{"id":14570,"date":"2016-08-18T01:04:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/truthimportance-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T01:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:04:37","slug":"truthimportance-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/truthimportance-of\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUTH,\nIMPORTANCE OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>IT\u2019S AMAZING. People want objective standards when it comes to everything else, but not for how to live their life. But suppose you went to the doctor and he was getting ready to perform an operation and he said, \u201cNow, I think this is where I need to cut. Other doctors have ideas of where to cut, but this is what I think. Let\u2019s just check it out and see if I cut right.\u201d Is that the doctor whom you want?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Suppose you went to a pharmacist and he said, \u201cWell, I think this is the medicine you should take. Now, the pharmacist down the street has another view, but this is what I think. Why don\u2019t you try it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Suppose you got on a plane and the pilot said, \u201cNow, I think this is the button I\u2019m supposed to push. Now, my engineer over here thinks I ought to push this button. My copilot over here thinks I should push that button. The flight attendant thinks I should push this other button. Well \u2026 let\u2019s try this button and see if it gets us off the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>No! At the doctor\u2019s office, you want truth. At the pharmacist\u2019s, you want truth. In the airplane, you sure enough want truth. You don\u2019t want a pilot saying, \u201cI think,\u201d or a doctor saying, \u201cI think,\u201d or a pharmacist saying, \u201cI think.\u201d You\u2019re going to sue him if he thinks wrong. You want him to think right.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Well now, if you can respect the truth of a doctor and the truth of a pharmacist, and you can respect the truth of a pilot, how come God can\u2019t be trusted? He\u2019s truth\u2014an absolute standard of reality found in the Word of God.1005<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>[Bible, Authority of; Trust in God]<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Cor. 8:5\u20136<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT\u2019S AMAZING. People want objective standards when it comes to everything else, but not for how to live their life. But suppose you went to the doctor and he was getting ready to perform an operation and he said, \u201cNow, I think this is where I need to cut. Other doctors have ideas of where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/truthimportance-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TRUTH,<br \/>\nIMPORTANCE OF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}