In our relativistic culture people react against the concept of Absolute Truth. They prefer different strokes for different folks – where there is no accountability before a God who has revealed standards and penalties. By taking a subjective approach to reality they imagine that they can live in their own dream world where they face no ultimate condemnation and judgment. Jesus flies in the face of that mentality and presents Himself as very God – as the source and definer and communicator of Absolute Truth. Everything that stands against Him is false and deceptive. Whatever ways men invent to try to connect to God must be dismissed as mere counterfeits.
SIX INSIGHTS REGARDING JESUS AS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH
I. THE WORLD REMAINS SKEPTICAL THAT ABSOLUTE TRUTH CAN BE KNOWN
John 18:38 “Pilate said to Him, ‘What is truth?’”
II. THE TRI-UNE GOD IS IDENTIFIED AS THE SOURCE OF TRUTH
God the Father: Ex. 34:6 “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth”
Psalms 57:10 “For your lovingkindness is great to the heavens and your truth to the clouds.”
[opposed by Satan who is the Father of all Lies – John 8:44]
God the Son: John 8:46 “If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?”
John 14:6 “I am the Truth”
Rev. 3:7 “He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens”
God the Holy Spirit: John 16:13 “when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.”
1 John 5:6 “the Spirit is the truth”
III. JESUS IS TRUTH INCARNATE – THE ULTIMATE REVEALER OF TRUTH
John 1:9, 14 “There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man . . . And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 18:37 “For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth.”
IV. THE TRUTH CAN BE KNOWN TODAY BY STUDYING AND APPLYING GOD’S WORD
John 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.”
Ephesians 1:13 “In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation – having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise”
V. THE APPROPRIATION OF THE TRUTH ISSUES IN OBEDIENCE
1 John 2:4-5 “The one who says, ‘I have come to know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected.”
3 John 4 “I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.”
VI. ONLY THE TRUTH CAN SET ONE FREE
John 8:31-32 “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
CONCLUSION: Will we align with Truth or Falsehood?
James Russell Lowell:
Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood
For the good or evil side
Then it is the brave man chooses
While the coward stands aside.
Related posts:
- Jesus is the Only Way to Fellowship with God the Father — John 14:6
- Spirit Taught Truth – 1 Corinthians 2:9-16
- Week 3: Demand #12 – Worship God in Spirit and Truth
- The Coming of the Holy Spirit — Part 5 — The Ongoing Ministry of the Exalted Jesus — Acts 2:33-36
- The Coming of the Holy Spirit — Part 3 — The Authentication of Jesus as the Promised Messiah — Acts 2:14-24
