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Truth and the Kingdom

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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

Skywatch Friday 10-31-14

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A storm is brewing! We can only run for cover. There is only one safe place!

Psalm 91:1-7King James Version (KJV)

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Many times over the past week’s I have felt to remind my readership of these facts. Cling to them people they are all that is unshakeable!