John 8:32
  "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." 

   The search for meaning to this life and answers to it's problems can be found only in the source of all truth, the Holy word of God. 

   Jesus knew the truth because He is the source of truth. When He presented the truth of the Holy Gospel to the Jewish religious leaders they became very defensive. Many of the Jewish so called religious practices where contrary to the truth of the Holy word they so piously studied. Jesus took many of those fabricated self serving so called truths and turned them upside down. Many Jewish people had their eyes and hearts opened, remarking that they had never heard anyone preach like this before and accepted Jesus Christ as the Son of God. The Jewish religious leaders seen their creditability and position threatened, closed their hearts and eyes and reacted with violence. 
   The following are a few of the truths of the gospel Jesus brought to the people to help them in their walk toward the kingdom of Heaven and away from this evil age. 
 

• Love your enemy and bless those who persecute you.
• he first shall be last and the last shall be first.
• Unless you become like a child you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
• Wide is the path that leads to destruction and narrow is the path that leads to life eternal.
• The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
• You must be born again.
• Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
• In me you will have life but in the world you will have death.
• One will die for all.
• Jesus came as a servant to die for our sins.
• He who humbles himself will be exalted. He who exalts himself will be humbled.
• Gentiles and Jews will be one people 

   Once in a while someone comes into our church community and turns things upside down by bringing the word of God as it is, the truth, without dressing it up. We are challenged to not take on such things as lottery tickets, sunday shopping, materialism, self service, divorce, abortion and pornography as acceptable social norms and freedoms. We are challenged to move out of our comfortable pews and be a blessing to our community. We may look upon these preachers as meddlers and a threat, like Jesus was looked upon by the Jewish religious establishment and reject the truth. 
   Christians today have taken on some of the characteristics of the secular community such as gambling, sunday shopping, materialism and self first. The secular community has taken on some of the characteristics of the christian community with charity, peace and goodwill to others. The result is that we all look the same.   Praise God we have enough committed preachers and teachers of the truth who come and shake up our diluted and self serving christianity and set us back on the right path to follow Jesus with heart soul and mind. 
   Ask Jesus today to see how far you have wandered into the world and taken on it's lies. Ask Him to shake you loose. Listen to those teachers of the word, who through the word of God touch a nerve in your life related to worldliness. Their goal, as servants of the most high is to to draw you back from wandering too close to falling overboard and drowning in the sea of this evil age. 
   Jesus does not want anyone to suffer eternal separation from God. He is waiting for you to come into His kingdom today. Seek Him today by reading his Holy Word, the Bible.

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