Colossians 1:1-5
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
2 To God’s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— 5 the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel.
We live in a relativistic age where people say there is no absolute truth. You hear people say phrases like , "That's her truth", and even TobyMac refers to "That's my truth" in his latest song. "There is no absolute truth" according to people but even that statement can't be trusted because it may not be "my truth". I heard of a Christian apologist who went out to lunch with someone and got in an argument about this very subject. He took out a napkin and wrote on it "A is my argument that there is an absolute truth and B is your argument that there isn't an absolute truth and you say I should pick B, right?" His friend at lunch answered ,"Yes", to which the apologist answered, "Isn't it interesting that by your demand you are saying the right answer is A."
Tim keller would say, "Relativism relativises itself". Paul says in Colossians 1:5 that the gospel is truth. And he says that the word is truth. Jesus is the good news or the gospel and He said He was the truth in John 14:6. The word is the Bible, God's word, and Jesus says in John 17, "Thy word is truth". No wonder people have trouble with Jesus and the Bible because they both claim to be the truth by which all truth claims are judged. When someone says, "That's my truth", that claim must be judged by those two standards to see if that person's "truth" is right. How dare we say "You are wrong"? Well, we see it every time there is a court case. The January 6th hearings are an example. Either Trump was complicit (Democrats) or he was not (most Republicans). One is true and all the relativistic people in the world are interested in finding out which. They aren't wanting the answer, "Well, I think both are true".
2+2 does equal 4 and if you base the farchitecture of the house you are building on faulty assumptions your house will topple. Jesus said "Build Your house on the Rock" and that rock is Jesus and the Bible. We have done that and our life has turned out great. How is yours going?
