Week 1: Redeemer GC Lesson

Main Focus:
What are the consequences of suppressing God's truth?

Suppressing God's truth leads to a downward spiral into idolatry, moral decay, and eventual societal breakdown. God’s judgment allows this rebellion, but it calls us to repentance and renewal in Him.

  • Ephesians 4:15-25

    Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

    Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

    Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

  • Head: What is the scripture saying?

  • Heart: What specific truths from this passage does God want us to believe and treasure?

  • Hands: How should the truth of God's Word in this passage prompt us to change our attitudes, priorities, or actions?