In the Old and New Testaments, truth is a fundamental moral and personal quality of God. God proclaimed that He is "merciful and gracious, patient and long suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth". - Ex. 34:6 - He is a "God of truth....without injustice". - Duet. 32:4 -

All of His paths are "mercy and truth". Frequently in the psalms, God's mercy and His truth are joined together. All of God's works, precepts, and judgments are done in righteousness and truth. The psalmist declared, "Your law is truth", "all Your commandments are truth" and "the entirety of Your word is truth". - Psalms 25:10, 57:3, 89:14, 115:1, 96:13, 111:8, 119:142, 119:151, 119:160 -

Truth is a moral and personal characteristic of God: He is "the God of truth". - Isaiah 65:16 - Because of His perfect nature and will, God has to speak and act in truth; He cannot lie. In the same way, when God wanted to make the heirs to the promise thoroughly realise that His purpose was unalterable, He conveyed this by an oath; so that there would be two unalterable things in which it was impossible for God to be lying, and so that, now we have found safety, should have a strong encouragement to take a firm grip on the hope that is held out to us. - Hebrews 6:17-18 -

Make no mistake about this, my dear brothers; it is all that is good, everything that is perfect, which is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with Him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change. By His own choice he made us His children by the message of the truth so that we should be a sort of the first-fruits of all that He had created. - James 1:16-18 -

Jesus is the Word of God who became flesh, "the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth". All Jesus said was truth, because He told the truth which He heard from God. He promised His disciples that He would send "the Spirit of truth" - a Helper/ an Advocate who would abide in Christians forever, testify about Jesus, guide Christians into all truth and glorify Jesus. - John 1:14, 8:40, 14:16-17, 15:26, 16:13-14 -

God is truth; the Spirit is truth; and Jesus is truth. The Lord Jesus Christ said, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through me. - John 14:6 - Jesus and the revelation which the Spirit of truth gave through His apostles are the final, ultimate revelation and definition of truth about God, man, redemption, history and the world.

Indeed, from his fullness we have, all of us, received -
yes, grace in return for grace,
since, though the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ. - John 1:16-17 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -