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Jesus is the Truth

(Jn14:6)

Our God is the true God (2Sa7:22; Jn17:3).

His essence is true (Jer10:10) and

His words are true (He6:18).

Faith is believing that His word is the truth and

The life of this faith is about keeping, defending and teaching the truth.

Truth refers to a principle that does not change.

While men attempt to exam and arrive at it through sciences and religions,

They can never achieve it because this world and its traces and men all change.

The Bible differentiates truth from false, and true words from lies.

It treats both liars and those deceived by lies as equally guilty (Eze14:10), for which

They will not enter the Holy City but

Be thrown into the second death, the fire of hell (Rev21:8, 21:27, 22:15).

Like Lot's sons-in-law, all men have come to consider God's word as a joke (Ge19:14) since

Adam, their ancestor, did not listen to His word and ate the forbidden fruit (Ge3:4-6) for

He was deceived by the devil, the father of lies, who

Deceived himself in heaven and was cast down to Hades (Is14:12-15).

The Law that God gave the Israelites was the commandment that

Warned them not to be deceived (Ex20:3-17) for

There is no other true god but the Lord God and that

Idolatry and false testimony were all meaningless.

Although the sanctuary where the stone tablets were placed

Inside the ark of the testimony reminded them of this (Ex25:21, 31:18),

They were enticed by the false prophets who had never heard God's word (Eze13:6).

God answered, however, Elijah's prayer with a fire, proving that

He is the true God (1Ki18:24).

Yeshua came and said, "Destroy the temple and I will raise it in three days" (Jn2:19), because

He would take down a shadow of the true one to come and

Build the true tabernacle (He9:6, 24, 10:1), for

He is the incarnate Word who was with the true Father in the beginning (Jn1:1, 14, 18),

Coming as the Truth to die and be risen (Jn2:20).

Though the Jews questioned Him and did not believe Him,

Yeshua's testimony is true because

He knew where He came from and where He was going (Jn8:13-14).

As He died, He said, "It is finished" (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) As the last Adam died according to the Father's word to the first Adam and testified that
the His word is true (Ge2:17; 1Co15:45);
2) Condemned the devil, the liar, the father of lies (Ge3:4; Jn8:44; 1Jn3:8); and
3) Redeemed the sins of all men in Adam who was deceived because of the weakness of
the flesh (1Pe1:18).

His resurrection testifies that He is the Truth, the true God (Jn11:25, 14:6; 1Jn5:20).

He sat on the heavenly throne to judge with the words He spoke (Jn12:48).

He sent the Spirit of truth to guide into all the truth (Jn16:13)

Those who drank His blood, the true drink, and ate His flesh, the true food (Jn6:55).

The Christian is he who believes that

Yeshua, His word and the Father's words are true (Jn14:24, 17:17).

Therefore, he is determined to keep, defend and teach the truth,

Such as baptism by immersion (Mt28:19) and

Goes out to the world and speaks only the true words, the gospel, the truth.

O Lord,

Open our ears so we only hear the true words!

With this tongue, let us only speak the truth! Amen.