When we are speaking to someone, we want them to always be truthful with us. Sometimes it hurts to know the truth, but no one wants to have others lie to us. I'll bet that when we were kids that our parents always told us to tell the truth or suffer the consequences. Now we all know what that would mean. My parents were not afraid to discipline me if I got out of line. Today that is not always so.
God also tells us not to lie but to be truthful with our fellow man. If we see someone who is going to die in their sins, do we tell them that it will be alright or do we tell them that they will suffer eternal punishment? I'm sure that you would tell them the truth that they will not get to Heaven without Jesus in their life. But what if you don't know the truth? How can you know the truth yourself so that you can tell others?
Jesus tell us that He is the truth. If you have been born again into a new life in Jesus, then you have the truth living in you. If you are without Jesus, then you are dead in your sins and going to spend eternity away from God. When you study your Bible, you are taking in the truth from God. God tells us that the Bible is the inspired word of God and we know that God doesn't lie nor can He lie.
Hebrews;6:17-18
(In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.)
What is the hope that we have set before us? Our hope is the promise from God that we have salvation in Jesus Christ, and that God will fulfill His promise and save us. Now if we cannot believe God to be telling the truth, then how can we put our faith in his promise of salvation?
In the Book of John we have many passages that explain who Jesus is and that we can trust Him to tell the truth. We know that He is God the Son, so we also know that he cannot lie for it is impossible for Him to lie. He speaks nothing but the truth.
John;1:17
(For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.)
Did you realize that you are a slave in your present state if you don't have Jesus in your life. Well, that is exactly what the Scriptures tell us.
John;8:34
(Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.)
Know you have been told directly from the Scriptures that you are a slave to whatever has mastered you. We are all sinners, so without Jesus to set us free from sin, we are truly a slave.
[The Truth Will Make You Free]
How are you going to know the truth? That's right, you have to be in the Word of God to know what is a lie and what is the truth.
John;8:31-32
(So Jesus was saying to those Jews who believed Him, "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.")
How will we learn this truth from God's Word. Jesus tells us that He will give us a Helper who is from the Father, and that we, who are truly believers, are the only ones who can have this Helper.
John;14:16-17
("I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because he abides with you and will be in you.)
Isn't it a wonderful gift from God to send the Holy Spirit to live with us and in us. He teaches us all truth from the Scriptures and reminds us of what God has told us.
John;14:26
("But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.)
So if you have any doubt who Jesus is, it is all through the Bible and all we have to do is believe the truth.
John;14:6
( Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.)
If you want to have eternal life, you have to get that life through Jesus Christ. Jesus tells us the truth.
[I am the way]
[I am the truth]
[I am the life]
There is no other way, nor any other truth, and there is life in no other. Don't be deceived, Jesus is the way to eternal life.
Romans;10:9-10
(that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.)
God Bless You!
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