I want to bring it to light! Use me, Lord!
I heard a God blessed sermon last weekend. You can listen here. Pastor Jack Hibbs once again delivered a sermon that should not be ignored by anyone! I am finished reading through Isaiah . . . for now, I will read it again . . . but his words will show up time and again because they encompass all the gospel and so much of the prophecy concerning Israel. Truth is spoken loud and clear there!
So this article may be a collection of truths, biblically based. At least that is how it appears to be shaping up. I get it that relativism has made my view of truth “my truth but not your truth.” Which is Nonsense! The truth is . . . Truth is real. Truth has foundations. Whether a person chooses to believe a truth or not is their choice, but it does not change what the truth is. God created truth, Satan has destroyed it. Choose truth, and you choose what God has created. Choose to pervert or destroy the truth and you choose Satan’s version, which is always evil. Simple as that.
Everything God has told us through the Bible is true and that is where the foundation lies. The unbeliever, the relativist, the atheist, of course does not believe the Bible. How can they? But I pray they someday will! However, that unbelief just shows them to be fools! The Bible even calls them that many times in Psalms, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. I will try not to go overboard in listing just a few of those verses. There are so many more!
”The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good.“ Psalms 14:1 (people are NOT basically good)
”Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools.“ Ecclesiastes 7:9 (BLM, Antifa rioters 2020, pro-abortion post-Roe protestors)
”A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart.“ Proverbs 18:2 (relativism, perversion)
”The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.“ Proverbs 1:7 (again, rioters, protesters)
One more . . .
”The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But he who heeds counsel is wise.“Proverbs 12:15 . ‘Nuf said.
Then there is a positive, encouraging, foundational truth of the Bible . . . Prophetic words with the promise of the Savior, again from Isaiah. “Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.“ Isaiah 28:16 NKJV. Those who act hastily are fools, as pointed out earlier.
The cornerstone is Jesus, whom the builders rejected! This is truth. ”Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”“ Acts 4:8-12 NKJV. The name of Jesus!
”Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son’s name, If you know?“ Proverbs 30:4 NKJV. I know! His name is Yahweh, and His son is Jesus! He is the foundation, the cornerstone, of our faith, of all truth. God is ALL!
”Those who are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing,“ Psalms 92:13-14 NKJV. This truth I love! It is encouraging, being one of some years! The description of being “planted” is a blessing. As in being planted in the Garden of Eden, or a flower in your own garden. Be a flower . . . Flowers are honest. We may plant them and water them when needed, but left alone they would still go through their life cycle. And most plants leave behind seeds to continue their beauty in the future. Be a flower!
I know I have been focusing on Truth a lot lately. . . the Isaiah posts, and other times. It seems to be coming up a lot in everything I have been following or hearing . . . Turning Point USA’s AmFest 2023, where Tucker Carlson spoke on telling the truth as a way to save our nation, one truth at a time. He was the final speaker of day 3. He starts at hour 5:43 here. The whole day has really good presenters, but Tucker Carlson topped them all. Worth making the effort to watch. David Rubin, an alternative news journalist, showed a short clip with Jordan Petersen who also spoke about truth. The word truth keeps coming up. I loved what Jordan Petesen said, that if we become the best person we can be, what will be the effect on the world . . . on our future. Then Dave Rubin takes that and extrapolated it out to when we are the best we can be, then maybe our family will see that and decide to then be the best they can be . . . Will it extend to your neighborhood, your community, your city, your state, the country? You can see this conversation here. Hang in there to about minute 2:20. To be the best you can be involves being everything Jesus taught . . . Truthful, have the fruits of the Spirit . . . Love, joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, self control, faithfulness, patience, and goodness! These men, Jesus (100% man and 100% God . . . Truth and mystery), Pastor Jack Hibbs, Isaiah, Tucker Carlson, Jordan Petersen, Dave Rubin, and many others, all were speaking truth and about truth. All were speaking from the same foundation of truth . . . God’s word, The Bible!
Final truth for this writing: God loves you and wants a relationship with you. When we admit we are and have been sinners. It is called repentance. That is where truth starts as well as reconciliation with Father God. We can ask Jesus to forgive us, and He will, and then surrender ourselves to Him . . . Accept Jesus as our way to heaven by acknowledging that He is God and came to earth in a human body as a baby for the sole purpose of taking all our sins onto himself and carrying them to the cross where He willingly sacrificed His life for us so we can have eternal life with Him in heaven. Because after He died, he rose from the dead, and is alive and sitting at the right hand of His Father in heaven, but still very much man with the scars to prove it. Who can deny that truth? Only fools! Only those who cannot give up their selfish pride and misconception of what truth is. I pray for those of you! God . . . We who believe . . . We all want everyone in eternity with Jesus, with us! That is TRUTH!
”“You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”“ Revelation 4:11 NKJV. Truth . . . Do you believe?
”For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”“ John 3:20-21 NKJV. Truth is the light!
Most people have heard the John 3:16 verse. But not many have read the verses before and after. Reading them fills in some blanks. Jesus is in a meeting with Nicodemus a high ranking Jewish rabbi. “Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.“ John 3:5-8, 14-18 NKJV
Time is short, dear friends. As a believer I have a duty to point out the way to heaven every time I write, and I will do that!
Whatever things are true! Amen!