10/12/2022 John 8:32

 

10/12/2022 John 8:32 – “…you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“Decide your own truth” is the ‘upside-down’ to Truth. It is a lie designed to imprison us in our own selfishness. Like the bizarre underworld in the popular streaming series where everything good in this world is transmogrified into a twisted counterpart in a parallel world, our selfish nature creates a toxic world where one can come to believe good is evil and evil is good. It separates rather than unites, causing ever-narrowing divisions as it isolates us through fear and loathing of all who challenge our own truth.

God is the embodiment of Truth and unites all who love and obey Him into a growing eternal family. Godliness is evidenced by love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, and other expressions of the highest form of love, which is God Himself. Receiving God’s Truth expressed in Jesus the only begotten son of God who redeemed us from our sin, frees us from selfishness and forms the loving nature of God within. We evidence it by loving Truth and exhibiting godliness in ever-increasing glory. His growing love in us even helps us embrace our enemies. It is that perfect love that casts out all fear of God and fear of rejection by a world that rejects God and Truth.

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