TRUTH sets you FREE
What is Truth?
This is the most important or greatest question that any human being can ask. I started my quest asking this question to myself. I was no more interested in fiction or anything which is unreal.Because those things never give us a meaning to our life. When we ask ourselves this question and travel through life' s different paths in search of Truth , we end up in a person called Jesus Christ.
"Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is. " Which means the content remains same no matter whatever way we analyse it. It doesn't need any Fact to support it.
What would happen if we have more than a wife?
Think about it. We will lose a factor called oneness and love cannot be shared equally with all of them by the same husband. TRUE isn't it. Hope u agree.
God has not given many options for truth. He has only 1 option- Jesus Christ. Jesus said I am the truth. There is no other way God has given.
We know Christ is the head and the body is the church. There is only 1 head for a body . It can't be 2 heads for a body.
We know the famous question Pilate asked to Jesus - What is Truth. But he walked away. He didn't realise that he was walking away from the Greatest question and he walked away from the Greatest authority of Truth. He also was part of that Great Crime.
A man was taken for a tour in Paris by a host. Took him to see the -Music hall and the Arts in Paris. The man told the Host" that he didn't like it. " The Host replied " They aren't on trial , you are." Similarly- Pilate and Jewish leaders thought they were judging Christ, in reality they were being judged by the Truth. This is the power and nature of TRUTH. It will come to a stage that the Bible will start reading you. Amen.
I was reading Ps 119: 160-" The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever."
Sum of God's word is truth. Which means truth is a totality of all the wisdom , knowledge and understanding in the Bible.
God gave a unique verse today when i was going in search of our topic today .Notice the below verses
Prov26:4-5
4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.
5:Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
I don't know how it is mentioned in other languages . HERE each verse intially appears to be conflicting each other. But that is not the case. To understand it- lòok at the dimensions of God's wisdom. Actually both verses are powerful and have wisdom. This is the glory of God's Truth. Human logic and reasoning may not sometimes accept it.
Truth doesn't depend on any opnion or any person - suprisingly it was revealed by a pharisee Mat 22:16"
Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances"
JESUS said Truth is something which comes from the Father, John17:8
How can we travel and live with God?
Ps 15:1-2, O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill?
2:He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart.
Speak truth in our heart.
Zech8:16 and Eph4:25 tells us that we need to speak the truth to one another.
What truth we keep in our heart? What truth do we speak to each other ? Do we use truth to communicate with each other? Jesus always used the scripture. We use truth to communicate at churches and prayer meetings. It is not our regular mode of correspondence. How then can we expect this truth to set us free and free indeed?
40 days in desert, Satan was quoting the truth as Bread is what we Humans need. Truth was displayed like a material need – as basic human need. But Jesus displayed that the Word of God is our basic human need. This is how we get enchanted by the world's truth. Satan' s Truth is to inflict pain in the children of God. God says spiritual first , the rest will follow. For instance .., To the 4 men who where lowering the paralytic thru the roof- notice Jesus 1st gave the Truth for their spiritual need- He said "Your sins are forgiven" , the healing which was their physical need followed after their spiritual need of forgiveness sufficed.
We all know Stalin, Russian dictator who exterminated 15 million people of his own country. He started his career as a seminary student. A man who was led by Falsified Truths. Malcolm mugridge the great journalist interviewed his daughter Svetelana about her Father.
STALIN was asked once - How he could inflict such pain on people?
Stalin called for a live chicken . Forcefully clutching the chicken in one hand, with the other he began to systematically pluck out its feathers. As the chicken struggled in vain to escape, he continued with the painful denuding until the bird was completely stripped. “Now you watch,” Stalin said as he placed the chicken on the floor and walked away with some bread crumbs in his hand. Incredibly, the fear-crazed chicken hobbled toward him and clung to the legs of his trousers. Stalin threw a handful of grain to the bird, and it began to follow him around the room, he turned to his dumbfounded colleagues and said quietly, “This is the way to rule the people. Did you see how that chicken followed me for food, even though I had caused it such torture? People are like that chicken. If you inflict inordinate pain on them they will follow you for food the rest of their lives.”
What can a false Truth do to the conscience of a Man like Stalin , ex seminary student.Satan inflicts pain thru his truth . Stalin punched his fist towards God as he died in sickness.
God's Truth sets us free in spirit, soul and body.
Charles sobharaj we all know a prisoner who always escaped jail and was caught again and again. While escaping he thought he was free. But truly speaking he was not Free indeed .If the court told him that you are forgiven- He would have become FREE INDEED.
Being free and Being Free indeed are 2 different things.John8:36" if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
World's truth gives us only a temporary Freedom -> resulting in:-
1.Ends in shame
2.No inheritance or possessions.
3. No protection or seal.
4. No Guarantee
God's Truth results in
1. Covers ,seals and protects.
2. There is a valid Guarantee.
3. Inheritance and possessions
4. Ends in Glory.
Eph1:13"
13:In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
14:who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
TRUE FREEDOM IS ETERNAL GLORY THRU CHRIST JESUS WHO IS THE GUARANTEE , THE SEAL,THE FORERUNNER IN OUR INHERITANCE .
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. JOHN1:17
AMEN