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Weimar University

Don Mackintosh

Your Truth, My Truth, or the Present Truth - Thoughts on 2 Peter 1:12

Father in Heaven, bless us tonight as we open your Word and talk about truth.

We ask your blessing to be with us, to challenge us, to comfort us, to confront us, to revive us in Christ's name.

So our text for tonight, For this reason, why don't you read it with me?

For this reason, I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth." So this text is our study tonight.

I was reading an article that came out February 18, 2024 at 8 a.m.

Campus religious groups report greater interest from students trying to find meaning in a crumbling culture.

And this particular article was looking at about 2, 000 different college campuses and they are trying to find meaning in the midst of this culture.

Hollywood, the media, universities, typically all come from the same secular perspective, the author wrote, and given America's younger generation, Gen Z and millennials in particular, the understanding that everything is about you.

Look to the person next to you and say, everything is about you.

That's better than saying about me, okay?

If you had said everything's actually about me, I'm really worried about you.

Raise your hand if you're born after 1996.

Hopefully they're not going to give us some Z's of going to sleep.

What about millennials born in 1981 to 1996?

Not so many, not so many of those still around.

Generation Z is largely unaffiliated in terms of religious picture.

They don't want to associate with any particular organized religion.

And attending religious services, the least of anybody of all these generations.

And so as people have written about Generation Z, They say they really bought into this.

My truth, your truth, the generation which tells America's youth they can decide what you think is right and wrong, you are the 1 who decides what's right and wrong.

And what we're watching happen right now is people have been living this out.

They say this is the truth, my truth, your truth.

Now, even at our universities, there was a president who was recently pressured to resign.

And when she was giving her reasons for saying what she had said, notice what she said, I got caught up in what had become at that point an extended combative exchange about policies and procedures.

What I should have had the presence of mind to do in that moment was return to my guiding truth.

Not the truth, not your truth, but my guiding truth, which is what calls for violence against our Jewish community, threats to our Jewish citizens, has no place at Harvard and will never go unchallenged.

Substantively, I failed to convey what is my truth.

So this idea that I have the truth, I make the truth, your truth is your truth, Jake, my truth is my truth.

So I would probably go with Jake's truth.

But my truth, your truth, there's this whole idea of the truth.

Gen Z was brought up with it and they�re hitting a wall now and they�re realizing this is from Gen Z folks themselves.

The truth is that this truth was an untruth.

This lie that you're the God of self and you get to decide everything, it's not true.

And Gen Z is saying, why did you tell us this?

Not only is it not true, it's leading us to dangerous places.

And they begin to describe the dangerous places.

What do you think the dangerous places were?

Skyrocketing depression, skyrocketing anxiety, skyrocketing suicide, which is giving them a clue that it's not working.

That's 1 of the reasons they're saying, it's not true.

Okay, they get themselves in a situation and they can't get out of it, but they were deceived to going into it.

Because they said, you know, someone says, well don't argue with your truth that comes from we don't know where but you just came up with it and then when they follow that it's not working out.

We're watching young people hit the wall and say, what is there?

You've been telling me that I'm my own God.

The suicide rate, the opioid addiction rate, all these things that are happening.

Of course, the COVID was thrown in to make it even worse.

They're questioning more and more what is going on and what is true.

This is a huge opportunity for people of any age, but especially your age.

And the statistics in this article were broad that that entire generation, just stereotypically speaking, is wide open to revival and reformation.

What if we could find a campus that was studying revival and reformation, but not just studying it, but actually having revival and reformation?

What if we could find a campus like that?

My present truth isn't true, they're saying.

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