TRUTH

                                                                       TRUTH      

What is truth?   The answer is in the Word of God. 

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.  John 1:14  (NIV)

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.  John 1:17  (NIV)

 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  John 8:31-32  (NIV)

What is Truth?  God’s Word is truth.  Jesus came as the bearer of truth.   The opposite of truth is a lie.  Lying and deception go hand in hand.  The definition of deceive, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is “To cause to believe what is not true: mislead.”  Let’s see didn’t this happen a long time ago in the Garden of Eden when the devil deceived Adam and Eve?

 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,  but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.  “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  Genesis 3:1-5  (NIV)

 Jesus was born into the world to put an end to deception and redeem man from sin which is really rejecting truth which is in the person of Jesus Christ Himself. Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”   Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”  John 14:5-7 NIV

 When Jesus was brought before Pilate, Pilate questioned Jesus about His Kingdom------ Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”  Matthew 18:36-37  (NIV)

 Even Pilate himself did not know what truth was because apparently he had never experienced it and it appears he unknowingly experienced truth in the person of Jesus Christ.

In Chapter 24 of Matthew Jesus talked about deception three times.  It seems that deception is one of the biggest signs of the end times.  You need not look any further than the media to recognize this.

 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”  Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.  Matthew 24:3-4 (NIV)

We live in a world that is on a collision course to dispel all truth.  Jesus came to destroy the works of the enemy, the devil.  He proclaimed truth wherever He went.  If you really seek the truth you will find it.  Don’t be pressured by the “cancel culture” out there that wants to force people to act and think like them.  Where there is truth there is freedom.  Freedom to be who God created you to be.  He is the Master Designer.  He wrote the “manual” for His creation.  Don’t forget the acronym B.I.B.L.E. -----“Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.”