No one clashed with religion and religious leaders more than Jesus Christ…..and He beat them so decisively in their arguments that they decided that they had to kill Him.

 

And kill Him they did.  In a brutal murder of an innocent man, they hung Him on a cross between two thieves and humiliated Him in front of all that would come to see…..even some of His friends and family.  The rest of His friends had run off and hid in order to save themselves.

 

And all of that conflict was rooted in one issue:

What Was The TRUTH?

The pharisees spent all of their time looking for PROOF to convict….and Jesus spent His time loving people in TRUTH.

 

I heard something in a movie once that convicted me from the moment that I heard it:

In the movie A Few Good Men, lawyer Tom Cruise says to his partner:  “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what we can prove!”

 

Isn’t that the world today……the TRUTH does not matter—-only what we CAN PROVE.

 

I’m not on that train……that repulses me.  And anyone who has been on the side of TRUTH and seen it get crumpled up and thrown in the trash like it did not matter is repulsed by that also.

 

I think that’s why Jesus said:

John 14:6   Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.”

 

You see the world may say:  the TRUTH does not matter—-only what we CAN PROVE.

 

But Jesus says just the opposite:  What you can prove does not matter—the only thing that matters is the TRUTH.

 

So if you are struggling with the way things are done….with the way that life is going…..with the actions of your school or your company or your boss or your friend….Just remember:  we live in a world that simply crumbles when the TRUTH is really discovered.  Think about it:  Are we corrupt because of the corruption?……or is there corruption because we are corrupt?

 

We will never escape the reality that we need a Savior.  We simply can’t stand up under the reality that we are broken.  

 

And that’s the TRUTH.

 

Jesus is the only way.

No backup plan.  No exit strategy.  No other path.

 

In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J