Don’t Abandon Truth

God is the only absolute source you can give as an absolute standard about all subjects, therefore, the starting place to know truth is what God has revealed. It is the revelation of God.

We all know what it is to abandon truth, believe a lie and paid the consequences. In this day and age, we are watching a world do that right before our very eyes. So many people including believers are abandoning the truth. Hear their own desires. Turning aside and believing familiar good sounding myths. One of the reasons is because the word of God is not clearly proclaimed. The bible say they want to hear the word that makes their ears tickle, they don’t want the truth, they want the word that makes things convenient for them, things that would make them feel good rather than the true word of God.

Ezekiel 2:7 - You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious. That is why false doctrine or false teaching has grown rapidly. People want to believe what is convenient to them.
Jeremiah 5:30-31 - An appalling and horrible thing [bringing desolation and destruction] Has come to pass in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priest rule on their own authority; And My people love [to have] it so! But what will you do when the end comes? 

Let us receive the truth then. To receive the truth is to embrace it. To take it in or to hold on to. In other words, in order for the word of truth to work in our lives it must be received. For truth to do what truth was designed to do and revealed to accomplish, it must be received. By not receiving truth, doesn’t change truth from being the truth, what it does is it changes the truth from benefiting you. I always like to say God’s truth is not man’s truth. This is why so many believer and non-believers alike get caught up thinking with human logic. When you involve human logic with spiritual truth, what is does is block the flow of truth. Human logic keeps God’s truth from delivering you from whatever it is that you need delivering from.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 - And we also thank God continually for this, that when you received the word of God [concerning salvation] which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe [exercising its inherent, supernatural power in those of faith].
How we embrace the truth?

James 1:19-21 - Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Note: James is talking to the believers in Christ, so he is not talking about salvation here. James is talking about spiritual transformation. Receive the word implanted in your hearts which is able to save your souls. The word of God is sharper than any double edge sword able to piece the deepest part of the heart.

Col 3:16 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

2 Timothy 4:1-5 - I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

There are preachers preaching culture, preaching politics or race and even gender, rather than God’s truth. Why? 

Because no one wants to offend anyone. Guess what? If you are believing a lie, then the truth will offend you. We as believers in Christ, are not trying to offend anyone, but that is what the truth does when you are believing a lie. You heard the expression the truth hurts.