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A brief, but amazing exchange occurs between Christ and Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor during the period of His arrest, interrogations and before His crucifixion. After answering Pilate’s question about being ‘“a King’” in the affirmative, the Lord further asserts He ‘“was born’” and came ‘“into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.’” Pilate, representing human skeptics from all time was not impressed retorting in reply, ‘“What is truth,’” (John 18:33-38, NKJV)? Standing before the governor was truth Personified in perfection willing to suffer and suffering for it to the point of the death He was about to die!
Pilate’s skeptical question echoes down through the centuries to this hour where truth in the eyes of many is a relative matter that exists only in the minds of those who embrace their own view of it. This is absurd of course, since even in the non-Christian world truth is testable. Tell yourself all you want in your truth that jumping in front of a speeding car will not harm you and the reality of the truth will prove you wrong every time if in fact you would survive to engage in such foolishness again! Objective truth exists because it originates with “a God of truth” who brought His creation into existence resting on many principles of His own nature and character (Deuteronomy 32:1-4, NKJV).
Indeed, truth is intrinsic to the nature of the Triune God. Since God is a God of truth, God does not and “it is impossible for God to lie,” (Numbers 23:19; Titus 1:1-2, Hebrews 6:16-18, NKJV). When the Lord Jesus Christ the Second Person of the Triune God came into the world, He came in the absolute fullness of His divine identity as “the Word” and consequently with other attributes of God, fully displayed “truth” (John 1:1-2, 14-18, NKJV). Near the end of His ministry, He identifies the third Person of the Triune God as “the Spirit of truth,” who in turn also displays truth as part of the eternal Family’s living emblem (John 14:15-17; Galatians 5:19-23; Ephesians 5:8-10, NKJV).
The whole special revelation of God’s written Word in the Bible is truth exactly because it is inspired of God (Psalm 119:160; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21). The Lord Jesus Christ validated the written Word as truth as He quoted and upheld as well as taught from it, (Matthew 4:4, 5:17-26). Representing, living out, speaking and teaching the truth as He did during His years on earth fulfilled the very important part of His mission disclosed to Pilate about Him being born and coming into the world to bear witness to the truth; truth about and from God. The truth He proclaimed was so powerful, it could set those who believed in Him free from slavery to sin (John 8:31-36)!1
Conversely, those who reject Christ’s words of truth about and from God in unbelief not only remain slaves to sin, but deception since their father and ruler is ‘“the devil’” who murders and lies as a matter of course (John 8:37-46, NKJV).2 As with Pilate that day, unbelief in Christ and His words renders men blind and deaf to the truth even standing right in front of them. This is why it is only those ‘“of God’” and ‘“the truth’” through faith in Christ who hear it and His ‘“voice,’” (John 8:47, 14:6, 18:37, NKJV). For this cause we who believe in Christ have also been the beneficiaries of His prayer to the Father seeking our sanctification by His truth (John 17:16-19).3 Before cynical Pilate, Israel and the world Christ bore final witness to the truth by suffering and dying for it (John 18:39-19:30).4
1 Read the March 24, 2024 post, Christ Came To Save Sinners, under the category, Call To Repent.
2 Scripture teaches “the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one,” (1 John 5:19-20, NKJV). Thus, if you are not rolling with Christ, by default you are rolling with the devil! This sobering truth should jolt wayward professed Christians to the core! Graciously, Christ at this hour is calling His strayed ones to return to Him. Watch this Minis- try’s Strong Man Of God Online Rally, Return To The Lord, on our YouTube channel to hear Him.
3 Having been sanctified by the truth of God, Christians are supposed to also represent, live out, speak and teach it in the image of Christ. This is certainly the heart of every aspiring strong man of God I write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and what the Lord through me rebukes in His Church as failure in my latest release, The Scourge Of Racism. Both are available at your favorite internet book seller and in the Strong Man Store. The E-Book versions are also available at major E- Booksellers.
4 Christ did not walk back anything He had proclaimed or taught in truth about and from God to save Himself. Our willingness to suffer and even die as Christ for the truth is fully expressed as His will in the charge and example He gives His disciples (Matthew 16:24-27; 1 Peter 2:21-23) and displayed in His apostles (2 Corinthians 11:22-28, 13:8).
