Hope of Objective Truth
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14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Our focus and aim today will be on TRUTH. The LORD our God is the standard of TRUTH. Truth is not subjective but objective when it comes to the special revelation of God.
The Hope has a name and His name is Jesus our Savior and Lord.
Last week we started this Christmas series and using the word HOPE as an acrostic were H is for Holiness.
O is for Objective Truth
O is for Objective Truth
We are living at present in a very complicated world.
We are living in treacherous times.
Where absolute truth is rejected and denied. It’s call being Subjective where truth is personal, individual, believing that that there is no such thing as a universal moral standard that is applied to every living being.
Years ago I saw a church sign that read,
“Prevent Truth Decay, Brush up on the Bible”
At some point in time after the turn of the 20th century the Western part of the world which would be right in America, there began a push back on the reality of objective truth. Objective truth is also know as absolute truth. A truth that is true for all no matter how you may feel, think, or reason.
The Bible is objective, absolute truth in all areas it touches upon.
Francis Schaeffer
However, our culture began to reject objectivity and began to turn toward subjectivity and called the movement postmodernism.
We are living now in a postmodern society that fully embarrasses pluralism.
In theology, pluralism suggests that there are many paths to and expressions of truth about God and several equally valid means to salvation.
The decay of moral values and the rejection of an absolute standard is the reason we are seeing America moving towards the way of Sodom and Gomorrah.
When truth is rejected civilization is destroyed.
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
The hope we have in Christ is a hope that leads to the understanding to what is objective truth.
It is true whether you like it or not. It is true whether you feel it or not. It is truth whether you experience it or not. It is truth whether you’re in the mood for it or not. It is objective truth. It has nothing to do with whether your feel it, into it, do you like it, do you not like it, do you want it, do you not want it—it doesn’t matter.
Martin Luther said, When it comes to the Bible, I don’t have to defend it. It is like a lion. All I have to do is set it loose; it will take care of itself.” It is objective truth.
It is sort of like gravity. You don’t have to like gravity. You don’t have to get excited about gravity. You don’t even have to believe in gravity. But if you get up on a 3-story building and jump off, gravity will let you know that it is objective truth. It will let you know that it has nothing to do with whether you’re in a gravity mode today. If you go up high enough and jump far enough, gravity will let you know that it is the last truth you will ever learn! It is objective truth.
God’s Holy Word is objective truth, whether you want to believe it or not.
My prayer for you and everyone on this planet is for all to come to the knowledge of the truth which is found in Christ.
4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Most people today need convincing and that’s OK. We should question every truth claim that is out there. In fact the Bible instructs us and encourages us to examine our beliefs.
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
The Bible also commends those who check spiritual claims for truth (Acts 17:11).
11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Jesus overtly claimed to represent an exclusive truth (John 18:37; 14:6).
37 Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
It is in this truth that the scriptures proclaim freedom, liberation
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
The claim Jesus made about being TRUTH is objective truth. Because it has no bearing whatsoever on whether you believe that to be true or not. Just as 2 plus 2 = 4 is objectively true so is Jesus being the embodiment of Truth.
Yet, like I said at the beginning we are living a postmodern world with pluralism as the one world religion that excludes Jesus’ claim as being the only way truth and life, no one comes to the Father except through Jesus.
The Bible speaks of this happening
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.