May 25, 2025
Absolute Truth and Our God Given Purpose
John 1:1-5 NIV “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through HIM all things were made; without HIM nothing was made that has been made. In HIM was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness HAS NOT overcome it.”
The darkness has not overcome the Word (even though things can seem dark)
-Verse 14: “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling AMONG US. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of GRACE and TRUTH.
Full of Grace and Truth (WE USUALLY HAVE MORE OF ONE THAN THE OTHER).
A. We either make everything so subjective to man’s opinions (making everything about truth a gray area instead of black and white), and we offer an excessive amount Grace which waters down the ABSOLUTE TRUTH that Jesus came for us to accept, by us giving into compromising ideas and actions.
B. Or we RELIGIOUSLY try to proclaim truth without promoting a RELATIONSHIP with God, and we don’t have the balance of grace to balance it, for it to be received.
We also get out of balance with what we THINK Jesus was like…
A. We either see Him as a humble, weak guy who just let everyone lead him to the Cross and beat Him up.
B. Or we see Him as some guy with a hammer ready to beat us over the head if our faith is a little weak for the day.
THE TRUE FACT IS: He had characteristics that had BALANCE because He KNEW HIS PURPOSE.
He said in John 10:18 NLT “No one can take my life from Me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. for I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father commanded.”
TRUTH IS NOT:
Whatever works or “the way it’s always been”
Whatever “makes sense” or understandable or explainable by our opinions
What makes you “feel good”
What the majority says is true (a majority of the world, just because they say the sky is yellow, doesn’t make it yellow, just because several people say it is) A lie believed is still a lie.
Is not relative (meaning: It’s not measured by any other standard including our opinion.
TRUTH IS:
Truth exists absolutely, or not at all. Truth is not in a gray area. (It’s like real numbers in a Bank Statement - You either have it or you don’t. IT IS NOT TRUTH IN PART, BUT A WHOLE
Is discovered- Cannot be invented.
For EVERYONE to know (it’s not meant to be a secret).
Unchanging - even if your beliefs change about the truth. Beliefs cannot change a fact.
Exposes and Enlightens (Puts a light on something you didn’t know or need to know), Encourages you to act on the knowledge of the truth presented to you.
Jesus says in John 14:6 NLT “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to Father except through Me.”
A FACT OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH:
THERE ARE NOT MULTIPLE WAYS TO GOD, OR TO HEAVEN. THERE IS ONE WAY - Through Jesus.
A. Today’s culture is promoting that “You follow your path, and we all get to the same destination.” NO! This is deception.
B. If the enemy convinced 1/3 of the angels that were in the presence of God to turn and follow him…he will try to convince you to follow him STARTING WITH COMPROMISE.
C. THERE’S NOT “YOUR TRUTH” and “MY TRUTH”…. THERE IS ONLY ABSOLUTE TRUTH BY THE ONE WHO IS THE TRUTH AND THE ONLY WAY.
D. The enemy tries to deceive us by OFFERING SUBSTITUTIONS (which are actually excuses) to water down Truth and our Purpose in God, just to deceive people.
E. There are a lot of substitutions that the devil would like us to believe are “INTERCHANGEABLE” ways to get where we need to go spiritually.
F. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED A SUBSTITUTION FOR SOMETHING? IT’S NOT AS GOOD AS THE REAL THING.
...Years ago, there was something called ‘NO SALT’ that came out as an alternative to actually using real salt. It was disgusting!
G. As we honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice during this time we set aside to remember what’s known as “Memorial Day”, we need to take notice of those who didn’t settle for compromise, or substitutions. Had they settled for compromise or became distracted from their true PURPOSE, we would not have the freedom that we have today. They had to have a focused vision of the PURPOSE they were there for.
John 8:32 “You will know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will make you free.”
When you realize Jesus isn’t just relative to YOU (your personal belief), and it becomes TRUTH FOR ALL, then it says that anything opposite of that is FALSE, OR WRONG.
