What Is Truth? Rejecting the World's Images, Voices, and Models

Shawn Bain
07/20/25 - Sun AM Worship

What defines your truth—your circumstances, your body, your status, or God’s voice? This lesson explores how idols today aren’t just statues but false identities we build through social expectations, physical appearance, and worldly voices. The true model of life and worth is found only in Christ.

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Key Takeaways

• Isaiah 44 powerfully contrasts the one true God with the vanity of man-made idols.
• Modern idolatry comes in the form of self-image, social validation, and performance metrics.
• Truth isn’t found in our bodies, grades, status, or cultural norms—it’s found in God’s word.
• Even well-meaning Christians can unknowingly serve these idols by defining life through circumstances.
• The beauty God values is inward: a meek and quiet spirit, not the world’s physical standards.
• Scripture uses lowly terms (poor, weak, stranger) to emphasize how God exalts the humble and redeems them through Christ.
• Jesus is the true model and image to be shaped into—He became poor to make us rich in spirit.
• Psalm 119 repeatedly affirms that God's word is trustworthy, strengthening, and redemptive.
• The world offers shifting standards and false gods, but God alone does not lie—His truth saves.