Plumbline: What is Truth? Why is Truth so important?
Why Truth?
Why is it important? Truth sets us free. Truth is our armor. Jesus is the truth. God’s word is truth. The devil is a liar. There is a coming great deception and we need to know the truth. It is our belt that holds on all our armor. They can’t stay on with lies. Truth is essential.
John 8:31-32
John 14:6
John 16:13
John 17:17
John 4:24
2 Tim 2:15
Ephesians 6:14
1 John 3:18
Psalm 145:18
Psalm 25:5
Psalm 119:160
John 1:14
1 Cor 13:4-6
John 1:17
Ephesians 4:15
Psalm 86:11
James 1:18
John 18:37-38
2 Tim 3:16-17
1 John 5:20
John 8:31-32
Philippians 4:8
1 John 1:8
Proverbs 30:5
Ephesians 4:25
Romans 1:18
John 8:44
John 14:17
Psalm 43:3
1 John 1:6
Proverbs 16:13
Exodus 20:16 “
1 Kings 17:24
John 18:37
Psalm 51:6
1 John 4:6
John 15:26 “
John 18:38
Psalm 15:2-3
Psalm 119:142
Psalm 25:10
Zechariah 8:16
2 John 1:2
3 John 1:4
Hebrews 11:1
Ephesians 1:13-14
John 8:36
Ephesians 5:9
John 16:7
Proverbs 16:6
Psalm 15:1-2
James 5:12
Ephesians 4:21
John 4:23
psalm 34:13
1 Timothy 3:15
3 John 1:3-4
Proverbs 12:19
Titus 1:1-2
2 Timothy 2:7
Proverbs 12:17
1 John 2:27
Hebrews 6:18
1 Corinthians 5:8
2 Timothy 3:16
Job 34:12
Romans 1:24-25
Daniel 10:21
2 Tim 2:24-26
Psalm 85:10
John 8:46
John 3:16-17 “
John 1:1-51
Matt 22:16
Matt 6:33
Psalm 119:30
Revelation 22:14-15
2 Peter 3:16
John 14:1-31
Exodus 34:6
1 Peter 1:22
Colossians 1:5-6
Prob 20:28
Psalm 119:105
Deut 32:4
Psalm 23:1-6
Genesis 42:16
1 Peter 1:22-23
2 Cor 4:4
Romans 10:17
Proverbs 10:32
Psalm 26:3
Psalm 12:3
2 John 1:3-4
Psalm 33:4 For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.
Acts 20:28
Daniel 9:13
2 Corinthians 4:2
Exodus 20:1-26
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Young people are not God’s plan B. You are Plan A. Don’t give up. God has great things in store for you and you matter to Him. He can do great things through those who are willing.
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Plum line episode four: why does the devil have so much energy?
Why does the devil have so much energy? Can the devil hear our thoughts? Can he understand us when we pray in tongues?
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Plumbline Episode 3: What does it mean to be grafted in?
What does it mean to be grafted in?
Romans 9:30-32 CJB
“So, what are we to say? This: that Gentiles, even though they were not striving for righteousness, have obtained righteousness; but it is a righteousness grounded in trusting! However, Isra’el, even though they kept pursuing a Torah that offers righteousness, did not reach what the Torah offers. Why? Because they did not pursue righteousness as being grounded in trusting but as if it were grounded in doing legalistic works. They stumbled over the stone that makes people stumble.”
Romans 11:11-32 CJB
““In that case, I say, isn’t it that they have stumbled with the result that they have permanently fallen away?” Heaven forbid! Quite the contrary, it is by means of their stumbling that the deliverance has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy. Moreover, if their stumbling is bringing riches to the world — that is, if Israel’s being placed temporarily in a condition less favored than that of the Gentiles is bringing riches to the latter — how much greater riches will Isra’el in its fullness bring them! However, to those of you who are Gentiles I say this: since I myself am an emissary sent to the Gentiles, I make known the importance of my work in the hope that somehow I may provoke some of my own people to jealousy and save some of them! For if their casting Yeshua aside means reconciliation for the world, what will their accepting him mean? It will be life from the dead! Now if the hallah offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole loaf. And if the root is holy, so are the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you — a wild olive — were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive tree, then don’t boast as if you were better than the branches! However, if you do boast, remember that you are not supporting the root, the root is supporting you. So you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” True, but so what? They were broken off because of their lack of trust. However, you keep your place only because of your trust. So don’t be arrogant; on the contrary, be terrified! For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly won’t spare you! So take a good look at God’s kindness and his severity: on the one hand, severity toward those who fell off; but, on the other hand, God’s kindness toward you — provided you maintain yourself in that kindness! Otherwise, you too will be cut off! Moreover, the others, if they do not persist in their lack of trust, will be grafted in; because God is able to graft them back in. For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree! For, brothers, I want you to understand this truth which God formerly concealed but has now revealed, so that you won’t imagine you know more than you actually do. It is that stoniness, to a degree, has come upon Isra’el, until the Gentile world enters in its fullness; and that it is in this way that all Isra’el will be saved.
