July 2, 2023 · Ephesians 6:14

Girded in Truth

“And all truth is true in him. One plus one equals two is true because it's in God. Let's say, the fact that my well-ruin flooded last night is true because it's in God's creation. So you start to realize that anything that has truth to it ultimately comes back and subsists and is connected to God, and this is important for us as Christians, because we start to realize we're having this debate about truth and how you find it and figure it out and whether it exists. You start really quickly getting to the center of our faith, and you can't just start to water down truth without watering down gospel. Now, how you get to truth, you have to be really careful. I understand that there's all sorts of discussions of that. I think it's really important to have those discussions. But in the Christian faith, we have a couple things that we, it's very clear to us. So I'm going to talk about the three sources of Christian truth. The first one is Jesus himself. He says, I am the way the truth and the life. I can get into the whole background of that. Christians believe because we have it in our scriptures that Jesus himself is the creator of all things. He's the creator of all reality. All things are made from him and through him and we'll return to him. This is part of the classic doctrine. No one comes to the Father except through him, right?”