The Truth Shall Set You Free.

John 8:32 “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
It amazes me at the amount of ignorance surrounding this phrase. Please understand this TRUTH, there is only one truth, and only one Truth that will set you free and that is The Truth, Jesus Christ. No one will ever be free until they believe in Jesus Christ as Saviour. People use this passage of scripture in an attempt to get people to tell the truth, but that truth will not set you free. The freedom you receive in Jesus Christ is from the sin and power of sin. If you still sin, then you will live in that sin. John 8:34 “Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.” But because God has graciously saved you, you have been washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ and you are free from the punishment of sin and the power of sin. The question is, what are going to do with the freedom that God has given you through the blood of His Beloved Son? If you continue to sin, then you will live in those sins. However, the bottom line fact is, you have been set free by the Son of God, you need to live like it. John 8:36 “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” So if God is truth, then Jesus is truth and that means His word is truth. The word of God will also set you free if you take it as truth, and as it truly is. The word, which is the bible is only truth if it never changes, in words or context. The context of the word is so important because changing it’s context is the same as changing the words. You cannot change truth and perfection except to non-truth and lies. God’s word will also set you free, free from unbelieving and ignorance of God. It will also set you free from error in life’s walk. The Apostle Paul wrote to young preacher Timothy in his second letter and told him, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  2 Timothy 3:16 The bible is “profitable for doctrine” meaning - to learn of God and what God does and what God teaches us. He also included “for reproof” meaning - conviction or evidence, of God, who He is and that He is truth, His Son is Truth and we can totally trust them both that they are God. He went on to include “for correction” meaning - a straightening up again, or setting right – that is to set you upright in God’s eye so that you can live a life that is pleasing to Him. And Paul conclude with this thought, “for instruction in righteousness” this means - to be convinced of error – so that we can walk an upright state. Folks, this is the truth that will set us free, not only free from sin in Jesus Christ but also free from error in living life and serving God. The Lord said in 1 Timothy 4:15-16 “Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all…Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.” And if we do then we truly understand what freedom is, it is in Jesus Christ and God’s word. Paul finished completed 2 Timothy 3 with verse 17 “That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” Or to be set totally free. Sin is what we need to be set free from, free from its damning punishment and from its affects on our daily life. Sin separates from God, this is why god said “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24 and God told us why in the same verse “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.” Either you serve God in truth or Satan and evil and lies, and it is certain that one will cause you to hate the other. You may not hate God, but it will cause you to hate the Truth of God which is the Truth of God. And by this you are no longer free from the effects of sin, and you are a weak Christian.