Love the Truth

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Jack hates school. The lectures on algebra, grammar, and the periodic table bore him. But he loves building houses. His father takes him to work in the summer, and Jack can’t get enough. He’s only sixteen but he knows about cement, shingles, and how to frame a wall. What’s the difference between school and construction? Love. Jack loves one and not the other. His love fuels knowledge.

As believers in Jesus, we’re to “love the truth” (2 Thessalonians 2:10). Paul says a satanic figure will use “signs and wonders” (v. 9) to deceive “those who are perishing” (v. 10). Why are they perishing? “They refused to love the truth and so be saved” (v. 10). Their failure to love the truth blinds them from knowing it. They’ll be duped (v. 11).

What do we know? That important question depends on a more basic one: what do we love? Our passions incline our heart and direct our mind. We cherish what we love. We protect it and seek more of it. If we love truth and wisdom we’ll search for them as precious gold (Proverbs 4:7-9). They’ll guard us. “Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you” (4:6).

What is true wisdom? Jesus says it’s Him. “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6). Our most important question is who do we love? Love Jesus and you’ll learn His way. He’ll guard your life by guiding you into His truth.

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0:00.0	They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
0:05.9	2. Thessalonians 2, verse 10.
0:10.5	Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.
0:14.8	Our reading titled, Love the Truth, was written and read by Mike Whitmer.
0:22.6	2, Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 7 through 12.
0:26.6	For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now holds it back
0:33.6	will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.
0:40.2	And then the lawless one will be revealed,
0:44.3	whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
0:47.4	The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works.
0:52.4	He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders
0:56.6	that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.
1:02.8	They perish because they refuse to love the truth, and so be saved.
1:08.3	For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion, so that they will believe the lie,
1:15.0	and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have delighted in wickedness.
1:24.4	Love the Truth
1:25.7	Jack Hate school.
1:29.4	The lectures on algebra, grammar, and the periodic table bore him.
1:34.5	But he loves building houses.
1:37.2	His father takes him to work in the summer, and Jack can't get enough.
1:42.2	He's only 16, but he knows about cement shingles and how to frame a wall.
1:48.5	What's the difference between school and construction?
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