Deposit Truth

to have you here today both in the auditorium and those of you watching downstairs online and appreciate you being a part of the service today if you turn your Bibles to Philippians chapter 4 the book of Philippians CH 4 and veres 7-9 we're doing a series titled deposit deposit these things and Philippians chapter 4 and beginning with verse number seven the Bible says in the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and Minds through Christ Jesus finally Brethren what sort of things are true what sort of things are honest what sort of things are just what sort of things are pure what sort of things are lovely what sort of things are good report if there being a

virtue and if there being any praise think on these things those things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of Peace shall be with you as you look at the end of verse number eight it says to think on these things and that phrase that word think is in the Greek language can be used as a accounting term and it literally could be deposit it could be translated deposit these things you know we talked about the fact that you can go down to any bank here in Hawaii and open up an account for free but if you want to take money out of that account you've got to deposit money into the account I don't know if you figured that out yet or not but uh you got to

deposit in order to make withdrawals and the same thing is true we we can be saved for free you can deposit your soul soul with God through Jesus Christ your savior and your salvation is free and as a gift of God you can deposit your soul into the bank of Heaven for all eternity but as Christians on a daily basis if we want to draw upon the peace and the blessings of God then we've got to deposit these things and so today we're going to look at the very first word in that list of what we deposit and it says in verse number eight finally Brethren whatsoever things are true now if you also notice the next word is what sort of things are honest now what sort of things are true and honest are

two different things and so I don't want to challenge you is this week to think about what is the difference between true and honest because we'll talk about that more next week but let's talk about the word true the Bible says in John 4: 24 God is a spirit and they wor that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth so we need to posit things that are truth we're going to worship God we need to worship ship him in truth the idea of this word true is it's not counterfeit it's it's real it's not counterfeit uh put a marker in Philippians chapter 4 we'll come back to that but go over to Galatians just a couple of books earlier the book of Galatians chapter 1 and verses 6-8 Galatians 1

veres 6-8 have you ever H had a counterfeit money have had seen or handled counterfeit money uh a couple months back I went brought to the posit it down to the bank and they when they get it they put the all the cash through that little machine behind them and I thought that was just to count the money but that machine also looks for counterfeit money and apparently one of you in the church are counterfeits because it kept kicking out $100 bill and it kicked it out again and again and again and again and finally they said to me said we can't deposit this we're going to give you receipt for it and then we have to send it in to the the government to have them check out if this is real or not

because as far as we can tell it's counterfeit so one of you the FBI is going to become looking for you at some point here no uh but that's that's the first time I've re ever known that I've handled counterfeit money but you know if if I wanted to destroy the economy of the United States the best way that I could do that is flood the world with counterfeit money now you may or may not have seen counterfeit money there's all kinds of different indicators as you can find to see if it's counterfeit but I wouldn't just look for really good quality counterfeit stuff I would flood it with every kind of counterfeit money some stuff that was so obviously bad that everybody would recognize the stuff

that the even the experts would struggle with uh years ago this was back before all the new money with all the new things in it there was a a problem that uh some counterfeit money was going around and one of the things that came on the news is is that some homeless people had gone down before the copiers you could you can't do this now but they' gone down and copied $20 bills on a copier in black and white and then what they did is they took a crayon and colored them in and and then they took him down to stores and tried to buy things with them and you know what was really sad is some of the stores actually took the money they they showed this this crayon stuff you know this this this

counterfeit money they showed in the news it didn't look exactly like these but they were just they were obviously just crayoned in I mean they weren't even staying in the lines and it was just obviously bad but somebody took that as money and if it got to the point where every everything you received every dollar bill or every $100 bill whatever it was you received you didn't know if it was real or false you'd stop spending money wouldn't you we' the whole economy would stop because of counterfeit money that's what that's what could happen to our to our economy in Galatians 1: 6-8 it says I Marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ onto another

gospel which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ and though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be a cursed you see what the devil has done is this he said if I want to destroy Christianity I'll flood the world with false Rel religions and you know there are some false religions that you and I look at and say how can anybody believe that right have you ever seen ones like that how could anybody believe what's being taught and there are other ones that are very very close to the truth of the Gospel but yet they add things like works or other things into it to corrupt

