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Buy the Truth and Sell it Not!

Discover the importance of buying the truth and not compromising it. Explore biblical teachings on choosing truth, preaching God's word, recognizing the danger of selling truth, and sharing the truth with others. Learn how truth relates to salvation, repentance, baptism, obedience, and judgment, and the consequences of erring from the truth. Don't miss the opportunity to embrace the truth and seek forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ.

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Buy the Truth and Sell it Not!

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  1. Buy the Truth and Sell it Not! Proverbs 23:23

  2. Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

  3. What is Truth? • That which is in accordance with fact or reality. • God’s Word is TRUTH! • John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

  4. Man’s Truth

  5. Choosing Truth • Gal. 1:10 Who do I persuade? • Romans 10:17 Faith comes from? • James 4:4 Who are we friends with?

  6. Preach the Word • 2 Timothy 4:2-4 • Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

  7. I Marvel • Galatians 1:6-8 • I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

  8. Truth Sold • Adam and Eve: Gen. 3:1-4 • Lot’s Wife: Luke 17:32 • Ananias & Sapphira: Acts 5:1-11 • Peter: John 13:36-38

  9. Truth Sold • Jesus: John 14:6 • I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life…. • Judas: Matthew 27:3 • 30 pieces of silver

  10. Buy All the Truth • Not the commands of men: Matt. 15:7-9 • If we do not follow God’s spirit, we are not His. Romans 8:9; John 14:26

  11. Buy ONLY the Truth • Hold fast to God’s Word: 1 Thess. 5:21; 2 Thess. 2:16-17 • Be diligent: Acts 17:11; John 5:39; 6:68 • Love the truth: 2 Thess. 2:10-12 • Test the teachers: 1 John 4:1-2; 2 Timothy 3:16-17

  12. Share the Truth • How much does the truth cost us? • How much did it cost Jesus? • His LIFE

  13. Buy the Truth—Regardless of the Price • MOST Valuable: Matt. 13:45-46 • Loss of Family: Matt. 10:34-39 • Giving up your “idols”: Matthew 19:16-22; Col. 3:5 • Denying self: Matthew 16:24-26 • What would you give in exchange for your soul?

  14. Buy the Truth • Jesus: John 14:6 • I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. • Acts 4:12 • Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

  15. Buy the Truth • Believe on Jesus: John 8:24 • …for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

  16. Buy the Truth • Repent: Luke 13:3 • I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

  17. Buy the Truth • Confess His name: Matthew 10:32 • Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

  18. Buy the Truth • Baptize: 1 Peter 2:21 • The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

  19. Buy the Truth • Baptize: Acts 2:38 • Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

  20. Buy the Truth • Obey the Gospel: 2 Thess. 1:8 • In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  21. Buy the Truth • Judgment Begins: 1 Pet. 4:17 • For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

  22. Buy the Truth • Wages of Sin: Romans 6:23 • For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  23. Buy the Truth • Separated from God: Is. 59:2 • But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

  24. Err from the Truth • James 5:19-20 • 19 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, 20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

  25. Buy the Truth • Seek and Save: Luke 19:10 • For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

  26. Buy the Truth • Forgiveness of Sin: Acts 5:30-31 • 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. • 31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

  27. Truth • If you are not a Christian, you need to be. No greater truth! • If you are and you have erred from the paths of truth, get back on the right path tonight!

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