{"id":661,"date":"2018-11-09T22:35:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2018-11-09T22:35:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:35:49","slug":"2timothy-215-you-cant-handle-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"2Timothy 2:15 \u201cYou Can\u2019t Handle The Truth\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.\u201d 2Timothy 2:15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember the movie in 1992 called \u201cA Few Good Men\u201d? Tom Cruise says to Jack Nicholson, \u201cI want the truth.\u201d Jack responds by saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t handle the truth.\u201d It\u2019s a verbal exchange that I will never forget.<\/p>\n<p>Haven\u2019t we all wished for a bright light to shine on the truth about someone else? It\u2019s different when the light of truth is pointed toward us, huh? We pray that our sins will go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>I sin every day. God doesn\u2019t care if the rest of the world sees my dark side or not. He\u2019s shining a light on my sins, so that I can see them, admit to them, repent of them and improve through change. God wants me to be a worker who does not need to be ashamed; a worker who will correctly handle the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do I spend more time demanding the truth about other\u2019s mistakes than my own? What sin of mine is God shining a light on presently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cDo your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.\u201d 2Timothy 2:15 Applying God\u2019s Word Remember the movie in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}