it and make it counterfeit and so sometimes people will say to me Pastor I don't know what to believe there's so many religions out there how do you know which one to believe and that's exactly what the devil has done to Dy destroy the truth is by flooding the world with counterfeit what we need is we need the real gospel in Galatians chapter 1 and verse number four it says who gave himself for our sins that he might Deliver Us from the present evil world according to the will of God and our father we need the one who has given himself to Deliver us from our sins the real gospel John chapter 14 and verse number six Jesus saith unto him I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh on the

father but by me you see there's only one true gospel and that is Jesus Christ you see no one else has the authority to print money anybody here would like to have money I sometimes give money away in church anybody like to have some money okay what I did is I I I got I it got expensive giving away all the money so I printed some new money that's going to make it cheaper on me to bring some new money so Alex I'll give it to you no I better not he's a Marine he might try to spend it somewhere all right there we get over here you know the problem is folks I can print all the money you want but it has no Authority you see only the government can print money that it can be accepted with

authority and no one else has that Authority and Only God is the one that has the authority to say whether you're saved or not no church can tell you that no religion can tell you that only God has the authority to give you salvation did you know that money actually preaches the gospel the money that you have in your wallet actually preaches the gospel the first thing if you notice on your money it says legal tender for all debts the Bible says in Romans chapter 4 turn over there if you would with me Romans chapter 4 and look at verses 3-8 Romans chapter 4 see the money that the government prce is legal tender you can take that anywhere and you can pay a debt with it and you can take it

anywhere you can buy things with it because it's legal tender authorized by the government in Romans chapter 4 and beginning with verse number three the Bible says for what saith the scripture Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness that word count to the same word as think back in Philippians chapter 4 deposited unto him for righteousness now to him that worketh his reward not reckoned or deposit of Grace but of debt but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted or deposited for righteousness even as B David also described the blessed is the man unto whom God imputeth or deposits righteousness without works

saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven whose sins are covered blesses a man to whom the Lord will not impute or deposit sin you see when we trust Christ as our savior his righteousness is deposited to our account and it is the legal tender of Salvation because it's the only he is the only one that can pay the debt of our sins in Romans chap 3 and verse 23 it says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God everyone in this room owes a debt of sin and your debt may be larger than my debt and my debt might be smaller than your debt but the truth is none of us can afford to pay that debt because it says in Romans chapter 6 and verse 23 for the wages of sin is death and

that means if I pay the debt of my sin I am going to die and go to hell for all eternity but the rest of that verse says for the wage of the sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ Our Lord you and I have a debt we cannot pay but God has provided the only one that can pay that debt in full and that is Jesus Christ who died on the cross to save you from your sins you can't pay for it with money you can't pay it for with your Works in 1 Peter chapter 1: 18 and 19 it says for as much as you know that you are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious blood of

Christ is of a lamb without blemish without spot you see Isaac couldn't take that bill dollar bill and buy a sod at McDonald's with it because it's not legal to pay the debt and and you cannot pay your debt with your works or your your own righteousness it's only by what Jesus Christ did for you and I money preaches the gospel it says legal tender for all deaths but it also says on Money In God We Trust go over to Ephesians chapter 1 Ephesians chapter 1 and look at verses 12-4 let me ask you who do you trust for your salvation are you trusting in religion are you trusting in what your parents told you are you trusting in something else besides What God Says in Ephesians chap 1 and: 12-4 it

says that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ in whom you also trusted after that you heard the word of Truth The Gospel of your salvation in whom also after that you believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise which is the earnest of our inheritance into the Redemption of the person possession on the praise of his glory you see you need to trust in the only one that can forgive your sins and the only one that can give you eternal life and that is you need to trust in Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross for you you need to believe by faith you see you have to have faith when you buy things with money because money is really it's just a

