of our souls into greater transparency, a more perfect view into the motives of our hearts.” Frances Frangipane

LONDON … TIME BIG BEN … IF YOU DON”T MATCH BIG BEN YOU CHANGE.

Atomic Cock (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, serves as the United States primary time and frequency standard. So accurate that it would neither gain nor lose a second in over 30 million years.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 “… we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,…”

John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

John 17:17 “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”

1 Timothy 3:15 “…in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”

John 16:13 “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.”

John 8:31-32 “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

1. Truth Is Personal       Jesus

2. Truth is Knowable     Revelation

3. Truth is Powerful.      Freedom

Charles Lindburgh “Spiritual truth is more important to a nation than the mortar in it’s cities walls. For when the actions of a people are undergirded by spiritual truths there is safety.”

China was overrun when a gatekeeper accepted a bribe. 

Walls only keep out your friends.

Luke 24:45, 49 “Then He [thoroughly] opened up their minds to understand the Scriptures, …

And behold, I will send forth upon you what My Father has promised; but remain in the city [Jerusalem] until you are clothed with power from on high.”