Start Your Day Right Devotion
(KJV) John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE / JOHN 8:32
This is not speaking of philosophical truth (the idea of truth) or freedom from ignorance. In the context of human knowledge, many things are true. Yet there is only one truth that will set people free from sin, destruction, and Satan’s power. That truth is Jesus Himself and the revelation of truth in His Word. We can know that truth personally. Jesus is described as being “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). “Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). He is “the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6). His message is the word of truth (Colossians 1:5; 2 Thessalonians 2:13). Here are some important observations about truth:
- The highest, life-saving truth is found only in God’s Word – the living Word (Christ, John 1:1, 14) and the written Word – which reveals the message of forgiveness and new life through faith in Jesus Christ.
- God’s Word, especially the New Testament revelation of Christ and the teaching of His apostles (those He personally commissioned to establish His original message and establish the church), presents the truth that frees people from sin, the corrupt world, and demonic powers (Ephesians 2:20).
- Further revelation of “truth” is not needed to complete or enhance the gospel of Christ.
- The truth that saves and frees people spiritually is revealed only from God “by His Spirit” (1Corinthians 2:10) and does not originate from any person or from human wisdom (1Corinthians 2:12-13).
Romans 1:25 speaks of those who “exchanged the truth of God for a lie” (Greek to pseudie, “the lie”) of Satan. At the end of time, for those who refuse “to love the truth and so be saved” (2 Thessalonians 2:10), God will send “a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness” (John 2:11-12). Thankfully, we can escape this deception and judgment by accepting and basing our lives on the truth sets us free; the lie brings us into spiritual slavery. The truth restores; the lie destroys. We are called to love Jesus and His Word so that we can know the truth that sets us free.
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