Lesson 4: Believing the Right Truth
Read Galatians 1:1-24 - www.bible.com/bible/59/gal.1
11 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel.
12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Anywhere we look today we find claims of something being true and something being a lie – things that cannot all be true or all be lies. One person says Jesus cannot be God because God would never send someone He loves to die such a horrible death. Another person says Jesus was only a good man. Another says Jesus is just a mythical person, someone who never lived at all. Jesus says He is the embodiment of Truth, and is the only way anyone can come to God (John 14:6).

Which are we to believe? The best thing we can do is make one basic decision – is God real, and if so is He trustworthy? If we decide He is not real, then there is no such thing on earth as truth. Then everything is no more than someone’s opinion. Nothing can be trusted. There is no hope for anyone. There is no purpose in or for anything other than our own self.


But if God is real, then we are accountable to hear Him and understand what He says. Everything in the Bible is His introduction of Himself and a demonstration of how He works with us and asks us to trust Him.

How do we know Jesus is truly God? Jesus has done things no other “man” in history has ever even claimed to have done. He says He is the Creator of all that exists (Genesis 1 and John 1:3). He rose from the dead (Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20). He says He is the only Way anyone can come to God (John 14:6). He fulfilled prophecies written hundreds of years before He was born in Bethlehem, something no human could accomplish no matter how hard they tried (read Matthew 1 and 2 for just a few examples).

Jesus makes claims about Himself no other human could claim and still be considered sane – He claims to be equal with God (John 5:18-26), the promised Messiah (John 10:22-39), to have had God’s glory from the past and to have it again in the future (John 17).

Jesus demonstrated His power with things which could only come from God – read the books of Mark and Luke. Jesus came so we as humans could see God (John 14:8-14). He did not just stand in the temple on display like a statue. He walked among the people doing things people could never do, things which had been foretold He would do when He came. Before He left He claimed that all God’s power had been given to Him now so He could help us do what He asked of us (Matthew 28:18-20).

If Jesus truly is Truth, then everyone and everything that says differently is a lie. We must follow Jesus completely, or we do not follow Him at all.

*A famous Christian writer in the last century said Jesus is either a lunatic, a liar, or Lord. Who is He to you? Why?