piece of paper but we by faith walk in the store and by faith hand them that money and by faith they receive this money which is worthless this is just a piece of paper that's worth nothing but what makes it a value is that the government has said it has value to pay all legal debts and we by faith trust in that money to pay our debt the Bible says in Ephesians chap 2: 8 and9 for by great are you saved through faith then not of yourselves it's the gift of God not of Works L any man should boast and we need to have faith in God's legal debt payment Jesus Christ we need to have faith in him we need to believe in the real thing in Acts 4 verse number 12 it says neither is there salvation any

other for there's none other name among men whereby we must be saved you see I could come up here and offer you $500 Monopoly money and it's not going to get you any anything it may have value in a Monopoly game but it has no value in this world you see it's not real and you and I need to realize that we need the real salvation that can only come through Jesus Christ we need to believe in him on your money also it there is a place where you can look up what where it was printed and and when it was printed you can look up both of those on there and you can see on here where you can find it that you go online to learn how to figure that out but there's a place and a date that that money was

printed in Romans chap 10 and vers 9 and 10 it says that if Thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and Shall Believe in thine heart that God has raised the dead Thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation in Romans 10:13 it says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved this particular money was printed in 2009 in Boston there's a time and a place in what it's printed and there needs to be a time and a place where you trusted Jesus Christ as your savior in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse number two it says for he saith I've heard thee in a Time accepted and the day of

salvation have I suckered thee behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of salvation and there needs to be a day a time and a place when you trusted Jesus Christ as your savior when you called upon the name of the Lord Lord Jesus save me a sinner and put your faith and trust in him how many of you have a $20 bill right now raise your hand in your purse or in your wall or somewhere you have a $20 bill how many of you don't have a $20 bill okay how many would like to have a $20 bill okay put your hand down all those of you have a $20 bill raise your hand again okay look around you okay catch them after church see if they'll give you money or or not you thought I was going to give

you a $20 bill didn't you but here's the point folks either you have it or you don't have it 1 John 5: 12- 13 he that hath the son hath life he that hath not the Son of God hath not life these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the son of God that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the son of God either you have Jesus Christ or you don't and if you don't have them you can you see sometimes you can't get more money but there's always Jesus and you can always call upon him you can always be saved there's nothing no time or place where you cannot be saved there needs to be a place and a time and a date when you got saved then

also with money on money it says Federal Reserve Note what that means is that this money is available because we have have it in reserve now my question is with our government today do they really have it in reserve we some what some trillion dollars in debt multi- trillion dollars in debt used to be our money was based upon a gold standard and that's where basically they said we have this dollar bill represents this much gold at Fort Knox and so you knew if I had a dollar I had that much gold at four Knox and equal to that now today it's just some some politicians says we printed this dollar bill and we think it's going to be good that's not very much confidence in that I don't know about

you but here's the point I want to make in 1 John Chapter 2 and verse number two the Bible says he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world the word propitiation means there's enough of Jesus Christ for everyone he will never run out he will never have a deficit there's not a person this world that cannot come to Jesus Christ for salvation because his blood is sufficient money preaches the gospel and I wonder have you received the Gospel of Jesus Christ have you received him as your savior you see if I were to give away money and say I want to give it to you you'd have to receive it for it to be yours and the same thing is true Pro

salvation now money's gone through a lot of new designs money doesn't look like it did when I was a kid there's been a lot of changes to make it safer in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse1 17 says therefore If any man be in Christ is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new you see the reason they keep changing money and upgrading is because more and more people are counterfeiting they're trying to stop the counterfeiting in the world you know what the problem is in our churches we have a lot of counterfeit Christians we have counterfeit Christians that aren't true Christians there are some of you here today maybe you call yourself a Christian but you've never

been saved there are some of you today that that say you're a Christian but you don't live like a Christian and we've got too many counterfeit Christians and we need to be real and we need to know what's real in 2 Timothy Chapter 2 and verse1 15 it says study to show thyself approved unto God a Workman that need not to be ashamed rightly divide the word of Truth you know the best way to know if something is real is to is is to know counterfeit is to know the truth is to know what's real in Hebrews chapter 5 and verse1 14 but strong meat belong to them that are full age even those who by reason of use have their senses exercise discern both good and evil when I was in college we had a young

