Simple Faith God is Truth

Simple Faith

God is Truth

 

Just before the crucifixion of Jesus there was this conversation

"You are a king, then!" said Pilate.

Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." 

"What is truth?" Pilate asked. John 18:37-38

What is truth? Jesus said I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."   

Simple Faith believes in truth and finds its source in God

Simple Faith believes God’s gift to us is truth and our gift to God is honesty

God is Truth

Simple faith believes God can

not lie but always speaks the truth.

Jesus said I am the Way,

and the Truth and the Life.

In the Gospel of Mathew alone Jesus says…

 “I tell you the truth” 30 times.

God can not lie or He would not be

God or at least someone we can trust.

Simple faith will say…

 “Let God be true and every man a liar”

Romans 3:4

This means we start with the

reality that in God is all truth.

 So we start with what God

says and prove it out.

It is not enough to accept God’s Word as true,

 we are to study it and work it out in our lives.

The person who walks by faith does not walk blind

but looks at truth through the light God gives.

Simple faith has to believe in truth.

Although some say there is not absolute

truth, truth is a personal reality.

This is not truth.

Truth is a universal reality and if you

do not accept the truth you will suffer consequences.

Truth demands evidence.

Prove all things and hold fast that which is true.

   

God is not a man, that he should lie,

nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.

Numbers 23:19

The truth does not change with time and cultures.

 The truth is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Someone said the terrifying truth is…

“God is good and we are not”

There are two fathers…

 God who cannot lie and

the devil who is the father of lies.

We are children of one or the other.

The native language of the devil is lies.

 The native language of God is truth.

 

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me? He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."

John 8:42-47

It is hard for us to hear the truth

if we are unwilling to listen to it.

Someone said…

“The truth hurts, when it ought to”

So often we try to complicate things in order to

make an excuse not to believe the simple truth.

God has not tried to hide the truth.

God spoke truth to us and it is recorded in scripture.

He lived truth as an example through Jesus Christ.

 Just before the crucifixion of Jesus

there was this conversation…

"You are a king, then!" said Pilate.

Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king.

In fact, for this reason I was born,

and for this I came into the world,

to testify to the truth.

Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." 

"What is truth?" Pilate asked.

 John 18:37-38

What is truth? Jesus said I came into the world, to testify to the truth.

Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."   

Simple faith believes in truth

and finds its source in God.

Simple faith believes God’s gift to us is

truth and our gift to God is honesty.

For we are taking pains to do what is right,

not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men.

 2 Corinthians 8:21

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,

a workman who does not need to be ashamed

and who correctly handles the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2:15-16

The LORD detests lying lips,

but he delights in men who are truthful.

Proverbs 12:22

"Whoever would love life and see good days

must keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from deceitful speech.

He must turn from evil and do good;

he must seek peace and pursue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous

and his ears are attentive to their prayer,

but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

 1 Peter 3:10-12

Scripture Reading

John 18:37-38 NIV

37 "You are a king, then!" said Pilate.

Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." 

38 "What is truth?" Pilate asked.

2 Corinthians 8:21 NIV

21 For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men.

2 Timothy 2:15-16 NIV

15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

Proverbs 12:22 NIV

22 The LORD detests lying lips,

but he delights in men who are truthful.

1 Peter 3:10-12 NIV

 For, "Whoever would love life

and see good days

must keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from deceitful speech.

11 He must turn from evil and do good;

he must seek peace and pursue it.

12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous

and his ears are attentive to their prayer,

but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."