Truth and Consequences

Jesus said, "I AM the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by Me." No one.

Jesus prayed to the Father for His disciples, "Sanctify them through your truth, Thy Word is the truth." Sanctification occurs only through one's relationship with the truth of God's Word. And He promised that when the Spirit of truth has come, "He will teach you all things."

Jesus said, "you will know the truth and the truth will set you free." Men who reject God's truth often boasts of their "freedom," but they are instead slaves to the master whose mission is to deceive, kill eternally, and destroy. True freedom--found in Christ alone and nurtured by His Word--empowers a man or woman to follow Christ and live the abundant life that only obedience to Him can provide. "I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly."

Paul tells us that a culture begins its moral decline by suppressing the truth that God is the Creator and that the creation declares His glory. Suppression, of course, implies that they know it's true--that He is the Creator--but they have no intention of living in light of that truth--of admitting that they are responsible to Him and His righteous commands. They become then a people who live in darkness but call it light--a people who claim to be wise when they are fools. They are "ever learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth." When you deny and suppress the truth and then try to find "truth," you are on an impossible journey.

A man or woman's attitude toward the truth that Jesus in the Truth and that access to eternal joy is found in Him alone determines their eternal destiny.

A man or woman's attitude toward the written Word--the truth that sanctifies and transforms--determines the degree to which they enjoy the abundant life right now--and eternally.

A culture's attitude--and the individuals within it--toward the truth that God is the Creator of all things and that a man then is responsible to Him and to His commands reveals how futile--empty--is their thinking, how foolish--illusionary--is their wisdom, and how impossible is their attempt to suppress the truth and escape the consequences.

We live in a world of Pilates. "What is truth?" they ask--and then turn away before they hear the answer that they do not want to hear. But they cannot hide from the consequences.