Truth2Freedom's BlogFaith in Jesus Christ is our response to God's elective purpose in our life. These two truths--God's initiative and man's response--co-exist throughout the Bible. The gospel is "the message of truth" because truth is its predominant characteristic. Salvation was conceived by the God of truth (Ps. 31:5); purchased by the Son, who is the truth (John 14:6); and is applied by the Spirit of truth (John 16:13). To know it is to know the truth that sets men free (John 8:32). Believers are people of the truth (John 18:37), who worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24), and who obey the Word of truth (John 17:17). People have rejected, neglected, redefined, and opposed Godās truth for centuries. Some cynically deny that truth even exists or that it can be known by men (John 18:38). Others foolishly think that denying truth will somehow make it go away. Truth determines the validity of one's belief. Believing a lie doesn't make it true. Conversely, failing to believe the truth doesn't make it a lie. The gospel is true because Jesus is true, not simply because Christians believe in Him. His resurrection proved the truth of His claims and constitutes the objective basis of our faith (Rom. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:3). Truth is our protection and strength (Eph. 6:14). Throughout history, people have tried everything imaginable to gain favor with God. Most turn to religion, but religion apart from Christ is merely a satanic counterfeit of the truth. At the heart of every false religion is the notion that man can come to God by any means he chooses--by meditating, doing good deeds, and so on. But Scripture says, "There is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). That name is Jesus Christ, and we come to Him by confessing and repenting of our sin, trusting in His atoning death on the cross, and affirming His bodily resurrection from the grave (cf. Rom. 10:9-10). There is no other way to God. False religious leaders and teachers talk much about Godās love, but not His wrath and holiness; much about how deprived of good things people are, but not about their depravity; much about Godās universal fatherhood toward everyone, but not much about his unique fatherhood toward all who believe in His Son; much about what God wants to give to us, but nothing about the necessity of obedience to Him; much about health and happiness, but nothing about holiness and sacrifice. Their message is full of gaps, the greatest of which leaves out a biblical worldview of the saving gospel and replaces it with the worldview of postmodernism with its dominant ethical system of relativism. The Bible describes mankind in the end times: āalways learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truthā (2 Tim. 3:7). Spiritual answers cannot be deduced by human reason alone (1 Cor. 2:14). Itās not that spiritual truth is irrational or illogical, but that human wisdom is defective, because itās tainted by manās sinfulness, and unable to perceive the things of God. That is why the Bible is so important. It gives us the answers we canāt find on our own. It is Godās Word to mankind. Scripture is divinely revealed truth that fills the vacuum of spiritual ignorance in all of us. Post-truth is the word of the year for 2016 and also the philosophy of the day, According to the dictionary, āpost-truthā means, ārelating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.ā Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. In a āpost-truthā world, people make choices based on emotion and experience rather than objective fact. So in a post-truth world, truth is irrelevant. What exactly is a post-truth culture? Itās a culture where truth is no longer an objective reality. It has become subjective. Itās whatās true for meāmy beliefs, my opinions, determine my truth. So in our post-truth culture, man determines truth. Man makes himself the ultimate authority. This starting point, which rejects Godās Word and the idea of moral absolutes, makes truth subjective. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Christianity is grounded in objective truth. āAnd you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you freeā (John 8:32). Objective truth exists because we have Godās Word. In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, āSanctify them by Your truth. Thy word is truthā (John 17:17), and Paul and James describe the Bible as āthe word of truthā (2 Timothy 2:15; James 1:18). The Psalmist says, āThe entirety of your word is truthā (Psalm 119:160). Jesus Himself said, āFor this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voiceā (John 18:37). When Jesus said, āI am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except by meā (John 14:6), He wasnāt expressing His personal belief or opinion. He was speaking the truth, a fundamental reality that doesnāt change from person to person. It doesnāt matter if our culture thinks all roads lead to God. The truth of the matter is āno one comes to the Father but by [Jesus].ā This blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequencesātemporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell
Love the creativity of the sign.
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July 28, 2015 at 1:39 am
Me too… such a simply stitched streetcorner smile š ā„ ā¤
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July 30, 2015 at 11:17 am
How interesting that they knit on the traffic post. š
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July 28, 2015 at 2:16 am
LoL … yes, very interesting minds that come up with these ideas š ā„ ā¤
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