John 8:31-41
The Children of Abraham
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”
34 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word. 38 I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
39 “Abraham is our father,” they answered.
“If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do the things Abraham did. 40 As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 41 You are doing the things your own father does.”
“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”
Jesus is the One who spoke God's Word and by His very nature spoke the Truth...He is full of both truth and grace...If we hold to Jesus' teachings, we are His disciples...Then we will know the truth and the truth shall set you free...Jesus also in this same setting teaches us that no man is free, because of his sin...We are slaves to sin...We are slaves to our own personal desires and our personal pleasures...Jesus is not, He did not sin...Since, we are sinners and Jesus is not, we can be set free from these sins, if the Son allows and sets us free...
So over two thousand years ago, a Man (if it fair to call Him a Man) stood up and said He is Truth...Truth is a Person...Truth is much more than information or data on a page, a sheet, or a screen...For us to get to the Truth, we must know the Man, or know the best, we can about Him, through these teachings...Since Jesus is the Son of God, the Truth is what sets us free...So life is more than truth and facts...He is more because this Man, is also the Way and is life itself...Truth and Life and the Way is a Man, who lived and breathed on earth two thousand years ago, and now lives in heaven beside His Father...Truth means more than His people being oppressed by the the political pressures of the Roman Empire and its officials...Truth comes from only one source, and that source is a Man...Truth frees the soul, and that is the key...Even though we can feel he oppression that comes from political bondage, it is our own internal sin-soul bondage that we need to be more concerned about...Our Spiritual bondage is much more important than any political bondage...
The Truth, at one time, was flesh and blood...Before Jesus and after Jesus, the truth was and is not a list or set of documents and doctrines...It is a Man, in the embodiment of God, who lived a life on this earth, showing us the reality of His Father, our God...