Spirit of Truth: Knowing God's Truth in Our Time

But that's not why Jesus asked the father to send us the spirit of truth that lives inside of us. God is always communicating to us through scripture and through his world and through other created means. He never wants us to stop seeking him out. If you seek me, you will find me. If you seek me with all your heart, promises the prophet Jeremiah to the people Israel when they have wandered away from God once again. Seek him. He is not far from any of us. [00:35:58] (40 seconds)  #SeekGod

There's always somebody that's trying to pull us away, but there's always god there, the spirit of truth trying to pull us back. Jesus says, we are one. I'm in the father. You are in me. I'm in you. No one else will know who I am but you will know. My disciples will know. He says that the advocate, the Holy Spirit that the father will send will teach us and remind us. So, the Holy Spirit's there in Jesus place pulling us back. [00:28:13] (30 seconds)  #HolySpiritGuide

Remember what Jesus said? Remember this teaching? Or maybe you don't remember that one. Here's how it went. Teaching us and reminding us of the truth, the one truth. My friend Paul here on the front row would call this one of God's absolutes. And he would say that there is one truth and that belongs to Jesus Christ, our God in human form who came to show us the light and redeem us for all eternity. [00:28:43] (31 seconds)  #TruthInChrist

Sometimes it's a nudge. And okay, yeah, sometimes it brings us back kicking and screaming. I've heard of the holy two by four. But you get my point. Right? It's always there, kind of on our shoulder. We see the picture of the angel and the devil. It really is a real thing. There's always somebody that's trying to pull us away, but there's always god there, the spirit of truth trying to pull us back. [00:27:54] (26 seconds)  #TugOfConscience

And I kinda like how this sounds because the Holy Spirit does do that with us. God does do that with us. You know, we kinda get that icky feeling in our stomach if we start to kinda wander away or or consider something. Should I go this way or should I say this or should I do this? You know, it kind of nudges us. No. That's not really the way we need to go. Our friend, the Holy Spirit, who lives inside of us, is always kinda steering us back to God. Right? Kinda stands in correction. [00:27:23] (32 seconds)  #InnerNudge

Paul tells me when we govern our lives by absolutes and not by our feelings or maybe just how I might feel on a certain day or maybe how someone else said I should go do something or somebody else gave me some advice that maybe sounded good. No. If I rule my life by absolutes, then I will be blessed with a blessed obedient life. Kinda helps me not get into trouble. So what is truth? [00:29:15] (34 seconds)  #LiveByAbsolutes

Even though when we reach for him, he is not far from any one of us. God wants us to be curious about him. Sometimes we think we know. Sometimes I've heard it said we can be educated beyond our obedience. We know more than we think and we think, oh, we just write that off. I already know what that is. I already know what God meant by that. I already know what that scripture means. [00:35:30] (28 seconds)  #CuriosityAndObedience

In this movie, he's actually on the stand. Right? There's this big courtroom drama and he's duking it out and he's taking care of some things in not so honest way and he's finally been caught up with it. But he thinks, you don't really know how the world works around here. You couldn't handle the truth if I told you that. And I wonder if sometimes that is hard for us to handle the truth. [00:30:00] (28 seconds)  #HandleTheTruth