June 30, 2024 · 2 Peter 1:4

The Beauty of Truth (Sheridan Park Family Church)

“First of all we recognize that we participate in God's ability to participate in his divine nature. We can actually participate in the beauty and the truth of God. However humanity has been corrupted and we have these evil desires. Our desire was meant to be for the good but we mistook the beauty of this world for an end in itself and instead of looking for God in the beauty we started just wanting the beautiful thing itself. All right so we wanted the pleasure of food too much. We wanted the desire of love with another person too much and we started putting these things in front of God. It doesn't make that beautiful love in romance wrong. It doesn't make food in the love of taste wrong. It doesn't make music wrong but we can only pursue it and it can take us to dark places. Those become evil desires because they're meant to be for the good and the one and the true and the beautiful but instead they go off into these things and they get corrupted but we still can participate in God. Truth can live in you by the way you can live in the truth and I want to point out the truth can live in you. In fact that's what the Holy Spirit of God is. When you put your faith in Jesus Christ you receive the Spirit of Truth and that's a powerful thing because it allows you to operate in this world in a different level than the average person because the Spirit of Truth will resonate with the truth.”