Walking in Truth
Richard Bradley
2 John 1:4-11
Not too many years before John wrote these words a man named Pilate famously asked this question, ''What is truth?'' In Jesus he was looking at God's greatest demonstration of truth the world had ever seen but was too spiritually inadequate to notice it. When Jesus answered Thomas' question about where Jesus was going, Jesus proclaimed Himself as the way, the truth, and the life'' (John 14:6). The truth of that statement is inescapable. We don't need a roadmap to Heaven, which is where Jesus was going, we just need to know Jesus by faith. The truth of the matter is that he is God's one way road to Heaven.
Please understand that there are no versions of the truth. There is just truth. A man once told me that he believed that every religion was just another path up the mountain to God. He further added that God will receive us no matter what we believe as long as we're sincere. While God does expect sincerity, it's also possible for us to be sincerely wrong. Anyone who doesn't rest in Christ for eternal life is exactly that; sincerely wrong. When it comes to eternal life God gives no credit for effort apart from truth.
However, we're not only saved by truth, according to John, truth is also God's prescribed lifestyle for all Christians.
2 John 4-11
4 I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
5 And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.
6 This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we ...
Richard Bradley
2 John 1:4-11
Not too many years before John wrote these words a man named Pilate famously asked this question, ''What is truth?'' In Jesus he was looking at God's greatest demonstration of truth the world had ever seen but was too spiritually inadequate to notice it. When Jesus answered Thomas' question about where Jesus was going, Jesus proclaimed Himself as the way, the truth, and the life'' (John 14:6). The truth of that statement is inescapable. We don't need a roadmap to Heaven, which is where Jesus was going, we just need to know Jesus by faith. The truth of the matter is that he is God's one way road to Heaven.
Please understand that there are no versions of the truth. There is just truth. A man once told me that he believed that every religion was just another path up the mountain to God. He further added that God will receive us no matter what we believe as long as we're sincere. While God does expect sincerity, it's also possible for us to be sincerely wrong. Anyone who doesn't rest in Christ for eternal life is exactly that; sincerely wrong. When it comes to eternal life God gives no credit for effort apart from truth.
However, we're not only saved by truth, according to John, truth is also God's prescribed lifestyle for all Christians.
2 John 4-11
4 I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
5 And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another.
6 This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we ...
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