When I
was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison I would traverse the famed
Bascom Hill on my way to classes. One day I walked past the Law School and
noticed something that surprised me. There, engraved in stone on the corner of
the building, were these words, "You shall know the truth and the truth
shall set you free. -- John 8:32". I thought how nice it was for them to
include a verse from Scripture. My conclusion was that if I go to that school I
will gain this truth that will set me free.
Being
a new Christian at the time, my curiosity got to me. I wondered in what context
this verse was said, and by whom. I looked it up and found that Jesus was the
one speaking and it was to a group of believers. John 8:31 and 32 (RSV) says,
"Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in Him, 'If you continue in
My Word, you are truly My disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth
will make you free'."
Dr. Os
Guinness, in a video called "What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?",
stated that "Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown were all
[originally] explicitly rooted in the Christian faith, and many of them
with very open desires to spread and share the Christian faith, and their
mottos show it. The most common motto in all the American universities
is, 'The truth shall set you free,' but many people forget that that came from
Jesus."
True
freedom comes from knowing Jesus Christ and continuing in His Word.
--
Rev. David T. Wilkinson
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