Truth or Consequences

Many years ago there was a TV game show entitled "Truth or Consequences".  The idea behind it was that if a contestant did not tell the truth in response to questions asked them, then there were immediate consequences that made up the balance of the show.  Perhaps we should hold our politicians to that same standard.  Tell us the truth or there will be immediate consequences.  Unfortunately, the way our system is set up consequences can only occur every 2 to 4 years.  In the meantime they are free to continue to mangle the truth.  In order for us to decipher the truth, we must turn to the one source of truth...the Bible.
Regardless of what politicians tell us, things are going to get worse instead of better.  In Paul's 2nd letter to Timothy chapter 3:1-5 he wrote "But know this: hard times will come in the last days.  For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness but denying its power.  Avoid these people."
So, what should we do in light of this truth?  We should be "laying up treasures in heaven" not on the earth.  We should be diligently seeking to fulfill the Great Commission by teaching those around us the things that God has taught us.  We should be watchful for the return our our Master.  In Luke 12:35-40 Jesus taught this idea.  The end of His story is found in v 40 "You also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
Understand this; if you don't live according to the truth of God's Word...there will be consequences.  But if you do live according to His Word...there will be rewards.

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