John 14:6 (NKJV):  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me”.

The truth has always borne a tip as a spear. It appears to us who in darkness as an ember that could possibly lead us away from the darkness, but yet many of us turn away in distrust having become used to the darkness around us.

The marketing of evil is so prevalent, so organized, that from the days in the garden of Eden where the evil one took his marketing campaign to a listening ear to implant the idea that “God has not said you will surely die”, the idea that there will be no consequence for the disobedience except reward – “you will be as gods”. From then to now, there has been a campaign to thwart the entrance of truth, to mock it, to ridicule it, to crucify it.

Truth is and will always be the way to release from the prison of darkness that seeks to not only destroy the body, but the mind and the soul. 

Matt 13:9 (NKJV): He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

Today, the ambassadors of truth are targeted and branded as the world’s enemies. So where does that leave us who are ambassadors of Christ, the one who is Truth and who was mocked, ridiculed and crucified? As followers of Christ, we cannot fear the world nor its evil. We also cannot appease them by watering down the truth. We have to understand, that LOVE is the reason Truth became flesh and walked among us. So why are we, the messengers of the Truth, uncomfortable to speak the truth?

Truth will always be the tip of a spear, making the listeners uncomfortable as it seeks to bring listeners to understanding. It is uncomfortable!

And God can use whomever He pleases. He is not confined to the church as some would have us believe! Dare I say it? He has raised up men and women outside of the traditional church! Why? Because some in the church have become so politically correct, that the fear of displeasing the crowd has displaced their message of truth. It has become diluted.

Matt 8:13-15 (NKJV): And He left them, and getting into the boat again, departed to the other side.  Now the disciples^[a] had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat.  Then He charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

The leaven of the Pharisees is fear of the truth by clinging to traditions  and status quo (religion). Anyone who challenges them must die.

John 11:46-50 (NKJV): Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs. If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.” And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,  nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”

The leaven of Herod is disregard of the truth and when confronted with the truth, he then pursues that which will protect selfish ambitions and that which extinguishes and kills the truth (politics and political ambitions).

Matt 2:16-18 (NKJV): Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men.  Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying: