The Truth Remains
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,and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
The Apostle Paul wrote these words to young Timothy in 68AD, the year in which Paul was executed. His warning remains true.
The age of enlightenment in the 18th century came about so that human knowledge might become organized so that it could be made clearer to a larger number of people.
The idea seemed reasonable at the time, and so they organized public education where children, based on the free access to the “instruments of rationality,” could learn on the basis of the ability to learn. Hence schools were created which resulted in the “Yale’s,” the Harvard’s, which were once the harbingers of truth.
Things have changed, but truth remains absolute because God is absolute. That is why the apostle Paul said “I believe God.” He used those words to a ship’s crew being plummeted by a storm at sea and they were saved. Voltaire said “God made man in His image and man returned the favor.” That is what the apostle warned his young friend, Timothy about, making God into an image that says what we want it to say.
The good news is that no matter how far we have wandered away from the truth, God speaks to us through His Son saying, Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 If you can read these words, you have not wandered too far off. God sent His own Son into the deepest depths of our ill-informed lives. God has offered Him to us for the supreme sacrifice of our sins if we accept Him.
Using the words of the great evangelist Billy Graham, the Scriptures tell the truth. “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts … All these evil things come from within and defile a man” (Mark 7:21-23).
Jesus told the truth about love. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
Jesus told the truth about judgment. “He who rejects Me … the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day” (John 12:48). He warned people to flee the wrath to come. If we believe a warning and act on it, it can save our lives.
Judgment’s coming and Jesus has given us ample warning, but some don’t believe. Many people rest on the fact that they’re liked by others, that they do good deeds, and that they have contributed to society. But it doesn’t change the fact that mankind must repent of sin and receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
Jesus told the truth about repentance. The word repentance means change—to change our minds, to change our way of living. He said, “Unless you repent you will all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3). But we can’t do that on our own. Only God can help us.
Jesus Christ is our salvation. That is the truth
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter 1:3-5
