Truth is God’s Reality to the world. Living the truth is taking your place in the reality that God has provided. The image of God’s reality is provided in his word. His  Spirit convicts us of his reality.

It’s funny to me when I hear people in the world trying to be philosophical about the issue of truth. They debate weather truth is absolute or not and if truth is relative. It’s all supercilious rhetoric of men wrap in human carnality; blinded by the darkness of their ignorance; having no ability to see beyond the impetuous vanity of their mind.

Truth is both absolute and relative. But to whom is the question? Well, the answer is obvious. Truth relative to God of course. Truth is absolutely relative to God and God alone. People in the world want to make truth relative to themselves; what they want and prefer. A man might adhere to what he perceives to be truth to him, but that does not make it truth. Also, a man may also deem something not to be truth when it really is truth.

Truth is what God says it to be, what he made it to be. Truth is God’s reality.  Jesus of Nazereth is the embodied message of truth. Jesus is the testimony of God’s reality.

John 3:11-12 “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.“

“If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?”

What is Jesus saying?  Jesus is speaking in the context of a ‘witness’. In a court of law, a witness is called forth to testify of the truth. Truth is summarized by what is seen and heard. So then a witness can only testify of what he sees and of what he hears.

But that’s not all. Jesus has also included the context of one that hears the witness’s testimony. The hearer has the option to believe or not to believe witness’s statement. He has the option to receive or not to receive the testimony as the truth.

And yet there is is still more that Jesus includes as part of the context. He includes the credibility of the witness. Where is he from? Form an earthly perspective he was called Jesus of Nazareth and they measured his credibility by where he was from by asking, “can any good thing come from Nazareth?” In actuality, Jesus might be more believable being identified from an earthly region. If he is recognized as being from heaven, he would have to withhold much of his testimony. He would have to piece it out and cloak it in parables. He would have take his truth and jigsaw it into pieces until we  that are spiritual would begin to put the pieces together and believe on him as the scriptures have said. For him to be from heaven, he would testify of the things that he has seen and heard in heaven. Things that we would have no reference of; yes things that would flip our brain upside down. Perhaps this is why John says, “He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.”(John 3:31) and he continues in the next verse saying,

“And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.(John 3:32)

Jesus came to testify of things from heaven. Man can’t relate to this vantage point, so man dismisses this testimony altogether.

1 John 5:9 “If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.”

1 John 5:10 “He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.”

Jesus is God’s word or testimony made flesh. Jesus came full of grace and truth. The eternal reality that God prepared for man was made available to all in Jesus The Christ. Man can hear it and it is his choice to believe it or not. God’s truth is forever and ever and is never compromised by man’s perception.
All truth began in God, is upheld by God and shall forever flow from God. Anything against his reality is a lie. It is false. Is it any wonder that the enemy, the prince of this world, would blind the hearts and deceive the minds of the souls in the world from God’s reality. Ever since the fall of Adam men have made falsehood their refuge. The souls men have roomed with the one whom Jesus called the father of lies in the gospel of John 8:44. In the latter part of that verse Jesus said of him, “When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

Jesus was dealing with those that heard him but did not believe him because they had no truth in them. They were tailored to adhere to lies. The truth was foreign to them and only worked to antagonize them. This is why scripture says, “truth has fallen in the streets“. (Isaiah 59:14) If you should attempt to share the truth with people that are still in darkness that they might hear and accept God’s reality, it is an act of love. But today’s culture has such a disdain for the truth, that the one speaking it, is viewed as a hater.

Truth Is God’s reality To The Church. It’s amazing that the people of God have become so accustomed to part truths and distorted doctrines that when they do hear the truth they feel like they are being deceived.  Especially in various church circles and certain denominations, men are so indoctrinated that it has alienated them from God’s truth and from God’s people. Doctrines divide but truth unifies. Look around at the church today, even here in the year 2010, the church of Jesus Christ is still greatly divided. The problem escalates when the doctrines spring up being distorted by the carnality of man’s reasoning. Because so many of God’s people for so many years have grown up in the doctrines of men, it has reproduced people who fight against the truth. They don’t realize that they are fighting against the Lord. They don’t realize that when the bible says of Jesus that he, “sat down on the right hand of God; till his enemies be made his footstool“,(Hebrews 10:12) that his enemies are those who resist and fight against his truth. It is very apparent that the church is in abundance of Christians, (laity and clergy) that have ignorantly positioned themselves against the Lord because pure truth does not fit their doctrine or theology.  Even worse, the doctrine of devils that have a show of religion, only seeks to put men in bondage proving to deceive, steal, kill, and destroy.

Truth is the pure communication of God’s message. Men don’t have to try and use reason to figure out what the scriptures are saying. Nor should they attempt to rearrange the word to fit his preference. A man will often times, when preparing a message, find him a scripture and build his case around that scripture and by the time he’s finish, the message is all about what the man wants to say. Sadly, it is no longer a message from God but from man. The bible is the living word. It has the ability to interpret itself through the assistance of the Holy Spirit. We are instructed by scripture to compare spiritual things with spiritual saying,

“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” (I Corinthians 2:13)

Men , for the most, will not acknowledge the Holy Ghost to be the teacher of God’s truth. Jesus said,

“When he the Spirit of Truth shall come, he shall guide you into all truth;”(John 16:13) .

Jesus said to, “Search The Scriptures”. God and his scriptures are one and the same. The scripture will explain itself and man does not have to make up something that fits his thinking. It is God telling us about himself, how he sees; what he’s provided and prepared . A great deal of preaching today is about what man reasons and what man theorizes making  God into the image of man. Man injects so much of what he thinks over or into what the Lord actually says. God is jealous over his word. This essentially means that God does not want anyone altering or changing his word. Man should never employ the word for no other reason except for what God intended. This indicates how much truth is really known or believed.

When you take a jigsaw puzzle, they show you the entire picture of the puzzle on the box, but when you open it, the picture is divided into hundreds of pieces. God’s truth is the whole picture, but doctrine is a piece of the whole picture. We should never try to fit the whole picture into a piece, but rather find where the piece fits in the picture. Throughout church history men have tried to fit the whole bible in a doctrine piece or a preconceived mindset. While the piece might be true the rest of the bible is made to be distorted in that it is forced to be interpreted through a piece. This creates error because impetuous men would rather fight to keep their piece than to hold their peace in order learn the whole. Jesus said, “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:” (John 16:13) “all truth” is another way of saying ‘the whole truth’.

Truth is God’s reality and he wants us to know the whole thing, not part.

The person that assert themselves to take their place into God’s righteousness, God’s holiness and God’s perfection all the way to God’s glory does so through the whole truth.