Ephesians 2:11-22 CJB
“Therefore, remember your former state: you Gentiles by birth — called the Uncircumcised by those who, merely because of an operation on their flesh, are called the Circumcised — at that time had no Messiah. You were estranged from the national life of Isra’el. You were foreigners to the covenants embodying God’s promise. You were in this world without hope and without God. But now, you who were once far off have been brought near through the shedding of the Messiah’s blood. For he himself is our shalom — he has made us both one and has broken down the m’chitzah which divided us by destroying in his own body the enmity occasioned by the Torah, with its commands set forth in the form of ordinances. He did this in order to create in union with himself from the two groups a single new humanity and thus make shalom, and in order to reconcile to God both in a single body by being executed on a stake as a criminal and thus in himself killing that enmity. Also, when he came, he announced as Good News shalom to you far off and shalom to those nearby, news that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers. On the contrary, you are fellow-citizens with God’s people and members of God’s family. You have been built on the foundation of the emissaries and the prophets, with the cornerstone being Yeshua the Messiah himself. In union with him the whole building is held together, and it is growing into a holy temple in union with the Lord. Yes, in union with him, you yourselves are being built together into a spiritual dwelling-place for God!”
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PlumbLine episode 2: Jesus and the Law
We are taught that we don’t need to follow God’s law because Jesus has fulfilled it.
Is that what Scripture says?
Some will say it’s fine to obey the 10 commandments, but that man turned God’s 10 into 613 commands. Is this true?
Actually the Torah contains 613 commandments from God. Some commands are for men, some for women, some for priests in how to offer sacrifices, some for everyone.
What they misunderstand, is that yes, man took God’s laws and added more. The oral law was added by Rabbis which increased the laws way more than God’s original commands.
David followed Torah and said God’s commands he delighted in them
Jesus followed the Torah perfectly
Jesus said that he did not come to abolish the Torah, but to fulfill it.
When He gave the sermon on the mount, did He allow us to break God’s Laws? No, He made them harder…
Are we allowed to kill now? No, we are told not to even hate, because that is murdering someone in our hearts.
Are we allowed to commit adultery now? No, we are told not to even lust after anyone, because that is adultery of the heart.
Jesus didn’t give us license to sin and break God’s laws, but He did give us forgiveness for our sins when we repent
Leviticus 17-19
Which of these would we say that it’s ok to break?
The Sabbath? Fornication? Child Sacrifice to demons? Drinking blood?
No, the main issue of why people say we don’t need to follow the Old Testament, or the Torah is because they want to eat pork and don’t want to follow God’s calendar, which are controversial today. Why?
They say that in Peter’s vision that God purified all food and we can eat pork. Wasn’t the vision that Peter retold to the group of gentiles also interpreted by Peter to mean the gentiles can be saved?
There is a confusion from two small terms in that vision that Peter said he saw all kinds of animals both unclean and uncommon. What does that mean?
Unclean animals are spelled out for us very clearly in the Torah, but what are uncommon? Common animals are according to the oral Torah, which was created by men saying that if clean animals are spending time with unclean then we shouldn’t eat those either- they are common.
Peter was following the written Torah or Law of God and the oral spoken law of men, he said he had never eaten anything unclean or uncommon.
You can look this up for yourselves.
God spoke and said “stop treating as unclean what God has made clean” Acts 10:15 CJB
God had not asked the people to not eat “common” animals and He likewise also was sending them to the gentiles, whom the Jews considered unclean and not worthy of the gospel.
When Jesus said it is not what goes into your mouth that makes you unclean
“He replied to them, “So you too are without understanding? Don’t you see that nothing going into a person from outside can make him unclean? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and it passes out into the latrine.” (Thus he declared all foods ritually clean.) “It is what comes out of a person,” he went on, “that makes him unclean. For from within, out of a person’s heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, foolishness…. All these wicked things come from within, and they make a person unclean.””
Mark 7:18-23 CJB
He declared all “foods” clean, they definitely didn’t consider unclean animals as “food”
Is the Law evil?
Romans 7:7-25 CJB
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