Thursday, May 7, 2015

Telling The Truth

In the Gospel this week (John 16: 6-15), we continue with the discussion that Jesus had with his
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We live in a world where the majority of people believe that there is no absolute truth; that everything is relative. And that leads to the theory of relativism.

We also know that more than 2000 years ago, Truth was judged and put to death by those who preferred lies.

What is truth?

According to the dictionary, truth is “conformity to fact; a statement proven to be accepted as true”.

It has nothing to do with whatever works. Truth is not whatever works type of thing; the philosophy of ends-vs-means type of an approach. Lies can work, the fact of the matter is they still remain lies and not the truth! Truth is not what the majority says is true. 70% of people can come together and reach a wrong conclusion. And it happened in our country at least twice in the past eight years.



Why do we need to stand for truth?

One of the biggest problems with Christians today is that they are hiding the truth of the gospel of Christ within the church walls, in a secret place as we see it in Luke 11:33

There is a saying in our society today that we shouldn’t force our beliefs on other people. As Christians we are called to stand up against the devil.

Psalm 94:16 "Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?"

To fully know why we need to stand for the truth, we have to go back to the early Church believers. They succeeded because they were not afraid of standing up for the truth. They won many souls for Jesus. Acts 2: 41 teaches us that 3000 souls were saved.

We need to stand up! You know what, the devil doesn’t care about what you believe as long as you keep to yourself, you keep it private. The devil is concerned when you start speaking publicly, openly. We need to occupy the public square just like the early Church believers. They scared Satan to death!

May God help us to know the truth, to tell the truth, and to live out the truth so that we may be worthy of our callings.

Peace and blessings!

Fr. Thierry Hakpon

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