lady that worked at the bank and I asked her well how do they train you to spot counterfeit money and she said well they have a really short class where they take you in they show you all kinds of examples of it and show you what to look for and all the rest of it they show you examples of counterfeit money but he said that only lasted less than an hour then what they do for my first week there all I did was count money they put me in a room my job was just to count money and I counted it and counted it and counted it and at the end of the week they started slipping in counterfeit bills and I could immediately tell them because I had gotten so knowledgeable the real thing the more you know

the real the more you're going to know what's false and we as Christians need to make sure that we know the real don't spend your time studying false religion spend your time studying the true religion of Jesus Christ and the more you know his word and the more you know the truth the more you're going to recognize the falseness of this world you know you've all heard the saying from George Washington I cannot tell a lie how many remember being taught that when you're a child right do you know what it's a lie as far as we can tell he never said those words that never happened it's a myth that was made up about him isn't it ironic that we teach kids not to lie by telling them a lie is that

kind of ironic let me ask you a question is your life a lie or is it true truth is your life a lie or is it truth in Psalms 119: 29-30 the Bible says remove from me the way of lying and Grant me thy law graciously I have chosen the way of Truth thy judgments have I laid before me the word way says grant me remove me from the way of lying and show me I've chosen the way of truth that word way literally means a road well traveled it could be literally translated rut you've gone that way so much that you've developed a rut and you're just kind of not not stuck in the Rut but it's just a habit and what we need to learn is we need to have the habit of telling the truth not a habit of lying you

ever struggle with lying as I was writing this message that God just kind of reveals something to me I I've always struggled all my life to a certain extent with telling the truth now I I would say to most people I don't lie I just don't always tell the truth sometimes I I won't tell well this is you know like I'll hide something from my wife because I don't want to tell her about it and I don't lie about it but I don't tell her and I remember as a child I I did lie a lot and I was trying to figure out why do I do that and I I determined the reason why I grew up with a father who was an alcoholic and and a and abusive very abusive and I grew up as a child learning if you told the truth it

hurt and so I learned growing up how to lie or at least not to how to tell not to tell the whole truth because the whole truth got you in trouble and so I created from childhood I created a habit of lying I had a rut of lying and and I could I I I would say and and people ask me I say I'm not a liar because we we'd like to Define our sin don't we and and I didn't outright tell Whopper lies all the time I just didn't tell the truth all the time and even today I struggle I had to stop and say wait a minute that's not true or I haven't told the whole truth or I've got to tell what's going I I've got to work at that why because I've got to create a new habit I I've got a rut I grew up in a way

of lying that has to be changed as a Christian to way of telling the truth I've got to choose to tell the truth and we need to establish a habit of hearing speak speaking and living the truth some of you you're in the habit of not hearing the truth I don't want to hear the truth some of you in the habit of not speaking the truth some of your habit of not living the truth and the psalmist said listen Lord I don't want to have a habit of lying I want to choose to have a habit of telling the truth and how do you create new habits by creating new ruts by developing new ways of doing things 1 Thessalonians 2:13 says for this cause all Al thank we god without ceasing because when we Reed the word

of God you receive you heard of us you received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth the word of God which effectually worketh also in you that believe see we have to receive this as the word of Truth and a lot of us really we don't do that you know because the truth hurts in Titus Chapter 1: 12 and 13 one of themselves even a prophet of their own said the Christians are always Liars evil Beast slow bellies this witness is true wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith we don't like to hear the truth when my wife is when we were early married on and she would say to well that was a lie or you didn't tell me the whole truth I I would argue I I didn't want to

hear it I didn't want to hear the truth but if I don't hear the truth I can't change it I can't live the truth and and we live in a a politically correct society today that's afraa afraid to speak the truth and doesn't want to hear the truth and as Christians we need to be ones who live the absolute truth of God in John 17:17 sanctify them through thy truth Thy word is truth in Romans Chapter 13 Verse number four God forbid ye let God be true but every man a liar as is written that thou mightest be justified in thy says th might be overcome when thou are judged you see we need to live the truth again with Monopoly money if if I give you a piece of Monopoly money is that is that a is that

