Stand Up for Truth

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Pontius Pilate knew Jesus was innocent, but he didn’t have the courage to stand up for truth. So, he allowed Jesus to be crucified. While literal crucifixions don’t happen today (at least not in our society), that’s figuratively what happens when we don’t stand up for truth—people suffer.

Standing up for truth is often incredibly uncomfortable, especially when we’re facing today’s hot-button issues. But Jesus tells us that the truth will set us free. Only by trusting in that promise will we find the courage and the fortitude to do what’s right—and say what’s true—in the face of criticism.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward good Catholic I go to
0:19.3	mass every Sunday I say some prayers I even listen to Catholic podcast I'm doing a pretty good job but do I
0:24.7	really have to stand up for truth especially in our culture today with all those hot button
0:29.5	moral issues like the definition of marriage or abortion. I mean I don't want to have to
0:35.8	stand up for truth. I mean I believe and I do my own thing but if other people
0:39.7	want to believe differently and live their own way I mean I guess that's fine for them right I mean they can just make live their own way? I mean, I guess that's fine for them, right?
0:43.8	I mean, they can just make up their own truth.
0:45.9	Why do I have to stand up for truth?
0:47.5	I don't want people to label me as a bigot or think of me as intolerant
0:51.6	or judgmental. Do I really have to stand up for truth?
0:54.9	Well my friends Jesus put us in this world and he put people in our lives so that we can make a difference,
1:02.1	that we can love them, that we can really let
1:04.8	Christ's light shine through us. He does not want your light to be put under a
1:09.9	bushel basket. He wants your light to shine the light of his love and the light of his truth.
1:16.0	You need to know that there was a man in the Bible, a famous man who didn't want to stand up for truth.
1:22.0	He was afraid of standing up for truth.
1:24.0	And he made some very tragic decisions on Good Friday.
1:27.4	And that man is Pontius Pilate.
1:29.0	He knew Jesus was innocent.
1:30.9	He knew the truth.
1:32.3	But he didn't stand up for the truth, and Jesus, an innocent
1:36.2	man, was sent off to be crucified.
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