{"id":3194,"date":"2020-11-18T13:20:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2020-11-18T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:20:53","slug":"the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/18\/the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I&#8217;ve had a bit of a revelation about the truth just recently. Not sure why it took so long but here it is, from my perspective\/experience anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I imagine you&#8217;ve heard the saying &#8220;Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free&#8221; which is John 8:32.  I&#8217;ve always thought of this as just knowing the truth about something that it will help you or &#8220;set you free&#8221; regarding what you know or understand as &#8220;the truth&#8221; .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>31<\/strong>So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, \u201cIf you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.\u00a0<strong>32<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/2532.htm\">Then<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/1097.htm\">you will know<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/3588.htm\">the<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/225.htm\">truth,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/2532.htm\">and<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/3588.htm\">the<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/225.htm\">truth<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/greek\/1659.htm\">will set you free.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just recently I&#8217;ve coupled this with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John%2014%3A6&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John 14:6<\/a> where Jesus answered,\u00a0\u201cI am\u00a0the way\u00a0and <strong>the truth<\/strong>\u00a0and the life.\u00a0No one comes to the Father except through me. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the truth is more that just a concept or an idea but a person, Jesus. Jesus says he is &#8220;<strong>the truth<\/strong>&#8220;, so by knowing Jesus, by continuing in His word (the bible) He will set you free! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mind blown!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve had a bit of a revelation about the truth just recently. Not sure why it took so long but here it is, from my perspective\/experience anyway. I imagine you&#8217;ve heard the saying &#8220;Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free&#8221; which is John 8:32. I&#8217;ve always thought of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grab-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}