Last Sunday our Lead Pastor, Barry Risto, preached a message entitled “What Is Truth” from John 18:36-38

“Jesus said, ‘My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.’

³⁷ “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.

Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.’

³⁸ “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.”

The passage and the message got me thinking:

Men are always seeking kingdoms, power, authority or positions of strength. But Jesus taught that while He was a king, He had not come to rule but to “testify to the truth”.

With those words Jesus helps us to understand that the truth must always come before kingdom, power, authority or strength because truth is the foundation of any kingdom if it is to govern in actual power, authority or strength. In fact any time the truth falters a kingdom’s power, authority and strength are reduced incrementally. If truth falters long enough that same kingdom’s power, authority and strength will eventually come to nothing.

“When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3