Message from Scripture: 11/03/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today comes from John 8:31-32; “If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

 

In our current society, truth is something that is subject to the feelings of the individual, what is convenient for one to believe at any given moment in time. The very concept of objective truths that are always true, no matter the time or place they exist, is rejected. Such a belief is self-contradictory, as there are those principles, such as basic laws of nature, that never change. To ignore or reject them can have dire consequences.

 

Scripture speaks of God’s word as truth (John 17:17). The word for truth in the Bible speaks of that which is real, pure from all error or falsehood. In the New Testament especially, it refers to divine truth or the faith and practice of the true gospel as from the true God, declaring the existence and will of the one true God, in opposition to the worship of all that is false. It is divine truth, gospel truth, as opposed to what is taught by pagan, purely human philosophy.

 

Scripture It is not of human origin, but from God to us (2 Pet. 1:20-21). It is able to make us complete and whole (2 Tim. 3:16-17). Not one of God’s words will fail to accomplish its intended goal (Isa. 55:11). It will judge us on the last day (John 12:48). We should spend time in it each day, to know it, and live it, that its truths can set us free from sin and provide life for us.

 

Today, let’s go out to serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, knowing He is the truth (John 14:6), and He will lead us in truth today and forever. That is the truth people need to see and hear in a world lost in sin. God bless.

 

Robert