#soap # 2 Thessalonians 02 ## Title: The Journey of Holiness Begins with Truth ## Scripture: (2 Thessalonians 2:13) “But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.” (NET) ## Observation: What we believe is wildly important. One of my mentors, Dr. Norman Geisler, said that our culture is more impacted by Immanuel Kant than Jesus Christ. This is because it was Kant who popularized the notions that we now call Relativism. This is the notion that we can never know truth because all truth is subjective to our experience. So, we cannot perceive truth in its rawest form because we cannot get rid of our presuppositions. This is not so. God’s Word says we can know the truth and that truth has the power to set us free. The verse today says we can be made holy through the Spirit as we believe the truth. Though we may have different experiences with the truth, we can still know what it is. I may use a hammer differently than my neighbor, but we both know what it is and its basic functions. So, don’t fall to the trap of relativism today. Realize the truth is knowable. Seek it out. Study God’s Word. Watch it set you free by the power of the Holy Spirit. ## Application: Live by God’s Word as the Universal Truth of all things. ## Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for giving us the capacity to know truth.