This is Truth! Really!

The only thing that really transforms us is seeing God face to face. Gazing at the face of God exposes who we really are, exposes our culter, but it also turns us into a world changer. If we gaze at Him and see his holy nature we will desire to change the culture around us. There is no place that we run see imagine or exist that God is not in. There is no area in life that God has not given us the fundamental answers to life. God is beautiful beyond description and comprehension. We can not gaze upon the face of God and not be deeply effected. I’m not worried about completion but in transformation.

Why did Jesus come into the world? Why did the impotent God of the universe come into the sinful world to save us? “For this reason I was born and this I came into the world….” John 18:33-38 Jesus tells Pilote that He came into the world to “ testify to the truth.” Jesus says I tell you the truth 75 times in the scriptures. Truth is on trial and Jesus is the defending the truth.

What does it mean that Jesus is the truth? God’s word is truth. The truth will set us free. Lies take us captive and truth sets us free. God gives us the spirit of truth and will guide us into all truth.

How do we respond to the truth? 2 timothy 4:3-4 “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” Romans 1:18…” suppress the truth” Acts 20:30…” distort the truth” Romans 2:8…” reject the truth and follow evil” Romans 1:25…“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.”

“Everyone on the side of truth lesions to me” So there are sides to truth… (1 John 4:6) Satan wants to be the one that people choose. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-13 “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved…because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.” John 8:44-46 “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?” The lies aren’t that clever… how often do you do something and then say that was stupid… when we look at unbelievers we should not view them with an arrogant attitude we should view them as captives.

The biggest lie is this…. It’s all about us.


GOD=====WORLD
Unity - division
Diversity - unification
What God wants to bring together man wants to pull apart. What God commands do not let these two come together man wants to brake apart. This is a Battle of worldviews. Everything that God says the world the flesh and the devil goes exact opposite of it. Who is man? Man is made in the image of God. What is the opposite of that? Random, not created, stuff. God is sinful the opposite of that is basically good… the opposite of what Christ says is usually or always what the world is telling us. A worldview of our world is the exact opposite of Gods view.

What is truth? Truth is reality. Isaiah 44… "Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?" We exchange the truth of God for a lie… we worship creation rather than the Creator. Lies are powerful enough to make us insane… (loss of a grip of reality) Believing a lie is real we act upon that reality. Our actions are made by what we believe is really real. The ultimate source of truth is God himself. Colossians 2:2-3… “Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Truth is God’s perception of reality.

Do you believe that Christ is really really real?

What is faith? Our faith is the truth claims of God. We don’t have faith in faith… we have faith in the truth of Christ. Faith like a child? Although everything within us might say “don’t jump” the faith that little children have in there mom and dad overcomes there feelings. Those times when you don’t feel like it we can reach and take hold of Him.

Our emotions and actions are tied into what we believe is really real. Do you REALLY believe that what you believe is REALLY REAL? If we really believed that it was real we would turn the world upside down. If we really believed that when we talked to God in prayer that we were really talking to God who is above all we would not have a problem praying but would rather have a problem being quite.

I want to see the reality how God really sees it. Send me use your truth in me. This is a life long project. I want to live ceaselessly for His purpose.