John 14:6; Romans 2:16; Psalm 96:13; Romans 2:2
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.
For he cometh, for he cometh, to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth.
C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892): ‘Some things are true and some things are false.’—I regard that as an axiom; but there are many persons who evidently do not believe it. The current principle of the present age seems to be. “Some things are either true or false, according to the point of view from which you look at them. Black is white, and white is black according to circumstances; and it does not particularly matter which you call it.
WILLIAM GURNALL (1617-1679): Truth and error are all one to the ignorant man, so it hath but the name of truth.
C. H. SPURGEON: Truth, of course, is true, but it would be rude to say that the opposite is a lie; we must not be bigoted, but remember the motto, “So many men, so many minds;”―Everything is a mere matter of opinion—that is “thought and culture” in these days.
HORATIUS BONAR (1808-1889): It is not opinions that man needs: it is Truth!
JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564): Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth…Nothing can be more inconsistent than that there should be no difference between truth and falsehood.
THOMAS COKE (1747-1814): However judgment may be perverted by men, there is a day coming, when all shall be revised, and justice ministered to every man “according to truth;”—when God will vindicate the cause of the righteous, and condemn the wicked; and the unjust judges must be called to a terrible account for their unrighteous decrees. The time is advancing; it is near: let such as are oppressed with wrong patiently wait for it: the eternal Judge standeth before the door.
C. H. SPURGEON: This is not a matter of opinion―What God declares shall certainly come to pass―It is no matter of opinion, but a matter of certainty.
JOHN GILL (1697-1771): “For he cometh, for he cometh,” is repeated to show the certainty of Christ’s coming, and the importance of it, and the just reason there was for the above joy and gladness on account of it; and it may be also, as Jerome and others have observed, to point out both the first and second coming of Christ, which are both matter of joy to the saints: His first coming, which was from heaven into this world, in a very mean and abject manner, to save the chief of sinners, to procure peace, pardon, righteousness, and eternal life for them, and therefore must be a matter of joy; and His second coming, which will be also from heaven, but in an extremely glorious manner, without sin, or the likeness of it, unto the salvation of His people, and “to judge the earth,”―the inhabitants of it, small and great, high and low, rich and poor, bond and free, quick and dead, righteous and wicked.
MATTHEW HENRY (1662-1714): As truth is opposed to falsehood and error; the doctrine of Christ is true doctrine. When we enquire for truth, we need learn no more than “the truth as it is in Jesus.”—He is true to all that trust in Him.
JOHN GILL: He is not only true, but truth itself: this may regard His person and character; He is the true God, and eternal life; truly and really man; as a prophet He taught the way of God in truth; as a priest, He is a faithful, as well as a merciful one, true and faithful to Him that appointed Him; and as a King, just and true are all His ways and administrations: He is the sum and substance of all the truths of the Gospel―and He is the true way, in opposition to all false ones of man’s devising.
JOHN CALVIN: How dreadful will He be when He shall come at last to judge the world!
JOHN GILL: He will truly discern and rightly judge; His judgment will be according to His truth; He will approve Himself to be the righteous Judge, and His judgment will appear to be a righteous judgment; for which He is abundantly qualified, as being the Lord God omniscient and omnipotent, holy, just, and true.
MATTHEW HENRY: Even “secret things,” both good and evil, will be brought to light, and brought to account, in the judgment of the great day; there is no good work, no bad work, hid, but shall then be made manifest.
C. H. SPURGEON: Well, brethren, as the age is doubting, it is wise for us to put our foot down and stand still where we are sure we have truth beneath us.―The doubters now are simply doubters because they do not care about truth at all. They are indifferent altogether. Modern skepticism is playing and toying with truth…Even good people do not believe out and out as their fathers used to do. Some are shamefully lax in their convictions; they have few masterly convictions such as would lead them to the stake, or even to imprisonment. Mollusks have taken the place of men, and men are turned to jelly-fishes. Far from us be the desire to imitate them.
J. H. M. d’AUBIGNÉ (1794-1872): When truth and error are in presence of each other, the right side is not the middle.
THOMAS BROOKS (1608-1680): Every parcel of truth is as precious as the filings of gold; we must either live with it, or die for it.
JOHN CALVIN: Nothing is deemed more precious by God than truth.
AUGUSTINE (354-430): He who for fear of any power hides the truth, provokes the wrath of God to come upon him, for he fears men more than God.
MATTHEW HENRY: Here observe the sins of those who perish, among which are first mentioned their cowardliness and unbelief, Revelation 21:8. Note: The “fearful” lead the van in this black list: “The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.”
ADAM CLARKE: “All liars”―Every one who speaks contrary to the truth when he knows the truth, and even he who speaks the truth with the intention to deceive, to persuade a person that a thing is different from what it really is, by telling only a part of the truth, or suppressing some circumstance which would have led the hearer to a different end to the true conclusion.
MATTHEW POOLE (1624-1679): Or liars in practice—that is, hypocrites, seeming to be what they are not―all these, and all such like, shall be eternally damned.
MATTHEW HENRY: In consideration of the judgment to come, and the strictness of that judgment, it highly concerns us now to be very strict in our walking with God, that we may give up our account with joy.
J. C. RYLE (1816-1900): Let us lay these things to heart, and remember them well. They are eminently truths for the present times.
