Whatsoever things are true. That's one of the first things the Bible lists for
us to think about. These are the things that we should think on. He says think on
these things. What's the first one? Whatsoever things are true. So when we
step back and say let's think about things that are true. What are
some things that we can think of that are true? One of the things that
first popped into my mind is we could think about men in our lives
that are true. I mean isn't that great to know that we have some faithful
men in our lives that are true or other people even. But I think especially of
our pastors, our fellow laborers in the church, you know our brethren in Christ.
And I'll be perfectly honest I thought about people in this church and
thought man it's great to just think about what a faithful man this
guy is. This guy's faithful to the service. This guy's faithful to the
soul-willing that's going on and loves the Lord. You know I thought about
that. Why? Because that individual is true. They're sincere. You know we can
think about preachers. You know other preachers may want like to take
they're preaching in online or we look forward to hearing them preach
in person. We can think about these people to say what a blessing it is to
know that we have some people in our lives that are true. That's something
the Bible talks about. It says in Exodus 18 it says, moreover thou shalt
provide out of all the people able men such as fear God men of truth
hate and covetousness and place such over them. So when Moses'
father-in-law is telling him hey you need to you need to you know
delegates on this responsibility that you've taken on and judging the people
of Israel. He tells him to look out certain men. He tells him to look out
men of truth. And it's great to know that we have some men in our lives
that are men of truth. I mean could we easily say that we know some men in
our lives that are not true? People that are very you know dishonest. I mean
there's very dishonest people out in the world today. People who do not care
about the things of God. So it's good to stop every once in a while and maybe
think about some men in our lives that are true. A man of God. The Bible says in
1st Kings 17, and the woman said to Elijah, now by this I know that thou
art a man of God and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.
Isn't it great to know that we have preachers in our lives who the
word that is in their mouth is truth. That they're preaching us the true
things of the Word of God. They're not deceiving us. They're not handing the
Word of God deceitfully. But they are actually trying to teach us the
words of truth. Go ahead and turn over to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4, 2nd
Corinthians chapter 4. We ought to think about things that are true. One of the
things we can think about when we stop to meditate on what kinds of
things are true. We can think about the men, the pastors, fellow laborers,
preachers that are true. The Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 2, but
have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness,
nor handing the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth
commending to ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. I mean
we could definitely look these days, you know, even people that we might
have considered to be true in the past and people that have let us down
and think and we can dwell on that and we can say man it's too bad that
this guy turned to be a fake or a phony and you know I can think about
several people over the past in my Christian life that have, you know,
turned out to let me down or hurt or be a harm to the cause of Christ and we
can dwell on that or we could dwell on the fact that there are people in
our lives, people that we do know, that have renounced the hidden things of
dishonesty, that are not walking in craftiness, that are not trying to, you
know, be something, you know, be one thing one day and something else
another, that they're sincere, that they're not handling the Word of God
deceitfully as so many are today. I mean think about other people we meet
out door-knocking, when we go soul-witting, that are just being
absolutely deceived by people who are handling the Word of God deceitfully.
We talked to that lady, that Jehovah's Witness day, I mean she knew her stuff
and I knew it wasn't even worth getting in a discussion about with her
and I knew that I lost, I would lose her right when I got to the verses
about hell in my gospel presentation and sure enough I did but it was a
shame that that woman is being deceived by individuals out there who are
handling the Word of God deceitfully and we should think about these
things and meditate about the fact if you want to think about something
that's true, praise God that we have some people in our lives that are
preaching to us the truth.