GospelTrax: THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE

THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free
—St. John 8:32
　
A lot of people misquote this phrase. They say, instead, that "The truth shall set you free."
They might also say that I’m merely quibbling over words. Well, these are the words of Jesus Christ, so it’s important that we get them right. As He put it, If ye continue in my word, then ye are my disciples indeed. —St. John 8:31
Set you free…make you free…what’s the difference anyway? It seems to me that there is a significant difference.
Unlatch a lion’s cage and run...the lion is set free. Drag a whale off the beach…it’s set free.
Being set free, the lion and the whale had not changed. They simply saw a chance to escape and took the chance. They didn’t really know the truth; they didn’t know what lay outside the cage or off the beach.
Being made free, on the other hand, means that we have been changed. Once we know the truth, we are fully informed. This is what I think Jesus meant by "free indeed." [If the Son…shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.—St. John 8:36] We are free to choose the truth…or not.
Truth is the knowledge of good and evil, truth versus lies. Knowing the truth entails responsibility. Adam and Eve learned this lesson the hard way. They disobeyed God, knew the truth, but chose to follow Satan’s lies instead.
Let us try not make the same mistake.

More examples from the Gospels:
for he [Satan] is a liar, and the father of it. —St. John 8:44

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
—St. Luke 23:34 　

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In His own words

Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
-St. Luke 23:24
All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men [except]
the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.
-St Matthew 12:31
him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
-St. John 6:37
I am the way, the truth, and the life: No man cometh unto the father, but by me.
-St. John 14:6
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.-St. Matthew 11:28

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.-St. Luke 11:9

In His Own Words

If I then, your Lord and Master,
have washed your feet,
ye also ought to wash
one another's feet.
For I have given ye
an example;
that ye should do as
I have done to you.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
the servant is not greater
than his lord
-St. John 13:14-16

The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.
-St.Mark 2:27

Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
I am the vine, ye are the bramches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing
-John 15 4-5

In His own words
He that hath seen me hath seen the father.
-St. John 14:9
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
-St. Luke 5:22

Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
-St. Matthew 6:28-29

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
-St. Matthew 6:34

Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.
-St. Matthew 19:30

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.-St. Matthew 7:22-23

For what shall it profilt a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.-St. Mark 8:36

Whosoever will save his life shall lose it but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.-St. Luke 9:24

Is a candle bought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?-St. Mark 4:21

If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: It is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.-St. Mark 9:47

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.-St. Mark 8:38

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.-Revelation 3:15-16

Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil-St. Matthew 5:37

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. -St. Matthew 18:20

The same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven...Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.-St. Luke 17:29

I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.-St. Matthew 28:20

Put up again thy sword...for all they that take up the sword shall perish with the sword.-St. Matthew 26:52

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.-St. Matthew 5:9

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.-St. Matthew 22:37-40

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THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE