WHAT IS TRUTH?

Pontious Pilate was Roman Governor of Judea when Jesus Christ was arrested, “Pilate saith unto him, WHAT IS TRUTH? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I FIND IN HIM NO FAULT AT ALL” [John 18:38] Our world exists in a bifocal dimension of TRUTH and LIE, both mutually exclusive as LIGHT and DARKNESS. Pilate by his own confession knew Jesus was innocent yet sentenced Him to death. Something wrong with Pilate? Yes, and with everyone who knows not or has not the TRUTH. Now, listen carefully, “For the GOOD I WOULD I DO NOT: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but SIN DWELLETH IN ME” [Romans 7:19-20] SIN is the LIE at work, victim can neither please God nor himself but the LIAR; the Devil, as it is written: “Ye are of your father the DEVIL, and the lusts of your father ye will do. HE WAS A MURDERER from the beginning, and ABODE NOT IN THE TRUTH, because THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. When he speaketh a LIE, he speaketh of his own: for HE IS A LIAR, and the father of it” [John 8:44]

TRUTH was first revealed to Angels, “And again, when he bringeth in the FIRSTBEGOTTEN into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him” [Hebrews 1:6] In John 8:44, above, “ABODE NOT IN THE TRUTH” meant Satan was once confronted with the TRUTH and denied Him. He denied who God said He is, went ahead and sold his LIE to Eve in Eden, saying, “YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE”, that is, God is not who He claims to be [Genesis 3:4] Eve was DECEIVED; she BELIEVED what she heard to be true, the result was life-changing, “… THE WOMAN SAW that the tree was good for food, and that it was PLEASANT TO THE EYES, and a tree to be DESIRED TO MAKE ONE WISE, she took of the fruit thereof, and DID EAT, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat” [Genesis 3:6] Her perspectives were altered, she no longer SAW through the LIGHT of TRUTH but dimly through the prism of the LIAR. The LIE, over time was dispersed and manifest in diverse religions, philosophies, ideologies, cults, etc. It is no surprise there are conflicts and divisions, even in our parishes because we “SEE” things in different spectrums; the LIGHT in us is not “SINGLE”, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” [Matthew 6:22]
TRUTH is not of this world, “… and DARKNESS WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, LET THERE BE LIGHT: and there was light” [Genesis 1:2-3] LIGHT was the manifestation of the SPOKEN WORD, the totality of God; first revealed to His Angels and now on earth, “In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD WAS GOD. … And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the ONLY BEGOTTEN of the Father,) FULL OF GRACE and TRUTH” [John 1:1&14] TRUTH is God revealed, first in the SPOKEN WORD and then in LIGHT to dispel the LIE hiding under DARKNESS. The WORD became FLESH in Jesus Christ, God revealed Himself to His Angels in the FIRSTBEGOTTEN and to us in the ONLY BEGOTTEN; the express IMAGE of His Person [Hebrews 1:3] Listen carefully, “And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath GIVEN US AN UNDERSTANDING, that we may KNOW HIM THAT IS TRUE, and we are in him that is true, EVEN IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. This is the TRUE GOD, and eternal life” [I John 5:20] Jesus Christ is the TRUTH revealed in the frame of Man, the ONE TRUE GOD testified to Pilate yet he knew Him not, “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should BEAR WITNESS UNTO THE TRUTH. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice” [John 18:37]

WHAT IS TRUTH, Pontius Pilate asked, not satisfied with testimony of Jesus Christ in John 18:37. He trusted in philosophies and religions of his day, hoping by them to obtain eternal relevance. However, no man, philosopher or religious leader had ever stepped beyond time except the SON OF MAN who came from ETERNITY into TIME, Jesus Christ, “And NO MAN HATH ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN, but he that came down from heaven, even the SON OF MAN WHICH IS IN HEAVEN” [John 3:13] Jesus Christ made this statement while He was on earth yet in heaven same time, confirming His OMNIPRESENCE; the FATHER revealed in the SON and the SON in the FATHER, “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me” [John 17:21] I testify Jesus Christ is the TRUTH, there is no other WAY to have any meaningful relationship with God outside of Him; He is the FULNESS and TOTALITY of God, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For IN HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD bodily” [ Colossians 2:8-9] REPENT and ACCEPT Jesus Christ, He is the TRUTH sets free from SIN and your guaranty of ETERNAL RELEVANCE, “And ye shall KNOW THE TRUTH, and the TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE” [John 8:32]