Often we don't pay that much attention to what people say ...but often more is said of when it is considered a trial, as in a courtroom trial.

If a crime is committed, the person on trial may say he is innocent.

Usually three conclusions are drawn.

Two of them come immediately to mind ...that the person is either telling the truth, or he is telling a lie.

I worked in the field of mental health, and there were two other pleas, if you please ...which I'm grouping together under that third designation of being mentally ill.  Those pleas are (NGRI) 'not guilty by reason of insanity', and (IST) 'incompetent to stand trial'.   And it was assumed that these pleas also say the person did truthfully commit the act, yet not really competent. It is accepted as such ...and we are to assume they either  don't have a firm grip on reality & unknowingly did something they didn't realize they did, or that they didn't know it was wrong. So, that would be ...they either didn't know it, or didn't know better.

Only one designation stated the person was telling the truth.

Most people go to trial because of what they do ...not what they say.

But, what do you say??

Do you believe that Jesus is your Savior??

Many apologists have said it ...and I'm not going to apologize that I don't know who said it first, nor am I going to apologize for what they said.

You realize that He can only be our Savior ...if He was telling the truth, right??

And He is ...truthruth.  Yet, truth does become an issue for some people.

Jesus had access to the Old Testament writings, and read them. He did not protest what was written there, so He approved of what it said ...and He even quoted it.  An example of Him not approving of something, would be when Jesus turned over the tables of the 'money changers'.

Jesus had twelve apostles following Him.  Even Judas told the truth ...as supposedly, he saw it.  He truthfully told them which one Jesus was ...so they could arrest Him.  The truth is ...Judas did not see things the way the other apostles did.  Judas did sort of showed an admission of guilt by the fact that he killed himself afterwards.

How do you see things??

We all choose who ...and how we follow.  We can believe who Jesus is, or we can choose to reject what He stands for.  We can either be disciples of Jesus ...or allow the torments that overcame Judas, to also rule our lives and actions.

After Jesus was crucified for truth that others had difficulty accepting, and then was resurrected ...He spent some serious time with the eleven apostles, encouraging, directing, and giving them hope & promises. The apostles would have to endure much hardship ...and death.  Yes, they would have to even die ...living for Him.

Before Jesus left them, and returned to Heaven ...there was the question of what each of them would have to go through, and Peter asked about John.  Jesus said that if He chose for John to endure longer ...that was John's chosen path, and the others were just to follow the way they felt they were being led.

And I don't believe that Jesus was setting John apart for the esteemed status of others being able to consider him senile or insane.  John was chosen to also write the Book of Revelation.



John was not set apart to be labeled as NGRI or IST ...he had a message that was to speak not of what we were going to do, but what God was going to do.  And what God is going to do, is because of what we failed to do.  

What did we fail to do??

Terrible things are to happen ...and are we to assume that we are responsible to somehow prevent those things from happening??

Really ...how could we prevent them, as they are prophesied to happen??  If we believe ...then we should not be IST (Incompetent to Stand the Truth), neither should we consider ourselves NGRI (Not Guilty by Reason of Ignorance).  

First ...let's look at the first Chapter of Paul's letter to the Romans. Verse 25 begins by speaking of those who changed the truth of God to a lie ...and worshiped & served that which was created more than the Creator.

Worship includes devotion, and attention given ...which often also includes our degree of commitment in the form of investment of money we are willing to give.  But, it also includes our time and effort we are willing to invest ...of which we would call  ...serving.