Love and Truth

Saturday, December 10, 2005

6:40 PM

What is truth?

1. Conformity to fact or actuality.

2. A statement proven to be or accepted as true.

3. Sincerity; integrity.

4. Fidelity to an original or standard.

5. a. Reality; actuality.

b. often Truth That which is considered to be the supreme reality and to have the ultimate meaning and value of existence.

Gossip:

1 a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others

2 a : rumor or report of an intimate nature b : a chatty talk c : the subject matter of gossip

1 John 3

^{16We know love by this, that (AP)He
laid down His life for us; and (AQ)we
ought to lay down our lives for the (AR)brethren.}

^{17But (AS)whoever
has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and (AT)closes
his heart against him, (AU)how
does the love of God abide in him?}

^{18(AV)Little
children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and (AW)truth.}

46(O)We are from God; (P)he who knows God listens to us; (Q)he who is not from God does not listen to us By this we know (R)the spirit of truth and (S)the spirit of error.

^{18There is no fear in love; but (AW)perfect
love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is
not (AX)perfected
in love.}

^{19(AY)We
love, because He first loved us.}

^{20(AZ)If
someone says, "I love God," and (BA)hates
his brother, he is a (BB)liar;
for (BC)the
one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, (BD)cannot
love God whom he has not seen.}

^{21And (BE)this
commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God (BF)should
love his brother also.}

Matthew 18

^{15"(M)If
your brother sins[b],
go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your
brother.}

^{16"But if he does not listen
to you, take one or two more with you, so that (N)BY
THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED.}

^{17"If he refuses to listen to
them, (O)tell
it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, (P)let
him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.}

^{18"Truly I say to you, (Q)whatever
you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on
earth shall have been loosed in heaven.}

Matthew 7

^{1"(A)Do
not judge so that you will not be judged.}

^{2"For in the way you judge,
you will be judged; and (B)by
your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.}

^{3"Why do you (C)look
at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is
in your own eye?}

^{4"(D)Or
how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and
behold, the log is in your own eye?}

^{5"You hypocrite, first take
the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck
out of your brother's eye.}

^{6"(E)Do
not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or
they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.}

Proverbs 17:

^{17A (B)friend
loves at all times,}

And a brother is born for adversity.

Ephesians 4

^{14As a result, we are (AF)no
longer to be children, (AG)tossed
here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the
trickery of men, by (AH)craftiness
in (AI)deceitful
scheming;}

^{15but speaking the truth (}^{AJ)in love, we are to (AK)grow up in all aspects into Him
who is the (AL)head, even Christ,}

^{16from whom (AM)the
whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies,
according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of
the body for the building up of itself (AN)in
love.}

The Christian's Walk

^{17(AO)So
this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, (AP)that
you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the (AQ)futility
of their mind,}

^{18being (AR)darkened
in their understanding, (AS)excluded
from the life of God because of the (AT)ignorance
that is in them, because of the (AU)hardness
of their heart;}

^{19and they, having (AV)become
callous, (AW)have
given themselves over to (AX)sensuality
for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.}

^{20But you did not (AY)learn
Christ in this way,}

^{21if indeed you (AZ)have
heard Him and have (BA)been
taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,}

^{22that, in reference to your
former manner of life, you (BB)lay
aside the (BC)old
self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the (BD)lusts
of deceit,}

^{23and that you be (BE)renewed
in the spirit of your mind,}

^{24and (BF)put
on the (BG)new
self, which (BH)in
the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the
truth.}

^{25Therefore, (}^{BI)laying aside falsehood, (BJ)SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you
WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are (BK)members of one another.}

^{26(BL)BE
ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger,}

^{27and do not (BM)give
the devil an opportunity.}

1 Peter 1:22:

22Since you have (A)in obedience to the truth (B)purified your souls for a (C)sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from [a]the heart,

John 1:14And (A)the Word (B)became flesh, and (C)dwelt among us, and (D)we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of (E)grace and (F)truth.

831So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "(AT)If you continue in My word, then you are truly (AU)disciples of Mine;

^{32and (AV)you
will know the truth, and (AW)the
truth will make you free."}

^{40"But as it is, (BH)you
are seeking to kill Me,
a man who has (BI)told
you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.}

1 Cor 13 - how to speak in love

^{1If I speak with the (A)tongues
of men and of (B)angels,
but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a (C)clanging
cymbal.}

^{2If I have the gift of (D)prophecy,
and know all (E)mysteries
and all (F)knowledge;
and if I have (G)all
faith, so as to (H)remove
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.}

^{3And if I (I)give
all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I (J)surrender
my body [a]to
be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.}

^{4Love (K)is
patient, love is kind and (L)is
not jealous; love does not brag and is not (M)arrogant,}

^{5does not act unbecomingly; it (N)does
not seek its own, is not provoked, (O)does
not take into account a wrong suffered,}

^{6(P)does
not rejoice in unrighteousness, but (Q)rejoices with the truth;}

^{7(R)bears
all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.}

^{8Love never fails; but if there
are gifts of (S)prophecy,
they will be done away; if there are (T)tongues,
they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.}

^{9For we (U)know
in part and we prophesy in part;}

^{10but when the perfect comes, the
partial will be done away.}

^{11When I was a child, I used to
speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a
man, I did away with childish things.}

^{12For now we (V)see
in a mirror dimly, but then (W)face
to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also (X)have
been fully known.}

^{13But now faith, hope, love, abide
these three; but the greatest of these is (Y)love.}

2 Cor 138For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.

Gal 4:16So have I become your enemy (A)by telling you the truth?

2 Timothy 2

^{14Remind them of these things, and
solemnly (AI)charge
them in the presence of God not to (AJ)wrangle
about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.}

^{15Be diligent to (}^{AK)present yourself approved to
God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling (AL)the word of truth.}

^{16But (AM)avoid
(AN)worldly
and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,}

^{17and their talk will spread like
[a]gangrene.
Among them are (AO)Hymenaeus
and Philetus,}

^{18men who have gone astray from
the truth saying that (AP)the
resurrection has already taken place, and they upset (AQ)the
faith of som}