The Truth

John 14:6 (NKJV)
6  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

There are many many people in the world who do not believe that. They do not believe Jesus was or is the Son of God. They do not believe He is the Messiah. They do not believe He was born of a virgin or that He rose again.

Many believe Jesus was a great teacher. They believe He was a humanitarian. They believe he was also a  non violent revolutionary person like Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. His name is tossed about. He is rejected. Ignored. Criticized. Debated. Denied. Forsaken. He is also embraced. Praised. Worshiped. Followed. Proclaimed. Exalted.

In a world where everyone clamors for truth, truth telling doesn't always happen. The news media alter the facts and at times fabricate stories. Politicians are certainly not known for telling the truth. Social media is now censoring truth if it differs from the truth as they see it. Every religion claims they have a hold on the truth.

Jesus went far beyond that. He proclaimed He was the truth. You will notice in the John 14:6 passage the exclusivity to His declaration by the use of the word "the." The way. The truth. The life. Nobody gets to God except through Him. Very narrow minded. Very exclusive. Because He is alive He still emphatically declares that He is the truth. So let me drop a few facts to back this up.

If you did an exhaustive study of the Old Testament in the Bible you would discover over 300 prophesies about the coming of a Messiah. Those were made hundreds of years before they ever happened. Jesus is the exact fulfillment of those prophesies. How can it be that He perfectly matches what was predicted about Him centuries before they happened? That's easy for me to answer. God. God the Father orchestrated all the Old Testament and the predictions about the birth of His son Jesus. He orchestrated the prediction and fulfillment of all of them.

What if a person decided they wanted to be Jesus. So they set out to study the prophesies and one by one to fulfill each one of them. They couldn't do it. What control would such a person have over where they were born. The predicted Jesus would be born in Bethlehem in Micah 5:2. There is record of his birth there. I was born in Lufkin, TX. I had zero control over that. You had not control over where you were born either. Jesus perfectly fulfills the prophesies.

Micah 5:2 (NKJV)
2  "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting."

If a person had an open mind and did a serious investigation of what the Bible predicted about Jesus and what historically can be proven about Jesus there would be no doubt. The evidence is overwhelming. That is the truth because Jesus is the truth. He embraces all atheist, skeptics, agnostics, Muslims, Hindus and any other group who will investigate Him for themselves. He is not scared of your hard questions.

Then there is the whole resurrection thing. If the disciples came and stole his body, as the soldiers who guarded the tomb got paid to say, where was the body. You know the government turned Jerusalem upside down to find that body to put a stop to whole movement. They looked everywhere. Surely one of the disciples could have been bribed and bought off. After Judas hung himself the other elven remained devoutly steadfast. Pilate and the soldiers never produced a body because the resurrected Jesus now sits at the right hand of God the Father. There was and still isn't a body to produce.

Jesus also appeared to many. Some former cowards. They testified to seeing Jesus. Their convictions were so strong they held onto their belief even when most of them were tortured to death. They did not waver in the fact that Jesus raised from the dead and was the Messiah. Jesus was their truth.

Lastly, there are multiple reports in gospel hostile countries where Jesus appears to people in visions and dreams much like the Apostle Paul experienced on the Damascus road. Former Muslims are turning to Christ for salvation despite the harsh consequences they will experience as a result. Lives are being transformed but the truth of Jesus in a way other religions cannot produce.

Jesus is the truth. People see what they want to see. Some will say that is exactly what I have done. I know what Jesus has done in me and for me. You can't take that way. I know the person I was before I met Jesus and I see the person I am becoming since I met Jesus. He is the truth. More personally He is my truth. Is He yours?