Your beliefs shouldn’t just be a PRIVATE thing
No, you shouldn’t be arrogant or act “better than”, but you must proclaim TRUTH without it being watered down.
Beliefs in Christianity have been declining for no other reason than the falsehoods of what Truth REALLY IS and WHAT OUR TRUE PURPOSE IS SUPPOSED TO BE.
Yes, the Bible says things are going to get worse and worse; but the Great Commission did not be given to us for only a period of time until things got tough and the End-times are here, but we have all the more work to do, and that is to primarily LIVE A LIFE OF WORSHIP AND HONOR TO THE LORD OF OUR LIFE IN ALL WE DO, so the world can see.
John 17:17 AMP “Sanctify them in the truth (set them apart for YOUR PURPOSES and make them holy); Your WORD is Truth.
A.W. TOZER NOTES:
Many people in their frantic pursuit of life have forgotten the purpose of their creation, from GOD’s point of view.
We are created for God’s purpose (Rev. 4:11)
If we think God did anything without a purpose in mind is completely misunderstanding the nature of God.
In the days when God created the heavens and the earth, He looked around and still thought it was missing something. This is when He created man. To see the complex design of the human body, much less the spirit and soul of man is beyond our comprehension.
“God said to man once He made him: “Look around, this is all yours; and look at ME, I AM yours; and I’ll look at you and I’ll see in your face the reflection of my own glory. That is your end and your bottom line. This is why you were created, that you might worship Me and enjoy Me and have Me as yours forever.” (A.W. Tozer)
“Nowhere do we read that God came down and hugged a tree or walked and talked with any animal or plant He created. Only Adam and Eve (Man) provided the relationship God desired. It was their unique purpose.”
Their relationship was like no other…until Adam and Eve took it for granted and crossed the line and broke that relationship.
When Adam and Eve sinned, they IMMEDIATELY began to focus on themselves (their nakedness) instead of focusing on their Creator (God) for the first time. They began to focus inwardly on SELF instead of who they were mean to gaze on.
We can focus in detail on every single thing that changed from that day forward, and everything that has gone wrong in the world like hatred, anger, sin, and pain… But THE BOTTOM LINE IS ADAM AND EVE FORGOT THEIR PURPOSE.
It caused them to wander into life in a fog of doing things themselves and looking at things through their own lens of the way the carnal nature looks at things. THEY HAD SPIRITUAL AMNESIA. (A.W. TOZER QUOTE)
SPIRITUAL AMNESIA CHARACTERISTICS:
Don’t know who you are
Don’t know HOW you got there (during Spiritual decline)
Don’t have a perspective on what your purpose is
A. Short term goals cannot define your ultimate purpose
B. Filling the void in life with lots of activities and busyness cannot give us ultimate purpose.
C. In all of our plans, if it doesn’t CENTER around the God given purpose we were created for, it will not LAST, it will not FULFILL, and it will not SATISFY.
The center point of what is our purpose of being created MUST BE centered on GLORIFYING GOD IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIFE, AND WORSHIPPING HIM IN EVERYTHING WE DO. NOTHING ELSE SHOULD MATTER.
Is our WORSHIP only artificial and man-made, or does it come from deep within our soul?
Many say we need REVIVAL, only to mean something that strokes our emotions in some kind of way and gives us a tingle of temporary FEELINGS.
True REVIVAL is about pushing through to an INTENSE PRESENCE OF GOD AND HIS POWER THAT IS NOT SUPERFICIAL AND SHORT LIVED.
REVIVAL ONLY COMES when we are walking IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH
KNOWLEDGE can only take you so far
MONEY can only take you so far
Even HEALING has no reasoning if we are a healed person without knowing our PURPOSE IN GOD.
Even our ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN HIS NAME are of NO VALUE without us knowing the Purpose of WORSHIP in all that we do.
