We’ve all heard people say “live your own truth.” The problem with that statement is in the word “truth.” For truth to be truth, it must be based on an absolute standard. God is that standard, and to use any other standard leads us away from the one and only truth that He laid out for us.
let god be true
and everybody
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a liar
so here what that means is
when you and anybody you know disagrees
with god y’all wrong
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because it is impossible for god to lie
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you and i are living in a day where you
are
watching the death of truth
the depth of truth has led
to a breakdown in the cultural immune
system
and the shattering that has taken place
as truth
is being buried and funeralized
is replete
you want the truth
but because we’re living in a day when
you’re watching the death of truth
everything has become up for grabs
leading to
cataclysmic
confusion
there’s psychological confusion
people’s mental trajectory
is off because
there is no truth to define it
there is
philosophical confusion
as people
doodle with ideas
the bible calls it
ever learning and never coming into the
knowledge of the truth
that’s what
ii timothy calls it they are collecting
information going to school going to
college but never arriving at the truth
second timothy 3 7 says
it’s amazing how dumb the educated are
becoming
as they stand at the graveyard of truth
there is
scientific confusion
as people deal with the probabilities
and
possibilities and
potentialities of life
only to find out that the scientists
change their minds
because they discover new things and
what they thought was the truth wasn’t
fully the truth
there is uh
entertainment confusion
you listen to talk shows and you’re
listening to babble by the hour
as confused people lead a confused
audience
where there is this plethora of opinions
and you don’t know who to believe who to
listen to
who to follow
there is
communicative
confusion on social media
where everybody’s got a thought
and they want to share it
so you find yourselves
following and being followed
there is uh
spiritual confusion
crickets in the pulpit
chirping noises
without
clarity
the one thing that ought to mark
the christian
in the church of jesus christ is that
they are people of the truth
they are
people who take
the concept of truth
seriously
in john chapter 18.
let me read these
two verses verses 37 and 38.
jesus is before pilate and jesus says
when asked i’ll read verse 36 my kingdom
is not of this world if my kingdom of
this world and my servants would be
fighting so that i would not be handed
over to the jews but as it is my kingdom
is not from this realm
therefore pilate said to him so you are
a king
verse 37 jesus answered you say
correctly that i am a king
for this i have been born
and for this i have come into the world
to testify to the truth
everyone who is of the truth
hears
me then pilate in verse 38 says
to jesus
what is truth
pilate is an agnostic
he questions whether you can know truth
what in the world is it
many people are like that they don’t
they don’t
they don’t know whether
truth is ever findable so the concept of
truth is a question mark
what is it
then there is
rationalism
that view says the truth is what you can
logically and intellectually
perceive
it becomes the mind of the academician
the learner
the truth is that which your mind can
grab
and it makes sense to you and then that
makes it
truth
for others
it’s pragmatism
pragmatism says truth is what works if
it worked it’s true
truth is what works
there is um
fatherism
truth is subjective it’s kind of how you
feel
kind of
kind of what gets you
moving on the inside that’s true
so you’ve got all of these
isms
that are trying to help us to grab the
subject of truth and to answer pilates
question what is truth jesus says
i have come to bring the truth
truth can be defined
as an absolute standard by which reality
is measured let me say that again the
definition of truth
is an absolute standard by which reality
is measured
truth
is an absolute standard by which reality
is measured
first of all you have to understand
truth exists
jesus says in john 8 32 and you shall
know the truth
so truth is
something that exists there is a thing
called truth
it’s not a made-up concept or made-up
word we use the word all the time even
though people define it differently
truth exists jesus says i came to bring
witness to the truth
not only does truth exist
truth that exists is knowable
you shall know the truth
so truth is something that can be
learned understood or discovered
this absolute standard by which reality
is measured does exist and it is
knowable
but here’s what you need to know
truth sits outside of you
it is an objective standard that is
