So many people today are operating on facts who don't know the truth. Dr. Tony Evans says facts alone are only part of the picture. It's the foundation of truth they rest on that's most valuable. God's goal for his kingdom people.
is for us to be people of the truth. This is the alternative broadcast, featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans. A popular declaration you may hear nowadays is, I'm living in my truth. But today, Dr.
Evans addresses the shortcomings of settling for a life confined to the philosophy of one's own desires, limitations, and understanding. Let's join him as he takes a look at Unleashing Kingdom Truth. Many of you will recall that during my seminary years, one of the things. That we did to try to get income as we matriculated through school. was house sitting.
This was a favorite occupation of seminary students. because you got to live lodge for a week. And so students would scramble for these House sitting Jobs. When you went into mostly these palatial homes of people. You saw things that as a student you could only dream of.
And you got to live in a way that was not normal for you. The owners of the home would typically give guidelines to govern. how they wanted things handled. during their physical absence. because it was their home.
Whether it was guidelines for the care of the animals or the care of the kids or. Whatever the nuances were, For the jurisdiction. that we were entering into. when we entered into their Health. God has a sphere of jurisdiction.
It's called his kingdom. It is the Sri Lanka. of his authority. from which he operates. From Genesis to Revelation, you've heard it many, many times here.
God's rule, that is his kingdom, the word means rule or authority. Is the space he occupies? to carry out his will. Within this jurisdiction, this kingdom realm. Is his governance and guidelines?
which he calls his truth. Jesus Said, my kingdom is not of this world. And those who understand that. Understand I've come to Give the truth. And everybody who is of the truth listens to me.
So, God's goal for his kingdom people. is for us to be people of the truth. When Pilate heard that, he raised the question. In verse thirty-eight, he says. What is truth?
What he was saying was Nobody agrees on truth. Nobody is in the same page. What do you mean? You come to do the truth. Pilots question.
is a contemporary question. Yeah, because the concept of truth has been abandoned. by the culture. It has been replaced with a multiplicity of isms. Because the question is daunting.
Even though it may not be stated in those exact terms. There is a disagreement today on what is truth. There is.
Okay. There is Pragmatism. Truth is what works. Positivism. Truth is what science validates.
There is.
Relativism. Truth is only what we can logically. conceiva. There is agnosticism. We just don't know.
What truth is. Fideism. which says truth is merely subjective. and personal. And in this Collage of confusion.
About what truth is. People are scarying all over. Getting all kinds of nuances about. Truth. They listen to talk shows to hear Babble by the hour.
They go on chat rooms or Instagram or Twitter. TikTok. The internet, Facebook. To hear Information Ad nauseum Constantly shifting their belief system based on the information they are hearing at the moment. Because they haven't settled the question, what is truth.
And as a result of this. There is cultural chaos and confusion since nobody's agreeing with anybody else. about what the bottom line is of truth. And so we are awash today in opinions. We are washed today.
In chaos. This philosophical chaos as people doodle with ideas. about the meaning of our own existence. Yeah.
Social chaos. Because we can't get to the truth about the issues of race. And culture. Yeah.
What is a man? What is a woman? There is All manner of confusion. with psychological chaos. People not being able to bring order to their thinking.
and to their identity. Moral chaos. And the worst kind of chaos of all, spiritual chaos. People are perpetually going to surveys and polls. To find out what percentage of the folks agree.
Yeah, forgot. Margins determine truth. And so we are wash. In this chaos and confusion because like Pilate People are confused today about what is truth. As 2 Timothy 3, verse 7 says, forever learning and never coming into the knowledge of the truth.
They get their high school diploma, their BA. Their MBA, their PhD. and wind up being educated fools. Because the answer to the question, what is truth? has not been solidified.
And so we're educating ourselves. into crazy. Because the question on the floor is: what is truth? Is there Something I can bank on. To know what truth is.
