John 18:36-38
What is Truth
36Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."
37"You are a king, then!" said Pilate.
Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
38"What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
Jesus says that everyone on the side of truth will listen to Him...Pilate asks Him, "What is truth?"...The question of "What is Truth" is actually a good question...How do you and each of us define what Truth is?...We find that Truth is many things...Jesus came to testify to the Truth...We know that Jesus stood up and said He is Truth...He said that God's Word is Truth...He added that the Truth will set us free...And when we worship we will worship is Spirit and Truth...
Jesus tells us that everyone on the side of truth listens to Him...Everyone searching for the truth will find Him...Jesus had earlier just answered Pilate's question when He was praying for His disciples to His Father...Jesus tells us that God's word is truth (John 17:17)...Jesus truth about His Father is all about the true nature of God...He is teaching us the Spiritual Truth, and about God's attributes...
He also had just told His troubled disciples that He is the way, and the truth, and the life...Jesus is the Word, and the Word became flesh and made His dwelling among His disciples in the nation of Israel...The disciples saw His glory, the glory from the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14)...Jesus is the truth...He has always been the truth...He fulfilled the prophecies of the prophets and the Bible as the truth...
Any and every decision you make should be based on truth...Any belief you have, it should be based on the truth...If you believe that Jesus is truth, then you believe that He should and is involved in your daily decisions...After all, He is the way to the truth in our lives...
Jesus taught that when He left the Holy Spirit would come, a Counselor, a Spirit of Truth...This Spirit of Truth leads us and encourages us in the ways of Jesus...We must follow Jesus in every way to live in the Spirit of Truth...When the Spirit of Truth has complete control in our lives then we are following Him...The Father would send the Holy Spirit in His name, and teach you all things and remind you of everything I taught you (John 14:25)...
Everything He said was true...All of His statements are true today...Truth lives on...Truth is eternal...We must realize He is alive...We must not only realize this truth but embrace this truth...He is the only way to the Father...He is the life and in Him is eternal life...He is the first and last of all truths...
The Jesus teachings about God were of the Spiritual nature...Jesus, Himself was about human nature...Not about normal human nature, but about perfect human nature...He tells us that only God is good...He tells us to be perfect like our heavenly Father is perfect...Jesus wants us to take the steps to go from human nature to the divine, spiritual nature...It is this human desire, to ask why, to want more, to feel uneasy that our conscious seeks to be completely reconciled to God and His truth...
We must realize that Jesus truths lead us into all truths...And we must realize that there is only One Absolute Truth...And that Absolute Truth is a Person, and that Person is Jesus...He is the True Reality of Life...He is the True Reality of an Abundant Life...