absolute
in its origin amen
it is an objective standard
that is absolute
in its origin
okay
what i mean by that is truth the
absolute standard by which reality is
measured
transcends your emotions
in other words
how you feel does not determine whether
it’s true
last time i checked one plus one equals
two
it is two now and one and one will be
two tomorrow because it is a fixed
absolute standard by which reality is to
be measured or else you couldn’t do math
because you need a fixed standard
today
we’ve got people walking around feeling
who they are
and abandoning an objective standard
now we’re going to talk about this in
more detail in terms of love and
sensitivity but
none of that should infringe on the
truth
okay let me tell you something else
truth is deeper than facts
truth is deeper than facts
truth includes facts
but you can have facts and not know the
truth
so if you have the facts but you don’t
know the truth you can’t get to the
resolution of the problem
one of the problems today is people are
going to school and getting educated
with facts but not being told the truth
and that’s where everybody’s getting
confused because the facts are real
and if the facts are real you’ll assume
because if the facts are real that it
must be also the truth
the truth has to originate from an
originating source
in order to determine it’s the truth
not just because it is factually
correct
so when people have facts
but don’t want the truth
they’ll switch on you
so what we got today is people bouncing
around
they just bouncing around until they get
to somebody who tells them what they
want to hear
because they don’t want to know the
truth
a fixed standard an absolute standard by
which reality is to be
measured pilate said what is truth
now you’re going to run into a problem
if you decide to take your faith
seriously and become a person and people
of the truth
because you’re going to run into people
who don’t buy truth but if you decide as
every christian should
to be a person of the truth
why can’t you be your own truth
let me give you a few reasons
why you can’t be the standard
for truth
first of all
you can’t be the standard
because
you me us are sinful people
so our our
our truth gets distorted
by our own sin
another reason you can’t be the standard
for truth i can’t be the standard for
truth is because we are finite
we are limited by our humanity we don’t
know all things about all subjects
so that’s why we learn we learn because
we find out new stuff that we didn’t
know yesterday how many times you said
in your life oh i didn’t know that
or even if you didn’t say that you said
oh i didn’t understand that
because you you’re finite you’ll find
that i’m finite we are limited
so you can’t be the truth there’s
another reason why
you can’t be the standard of truth and
no other person can be that either
is because of the schemes of the devil
the doctrine of demons
demons have a school
and most of humanity is enrolled
where satan and the demonic forces
trick people with the truth
or with the lies or with partial truth
in order to deceive
and there’s probably not too many people
on the side of my voice who haven’t been
duped by the devil a time or two
another reason why you and nobody else
you know can be the final arbiter of
truth
is because of the secularization of the
culture
you’re living in a world of lies
you and i are being bombarded with lies
they’re painted they’re dressed up
but you and i are living in a world of
deception
and this secular world has increasingly
as it is drifted from a judeo-christian
ethic
become
a liar’s paradise
so you and nobody you know
can be the ultimate standard for truth
because nobody’s infinite nobody is
perfect
the devil is deceitful and the culture
is contaminated
jesus says
i have come down
to be a witness to the truth
to give testimony to the truth
if
you want absolute truth
it must come from an absolute source
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if you want perfect truth
it must come from a perfect source
everything else is guesswork
there is only one perfect source
in the universe
god amen amen
so if you want to get rid of truth you
got to get rid of god
that’s why
certain political movements socialism
communism marxism
have to
keep religion either eradicated
or marginalized
so that they don’t have to deal with god
because in those systems they want
government
to be the arbiter of truth
even in our own nation as we shift away
from a judeo-christian worldview
there is this attack on the freedom of
religion why because religion based in
god becomes a problem
because it’s calling for an absolute
standard
outside
of what people say and think
the bible declares
that god is truth
psalm 31 verse 5
the god of truth isaiah
65 verse 16.
scripture declares
that the god of truth
cannot lie
hebrews 6 18.
