Project Description

2014/07

GOD, TRUTH & ME

To have young people attending and active in our churches is a blessing from God. Many of you have the desire that marked previous generations: you want to be strong and do exploits for the Lord.  This will only happen as you know God (Daniel 11:32).  To know God is a relationship to be enjoyed, one that is based on who God is.  Previously, we have considered aspects of the character of God – His sovereignty, His justice, His goodness.  These snap-shots of truth are aimed at stirring our interest in the doctrines of God in order that we would be strong and accomplish much.

One crucial aspect of God’s character is that He is true.  He is the one and only true and living God (Jeremiah10:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:9).  This age is plagued by relativism – ‘something may be true for you without being true for me’.  We acknowledge that human knowledge is subject to limitation and change. Finite man doesn’t know everything! But God, who is eternal and all-knowing, holds all the information required to speak absolute truth at all times.  He is the God who cannot lie (Titus 1:2).  He is “a God of truth” (Deuteronomy 32:4, also Exodus 34:6).

Thus the Lord Jesus, God manifest in flesh, describes Himself as “the truth” (John 14:6); informing Pilate that He came “to bear witness to the truth” (John 18:37). So, repeatedly we find the words ‘verily, verily’ (‘truly, truly’) before the pronouncements of the Lord. “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).  “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24). This life, He made clear, can only come through His death for He said: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit” (John 12:24).

What assurance we have in knowing that the salvation of our souls is a matter of absolute truth! What confidence, when turning to the Word, to know we are reading truth! And the child of God will hunger to know the truth (John 8:32); will rejoice in the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6) and will have a burden to speak “the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15).  Young person, know God… be strong…do exploits!

Dr Stephen Pollock.