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Sharing God’s Word:
God’s Truth is under attack! Truth is who God is and what God says! We know from Scripture
that God the Father is True. “He that hath received His testimony hath set his seal that God is
true”(John 3:33). We know also from God's Word that Jesus Christ is the Truth. “Jesus said to
him, I am the way; and the Truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me”
(John 14:6). We know the Holy Spirit is Truth, “This is the One who came by water and blood,
Jesus Christ; not with the water only; but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who
testifies, because the Spirit is the Truth” (1 John 5:6). We know that the Word of God is Truth
from John 17:17: “Sanctify them in the Truth; Your word is Truth.”
Since the Garden of Eden when Satan said in Genesis 3:1: “Indeed, has God said...." God's Truth
has been under attack. Our world has been shaped by mankind, which has done four things with
Truth. In Romans 1: 18, mankind “suppressed the Truth in unrighteousness.” In Acts 20:30,
mankind distorted the Truth by twisting it to deceive others: “and from among your own selves
men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.” In Romans 2:8
man kind rejected the Truth outright by refusing to obey it. And in Romans1:25 mankind did the
most horrendous thing of all by exchanging the Truth for a lie.
No wonder it's the heartbeat of the Apostle John in his 1st and 2nd Epistles that believers walk in
Truth; that believers practice the Truth. We live in a world that is infected with error because of
what mankind has done with the Truth and this fact extends even into those God has called.
God’s churches are polluted with the distortion of Truth. Many have walked away from Truth
instead of walking in Truth.
Truth is the Apostle John's subject in 1st and 2nd John. He told us “.....if we say that we have
fellowship with
Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not practice the Truth.”(1 John 1:6).
John showed us that when we are allowing His Word, which is the Truth, to be in us, instead of
us simply being in His Word, then His Word exposes sin in our lives. “If we say that we have no
sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the Truth is not in us.”(1 John 1:8). He has also shown us
that if we truly know Christ then it is illustrated by our obedience to God's Truth. “The one who
says, I have come to know Him, and does not
keep His commandments, is a liar; and the Truth is not in him” (1 John 2:4).
John told us in 1st John that those who practice the Truth know that God's Word will never
deceive us: “I have not written to you because you do not know the Truth, but because you do
know it, and because no lie
is of the Truth” (1John 2:21). Further, John showed us that we know the Spirit of God is behind
all Truth and that helps us discern the spirit of error: “We are from God; he who knows God
listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of Truth and
the spirit of error” (1 John 4:6).