Jim Bakker Show - A Death of Truth - Alex McFarland on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2020-11-10
Duration: 01:57


=== Truth's Decline (01:57) ===

[00:00:00]  Alex, in your book, you say something that I believe is so powerful.
[00:00:03]  You say, when truth dies, then so do ethics.
[00:00:07]  What is happening to truth in our nation?
[00:00:11]  Well, that's a great question.
[00:00:13]  Thanks for asking it.
[00:00:14]  Well, you know, the traditional view of truth that certainly America's founders believed and people, leaders up until the last, you know, 10 or 20 years believed, truth is what's real.
[00:00:28]  Truth is what corresponds to reality.
[00:00:31]  For instance, if I said, hey, we're doing this program right now on the North American continent of the Western Hemisphere, you know, we could check it out and we would say, wow, that's true.
[00:00:41]  That's what they're doing.
[00:00:43]  If I said, we're filming this show from, you know, Mars, that does not correspond to reality.
[00:00:51]  That's not true.
[00:00:52]  But what makes this period of history so dangerous and so urgent that we turn back to Christ is that we're living in a time where people believe they can make up their own truth.
[00:01:06]  And so we've abandoned truth.
[00:01:09]  Now, there's a reason that we've abandoned truth, and we can talk about that.
[00:01:13]  But when you're not living on truth, and remember, Jesus said that he is the truth, John 14, 6.
[00:01:21]  And when Jesus was before Pilate in John 18, 35, Pilate said, what is truth?
[00:01:28]  Jesus said, I came into this world to bear witness of the truth.
[00:01:33]  Everyone that is of the truth will hear my voice.
[00:01:36]  So we've got millions of people that they reject God.
[00:01:40]  They ignore the voice of Jesus.
[00:01:42]  They're not living in truth.
[00:01:44]  And it's grown to the point that, like I say, it threatens our very future because if we're not living in truth, conversely, we are living in that which is false.