Revelation 4:11 “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. FOR YOU created all things, and for YOUR PLEASURE they are and were created.”
The darkness has not overcome the Word (even though things can seem dark)
-Verse 14: “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling AMONG US. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of GRACE and TRUTH.
Full of Grace and Truth (WE USUALLY HAVE MORE OF ONE THAN THE OTHER).
A. We either make everything so subjective to man’s opinions (making everything about truth a gray area instead of black and white), and we offer an excessive amount Grace which waters down the ABSOLUTE TRUTH that Jesus came for us to accept, by us giving into compromising ideas and actions.
B. Or we RELIGIOUSLY try to proclaim truth without promoting a RELATIONSHIP with God, and we don’t have the balance of grace to balance it, for it to be received.
We also get out of balance with what we THINK Jesus was like…
A. We either see Him as a humble, weak guy who just let everyone lead him to the Cross and beat Him up.
B. Or we see Him as some guy with a hammer ready to beat us over the head if our faith is a little weak for the day.
THE TRUE FACT IS: He had characteristics that had BALANCE because He KNEW HIS PURPOSE.
He said in John 10:18 NLT “No one can take my life from Me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. for I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father commanded.”
TRUTH IS NOT:
Whatever works or “the way it’s always been”
Whatever “makes sense” or understandable or explainable by our opinions
What makes you “feel good”
What the majority says is true (a majority of the world, just because they say the sky is yellow, doesn’t make it yellow, just because several people say it is) A lie believed is still a lie.
Is not relative (meaning: It’s not measured by any other standard including our opinion.
TRUTH IS:
Truth exists absolutely, or not at all. Truth is not in a gray area. (It’s like real numbers in a Bank Statement - You either have it or you don’t. IT IS NOT TRUTH IN PART, BUT A WHOLE
Is discovered- Cannot be invented.
For EVERYONE to know (it’s not meant to be a secret).
Unchanging - even if your beliefs change about the truth. Beliefs cannot change a fact.
Exposes and Enlightens (Puts a light on something you didn’t know or need to know), Encourages you to act on the knowledge of the truth presented to you.
Jesus says in John 14:6 NLT “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to Father except through Me.”
A FACT OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH:
THERE ARE NOT MULTIPLE WAYS TO GOD, OR TO HEAVEN. THERE IS ONE WAY - Through Jesus.
A. Today’s culture is promoting that “You follow your path, and we all get to the same destination.” NO! This is deception.
B. If the enemy convinced 1/3 of the angels that were in the presence of God to turn and follow him…he will try to convince you to follow him STARTING WITH COMPROMISE.
C. THERE’S NOT “YOUR TRUTH” and “MY TRUTH”…. THERE IS ONLY ABSOLUTE TRUTH BY THE ONE WHO IS THE TRUTH AND THE ONLY WAY.
D. The enemy tries to deceive us by OFFERING SUBSTITUTIONS (which are actually excuses) to water down Truth and our Purpose in God, just to deceive people.
E. There are a lot of substitutions that the devil would like us to believe are “INTERCHANGEABLE” ways to get where we need to go spiritually.
F. HAVE YOU EVER TRIED A SUBSTITUTION FOR SOMETHING? IT’S NOT AS GOOD AS THE REAL THING.
...Years ago, there was something called ‘NO SALT’ that came out as an alternative to actually using real salt. It was disgusting!
G. As we honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice during this time we set aside to remember what’s known as “Memorial Day”, we need to take notice of those who didn’t settle for compromise, or substitutions. Had they settled for compromise or became distracted from their true PURPOSE, we would not have the freedom that we have today. They had to have a focused vision of the PURPOSE they were there for.
John 8:32 “You will know the TRUTH and the TRUTH will make you free.”
When you realize Jesus isn’t just relative to YOU (your personal belief), and it becomes TRUTH FOR ALL, then it says that anything opposite of that is FALSE, OR WRONG.
