November 23, 2018 -- Psalm 31:5 -- The God of Truth
/Into Your hand I commit my spirit;
You have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Psalm 31:5 NKJV
Jesus said to them, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
John 14:1 NKJV
The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him, for He dwells with you and will live in you.
John 14:17 NKJV
This glorious Name of God is desperately needed in our generation. God is the God of Truth. Jesus declares Himself God as He says He is the Truth. Jesus reveals the Spirit as the Spirit of Truth. The Spirit bears witness to the Truth of Jesus in the written Word and by His testimony in our hearts, speaking to the believer's heart: "Abba, Father".
Our world is awash in "your truth" and "my truth". It has lost any sense of the Truth. As Christians following Jesus Christ, obedient to His word, we walk in the Truth.
According to God, the Truth is He made the universe, created everything out of nothing in six days and rested on the seventh day. There was no primordial slime becoming, via evolution, politicians...I mean man. The world is wearing out like a garment. That is the Truth of the Word. Climate change is the big lie of our age. Billions being spent on this distraction. It is a political billy club wielded by those who do not fear the God of Truth in order to claim science alone as worthy of obedience. It is one of the lies of our age, even leading many Christians astray.
God will preserve His planet and this cosmos according to His divine purposes. The Spirit of God will shepherd the people of God in Christ to the moment when heaven and earth will be wiped away and all people who ever lived and all people then living will face God's judgment. Obedient believers will be ushered into the new heavens and new earth and all others will be sent to hell there they will bear God's punishment against their sin.
Jesus is Truth. There are not many paths to life with the Father in heaven. The Gospel is offensive to our culture and the people of this world precisely because of the exclusivity of Jesus' claim. He alone is Truth, He alone is the Way to God.
The Spirit reveals the Truth of the Word--the Scripture which is the written Word and Who Jesus Is, the Living Word. We know God made us male and female. Not all kinds of genders, but male and female God made us. The agenda of the LGBTQ is another great lie of our age. It is direct defiance against the Truth of the Word.
The fact is sin entered the perfect world. Adam rebelled against God and sinned. As the father of all people who would ever live, he was our representative and our biological father. By his sin all people are born sinners. Jesus Christ, Who is Truth, was conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb. He alone was and is without sin. He alone is the sacrifice, taking our place at the cross and bearing in His body and soul God's punishment against sin. All who believe in Him have their sins forgiven.
The Truth of the Scripture is this: there is still great temptation to sin. Christians are facing spiritual warfare all the time. The answer is not to let everyone wallow in their sins or allow people to follow the death-path of their temptations. Instead, we are to find victory in our Lord Jesus Christ. He will present us without spot or blemish into the presence of our Father in heaven.
O LORD, You live in Truth, in righteousness and in judgment. One day the nations will be presented before Jesus Christ and all will bow down to Him, as the Truth. Spirit of Truth, cause us, as Christians to walk in Truth, as the Light of Christ in this sin-darkened, lie-filled generation. Spirit of Truth, fill us with the strength and grace we need to walk in obedience to Jesus Christ. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.
