JOHN 18:28–38
“Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?”
(John 18:37b–38).
The interchange between Jesus and Pontius Pilate in John 18 is significant in light of our study into the nature of God. Jesus declared that He bears witness to the truth, and that anyone who is of the truth hears His voice. Earlier He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” One thing we learn from such passages is that truth and divinity cannot be separated. God is truth. He cannot lie. He cannot deceive. Being God, Jesus declared Himself to be the very fountainhead of truth. Yet, Pilate stupidly asked the question, “What is truth?” He had the answer standing before him and he still asked the question. Such is the slate of those who are deaf and blind. Jesus had just finished saying, “Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” Pilate did not hear His voice because he was not of the truth, because he was not of God.
Considering this account, we should not be surprised when people ask similar questions today. We are often frustrated by the dullness of the world to understand truths that are staring it in the face. For instance, people wonder why human life has been devalued, but they don’t make the connection between this and the abortions that occur every day. Again, they wonder why people are so irreligious, hostile to the family, and irresponsible. Yet they fail to see the connection between this behavior and the secularism pumped out of state-controlled schools and the teaching of evolution that devalues human life and community. Truth is before them but they cannot see it. In the same way, the truth stood before the Pharisees, before Herod, and before Pontius Pilate. But because they did not know God, they did not know the truth.
God alone is absolute truth, and without a worldview that is God-centered, you have only relativism saying “Truth today is a lie tomorrow.” The world has declared God to be dead. Little did it know the “death” of God inevitably leads to the destruction of truth. Without God, we cannot have truth. Without truth, we cannot have peace. In a world where truth changes like the shifting of shadows, we have only chaos. But in Christ, we have peace because we have the only truth that can set us free.
CORAM DEO
Esther 7–10
Acts 6
When you make a decision about things you do or activities you are involved in, what is the basis of your decision? Do you look to the Bible for direction? Choose one topic that you might be dealing with (i.e. marriage, or how to spend time). Using your concordance, read everything the Bible has to say on that subject.
For further study: 2 Sam. 7:27–29 • Prov. 23:23 • Eph. 4:17–32; 6:10–20
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