Your beliefs shouldn’t just be a PRIVATE thing
No, you shouldn’t be arrogant or act “better than”, but you must proclaim TRUTH without it being watered down.
Beliefs in Christianity have been declining for no other reason than the falsehoods of what Truth REALLY IS and WHAT OUR TRUE PURPOSE IS SUPPOSED TO BE.
Yes, the Bible says things are going to get worse and worse; but the Great Commission did not be given to us for only a period of time until things got tough and the End-times are here, but we have all the more work to do, and that is to primarily LIVE A LIFE OF WORSHIP AND HONOR TO THE LORD OF OUR LIFE IN ALL WE DO, so the world can see.
John 17:17 AMP “Sanctify them in the truth (set them apart for YOUR PURPOSES and make them holy); Your WORD is Truth.
A.W. TOZER NOTES:
Many people in their frantic pursuit of life have forgotten the purpose of their creation, from GOD’s point of view.
We are created for God’s purpose (Rev. 4:11)
If we think God did anything without a purpose in mind is completely misunderstanding the nature of God.
In the days when God created the heavens and the earth, He looked around and still thought it was missing something. This is when He created man. To see the complex design of the human body, much less the spirit and soul of man is beyond our comprehension.
“God said to man once He made him: “Look around, this is all yours; and look at ME, I AM yours; and I’ll look at you and I’ll see in your face the reflection of my own glory. That is your end and your bottom line. This is why you were created, that you might worship Me and enjoy Me and have Me as yours forever.” (A.W. Tozer)
“Nowhere do we read that God came down and hugged a tree or walked and talked with any animal or plant He created. Only Adam and Eve (Man) provided the relationship God desired. It was their unique purpose.”
Their relationship was like no other…until Adam and Eve took it for granted and crossed the line and broke that relationship.
When Adam and Eve sinned, they IMMEDIATELY began to focus on themselves (their nakedness) instead of focusing on their Creator (God) for the first time. They began to focus inwardly on SELF instead of who they were mean to gaze on.
We can focus in detail on every single thing that changed from that day forward, and everything that has gone wrong in the world like hatred, anger, sin, and pain… But THE BOTTOM LINE IS ADAM AND EVE FORGOT THEIR PURPOSE.
It caused them to wander into life in a fog of doing things themselves and looking at things through their own lens of the way the carnal nature looks at things. THEY HAD SPIRITUAL AMNESIA. (A.W. TOZER QUOTE)
SPIRITUAL AMNESIA CHARACTERISTICS:
Don’t know who you are
Don’t know HOW you got there (during Spiritual decline)
Don’t have a perspective on what your purpose is
A. Short term goals cannot define your ultimate purpose
B. Filling the void in life with lots of activities and busyness cannot give us ultimate purpose.
C. In all of our plans, if it doesn’t CENTER around the God given purpose we were created for, it will not LAST, it will not FULFILL, and it will not SATISFY.
The center point of what is our purpose of being created MUST BE centered on GLORIFYING GOD IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIFE, AND WORSHIPPING HIM IN EVERYTHING WE DO. NOTHING ELSE SHOULD MATTER.
Is our WORSHIP only artificial and man-made, or does it come from deep within our soul?
Many say we need REVIVAL, only to mean something that strokes our emotions in some kind of way and gives us a tingle of temporary FEELINGS.
True REVIVAL is about pushing through to an INTENSE PRESENCE OF GOD AND HIS POWER THAT IS NOT SUPERFICIAL AND SHORT LIVED.
REVIVAL ONLY COMES when we are walking IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH
KNOWLEDGE can only take you so far
MONEY can only take you so far
Even HEALING has no reasoning if we are a healed person without knowing our PURPOSE IN GOD.
Even our ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN HIS NAME are of NO VALUE without us knowing the Purpose of WORSHIP in all that we do.
Revelation 4:11 “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. FOR YOU created all things, and for YOUR PLEASURE they are and were created.”
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