Thursday, March 9, 2023

Speak the Truth in Love

 

Speak the Truth in Love

 “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?

That is a good question today! Truth seems to be a rare commodity these days. Not only is truth seldom found but so few care about the truth. We are inundated with lies from politicians, social media, the news, educators and even so-called scientists. These last days are not only marked by deception, but lies, falsehood and fakeness have seeped into every aspect of life. In my seventy years of life, I do not remember such a time when we have lived in such an artificial world where truth is no longer important.

We heard a few Years ago the term “Fake News.” It was at first laughed at and scorned, but has now been shown ironically, that Fake News is true. Mainstream media has been caught in so many lies from faking Hurricane winds to covering up political shenanigans to just lying about daily events. No one seems to trust the news anymore. I completely quit watching the news over a year ago when I saw how they were all repeating the same speaking points when they supposedly were all independently owned news organizations. It was as if someone wrote the script and mailed it out to all the news media and they all had to say it verboten. The bias was substantial and no longer objectional.

Fake News led to False conspiracies, only for those conspiracies to be proven true later. The pandemic proved to be a scam in so many ways. Scientists like Fauci and the NHO and CDC lied about masks, vaccines, lockdowns and natural immunity and only later did we find the truth but by then it was too late. First, we had to trust the news, then they said “Trust the science” only to find not only was the science wrong but the so-called scientists never agreed with each other. The bible says about so-called learned men that they:

"...are ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” 2 Timothy 3:7

A new term has popped up everywhere in this generation specifically concerning the manipulation by the Government. It is “False flag” A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party. Our President constantly lies and his party blames everything on their opponents, Both parties cannot be honest about their actions and intents so they lie and blame others, People no longer trust their government because so many who govern are fake and have no respect for the truth.

“Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight!” Pro. 12:22

We see technology moving to the fake side now too. AI is Artificial Inteligence. It’s name alone tells you that it is fake, not real-artificial” AI is now making fake art by manipulating millions of images into random composites and calling it AI Art? And now fake videos are popping up that are so real they can make a president look like he is saying the opposite of what he believes. They just did this with an Obama video with voice manipulation and realistic computer-generated video. These are known as “Deep fakes”. You can now pay and get a realistic avatar of yourself and with AI learning your speech,you can manipulate the avatar to say anything you like. Scary.

ChatGPT (Chat generative pre-training Transformer) is the newest thing. Type in a question and let AI search its vast databases and not only will it answer your question, it will write a movie plot for you, create a book outline, write a commercial script for you and more. High schools are going back to paper tests, in class with no cell phone use because students have been found using ChatGPT to do their tests. College students have been cheating by using ChatGPT tp do their dissertations

Everything seems fake today People are deceived by fake genders that do not exist. They believe men can have babies and that the earth is flat and aliens are real. No wonder people think that God is fake and Satan is real.

Scientists and educators have helped convinced the world of the lie of evolution, while declaring that God is a myth. They have convinced people that abortion is removing unwanted tissue and not murdering an innocent life. But the scriptures say:

”For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.” Romans 1:18 

Deception and confusion have led many to say as Pilate did

“What Is truth”

Again, the Bible has the answer:

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

First of all, Jesus is the truth.  There is no lie in him, no fakeness. He is genuine and when Pilate asked the question, the truth was standing right in front of him!

Secondly, Truth is revealed by God not man.:

“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.” John 16:13

Thirdly, The Truth has ben revealed to man supernaturally through the Bible:

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” John 17:17

“And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32

Christians know the truth, have the truth but need to spread the truth to the world in order to set people free from the fake, the false and the unreal. Satan is the Father of Lies but Jesus is Truth. While we are yet in this world let us continue to shine the light of his truth in this dark and foreboding world!