The Saving Truth
What is the truth and how do you live out the truth? Pilate asked Jesus: 'what is the truth?'...and in that confrontation Jesus said He came to the world to testify to the truth and 'Everyone on the side of truth listens to me'.(Jn. 18:17/18)  Listening to Jesus and believing in what he teaches will lead us to discover what the truth is. Jesus is therefore the key to discovering what the truth is. He is the only person who calls himself, 'I AM'....He...... the Truth, ....the Life...... the Way ... the Light...... the Vine..... the True Bread that came from Heaven..... the Resurrection... . the Living Water...... the Door,.........the Good Shepherd'.......  God was the first to call himself I AM to Moses from the 'Burning Bush'...... so Jesus by saying he is  I AM, we are able to testify that He is the Truth from the things He said and taught. He came to testify to the truth that God is love but that is too wide, let's narrow it to the individual level, because unless I accept it and believe in it, this truth of God's unconditional love will not benefit me in any way. Just briefly recall  few of the many facets of Jesus' revelation of himself being the Christ, the Son of the Living God, who came into the world.....
-   He was annointed to proclaim the Good News
-   He took your/my/our disease upon himself and by His stripes, we have been healed...
-   He came to set captives free..... so you./I have been set free from captivity of ........
-   He came to proclaim a year of liberation .....
-   He came to restore sight to the blind ........
-   He came to seek, to save, restore, heal and make whole....and many more that can be found in the Holy Scriptures.
I can continue with the Litany, but that will not make any difference without believing in the one about whom these things are attributed, ... what matters is what do these mean to me as a believer and follower of Jesus? Scripture is the store house of all that Jesus said and  taught. .. if we claim we have not sinned,  we made him to be a liar and his words have no place in our lives... ( 1 Jn 1: 8-10) We deceive ourselves when we claim that we are without sin.....that would mean that we did not need a Saviour........ then Jesus sacrificial death would have been meaningless......

But who then is the liar? Satan is the liar..... the father of lies..... it's satan who seeks/desires to destroy ....... kill ... and condemn. ....It's satan, like a roaring lion, who prowls through the world seeking the ruin of souls to drag them to hell which has been prepared for him and his rebellious angels.

Remember:  'For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world  but to save the world through him'......Humanity was lost and was in need of restoration. It was God's mercy and love that brought Jesus to come among us taking on human flesh.... as we just celebrated at Christmas. All the prophecies, thousands of years earlier were fulfilled in his birth, death and resurrection. The question is: How has these sayings of Jesus resonated in my life?....Do I live them out in my life?...The truth is that, I have been bought at a price, by the Precious Blood of Jesus, .....God loves me so much that Jesus was willing to come and rescue me from bondage; ......He is the Branch and I am the vine as I cannot survive outside Him;..... believing in Him leads to eternal life with Him in heaven, as He is gone to prepare a place for me so that where He is, I may also be when the time comes  and that means heaven is our final home  and not hell.... Find out for yourself  all the promises that  the Scriptures have in store for all who will believe. The burning question is after all that the Lord has done for me/you/us, If  I am to be arraigned before a law court, will there be enough evidence against me for being a Christian? Can people testify in my actions and words as a Christian? 'Love one another as I have loved you... for by this others will know that you are my  followers how true is this in my life?....................