Here's another outtake from Sunday morning’s sermon and will have a new article later today for certain:
Truth is in Jesus. Obviously we know Jesus never told a
lie; we know Jesus, morally in His character, His very nature, He is truth.
We need to acknowledge truth is a PERSON; that’s the
problem with our culture, says Alex Kurz.
Pilate didn’t ask about truth because, “Man, I have a deep desire to
know what truth is.” He dismissed the Lord Jesus Christ and he said, “What is
truth?”
The most simple definition is “truth is reality,” as God
defines it. Christ makes some earth-shattering declarations about Himself.
John 14: [5] Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know
not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
[6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me.
He says, “I am truth,” and that’s the problem the world
has. You see, truth is a person. The real issue isn’t about information; it’s
about who is Lord and that’s why the world resists and rejects what the Bible
has to say about truth.
As Lord and God, Jesus is truth. There’s no negotiation.
We recognize also that truth is preserved in a written form. By the way, Jesus
is the living Word (capital “w”), is He not?
So the Lord Jesus in John 17: [17] Sanctify them
through thy truth: thy word is truth.
[18] As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them
into the world.
[19] And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth.
God never leaves it up to humanity to find truth; He
says, “I’m the revealer of truth; the revelator of truth.”
By the way, God’s truth is available to more than 90 percent
of all languages on Planet Earth. Do you think God’s interested in ensuring His
truth is made available to all of humanity?
There’s this old Hinduism thing where they picture
discovering God by using an elephant analogy. You know, "truth isn’t located in
one central place but God, for some mystical, weird reason, is available all
over the place."
Kind of like a blind man who bumps into an elephant. He
feels the leg and says, “Ahh, a pillar.” Another blind man feels the tail and
says, “Ahh, a broom.” Another blind man feels the trunk and says, “Ahh, a
trumpet.” Another blind man feels the tusk and says, “Ahh, a plowshare.”
That’s the myth of religious pluralism, that everyone has
a little bit of truth and what man now is instructed to do is, “You’re on a
quest to try and find out what ultimate truth is.”
It says, “Well, you have this religious system, that
religious system. There’s a little bit of scattering of truth here, little bit
of truth there, so on and so forth and you know, God sort of leaves it up to
man, like a jigsaw puzzle, and maybe one day you’ll discover ultimate reality;
you will arrive at absolute, objective, authoritative truth.”
What did Jesus say? “Thy Word is truth.” A document, the Scriptures, that has been around certainly for 3,500 years, has been available
for thousands of years, proven to be historically accurate.
You can study the sciences and archaeology and no one
has yet been able to demonstrate a verifiable error in God’s Word.
People say, “Well, maybe that’s your experience but it’s
not my experience.” How hypocritical is that.
What if medicine had the same attitude and mentality. My
doctor says, “Hey, Al, you got this problem; here’s a prescription.” The
pharmacist says, “Wait a minute, I don’t feel this is the best course of
treatment.”
How would you like a banker to determine what truth is? I
deposit $1,000 into my bank account and the bank says, “No, I feel you’ve got
nothing in your bank account.”
When it comes to truth being defined by subjective
feelings or experience, people don’t believe that, but for some reason, when it
comes to absolute truth, all of a sudden it’s, “Well, that’s not my truth.”
You see the consequence of the spiritual attitude that grips even our culture today and we’re not immune. It rips cultures all over the world, how if people are going to operate on their own supposed truth, it has plunged society into destruction and chaos and confusion.
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