Bible Wonders- TRUTH PART 2

Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder?

I do. Did you ever wonder? Why the sun always rises, but the stars never fall?

Why dry land is never satisfied by water? And why fire never says enough? So today on Bible Wonders, we have been talking Ephesians chapter 6 and specifically talking about putting on the full armor of God in chapter 6 verse 14. And the first one I did of these last Sunday, we were talking about putting on the belt of truth from one facet of the word of truth when you looked at it in Hebrew. But I wanted to look at another facet today, which I find amazing as well. So we talked about standing one day.

We talked about what it means to be girded up. And today when you look at that word truth in Hebrew, the first letter is an aleph. And you may know that every letter in Hebrew in the script that is commonly used today is all made up of what they call yuds and voves.

And so each letter has those letters kind of inside them as the word picture that that belongs to. So the aleph, which is the very first letter in the aleph bet, the Hebrew aleph bet, the aleph has a yud, which we know from talking the other day is kind of like the hand of God. So the yud is the smallest letter of the Hebrew language.

And so when Jesus talked about that he wouldn't take away either a jot or a tittle, well, that little jot is just that little yud that there are two of in the letter aleph. So there's a yud that is going, pointing down, and there's another yud that is pointing up. And so the idea that is taught in Hebrew is that that yud coming down is clearly God's hand coming down to touch mankind. The neat yud that's underneath that is man's hand reaching up to touch God.

And you've seen that picture by Michelangelo where the two fingers are touching together. Well, one of the really neat things in the letter aleph is between those two hands reaching towards each other is a vav, and that vav is on its side and it's meant and taught clearly in Hebrew that that is the Word of God. It is what they call the Torah, but in our case, we'd call it the Bible. So between the finger of God pushing down and the finger of man going up, here you have this Bible, which again, is the truth when you think about it. I mean, it's essentially the way that we can hear from God at any day or time or whenever you want to.

Just pick up the Bible and as your finger reaches up to find out about God, he's reaching down and he's doing it through his word. So that aleph is the first letter in the word truth, which is a metz. It's an aleph and then a mem and then a tav. So the second letter is the mem, and the mem is the first letter in the word water. It's also the first letter in the word for Messiah.

You can hear it, that em sound. And so throughout the Old Testament, when you see that mem, you're looking at something that probably has to do with Jesus himself, because he is the living water, right? So when you see this essentially hand of God coming down through the Bible to touch man, and it's in Jesus that this is happening, right? Because when you get really hungry for the Scriptures, they call that thirsty. And so what do you need?

Living water, which comes up and it springs right forth. And that's the idea behind the mem, and I can talk about the mem for hours, but that letter being there is extremely significant. So you have an aleph, you have a mem, and then at the end is this tav. Well, it's phenomenally beautiful when you see the tav is this idea of God's stamp.

In other words, the stamp of approval in Hebrew is this letter. And when you look at the letter in the ancient, ancient Hebrew script, it is a cross. And so when you think about those three letters together in the way that they originally designed is you have this finger of God pointing down through the Bible, touching man who is reaching up through the living water of Christ at the cross, right? And so at the cross in the letter tav being the last letter in the alphabet is kind of like the truth reveals itself through the end of the story. Like when you know the whole story, you'll know what the actual truth was. Well, we're going to find that out obviously in Revelation. So when we put on the belt of truth, we think about that, that we're going to use the word of God, right? Our finger reaching up, God's finger reached down, living water, Jesus through his cross. You couldn't find much more truth than that. And so it's pretty nice to put that on as we begin to pray.