TRUTH ?
What is it?
Where is it?
Who’s got it?
At the big university in Austin, Texas, there is a library with an infamous tower (used for a mass murder decades ago). At the base of this tower, engraved in concrete in very large letters, is a very bold statement about truth.
“AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.”
That has been there for a very long time. I sometimes wonder in today’s culture, if some may reconsider it’s appropriateness. Many say you can’t “know the truth,” and that truth is kind of up for grabs. And the university isn’t exactly known for old-fashioned conservatism.
I wonder if that murderer who shot people from the top of that library tower ever read the partial quote outside. One thing is sure—he never knew the rest of the quote—and especially, he never knew the author.
You see, I am closing with the complete quotation, and am pleased to tell you that I know the author.
“THEN JESUS SAID TO THOSE JEWS WHO BELIEVED IN HIM, ‘IF YOU CONTINUE IN MY WORDS, THEN YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES INDEED, AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.’ ” —–His Book