Notes of Faith July 26, 2024
The Truth About Truth
Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me?
John 8:46
John used the word “truth” more than twenty times in his Gospel. He told us that Jesus is “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14), that truth comes through Him (1:17), and that the truth will make us free (8:32). Jesus said, “I tell the truth” (8:45) and “I am…the truth” (14:6). He promised to send us the Spirit of truth to guide us into all truth (16:13). When He prayed for us, He asked His Father to “sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth” (17:17).
Recommended Reading:
John 14:15-18
Pontius Pilate scoffed at Him, saying, “What is truth?” (18:38) That’s what people are saying today too. When we hear phrases like “Your truth, my truth, and his truth,” it comes from a belief that there is no absolute truth. Everything is subject to opinions. Everything is relative.
A world in which everyone thinks their opinions, however mistaken, represent for them the truth, well, that’s a world of absurdity. Don’t be fooled by the world’s version of truth. Stay close to Him who is the Truth and continually study the Book that is true and trustworthy—the Bible.
God’s claim of absolute truth is so essential that man’s ideas should never intrude upon it.
Steve Ham
I don’t like the thought of people living their entire lives and then meeting the God of truth realizing that they do not know Him, and will be judged for their rejection of the truth of Jeus, the Son of God, who died for them that they might be saved from condemnation and judgment, but they would not believe. Truth is not relative. It is absolute!
John 5:39-40
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
ESV
2 Thess 2:10
among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
NKJV
Matt 11:28
28 "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
NASU
John 14:6
I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. NASU
We must know the truth to be saved from our lives of rebellion and sin against God. God is truth. God cannot lie. There is salvation in no one else but Jesus! Come to Him. Come to the truth. Know the truth and you will be saved! Don’t let the deception and lies of the world keep you from truth.
Pastor Dale