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, what would you say to an unsure pilot? who said, I think this is the button I ought to push. You would probably change planes. What would you say? To an unsure pharmacist who says, I think this is the medicine I ought to give you.
You'd probably go to another pharmacy. What would you say to a doctor who says, I'm guessing, but I think this is where I should cut? Probably change doctors. Because when it comes to your life and your well-being, you don't want guesswork. You want to know what the truth is.
Because there are those areas of our lives. where we want a fixed standard. And we don't want guesswork. Defining What we do, but today. We are awash.
In this thing and So The question is, what will be the determiner? of truth. For me, you and us. What will determine it? Will it be our feelings?
The problem is they change. I feel one way today, another way tomorrow.
So, if truth is based on my feelings, then. then I'm going to Vasily. Will it be my intellect? Will it be how smart I am? But the problem there is that I'm finite.
I'm continually learning more information.
So, what my mind may say is okay today may change tomorrow. And if you watch enough news, enough food. You can drink coffee, you can't drink coffee. You eat meat, you don't eat meat. You go all over the place because stuff keeps changing.
Yeah.
Will it be our moral instincts? What we believe to be right and wrong, but they differ from person to person. One person thinks it's right, another person thinks it's wrong.
So they differ.
So, how do we? Arrive at this thing, truth, because Jesus said. I've come to give truth. And people who are of the truth. Listen to me, and so the question is: are you, we, and us?
People of the truth. And if we are, A question of pilot is relevant. What is it? Yes, yes. What is truth?
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Well, let's rejoin Dr. Evans now for more of today's lesson. Jesus makes the statement, My kingdom is not of this world. yeah my jurisdiction the place where i operate from my house my crib is not of this world. It's in this world, but it's not from this world.
It operates in the world, but it is not sourced. in this world. It comes from another realm. Yeah.
So any discussion of truth cannot start with this realm. Because he says, I'm telling you the truth, but it's sourced in a whole nother realm. Let me say it another way. God's view of truth. is that the spiritual must always inform the physical.
The kingdom up there must inform the life down here. The invisible world must inform the world of the five senses. Because Truth which derived from his kingdom. Is not sourced down here.
So if you start down here, you're starting at a deficit. When it comes to truth. Yeah.
My house What I was house sitting. And came into this jurisdiction of this home. Whatever my thoughts and rules were. in my house had to adjust to this new jurisdiction. Because it was their house and I was in their house.
What our society wants is they want to impose Our rules on God's house. and wonder why there's chaos and conflict. in the midst.
So there's a question on the floor today. And it is a key question for me, you, and us. And Pilate ask it. What is truth? Truth is an absolute standard by which reality is measured.
Let me say it more simply. Truth is God's view on any subject. Truth is God's view on any subject. And the reason why truth is God's view on any subject. is because He's perfect.
Perfection can't make a mistake. on any subject or else it's no longer perfect. Romans 3:4 puts it this way: Let God be true and every man a liar.
So, whenever you disagree with God, you're wrong, not him. Whenever your mama and daddy disagree with God, they're wrong, not him. Whenever your professor at the university disagrees with God, they're wrong, not him. Whenever you disagree with God, you're wrong, not him. Whenever the politicians disagree with God, they're wrong, not him.
When the economists disagree with God, they're wrong, not him. Because truth is an absolute standard by which reality is measured, that it is God's view on every subject matter. No exceptions. Until that becomes. Your view of truth Derived from the spiritual.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
So the physical world only exists because the spiritual world made it. Yeah, you know, in the beginning, God. God is spirit, created the physical, the heavens and the earth. The spiritual brought about the physical. Not only does the spiritual want to bring about the physical, the spiritual wants to run the physical.
Yeah, truth. Trump's feelings. Don't get me wrong. Feelings are real. You can't deny how you feel.
But truth trumps it. Yeah, that's fine. The fact that I don't feel one and one equals two is irrelevant. It's irrelevant that I don't like that one and one equals two. It's irrelevant.
