TRUTH

TRUTH

Jesus said I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me (John 14:6). John 17:3 says this is eternal life that they may know you (i.e. God) and Jesus Christ. What is eternal life? KNOWING GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE! We get to know God through His Word. Therefore reading and meditating on the Word is very very vital. If we don’t read the bible and OBEY IT, we will continue to remain in darkness and the devil will keep on deceiving and lying to us. Hos. 4:6 says MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FROM LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. Hos. 8:12 says I wrote for them the many things of my law but they regarded them as something alien. And Hos. 4:14 says A people without understanding will come to ruin

John 8:31, 32, says you are truly my disciples if you keep obeying my teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Verse 36 means that only the son can set us free. So if Jesus sets us free, we will be free indeed. Jesus alone is the truth that has the power to set each one of us free. He is the source of truth, the perfect standard of what is right. He frees us from deception by Satan. He shows us clearly the way to eternal life with God. He does not give us freedom to do what we want but freedom to follow God.

Acts 17:11 says, now the bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Many of the Jews believed, as did also a number of prominent Greek women and many Greek men. If we study the bible, we will know how to evaluate what we hear. We must always compare what we hear with what the Bible says. If we give God’s true message we will never contradict or explain away anything that is found in God’s Word. And when we give a true message, people will hear, believe and be saved/grow and become mature.

In 2 Tim 2:15 Paul advises Timothy to handle the word of God correctly. Because God will examine what kind of workers we

have been for him, we should build our life on his word and build his word into our life. THE WORD alone tells us how to live for him and serve him. Believers who ignore the Bible will certainly be ashamed at the judgment. Consistent and diligent study and obedience of God’s word is vital; otherwise we will be lulled into neglecting God and our true purpose for living. A ton of reading and meditating on the word will never produce what an ounce of obedience will. After all the reading, if we don’t obey, we nullify all the reading. Obedience is the key. And we will obey only if WE LOVE HIM! We will obey only if we are ever grateful for what JESUS had to go through to reconcile us to the FATHER – THE CROSS. He died to give us life. He took our sin so that we would be forgiven for ours.

Ephesians 4:14-16 says then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. The Holy Spirit who guides the church is the spirit of truth (Jn 16:13). Satan, by contrast, is the father of lies (Jn 8:44). Therefore, as a Church, we must be lead by the Holy Spirit not by man-made agendas/programs. We are either led by Christ or by satan. Period. As followers of Christ we must be committed to the truth. Our words should be honest. Holding to the truth in love is not always easy, convenient, or pleasant, but it is absolutely necessary if the church is going to do Christ’s work in the world.

Failure to speak the truth is a failure to trust in God. Walk and talk the truth. Jesus died for truth. You may have to lay down your life for truth. Give-up your life than give up your commitment to truth. He will give you courage and power to not depart from truth in word or deed.

TRUTH FOREVER ON THE SCAFFOLD, WRONG FOREVER ON THE THRONE. YET THE SCAFFOLD HAS SWAYED AND WILL YET AGAIN KEEP SWAYING THE FUTURE, AND, BEHIND THE DIM UNKNOWN STANDETH GOD WITHIN THE SHADOW, KEEPING WATCH ABOVE HIS OWN.