WHAT IS TRUTH?

 BIBLE STUDY-PROVERBS #13   PROVERBS 3:3 (PART 2)

NETTIE-OLOGY: People are free to believe or not believe and I am free to not listen to unbelief. I do not want people thinking they can say any type of foolishness to me and I will “tolerate” it. I try to be biblically correct but I chose not to be politically correct, which is why the more vocal I become about what I believe the fewer non-believing people want to be around me. Not everyone wants to hear the Truth.

PROVERBS 3:3 KING JAMES VERSION

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 

Mercy and truth go hand in hand and there are things that can come against both in your life. In a previous post (WHAT IS MERCY?) I talked about the importance of mercy now I want to speak about truth. When you know the truth you will be able to show mercy; without mercy you can not walk in the truth. 

Proverbs warns us to not let truth forsake or leave us. 

Note: The New International Version translate the word truth,  “emet” in Hebrew, to  “faithfulness”. The Expanded Bible, the American Standard, the Voice and the New King James translated emet to the word “truth”.  I believe “truth”, as it has been translated in the King James, is more appropriate. 

Why would truth as well as mercy leave? Goodness and mercy are supposed to follow us all the days of our lives (Psalm 23:6)! Jesus declared: He was the Truth (John 14:6) and we are warned to seek Him while He may be found (Isaiah 55:6). Truth and mercy leave because we think we have found something better.

We reject truth because we believe that someone else has a better truth.  People reject the truth about abortion for a false “better truth”

2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4 KING JAMES VERSION

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 

Salvation is personal, it has nothing to do with your denomination, your service in ministry, or your giving. BUT IT DOES HAVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH YOUR ACTIONS as it relates to the reason why. 

JAMES 4:3-4 KING JAMES VERSION 

3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 

4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

The development as to what a person accepts as the truth is based on motivation, self justification. People believe abortions are OK because the world teaches it but Scripture teaches that life is declared by God before conception. 

ISAIAH 44:2 KING JAMES VERSION

Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. 

We also should note that GOD wanted relationships to be between a male and a female. 

GENESIS 1:27 KING JAMES VERSION

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 

MATTHEW 19:4-6 KING JAMES VERSION 

4  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 

5  And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 

6  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 

No matter how many laws are passed, no matter how loud people yell or how vulgar they may act the truth is the Truth. 

PROVERBS 3:3 THE VOICE

Stay focused; do not lose sight of mercy and truth; engrave them on a pendant, and hang it around your neck; meditate on them so they are written upon your heart.

IF, you, Believer, keep your eyes on the mercy of YHWH and the truth of YHWH whatever you are going through you will overcome. 

What is truth? Jesus is truth in fact He is the Truth. 

JOHN 14:6 KING JAMES VERSION 

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

This is my prayer, is it yours?

PSALM 119:10-16 THE VOICE

I have pursued You with my whole heart; do not let me stray from Your commands. Deep within me I have hidden Your word so that I will never sin against You. You are blessed, O Eternal One; instruct me in what You require. My lips have told how You have delivered all Your wise rulings. I have celebrated Your testimonies as though rejoicing over an immeasurable fortune. I will fix my mind on Your instructions and my eyes on Your path. I will find joy in Your ordinances; I will remember Your word forever.

                                                                         written by Marsha L F Randolph

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SCRIPTURES QUOTED ARE AS CITED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF:

Holy Bible: King James Version WORDsearch CROSS e-book. 

Strong, James. Strong's Concordance. Austin, TX: WORDsearch, 2007. WORDsearch CROSS e-book. 

Strong, James. Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. Austin, TX: WORDsearch Corp., 2007. WORDsearch CROSS e-book. 

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