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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, November 16th, 2020. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we are going to continue our Jesus series by examining a fundamental part of everything that Jesus said and did while he was on earth.

And it has to do with this little word and that word is truth.

Now, in order to really get closer to Jesus, to build your life around him and to follow him, we need to believe one

thing, that Jesus is the truth. He not only testifies to the truth, he tells us what is true,

but he also is the truth. Now, this is so important for us to understand,

because we live in a world that tells us something very different. And not only doesn't tell us

that Jesus is the truth, it tells us something even worse.

It tells us that truth doesn't exist.

Now, this is a lie that Satan has been trying to get us to believe for a very, very long time.

In fact, if you think back to that story of when Jesus is standing

before Pontchus Pilate, just before he has been sentenced to crucifixion, Jesus says that he has

come into the world to bear witness to the truth. He says this to Pontchus Pilate. Do you remember what

Pontius Pilate says in response? He says, what is truth? In other words, how can you testify

to truth when truth doesn't exist? Now, this is something that our world continues to echo.

We might not say it exactly that way.

Instead, we would say something like, well, each of us can decide what is true for ourselves.

In other words, we are told the lie in the world that each person has their own individual

truth.

I'm here to tell you that that is a lie. That is a lie.

And it is a lie that comes straight from Satan because Satan's biggest desire is that we

fail to see and love Jesus. And the moment that we say there is no truth, then of course we won't believe

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