in fact let me tell you how radical it
is
romans chapter 3 verse 4
let god be true and every man a liar
amen
hello
let god be true
and everybody
a liar
so here what that means is when you and
anybody you know disagrees with god
you’re wrong
because it is impossible for god to lie
he can’t be he can’t be wrong
because there is nothing in his nature
see when you know everything about
everything
you can’t be wrong
when you know past present and future
you can’t be wrong
when you then made it all sustain it all
and one day will destroy it all you
can’t be wrong
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jesus declared as part of the triune
godhead
that he came john 1 14 full of grace and
truth
john 14 verse 6 i am the way
the truth notice the article i’m not a
truth i’m the truth
i’m amen
i’m not just truth among many i am the
standard by which truth is to be
measured
the bible calls the holy spirit the
third member of the trinity the spirit
of truth john 14 17
john 15 26
john 16 13
over and over again
i’ve given you the spirit of truth not
the spirit of this world amen
so you’re not supposed to be checking
with the world first
here’s what you need to tell all your
young people going to college you know
we got some kids going to college this
year
here’s what you need to tell you tell
yourself and then tell all your kids
going to college
you can give them this this heads up
you can be smarter than your teachers
david said i’m smarter than my teachers
why
because he started with an absolute
standard so he had a standard to judge
what the teachers were saying amen
the reason why the evolutionary
hypothesis is being taught as fact in
school is because with evolution you can
get rid of god
you don’t have to deal with god when you
uh when existence happens by chance
see they have to get rid of god
so that man
if so facto becomes the standard by
which truth is
truth is whatever god says something is
it is not what the opinion polls say
it is not what the surveys say
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i’m tired of surveys i’m tired of
opinion polls
i’m tired of this group says this this
group says that
all that’s all that’s
secondary
if god is spoken amen
jesus says the triune god and i have
come truth is not sourced here he says
i’m coming from another realm so truth
sits outside of time and space
truth sits outside of your five senses
truth sits outside because truth comes
from a different source
he says it comes from another realm
jesus said and all i’ve done is come in
to validate it in human terms
so your question my question
on every subject not just the subjects i
want to talk about on every subject is
what has god said on this matter
that becomes the question
what has god said on his mind and if you
ask that on the front end instead of the
back end you’ll save yourself a lot of
headache
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what has god said what did he mean by
what he said okay what do i do in light
of what he said what he meant by what he
said
so the question that you’re gonna have
to answer i’m gonna have to answer
you’re gonna have to
talk to your friends about answering is
this what will be the standard of your
determining truth
will it be your feelings that change
will it be your intellect that’s finite
will it be your morals
uh instincts that differ
because i may think something’s okay you
may think it’s not okay so we don’t have
the same moral code so
what’s going to be the standard
it is time
those of us who name the name of jesus
christ
who declare we believe in god
to return to the truth
to not apologizing
for being a person of the truth
now we’re going to talk about how you do
it we’re going to talk about speaking
the truth in love we’re going to talk
about the sensitivities involved we’re
going to do all that because people are
hurting people are confused and all of
that
but you still shouldn’t be wavering on
the truth
the absolute divinely authorized
objective standard by which reality
is measured
it’s the original source
and when you and i do that
we decide that we’re not just church
goers we’re not just
christians we are people of the truth
on all subjects
and you you can always know a person of
the truth because they will want to know
what god says
you will always know a person who is not
of the truth because they don’t want to
hear what god has to say
amen that is the telltale side
do they welcome it
or do they reject it not do they like it
or not like it because a lot of god’s
truth you’re not going to like
i’ll tell you that now
a lot of god’s truth you’re not going to
like
they hated jesus because he was of the
truth
he says and anybody who is of the truth
hears me
so you so if if they’re not taking me
seriously that’s because they don’t take
truth seriously
because i was i’m full of grace and
truth
so the challenge i give to us today
to all
who are
part of this ministry and this world
view
this kingdom agenda this
this sea of god’s rule he says jesus
says that it came down from above
that he says it came down from the
kingdom
the kingdom up there thy kingdom come
thy will be done on earth as it is in
heaven that we are supposed to make an
imprint on earth from the information
given in heaven
amen
so when you leave here
and live your life you must live it as a
person of the truth
because that’s the only way you’ll get
god’s involvement amen
because he will not fellowship with the
lie
because
in him there is no deceit
no deception
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while god wants us to be committed to
truth
he wants us to communicate that truth
in a certain kind of way
and he defines that way to communicate
his truth
as communicated in love
what is love
love is the decision
to compassionately
righteously
and responsibly
seek the well-being of another
which means when we’re communicating
truth god’s way we want that truth to
build somebody up and not tear people
down
when your or my communication of truth
is harmful and hurtful
it is believing how truth is to be made
known
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so
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you