The poor Truth returns to the well and disappears forever, hiding therein, its shame. Since then, the Lie travels around the world, dressed as the Truth, satisfying the needs of society, because, the World, in any case, harbors no wish at all to meet the naked Truth.
So what is Truth? What is absolute Truth? Believing in the supremacy of God leads you to believe in the existence of absolute truth. Absolute truth is what Francis Schaeffer used to call "true Truth." Not just truth for you or truth for me, but absolute truth whether you or I believe it or like it. If the supreme Creator God exists, then there is Truth with a capital T. God is simply there, and he must be taken as he is. We do not make him or shape him or define him. He makes all things. He shapes. And he defines. So we come into a universe that is full of givens. God is simply there. And he has made the world one way and not another way. And he and his ways are the truth. That is what you embrace when you embrace the supremacy of God.
The apostle Paul writes these stunning words in 1 Timothy 3:15, "I write to you so that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth." The church of God is the pillar and defensive wall of the truth. The support and the protector of True Truth in the world is the church. Why is this? Because the church is the household of GOD! And God is the Truth. What he is and what he says and what he does defines the truth. So those who submit to him and listen to him and speak his Word and live his way are the "pillars of the truth." This is one reason why God and his church are so unpopular. They represent absolute claims on people's minds and wills and emotions. If God exists, we are not god. If God is true, then we cannot decide what is true. It's out of our hands, we have no say in it. No vote. The universe is not a democracy. It is an absolute monarchy.
And since the universe is not up to date, it is simply not accepted. Paul describes ordinary people in Romans 1:25 like this: "They exchanged the truth of God [notice the phrase!] for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen." He says in verse 18 that men "suppress the truth in unrighteousness." The Bible says, that, except for the gracious work of the Holy Spirit, our hearts always tilt one way: we suppress the ultimate objective truth outside ourselves and we choose to create our own. This is ultimately why the supreme God of the Bible is rejected. If he exists, he is absolute Truth and we must yield to him, and define good and bad, right and wrong, beautiful and ugly, true and false, wise and foolish, and our very selves according to him and not according to us. God is the measure of all things, not man.
This is the ultimately unpopular truth for self-sufficient, self-exalting, self-determining human beings. The cause of God and truth has advanced in the world not through timid, indecisive, fence-sitting, lukewarm Christians. It has advanced through conviction like Paul's when he said in 2 Timothy 1:12, "I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded." To spread a passion for the supremacy of God you have to speak and act on his truth.
In other words, you may believe in truth, but if you don't speak and act on it, it is not honored. Our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God. You cannot spread a passion with silence and inactivity. Silence and inactivity spread nothing good. So our commitment to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things demands that we speak up. Picture God walking into a room as a guest and no one saying hello or going over and shaking his hand, but only ignoring him, or even snickering at him. That is the way most people treat God today. He is simply ignored, or sometimes snickered at. Now that is the opposite of a passion for his supremacy. If you want to spread a passion for his supremacy, you speak about his supremacy and his truth. And you change your lives to show it. You pay attention to him. You greet him. You walk with him and introduce him to others.
Martin Luther once said, "If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proven, and to be steady on all the battle fronts besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point." In other words, if we stand with Christ loudly until it's a "Politically Incorrect" situation; then we aren't truly standing with Christ. If our lives are only wholly given to Him when it doesn't really affect our lives than it means nothing.
We as Christians and even more as His Church are supposed to be a stark contrast to the world. Just our belief in The Truth makes us indifferent to the world. Folks you can't serve both. If all the prophets, disciples, heroes of the Bible, or Christ Himself buckled to the world when it mattered; Christianity would be a mute point. The Lie has been allowed to travel the world shaping the minds of all of humanity for far to long. It's time for the Naked Truth to stand up, unashamed, and proudly with a booming voice speak the Absolute Truth.
May You Be Blessed With Peace And Understanding
