What Is Truth? Pt. 3

Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. Psalm 25:5

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good morning. As you start this day, I just want
you to think about the people you know in your
life and how interesting life is because everybody is so
different to one another, right?
My wife is so outgoing and reaches out to everybody

(00:28):
she knows. My daughter is extremely introverted and yet with
people she knows well, she is so much fun. My
son is a real thinker. Both my sons.
Everybody is different. It makes life so interesting.

(00:49):
Everyone has their own preferences, their own tastes. Uh, you
might like to eat just vegetarian food. You might love meat. Uh,
other people like spicy food or some people like much
more tame food, whatever it is, you like those things

(01:10):
and that makes you you.
When it comes to the question of truth though, and
this is our topic all this week, what is truth?
When it comes to truth, is it still a personal matter?
Is it a matter of tastes? I mean, I can

(01:31):
say I love meat. Meat tastes great, and a vegan
is going to say no, meat tastes horrible.
But what about when it comes to the ultimate truths
of life? The reality is, yes, everybody does choose what
they will believe, right?

(01:51):
It doesn't matter what kind of authoritarian government a person
lives under and how that government tries to force people
to believe what it believes, people will believe what they believe, right?
At the same time as that reality that everyone believes
what they believe, we also are impacted by the reality

(02:15):
of truth that is external to us. That is, not
all truth is just opinion. That's a really important thing
to realize in life. There are sure a lot of
divisive opinions floating around in the world today, aren't there?
From what we think of certain politicians to what we

(02:35):
think of certain political issues, ethical issues, all sorts of opinions,
and everyone thinks they're right and everyone else is wrong,
and yet in the midst of that conviction that everyone
is wrong but me, we still have this underlying view
in our society. Everyone has to be regarded as right

(02:56):
or you're being offensive, right? Everyone's truth is true.
Well, everyone has an opinion.
But there is ultimate truth that was there before you
were born. It will be there after you die. It's
just true, and it's God's truth. God started everything. He

(03:18):
designed humanity.
He set the principles by which our lives operate. We
can ignore that, and if we do, it's to our
own peril. It only damages our own lives if we
ignore the life principles that work for everyone positively or negatively. Yes,

(03:40):
we're all so unique. We all have our own personality
and preferences.
That's a right no one can take away, and we
have to respect everyone's freedom to believe what they want.
That is not the same as saying that everyone's belief
is truth.
That is, there's a lot of people's beliefs about life

(04:02):
that do not match up to the life principles that
God has put in place, and we just see people
constantly destroying their lives and the lives of the people
close to them all while following those beliefs.
In John chapter 8 verses 31 and 32, Jesus said
to the people who had believed in Him.

(04:25):
If you remain in my word, you are truly my disciples,
and you will know the truth and the truth will
set you free. A few verses later, he said, Truly, truly,
I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a

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slave to sin. So if the son, talking about himself,
the Son of God.
If the sun sets you free, you will be free indeed.
I speak of what I have seen with my father.
Find your truth from Jesus and from His word, the Bible.

(05:08):
I'm John North.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
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