worth $20 only in the game and and the problem is we treat the Bible like it's Monopoly money while we're at church we treat it with value but when we go out in the world we say we can't really do it it's like playing Monopoly when you're playing Monopoly man I want all the 500s I can get I want to get all that Monopoly money I can get so I can win the game but when we're done with the game we don't take it to the store with us we don't take it out and put in our wallet and carry with us do we and the problem is there's some of you that treat the word of God like it's Monopoly money you come to tr church and say yeah that's truth but then you walk out that door and you put it away because

it's not true in this world but it is and we need to live the truth we need to live the truth in our lives we need to hear the truth we need to speak the truth Ephesians chapter 4 and look at verse number 15 Ephesians chapter 4 and look at verse number 15 but speaking the truth and love may grow up unto him in all things which is the head even Christ look down at verse number 25 wherefore putting away lying speak every man truth to his neighbor and for we are members one of another the problem is we ignore the truth and hope it goes away you know George Washington when he if he ever did chop down that tree it's hard to ignore a tree laying on the ground isn't it but I know a lot of people

that are they'll stand right by the tree you ever had your kids tell you an outright lie I never ate the chocolate it's all around their mouth I never hit my brother he's got a black eye because we don't speak the truth we we want to ignore it and we need to hear it uh that's one of the reasons we come to church is we come to church to have somebody tell us the truth whether we like it or not we come to church so we can hear the truth even if it hurts because we need to hear that truth and we need to live the truth and Proverbs 28:13 says he that coverthe is and forsakes them shall have mercy you need to be honest about your sins confess them to God confess them to one another in James 5:16

confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that you may be healed the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availed much what we do is we play word games with the truth like the woman at the well when Jesus said bring your husband she says I'm not married he says yeah you've had 20 guys for a lot of years I would say things like I don't lie because I didn't outright lie but I sure manipulated the truth until it was a lie by hiding it and covering it over and talking about it in different ways to make it sound better but still lying stop playing word games with yourself about your sin you need to hear the truth you need to speak the truth you need to confess it to get

right with God Hebrews 13:18 pray for us for We Trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly are you willing to live the truth you know most Christians are liars and you know the place they lied the most is in church we stand up in church and we sing Oh How I Love Jesus and the Bible says in John 14:15 if you love me keep my Commandments we stand there and lie Oh How I Love Jesus in the song when we know we're not keeping his Commandments we sing the song I surrender all and we're holding on to everything and won't let it go we lie and who are you kidding in 1 John chapter 1 and verse number six it says if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness

we lie and do not the truth you can come to church and act like everything's great but your marriage is falling apart your life is falling apart their's sin get controling your life that's all lies and you're not fooling God and yes you may fool the pastor and the people of church for a while but sooner or later I found you get caught in your lies and that's one of your prayers God don't let me get away with lying make sure I'm caught every time Proverbs 23:23 says buy the truth and sell it not also wisdom and instruction understanding truth cost it costs to be honest with yourself and with others there's a price to pay you ever heard anybody say a penny for your thoughts I don't know about

you but I there's times I would not sell my thoughts for a million dollar this the honest truth in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 verse number five the love chapter it says that love thinketh no evil that word thinketh is the same word back in Philippians chapter four love deposits no evil it does not keep evil on account the idea of that word is that we keep depositing these things and building up these hurts and these bitterness and this anger against other people instead of being honest with them and working it out we keep building up you ever gone you ever seen somebody that goes in a store maybe it's happened to you maybe not but you go in a store and you're buying something you take out your

credit card and you run it through that machine and the machine says no why does the machine say no it's not because you can't afford that $5 thing on the counter it's saying you got too much debt you owe too much you've allowed all these things to build up and now we're saying no more credit and that's what happens in a lot of marriages and that's what happen in a lot of relationships we keep building these things up instead of honestly and openly dealing with them and resolving them and working through these things sometimes we just flip a coin on the truth heads I tell the truth Tales I lie Joshua 24:15 says if it seem evil unto you serve the Lord choose you this day whom you will serve

