TRUTH - A BARGAIN AT TWICE THE PRICE (2 OF 4)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Proverbs 23:23
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Truth - A Bargain at Twice the Price (2 of 4)
Series: Collide With The World
Jeff Strite
Proverbs 23:23
(I spent a couple years as a student at Purdue University, and this is one of the jokes I heard there)
There were a couple of students - one from IU and one from Notre Dame - standing beside a flagpole discussing something. About that time, a student from Purdue walked over and asked "What ya doing?" "We trying to figure out the height of this flagpole," said one of them, "and we can't agree on what formula we should use to calculate its height."
The Purdue student thought about that for a couple moments and then he walked over and lifted the pole out of its holder and laid it on the grass. He pulled out a tape measure, measured it, and said, "Exactly 24 feet." Then he put the pole back up... and walked away.
The other two students stood there for a minute and then one said to the other: "Isn't that just like a guy from Purdue! We ask him for height - he gives us length."
Now, why is that funny? Well, it's funny because - however you measure that pole - it's always going to be the same. You could take it out of the ground and measure its length, and it would be the same distance as its height! That truth doesn't change no matter how you measure that pole.
(PAUSE)
And that's how we tend to think about truth. Truth doesn't change. And, because Truth doesn't change, we learn to depend upon it. That's why our text this morning advises us: "Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding." Proverbs 23:23
To paraphrase an old saying "Truth is a bargain at twice the price." Buy Truth! You could pay twice as much for truth as you might pay for anything else and it would still be worth it, because truth has such a great value that it's a bargain.
We value truth. If a person lies to us, if they don't tell us the truth, then after a while we don't trust them. In fact, eventually we'll even avoid them. We ...
Series: Collide With The World
Jeff Strite
Proverbs 23:23
(I spent a couple years as a student at Purdue University, and this is one of the jokes I heard there)
There were a couple of students - one from IU and one from Notre Dame - standing beside a flagpole discussing something. About that time, a student from Purdue walked over and asked "What ya doing?" "We trying to figure out the height of this flagpole," said one of them, "and we can't agree on what formula we should use to calculate its height."
The Purdue student thought about that for a couple moments and then he walked over and lifted the pole out of its holder and laid it on the grass. He pulled out a tape measure, measured it, and said, "Exactly 24 feet." Then he put the pole back up... and walked away.
The other two students stood there for a minute and then one said to the other: "Isn't that just like a guy from Purdue! We ask him for height - he gives us length."
Now, why is that funny? Well, it's funny because - however you measure that pole - it's always going to be the same. You could take it out of the ground and measure its length, and it would be the same distance as its height! That truth doesn't change no matter how you measure that pole.
(PAUSE)
And that's how we tend to think about truth. Truth doesn't change. And, because Truth doesn't change, we learn to depend upon it. That's why our text this morning advises us: "Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding." Proverbs 23:23
To paraphrase an old saying "Truth is a bargain at twice the price." Buy Truth! You could pay twice as much for truth as you might pay for anything else and it would still be worth it, because truth has such a great value that it's a bargain.
We value truth. If a person lies to us, if they don't tell us the truth, then after a while we don't trust them. In fact, eventually we'll even avoid them. We ...
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