https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_NMSH3hR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8f43hTF2Q
What is truth?
Truth is what is real. Truth is what exists. Truth is what is.
The modern world of the so called enlightenment laughs at the idea of inherent truth. Especially subject to ridicule is religious and Biblical truth.
The enlightened mind looks to science and the opinions of peers for that which to proclaim as truth. Except they are quick to admit that there is no coherent truth. There is my truth and your truth. Diversity is great, from the secular humanistic view. We need just to love and respect all cultural ideas, and get away from proclamations of established truth based on the Bible.
But the proclamation that God is dead, and the proliferation of various atheistic humanist movements, brought with it the bloodiest century of history. The rejection of inherited values led to the reordering of governments, as the various socialist new world orders attempted to expand their rule of the world.
https://islamthought.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/secularism-humanism-and-atheism-their-crime-against-humanity/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8f43hTF2Q
Jesus Before Pilate
My Kingdom Is Not of This World
John 18:33- So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”
35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?”
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”
35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?”
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
What is truth?
Truth is what is real. Truth is what exists. Truth is what is.
The modern world of the so called enlightenment laughs at the idea of inherent truth. Especially subject to ridicule is religious and Biblical truth.
The enlightened mind looks to science and the opinions of peers for that which to proclaim as truth. Except they are quick to admit that there is no coherent truth. There is my truth and your truth. Diversity is great, from the secular humanistic view. We need just to love and respect all cultural ideas, and get away from proclamations of established truth based on the Bible.
But the proclamation that God is dead, and the proliferation of various atheistic humanist movements, brought with it the bloodiest century of history. The rejection of inherited values led to the reordering of governments, as the various socialist new world orders attempted to expand their rule of the world.
https://islamthought.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/secularism-humanism-and-atheism-their-crime-against-humanity/
My truth and your truth, and a disregard for the evidence of history, leaves no platform for moral values. So everyone doing as they please within the context of secular law attempted to show the way forward. But disrespect for law and lack of respect for legal authority has eroded the historic Judaeo Christian foundations of society.
What does celebration of diversity actually mean? It means that there is no truth, and everyone should do as they please. It is what you feel and think that gives meaning to life; so eat, drink, and be merry. Life is just biology, and there are no eternal consequences.
But examination of history shows clearly that people who have actually followed Jesus Christ by personal faith are tremendously blessed compared to all other societies that have ever existed. There is truth that blesses in Jesus.
What does celebration of diversity actually mean? It means that there is no truth, and everyone should do as they please. It is what you feel and think that gives meaning to life; so eat, drink, and be merry. Life is just biology, and there are no eternal consequences.
But examination of history shows clearly that people who have actually followed Jesus Christ by personal faith are tremendously blessed compared to all other societies that have ever existed. There is truth that blesses in Jesus.
John 8:28 - So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me. 29 And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” 30 As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
The Truth Will Set You Free
31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Free! The truth will set you free!!
Everyone longs for freedom. We want to be free from that which binds us. But the casting off of restraint, the casting off of God given moral values, produced the worst kind of bondage. Sin destroys. Sin produces shame. Sin brings death and destruction, as witnessed in the twentieth century.
Love is a word easily misused. Love as feeling has no great lasting value. Love as sacrifice, love as putting others first, love as loving God with all our mind, strength, and being, gives life. Love involves giving and discipline. Love requires responsibility.
How does truth set us free? It is Jesus who sets us free. He paid the bloody price for our mistakes by His sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary.
Isaiah 53:4 -Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7ZhITWmm0&list=PL5dNRmExdE0D_IYvuXWiy70FhZg__i5CJ&index=52
http://rgonce.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-way.html
The Truth Will Set You Free
31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Free! The truth will set you free!!
Everyone longs for freedom. We want to be free from that which binds us. But the casting off of restraint, the casting off of God given moral values, produced the worst kind of bondage. Sin destroys. Sin produces shame. Sin brings death and destruction, as witnessed in the twentieth century.
Love is a word easily misused. Love as feeling has no great lasting value. Love as sacrifice, love as putting others first, love as loving God with all our mind, strength, and being, gives life. Love involves giving and discipline. Love requires responsibility.
How does truth set us free? It is Jesus who sets us free. He paid the bloody price for our mistakes by His sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary.
Isaiah 53:4 -Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7ZhITWmm0&list=PL5dNRmExdE0D_IYvuXWiy70FhZg__i5CJ&index=52
http://rgonce.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-way.html
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