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The Truth Time of Year



This time of year centers on the Truth, that Jesus Christ is “The Way, the Truth, and the Life, none may come to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6). Christmas often gets very general about our God and Savior. People love to sing about “Away in Manger..” but if we were to tell them, that the baby grew up and eternal life is only by believing in Him, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” (John 3:16-18), the carols may stop playing on the radio. Everyone is content if we act pluralistic and keep what we Christians believe in a vague place, but as soon as you say “let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved," (Acts 4:10-12), prepare for persecution. 

I am tired of lukewarm  words like “Thank God,” or “God bless you.” Which god? If you say these statements there is no reprisals or protestation.  Any unsaved person can insert their diety in the place of the gerneralized god. We ahould be saying “Thank you Jesus,” and “Christ Jesus bless you!” For it is Jesus that is the name above all names, “Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor, and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11).  The generics need to end! It is time to be bold and declare our Lord Jesus before men as He said to, “Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven,  But everyone who denies me here on earth before men, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.” (Matthew 10:31-33). 


The Truth is that Jesus Christ is the Only Way to heaven and eternal life (John 3:16-18) and the only way  to the Father (John 14:6). The truth is Jesus is God (2 Peter 1:1, Colossians 2:9) and Son of God (1 John 4:15) who is One with the Father (John 10:30, John 10:9-11) and the Holy Spirit proceeds from both Father and Son (John 14:26, John 15:26, John 20:20-22): One God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity (Matthew 28:19, Genesis 18:1-15). We should be trumpeting the Truth, especially during the holiday season. We should not conform and close our witness, but instead speak the Truth who is Jesus Christ (John 1:17, John 14:6)! Amen. 







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