In a society of corruption, it is important to know that there is such a thing as truth and that there are efficient methods of getting to that truth. For most of us, there are individuals who are links in a chain of trust. This would include trustworthy people who are known to us. This could also include people who are recommended by people we trust. For example, a mechanic or computer technician who is trustworthy will usually be recommended by people who have recognized that he has been honest and does not over-charge for services and does his best to get the job done. In fact, if we hire someone, honesty is more important than the technical abilities of the individual. After all, a dishonest worker could claim to have done work when he, in fact, didn’t. He could charge twice as much as what is fair.
And the chain of trust in regard to spiritual knowledge is of utmost importance. Truths of all types are interconnected with each other and harmonize with each other. When falsehood of any kind is put into the mind there is a lack of peace because there is cognitive dissonance as to what to believe.
When Pilate asked Christ, “What is truth?”, he didn’t wait for an answer (John 18:38). Like so many today who have been taught in the modern school systems of this world, he likely did not believe there was such a thing as truth.
The word of God is truth (John 17:17). And only through his Son, Jesus Christ, is salvation available (Acts 4:10-12). Pilate was unaware of that. His wife, who should have been a vital part of his chain of trust, warned him to have nothing to do with Christ (Matthew 27:19). However, the crowd was being manipulated by the religious leaders in that day (the chief priests and elders) (verse 20). When the crowd demanded that Christ be crucified Pilate performed his famous hand washing ceremony, trying to symbolically distance himself from the responsibility that he knew was at least partially his. The crowd was so extreme they said, “…His blood be on us and our children” (verse 25).
Of course, in a global sense, the blood of Christ is on all of us because within every injustice there exists the seed of homicide. Only through the shedding of blood is there remission (Hebrews 9:22).
As individuals, we must eventually have a reliable chain of trust. We must trust the Father to draw us to the Son (John 6:44). We are friends with the Son if we do what he commands (John 15:14). The chief priests opposed Christ because he was their ultimate competition. Real religion is the ultimate competition to the religions of this world and especially the leaders of those religions. Inside the religion of Christianity there are armies of leaders who would love to install themselves as middlemen between you and the Father. However, there is only one qualified leader who can be a good middleman, Christ Jesus, our High Priest (Hebrews 3:1).
“…Christ, Our Passover, is sacrificed for us” (1 Corinthians 5:7).
Wily Elder, CBA
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