What Is Truth? Pt. 4

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. All this week, at this time, each weekday morning,
we're asking the question, what is truth?
At some point in your life you need to ask
the ultimate questions of life, and this is one of
the big ones. What is ultimate truth?
We're not just talking about statements of true facts. We're

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talking about the foundations you build your life on. What
are the life principles that you have to follow if
you want your life to work, right?
Do you feel like right now your life is not
working right and you cannot figure out why you're looking
for answers and you're not finding answers? Well, in all likelihood,

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it goes back to these foundational life truths that your
life has to follow to work properly.
We looked at this question. What is truth? We looked
at Jesus' statement. I am the way and the truth

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and the life. No one comes to God the Father
except through me. And we've been asking this question this week.
What are the foundations I'm building my life on?
I don't get to decide.
Everything about what is true. Yes, I decide what I believe,

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but that doesn't change what is true, right? So what
are the foundational truths? Well, when it comes to finding
the deep life truths that shape our lives.
The Bible talks to this. Jesus says to his followers,
right when he's talking about the significance of how they're

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going to live their lives, he's about to leave this world,
and he says,
I'm praying for you, and I'm praying to God the
Father that He will sanctify you, that is, make you
so different from the people around you in the world
who don't have this truth, that he will sanctify you
in the truth. And then he says to the Father,

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Your word is truth. I want to say to you
that when you read through the accounts of Jesus's life
in the Bible.
You will notice that he is constantly quoting from the Bible.
Now there's a lot of the Bible that wasn't written yet.
We call it the New Testament. It's everything from Jesus onward.

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But there was a lot of the Bible that was
in place for hundreds more than 1000 years before Jesus even,
and we call that the Old Testament, and Jesus is
constantly quoting from the Bible.
And here he says to God the Father, Your word
is truth. He's talking about the Bible.

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He's constantly quoting from it in his ministry. It's the
foundation of his truth statements, and he wants you to
see that truth is found there in the Bible.
When he came, he said, My whole reason for coming
is to bear witness to the truth, and that forms
the basis for the New Testament of the Bible.

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In Psalm 119, that whole Psalm that is more than
150 verses long is all focused on God's word and
its impact on your life.
In that Psalm, the psalmist writes to God, Consider how

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I love your precepts. Precepts are these deep truths found
in God's word. He goes on, Give me life according
to your steadfast love.
The sum.
You know, the sum of something is when you add
up all the numbers, the sum of it all is

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the total, and the psalmist writes, the sum of your word.
Is truth. What a great statement about the Bible. The
sum of your word is truth, and every one of
your righteous rules endures forever.
Well, don't you want to build your life on the

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rules of life, the principles of life that are the
way God has designed life to work? If you fight
against them and try to set up alternate rules, you're
just in for disaster and pain and sorrow in your life.
Go to God, ask the big questions. Find the answers

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in the Bible. Build your life on the truth.
I'm John North.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
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