Pastor John,
Years ago when I would heard you say, “…the Truth is a Who, not a what!” I always understood that to be because a man – Jesus – embodied all the elements of the truth that God gave. I was still believing the truth was a WHAT…I just didn’t realize it.
Then one day, like a light switch popping on, I felt the words you were saying and understood, GOD’S TRUTH IS JESUS. Not because Jesus represents God’s list of what is true, but because God created a Son and his name is Truth! He is Truth! Jesus doesn’t fulfill or represent anything in God’s creation. He is the beginning.
It reminds me of listening to an Old Testament teaching CD* one day and thinking, “What kind of man was Jesus, to be able to come and fulfill all of God’s Law!?” And the Spirit spoke to my heart and said, “Jesus wasn’t sent to fulfill the law, the law was sent to try to fulfill Jesus!”
Jesus was the first of everything!
So good.
Jerry