Biblically conservative Christians know God in His eternal, spiritually transcendent Word does not shy away from presenting a relational experience with Him that is thoroughly supernatural and insists on our faith to engage in it. The writer of Hebrews at the outset makes this very clear while citing the ancient personages of faith in his chapter on the subject and soberly warns “without faith it is impossible to please Him…,” (Hebrews 11:1-7, NKJV). Thus, if to the unbeliever in and outside of professing Christianity it is hard and not very pragmatic to believe God will fight one’s battles then, consider as I do in this post, Jesus Christ, who did so and teaches His followers to do the same!1
One major reason many professed Christians eschew biblically conservative Christianity is the fact they are focused almost exclusively on and love this passing world as though it was all there is (Philippians 3:17-4:1; Colossians 3:1-4; 2 Timothy 4:9-10; 1 John 2:15-17). Biblically conservative Christians rightly hold that unless indicated by the text, Scripture is to be literally, plainly, objectively read, interpreted and applied. So, in the passages cited at the end of the first sentence in this paragraph not only is it seen worldliness has been a problem among professed Christians since the early days of the faith, but the keeping of a beyond this world heavenly focus which is to dominate.
Indeed, Jesus Christ, the Word and Son of the living God, came into this world from His eternal abode with Him (John 1:1-5, 14-18). He came on mission from His Father ultimately to save willing mankind that believe in Him from our sins, but also to plainly disclose the reality of eternal spiritual life and existence with God who lives in Heaven outside of the physical universe (John 1:6-13, 29-34, 3:1-21, 31-36, 8:21-27, 14:1-6). Christ was fully devoted in love to pleasing His Father and doing His will.2 This included saying only what the Father had taught Him to say and doing those things He had commanded (John 4:31-34, 5:16-23, 6:38-40, 7:15-18, 25-31, 8:28-30, 12:44-50, 14:28-31).
Christ’s total devotion to His Father also involved His seeking Him in prayer for direction regarding the daily course of and decisions about His work and ministry (Mark 1:35-39; Luke 6:12-16). Clearly, the Father who had been protecting and providing for Him from birth was His Son’s faithful Ally (Matthew 1:18-2:15)! The proof Christ was secure in having His Father alone as an Ally is the fact He never aligned Himself with any of the many religious and political factions of first century Judaism to help Him advance His Kingdom cause and work. He did however, call some to become His disciples and join with Him in fulfilling His cause and work (Matthew 4:17-22, 9:9, 16:13-27).
Not only had the Father been fighting victorious battles for His Son protecting Him from the many attempts to take His life (Luke 4:28-30; John 8:52-59), but Christ insisted because of their unique Oneness “the works” He had been doing were the Father’s too (John 14:7-11, NKJV). The works included raising folk from the dead on several occasions which to this day is not among the common experiences of mortal men who die (Luke 7:11-17, 8:40-56; John 11:32-44). In raising the dead or departed, the Lord showed death was not annihilation, but a separation from this natural world of mortality and portal to the eternal spiritual realm. The dead still live (Luke 20:27-40)!
From eternity Christ had trusted His Father in their plans for His entry into and departure in two parts from this world. The plan is seen first in Old Testament prophecy where through the words of David for example, the bodily death of Christ is faced by Him exercising a settled faith in God the Father successfully fighting this battle for Him. The certainty of the Father’s operation in the midst to preserve His body from enduring the natural decay of physical death and not to abandon His soul to the realm of the dead causes Christ to rejoice in hope; hope that is well rewarded in the Father raising Him to life everlasting (Psalm 16:8-11). This is all as the biblically conservative apostle Peter also affirms as fulfilled after Christ’s death, burial, resurrection and ascension to Heaven (Acts 2:22-36)!
If the Lord Jesus Christ could trust God to fight battles for Him, are you, O professed Christian, better than He that you will not? You are in sin since He wills that we follow His example. It is for this cause believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit also from Heaven who helps us and renews our thinking, priorities and focus (John 14:16-17, 25-26; Acts 2:1-4; Romans 12:1-2; Titus 3:1-7). He fights inward battles along with and for us we do not even discern as well as those that are outward with the demonic forces of this world arrayed against us (Romans 8:5-13, 26-27; Ephesians 6:10-18). Now, the Lord would have you repent unless you are intent on destroying yourself by walking willfully in your unbelief to His displeasure and disobedience which are sin (Hebrews 3:7-19).3
1 As an important background for this post, read the March 3, 2024 post, When God Fights Your Battle, under the categories Black History and Glory To God!
2 This is also the heart of every aspiring strong man and great woman of God in the image of Christ He leads me to write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and companion works The Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study and Great Woman Of God Women’s Group Study at your favorite internet book seller and in the Strong Man Store.
3 Assuming you are a genuine, but backslidden professed Christian, a reversal in your direction is possible through returning to the Lord you have strayed from listening to the lies of demons coming through the many foretold false teachers (2 Peter 2:1-3). Watch this Ministry’s thirty minute Strong Man Of God Online Rally, Return To The Lord, on our YouTube channel.
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