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  (CLIP) THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO ABSOLUTE TRUTH BE RULED BY TYRANTS
  by John Piper
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the critical importance of acknowledging
and submitting to absolute truth as the ultimate arbiter in our lives.
Without a foundation in truth, the only recourse in conflicts becomes
the assertion of power, leading to tyranny. The speaker warns against
the dangers of relativism and the consequences of a society where
individuals determine their own truth, ultimately resulting in chaos and
oppression.

Topics: "Absolute Truth", "Dangers of Relativism"
Scripture References: John 14:6, Proverbs 3:5, Psalm 25:5, Ephesians 4:25, John 8:32

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This sermon emphasizes the critical importance of acknowledging and
submitting to absolute truth as the ultimate arbiter in our lives.
Without a foundation in truth, the only recourse in conflicts becomes
the assertion of power, leading to tyranny. The speaker warns against
the dangers of relativism and the consequences of a society where
individuals determine their own truth, ultimately resulting in chaos and
oppression.

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If there is no absolute truth functioning as the arbiter that two people
in an argument with each other can appeal to, there's only one appeal
left, power. And therefore, might will make right. And that's the
definition of a tyrant.

There is no alternative. You better hope that all those loosey-goosey,
mushy Christians that talk in vague, hazy terms about propositions being
old-fashioned enlightenment ways of doing truth better not carry the
day. They prepare the jails that tyrants will put you in when you claim
that it's wrong to put me there for just believing what I believe, and
they will say, who are you to say what's right and wrong? What's right
to me is right to me, and I've got the sword.

You don't want to go there. Don't play, students, in the university with
epistemology. Don't play games with epistemology.

Huge things are at stake in how you view whether there is such a thing
as truth or not. We're not playing games. This pays a price.

Oh no, if you have to know two centuries of history, if you have to know
two centuries of history, know the first and know the twentieth. Know
Christ and know the gulag. Know Hitler.

Know Mussolini. Know Stalin. Don't be ignorant of what price has been
paid for those who think they can call the shots without submitting to
any absolute truth.

Know at least two centuries, because the twentieth was the worst, and
the first introduced the best.

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