That my mother and daddy told me one and one equals three. All that's irrelevant, how I feel about it, how I think about it, all that is irrelevant when it comes to truth.
Now, I may really feel one and one equals three. It may be in my blood that one and one equals three. But the fact that I feel it. does not give it the weight of truth. No matter how committed I am to the emotions.
that I'm feeling about it. Because there is a mathematical absolute standard. That one and one equals two. Not only does truth trump emotion, Truth goes deeper than facts. You can have the facts and not have the truth.
Yeah, I said That's a fact. You know if your head is hurting. You go to Walgreens, you get Excedrin PM because you have a fact that your head is hurting. You take the Exedrin PM, but your head is still hurting. You go to the doctor to find out you have a tumor.
Yeah.
You had the fact, but you didn't know the truth. The fact was correct. Your head was hurting, but you did not have the underlining foundation information to tell you the truth.
So many people today are operating on facts who don't know the truth. Which is why they can't get to the root. of what they need to deal with because they're dealing with facts. People say, I know my truth. No, you know your facts.
You may not know your truth. Because truth goes deeper than facts because it is the foundation for facts. It's a big difference having a headache. That's a migraine and having one. That's birthed by a tumor.
Those truths require a whole different approach. Those facts determine a whole different approach.
So Jesus says That I have come into the world to testify to truth. He says about himself, I am the way, the truth. The Bible called the Holy Spirit the Spirit of truth. All subjects No matter what the subject is, is to be viewed, analyzed, and concluded based on what God says is true. And therefore, truth does not start in this world.
It is in this world, but it's not sourced from this world. Today we live in a cancel culture. If you say something that The powers that B don't agree with. They can shut you down. And they have been doing that.
Not too long ago, they took down one of My message is off of one of the social medias Because I was declaring what the Bible said. about a certain issue. It was clear that the Bible said it. But it was going to be too offensive to many of their people, so they canceled it. even though it could be validated that the Bible said it.
Right.
So they Pulled it down, they canceled it. Yeah.
But God says in John chapter 10, Verse 35. Scripture cannot be canceled. It cannot be annulled. That means canceled. Let me put it this way.
When you cancel God's truth, God's truth will cancel you.
So you need to know that. His truth will win. Because he cannot be canceled, therefore, his truth cannot be canceled.
So, when you think you've canceled him, you just canceled you. You've canceled your prayer, you've canceled divine help, you've canceled divine assistance, you have done a whole lot of canceling. Think you canceled. Because he says his truth, based on his word, cannot be canceled, cannot be annulled.
So, when we operate with a secular worldview, He says, My truth is not of this world. Therefore, if you are a worldly Christian, you will not experience his kingdom engagement. The Bible says every word of God is flawless. Proverbs 30 verse 5. When Satan came to tempt Jesus.
Jesus had a A need, it was a legitimate need. He had a need. He was hungry. He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights in Matthew 4. Satan came.
and suggested that he turned stone into bread. A legitimate need. And bread is a legitimate solution. She got a legitimate need. I'm hungry.
They got the power to turn stone into bread, so that's a legitimate solution. Tied to a deception. Because Satan wanted to be the source of the solution. Jesus says to say to them, man shall not live by bread alone. But by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Man shall not live. By bread alone.
Now we do need bread, food to live, but because that's the physical world. But man shall not live by bread alone, but if he wants to live, Man must live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
So you might have bread, but you may not have life. Because All of life is to be consumed. With God's perspective on whatever the life issue is. Dr. Tony Evans with important words on making God's truth Our truth.
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That's tonyevans.org. or by phone at 1-800-800-3222. Jesus said, Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.
Well, tomorrow, Dr. Evans will show why a culture that collectively turns a deaf ear to God. is destined for chaos. and why the intervention of believers willing to heed kingdom truth is desperately needed. I hope you'll join us.
