God is infinite, eternal and

unchangeable in his truth

A young man rings your doorbell. When you answer the door he tells you he is

a student at the local Arts college and he is seeking to sell his work to help pay for his course.

He shows you a selection of his work and offers to sell you one of his paintings…

Painting for sale

You take pity on him and part with the £20 he is asking for.

After he is gone you realise that the painting was not his…it is actually by Rembrandt!

You also notice that it is just a colour photocopy!

How do you feel?

An accurate lie detector or a nose like the nose of Pinocchio would have helped!

Lies can cause much bigger problems than the sale of a fake painting.

Lying means huge extra expenses for banks for example…

This picture shows an eight lane motorway bridge.

We need a life based on truth

How often we travel over huge motorway bridges without a second thought! They look so solid and so secure!

At 6:05 p.m. on Wednesday, August 1, 2007, with rush hour bridge traffic moving slowly across the bridge it suddenly and without any warning collapsed…

Amazingly only 13 people died as a result. What appeared so secure and solid was

actually about to collapse. Is the foundation of our lives like that

bridge? We need a life based on truth!

When Jesus was on trial for his life before Pontius Pilate he explained that the whole purpose of his life was to ‘bear witness to the truth.’ He always told the truth.

Even greater… he claims to be ‘The truth.’ When he speaks he is speaking as the God

who cannot lie!

Jesus is ‘The Truth’

Not only does Jesus claim to be identical with the God of truth but he claims to be the only way to the God of truth and the only way to life.

He is the only reliable bridge to God and to heaven.

All the other possible bridges will ultimately fail.

‘The Truth’, ‘The Way’ and ‘The Life’

Seeking the truth means seeking Jesus. Admitting the truth in our hearts is the first

step to finding him. Turning to him is turning to the truth and

finding him is finding the God of truth who cannot lie.

Seeking the truth