TRUTH

By Rick Mathes

John 18:38 Pilate •said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and •said to them, ” I find no guilt in Him.

The earliest thoughts of my troubled childhood included two questions; what is truth and why? Those questions have dogged me these three score and ten plus I have been perplexed about them. Let me elaborate on my own question: How can Jesus be a concept? He said He was the truth. He didn’t say He knew the truth or that He had the truth. He said He was the truth: a man is a concept.

The Word is truth and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us is my only answer.

Truth is the Triune Godhead of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit because they are in one with the essence of the Word of God and in form in Jesus: God incarnate. This is the best my mind can conceive.

Scriptures are God-breathed and God cannot lie thus only truth can come from His lips or His pen and He let the Apostles to record as wind moves a sail God’s Word is just that!

A plantation owner asked a Christian slave worker, “Do you really believe that Jonah was swallowed by a whale?”  “Yes I do” she replied. “How do you know that is true?” he asked. “I’ll ask Jonah when I get to heaven.” He pressed her and asked, “What if he’s not there?” She smiled and answered, “Then you ask him.”

God’s Word is the gospel and the gospel is what many refer to as Calvinism; John Calvin capsulated the doctrinal truths of the Word that were reminded by with the acronym TULIP which is the subject of another writing by me. Just rest assured that God’s law is just, was satisfied in the writings of the prophets and fulfilled with the sacrifice of His Son on the death stake of Calvary.

The commandments of the Word are all fulfilled and accomplished in the Lord’s love for us and the truth we live with and worship. God’s covenant seals the truth in the comfort of His Son and th Logos walks in Rhema: the Word and dynamite

He post-modern church smells of formaldehyde. It reeks of a decaying cadaver because it has forsaken the truth for the lie. Satan has a mask on and he very well might occupy the pulpit in your house of worship. The lie has become the truth!