The Beauty of Truth | Trent Norkus

Rocky Peak Young Adults

Trying to become more like Jesus? Join us as we look at the need to stop lying and the glory of telling the truth!
Message Notes
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-32
~Defining Our Terms~
Justification - The act whereby God declares a sinner righteous on the basis of faith.
Regeneration - The act of God making a person spiritually alive, as a result of faith in Jesus Christ.
Conversion - The act of God in which a person, previously dead in sin, becomes a new creation in Christ.
Sanctification - The process whereby God the Holy Spirit transforms the believer into the image and likeness of Christ. It is the progressive outworking of the new life that was planted at the moment of regeneration.
Glorification - The final state for believers, in that we are no longer sin, are no longer in our human form, and no longer subject to the attacks of the evil one.

~Sanctification: A Case Study~
Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. (Ephesians 4:25)

~The Destructiveness of Lying~

• Genesis 3:1-4
• John 8:44-45

Lying is destructive because it aligns us with the of destroyer good, not the source of good.
~The Glory of Truth Telling~

• 1 Corinthians 13:6
• John 1:14b

Being a community of truth-tellers is essential to the health of the Church.
What does it look like to cultivate a community of truth telling?

1. Honesty before God
2. Honesty before our community
   1. confession of sin
   2. confrontation of sin
3. Knowledge and celebration

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