Yesterday I had committed to teaching our Summit Auditorium class on the topic of Truth. However, I failed to show up – due to the flu. Ouch! I had become a living example of what truth is not.

The Greek word for truth is made up of two words: Not and hidden. So, truth is that which is not hidden.

Throughout time, the devil has worked hard at clouding the clarity of truth. If this were not so, we would have one church, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all (Eph.4:4-6).

Today, through many different philosophies, the truth is under a massive attack. The post-modernistic thought attacks all ideas of scientifically verifiable fact. Secular thought claims truth is in the temporal realm only. They claim truth is a matter of perception. And that consensus determines the truth. Through relativism in situational ethics truth can be “moldable”.  And then through the centuries truth has been attacked by tradition.

As Pilot asked Jesus what is truth he had no idea who he was talking to (John 18:38). You see, Jesus is the truth (John 14:6). It does not matter what the crowd says (Exo.23:2) or our tradition (Mark 7:13) or even our interpretation of a text (2 Pt.1:20). Jesus’ Bible will always be the truth.

Friend, will you not consider reading the entire Bible through in 2018?