LESSONS FROM A MOVIE, COURAGE TO LOVE. (Part Five) By Felix Nyerhovwo Jarikre.

 

Truth has no controversy. It's the people with thin or zero connection to integrity and commitment that has controversy with truth.
'What is truth?' Pontius Pilate famously asked.
Truth, simply from the New Testament  perspective, is the state or character of being true, genuine or authentic. Truth is a settled SPIRITUAL REALITY or CONSCIOUSNESS. 
Learning the truth is required to establish the freedom of man.

Truth has long been targeted for assaults by religious falsifiers and speculators. Yet truth cannot be demolished or revoked. Truth is inexorable. For the Word of God is truth.

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John 17:17.
Sanctify means to make someone inviolable, separate, protected, preserved and sustained. The prayer of Jesus Christ for His followers is that the heavenly Father should prevent them from being violated, abused and diminished by *dictatorial* strong men.
But you can't disclaim the authority of truth and hope to escape being violated, abused and diminished by reptilian entities opposed to your productivity and profitability.

Truth is the sanctifier. Without truth guarding your heart, you are naked and compromised. You can pray and fast round the clock for hundred days. If you neglect the authority of truth in your religious fasting and prayers, you lack protection and security from the Holy Spirit.  You can preach up a storm from the height of eloquence. If you see truth as something to be discounted or discarded at the least inconvenient time, your words remain powerless, empty and unhelpful to those who hear you. As a matter of fact, by your negligence of truth in your words, you have added another round of ammunition to the arsenals of deception. 

The religion of eternal life is founded on the authority of truth. Without the authority of truth, your religious practice or loyalty of any hue is a farce.
Unfortunately, the Christianity we learn and practice today is a cruel divergence from the religion of eternal life introduced by Jesus Christ. And I say that without apology or equivocation. What we practise today in the name of Christianity is largely dismissive and derelict of objective truth. If you consider that to be too harsh an assessment, perhaps we can settle for the proposition that our religious practice pays a lip service to the authority of truth.

Make no mistake. Eternal life is not the same thing as afterlife. Eternal life is URGENT and KNOWN by the authority of truth. Eternal life has zero tolerance for delay of good things.

Eternal life is a life that is divorced from shame, guilt and fear. Eternal life is the life man would have inherited had they not been overthrown by Satan in the arena of temptation back in the Garden of Eden.
Any religious attention or preoccupation with  afterlife, on the other hand, is speculative and pretentious, loaded with uncertainty. It gives room for complacency, and a lack of willingness to urgently push for the manifestation of the glory of God on earth. Any religious attention to the afterlife signals a proclivity to flee and avoid tribulations.

Truth is communicated through language. That's why the Holy Spirit places a high premium on the ability of man to exercise his free speech and freedom of conscience. 

 Truth is established  by the vehicle of hope, not experience.
It takes information  to alter your perception. And your behaviour is controlled by your perception.

To be continued.