John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

We have been endeavoring to combat lies with truth. There is a large segment of society today that says there are no absolute truths. Personally, I don’t understand that kind of thinking. If truth is not absolute what is it? I struggle with that question because I do not think that way. They struggle with absolute truth because they do not think as I think. That makes it hard for me to place myself in a position to understand their thinking.

If their truth is not absolute then it must be understanding that has a tuning dial. If they do not like what they are hearing, they tune in elsewhere. I do understand that the dictionary gives room in definition to allow for consensus agreement being truth. Does what others believe define truth?

2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

The issue of itching ears is seeking someone who will tell them what they want to hear. Those being discussed are church members. If the church itself can be turned away from truth, then a secular society that does not know truth must be even further removed from being set free.

The object hear is to be set free from the lies of the enemy which entraps our lives and leads to sin. What we listen to has great influence. We must be careful to what we tune in and listen to every day. Just because it sounds good does not make it truth. Eve learned that lesson the hard way.

Ecclesiastes 4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

There is no greater fear in this world than being alone. It is the same in the secular world as it is in the spiritual world. I would be lying to you if I were to say that Christians do not feel alone at times. We are human, that does not stop just because we are in Christ.

The secular world will try and service the homeless, destitute, disenfranchised but the numbers are too many for any organization or government to handle. Only God is everywhere. Only God can touch everyone. Only God can end loneliness. People have to turn to God and seek Him before that will happen.

We in Christ have fellowship, a bond which is created in Christ. This is not a replacement for God in our lives, it is the vines of the branch growing outward and providing cover, support and entanglement. It is not a choking entanglement, it is a strengthening intertwining of our lives with one another. This is why verse twelve follows today’s opening verse.

4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Threefold, intertwined, strengthening, supportive, an active part of one another’s lives.

The secular world will serve to glorify self. When they are through for the day, they go home to an empty shell of a body that is more alone than the people they just left. Good works cannot erase the emptiness inside. Only God can do that.