The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth

When a person testify in court, he/she has to put their hand on the Bible and agree that what they are about to say is the truth. The bailliff will ask them, "I do solemnly and sincerely and truly declare and affirm that the evidence I shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me God."
At Expressway Baptist Church we have been studying about spiritual warfare out of Ephesians 6. Paul is writing to a church and encouraging them to be ready to stand firm against the "wiles of the devil." The literal word for wiles in the Greek means schemes and one of the schemes Satan will use to make a believe ineffective is to make us doubt the truthfullness of God's Word.
When Satan wanted to tempt Eve the first thing he did was put a moment of doubt in her mind about the truthfulness of God's Word. In Genesis 3 we read  Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”(Genesis 3:1 ESV) Did you see that? Did God actually say? Pretty slick uh? But that's how Satan does it.
His tricks hasn't changed. He is still trying to put question marks on God's Word because he knows better than anyone that "¹² For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." Hebrews 4:12.
When Jesus stood before Pilate they had this interesting exchange found in John 18. 37Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” 38Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
What is truth?
That is the question people all over the world is asking. What is truth? We live in a day were a lot, if not the majority of people don't be in truth. You have heard the phrase, "What is true for you may not be true for me." or "My truth may not be your truth." As if there isn't some objective way of measuring truth and there isn't in and of ourselves.
In John 17, Jesus gives His High Priestly Prayer to God and in it he says," 15I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.^a 16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them^b in the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sake I consecrate myself,^c that they also may be sanctified^d in truth."
God's Word is truth. You can trust every bit of it. In the good times and bad. So start today to get to know God's Word because it is the whole truth and nothing but the truth.