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TRUTH ALONE SETS MEN FREE
John 8:31 Then
Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in Him, If you continue in My Word, you
are truly My disciples.
32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will
set you free.
In this passage Jesus Christ is speaking to unregenerate
Jews who believed in Him and were still lost. They were in bondage to their sin
and they did not know the truth.
There are many people today who
believe in Jesus Christ and are yet still lost in sin. Such people are
<nominal> Christians; that is, they are Christians in name only. They
carry Bibles; they go to church[es]; they quote verses and use religious
language; they not only 'believe in God' but they believe in His Son, the Lord
Jesus Christ as well, just like the Jews in this passage.Yet they are still
unregenerate and lost in their sin, just like the Jews in this
passage.
One reason this is so is because their religion is one of
-Experience- rather than one of Truth.
They have had an Emotional Encounter with their god which has little or nothing
to do with the truth as it is contained
in the Bible. The Jews above claimed their blood line with Abraham and their
adherence to Moses were grounds enough to show they were children of God. But
the Lord Jesus Christ tells them otherwise... that they were not only -not-
God's children, but that they were the children of the Devil! As such they were
still in bondage to their sin and there was no
truth in them, just as there is no truth in Satan, their
father!
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LION OF
JUDAH
The God of the Bible is
the God of Truth!
Ps 31:5 Into Your
hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Jehovah, God of truth.
Isa 65:16 He who blesses
himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth. And he who swears in the earth
shall swear by the God of truth; because
the former distresses are forgotten; and because they are hidden from My
eyes.
The God of the Bible has a Son, who is Himself The Truth!
John
14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way, and the
Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through
Me.
Those who would worship God must worship Him in spirit.. and in
Truth!
John 4:23 But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in spirit and in
truth. For the Father also seeks such ones that worship Him.
24 God
is a spirit, and the ones worshiping Him must worship in spirit and truth.
God the Holy Spirit is... The Spirit of Truth!
John 14:17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive
because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He abides with
you and shall be in you.
His ministry is that of leading all true
Christians in the truth, which bears witness to Jesus Christ!
John 15:26 And
when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father,
that One will witness concerning Me.
John 16:13 But when that One comes, the
Spirit of truth, He will guide you into
all truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but whatever He hears, He will
speak; and He will announce the coming things to you.
The Scriptures are
the Word of truth!
John 17:17 Sanctify them in Your truth; Your Word is truth.
The Gospel is the word of
truth!
Eph 1:13 in whom also you, hearing the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom
also believing you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
The
Gospel is truth!
Gal 2:5 to whom not even for an hour we yielded in
subjection, that the truth of the gospel
might continue with you.
Gal 2:14 But when I saw that they did not walk
uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I
said to Peter before all, If you being a Jew, live as a non-Jew and not as the
Jews, why do you compel the nations to Judaize?
Col 1:5 because of the hope
being laid up for you in Heaven, which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,
Truth is the means
God uses to save His people.
2Th 2:13 But we ought to thank God always
concerning you, brothers, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the
beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,
The Truth of the
Gospel is the means God uses to regenerate His people.
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which
liveth and abideth for ever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory
of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof
falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is
the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
No wonder
Messiah said... it is the Truth that will set you free!
Therefore,
without the knowledge of the truth, no one is a Christian! Without truth one is
still in bondage to sin and Satan.
Messiah spoke these words...
Mark
16:15 And He said to them, Going into all the world, preach the gospel to all
the creation.
16 The one believing and being baptized will be saved. And the
one not believing will be condemned.
He commanded to preach the Gospel
because the Gospel is the only truth that will set men free. Only those who
believe the truth of the Gospel are true Christians. All those who do -not-
believe the truth of the Gospel are not Christians. They are lost. Such includes
all who hold to false doctrine. False doctrine is of Satan and is not of the
Truth because no lie is of the Truth.
1John 2:21 I have not written unto
you because ye know not the truth, but
because ye know it, and because no lie is of the
truth.
to be continued...... |
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