A study from Vince Baker Ministries
How can Biblical truth shape the way I live?
Start with the setting in John 8. Jesus is speaking about discipleship and freedom. His prayer in John 17 asks the Father to sanctify His followers in truth. Ephesians brings the subject into relationships through truthful speech. Use the passages to move from an appealing phrase to a faithful response.
Guarding the Heart Against Idolatry
The final group uses images of tending a garden and guarding the direction of your heart. Colossians connects a renewed life with specific choices about anger, desire, and truthful speech. Consider which habit draws most of your attention and what the passage calls you to cultivate in its place.
Put one quote into practice
Identify one claim in a quote and trace the Scripture that helps you understand it. Record what the passage actually says and what application you are drawing from it. Choose one way to act truthfully with a person who will be affected by your decision.
Scripture to read alongside the quotes
- Colossians 3:1-10 · KJV
- John 8:31-36 · KJV
- John 17:14-19 · KJV
- Ephesians 4:20-25 · KJV
19 Vince Baker quotes on truth
Open this quote“Anything that is not operating under the commands and will and Word of God is considered dead in God's eyes.”
Open this quote“Anything that is sick, diseased, deformed, and not working according to its intended purpose is considered dead in God's eyes.”
Open this quote“You can never kill a true Christian.”
Open this quote“The whole law of Moses was mainly written for Jesus, and when He came and fulfilled it, it was done away with.”
Open this quote“All things have to be spoken into existence; they don’t just come to pass.”
Open this quote“There were only two reasons for someone not to be healed. The lack of someone being anointed. Or the lack of someone not believing in that anointing.”
Open this quote“God gave the law through Moses to prepare people for the Messiah and for the Messiah to fulfill the law, and once it was fulfilled, He did away with it and established a new law.”
Open this quote“If you don’t start asking Divine questions, you cannot dig into the deep things of God.”
Open this quote“Mountains cannot swim. Mountains sink to the bottom of the ocean.”
Open this quote“Everyone is put in the garden of their own life and has to tend to it in the things of God.”
Open this quote“You cannot teach without fully knowing a subject, and you cannot fully know a subject without deep meditation and study.”
Open this quote“God will do whatever you can believe Him for.”
Open this quote“Life would be scary to live without God, but I am not without God; therefore, life is not scary.”
Open this quote“Divine questions receive Divine answers.”
Open this quote“The more they fight you, the more God will vindicate you.”
Open this quote“The more you are attacked, the more God will go out of His way to defend you.”
Open this quote“When you start sounding more like Jesus, you will be attacked and persecuted.”
Open this quote“You cannot separate the messenger from the message.”
Open this quote“Anything that turns your heart away from God is idolatry.”
