What is Truth?

O. T. #2218  "What is Truth?"

June 21, 2022

Nahum 3-Part 2

LET IT GLOW

What is truth? Today's society is proclaiming it is found within your- self (make you a god) or in false religions or cults. Jesus said in John 14:6 that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Truth is found in the Word of God, not a substitute.

John has told us to love our brothers and sisters in the faith, live as a child of God, be discerning of false prophets, and have faith in Jesus. Now, in 1 John 5, he says for us to pray for those who have strayed away from the church and faith into sin. Also, we are to keep our self from idols. 

And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us understanding, that we may know Him that is True, and we are in Him that is True, even in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the True God, and eternal life. (verse 20) (Added capital T for Jesus is Truth)

Spiritual life and intimate fellowship with God are found in Jesus Christ, nowhere else. Why should we look elsewhere? 

LET IT GROW

Nineveh had used its beauty, prestige, and power to seduce other nations. She enticed them into false friendships, like a harlot. When they relaxed, Assyria destroyed and plundered them. Beauty and impressive ways are on the outside. Nineveh was vicious and deceitful on the inside. Sometimes seduction and death lie beneath attractive facades. Don't let companies, institutions, movements, or people seduce us into lowering our standards or compromise our moral principles.

The Egyptian city of Thebes had stood in the way of Assyria expanding their power to the south. God said Nineveh would have the same treatment they did to Thebes. Some 51 years later the Assyrians did conquer Thebes. (Sow and reap) However, no military power is able to stand against our God. Even though other nations hated the harsh, powerful Assyria, they still wanted to be like them.

[Resource: Life Application Study Bible]

Let's watch out for those who use seductive ways to reach the top. Doing things God's way brings us rewards and blessings.

LET IT GO

I don't want to gain the whole world and loose my soul.