“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,” (2 Timothy 4:1–3 ESV)
For the next several days, we will take a sabbatical from our study of The Gospel of Matthew. Instead, the focus will be on the doctrine of truth.
We live in a world in which objective truth is attacked. Any overall, objective truth claim made by anyone faces ridicule because of the presumption that there is no objective truth applicable to all. In other words, there is no meta-narrative, except the contradictory claim that there is no meta-narrative. For in saying there is no meta-narrative, those who say this are in effect making an objective, meta-narrative truth claim. Think about it!
King Solomon wrote that there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:1-11). All that is occurring in the contemporary world occurred in the ancient world. This is especially applicable to the attack upon truth. Pontius Pilate, when interrogating Jesus, cynically asked, “What is truth?” (John 18:33-38).
What is truth? Truth (ἀλήθεια; aletheia) refers to what is real or what actually happened. It is that which corresponds to reality. It is what is factual. In the secular world, life is random and truth is relative. The Bible sets forth that life is purposeful and truth is absolute.
“What is truth? It is defined as that which conforms to fact. It is genuineness, veracity, or actuality. In a word, truth is reality. It is how things actually are,” explains Dr. Steven J. Lawson.
“Theologically, truth is that which is consistent with the mind, will, character, glory, and being of God. Truth is the self-disclosure of God Himself. It is what it is because God declares it so and made it so. All truth must be defined in terms of God, whose very nature is truth.”
God the Father is the “God of truth (Psalm 31:5; Isaiah 65:16). Jesus Christ “is full of truth” (John 1:14). Jesus Christ is the truth (John 14:6). The Holy Spirit is the “Spirit of truth” (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13). The Apostle Paul called Scripture “the Word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15).
How has the fallen world reacted to this biblical definition of truth? Unfortunately, not very well. The fallen world, along with the Devil attacks, ridicules and dismisses truth. We will give examples as to how when next we meet.
Pray today that the Lord would sanctify you in His truth; His Word is truth (John 17:17). Have a blessed day in the Lord.
Soli deo Gloria!
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