and we need to make a choice if we're going to tell the truth if we're going to live a life of truth if we're going to deposit the truth into our account talk to you a lot of things about money today but I want to teach you one other thing did you know that on a $20 bill and I believe this is also in the 50 and the maybe even the 10 but you know on the $20 bill you all got if you got one you might want to take it out right now look at it but there's a hidden man in the $20 bill you know all you got the picture right here this one is of uh who is it Jackson on the $20 bill but there's a hidden man in the $20 bill actually there's two of them there's one if you look at the back of the bill you

look at the the picture of the the White House here there there's a man right in front of the White House that's hitchhiking you can see it right oh wait a minute he must have gotten a ride uh but anyway uh he's not on there anymore but tell what you can do is if you take out a $20 bill and if you hold it up to the light like this you will see off to the right here Jackson's picture in the background it's hidden unless you look at a certain light in a certain way you can't see it but but he's there 1 Peter chapter 3 and verse number four says but let it be the hidden man of the heart and that which is not corruptible even the orn of a Meek and quiet Spirit which is the sight of God of great

price the hidden man of the heart that's the Holy Spirit within us Psalms 51: number 6 says behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts and the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom God wants truth in our inward Parts he wants us to be honest with our ourselves what was it Shakespeare said to to thine own self be true in James chapter 3 turn over there if you would we're going to look just a couple verses we'll close James chapter 3 and look at verses 13 through 15 James chapter 3 beginning with verse number 13 who is a wise man and a dude with knowledge among you let him show out of a good conversation is works with meekness of wisdom but if you have bitter envy and a Strife in

your hearts glor not lie not against the truth this wisdom descend not from above but is Earthly sensal devilish lie not against thy truth the truth we need to be honest to thine own self can can you be honest right now let me ask you some questions just think about this be honest with yourself are you truly saved do you in in your heart do you know if you were to die right now I know I'm going to heaven because I have Jesus Christ my savior would you be honest about it because some of you got doubts and some of you don't have doubts you know you're not saved but you act like it you try to make us think it's true would you be honest with yourself right now is there sin in your life is there

something in your life that that you're doing that you know is wrong would you be honest with yourself right now is there bitterness in your heart is there anger against somebody you see folks we've got to be honest with thine own self be true because the only that's the wisdom from above is to there to be true and honest with ourselves so that we can be true and honest with God in Ephesians chapter 4: 25 the Bible says wherefore putting away lying speak every man truth with his neighbor for we are members one of another we've got to learn how to be honest with each other as well for many years I hurt my marriage relationship because I wasn't totally honest with my wife and I still struggle

with that today and it's hurt our relationship over the years because we were not honest now there's a thing such thing as being brutally honest and being cruel but I'm talking about honest and transparent and not only in your marriage but that's part of what church is about church is a place we can come be honest with each other not have to put on a facade and a mask not have to put on an outward appearance that the truth is not really what we're what we're putting in church but to be honest and say brother I'm struggling I need you to pray for me I need you to hold me accountable I need you to help me because until you're willing to be honest nothing's going to change and that count is

just going to keep draining until you start depositing truth I want to close with looking at one verse and quoting one verse go to John chapter 16 John chapter 16 when Jesus was getting ready to leave the world he told his disciples I'm not going to leave you alone he said I'm going to give you the holy spirit in verses 12 and 13 it says I have yet many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now how be it when he the spirit of Truth is come he will guide you into all Truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that he speak and he will show you things to come God has given us the holy spirit so that we can hear the truth I preached a message a while back and

the title of message was this I don't want to hear what you don't want to tell me most people don't like telling you when there's something wrong there are a few people that have take great pleasure in that I know that but as a rule most people don't want to tell you when there's something wrong in your life why because they don't want to get you mad at them and what you need in your life is you need people that are going to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not do you have people in your life like that they're going to tell you what you need to hear whether you want to hear it or not and then you need to look at them and say thank you not saying well what do you mean by that it just need to say thank you because we need to hear the truth and God has given us the Holy Spirit to tell us the truth if we would learn how to listen to him and be open to him John chapter 8:32 says you should know the truth and the truth shall make you free