Knowing GOD's Truth!

 

Knowing GOD’s Truth!

 

JESUS said, “Know the Truth and The Truth will set you free.” I have heard this taught in the Church and used in the world to make someone’s point. But, do we really understand what JESUS was saying? Most people, both in the Church and in the world think of knowing as an intellectual or possibly an experiential understanding of truth; something learned by study or experience.

 

“Then JESUS said to those Jews who believed Him, ‘If you abide in My Word you are My disciples indeed; and you shall know The Truth and The Truth shall make you free.’” John 8:31-32 read the whole section of 8:21-36. Several times JESUS made the point that if we hear what he says and obey it we will be blessed; Matthew 7:24-29 and John 13:1-17 are two examples. But that is not what He is saying in this passage!

 

There are two kinds of truth; natural truth and spiritual truth, both can be learned and experienced.

 

I believe that JESUS is speaking of The Truth: GOD is Truth (John 17:17Psalm 19:9, 100:5, 117:2, 119:142,151, 146:5-7; Isaiah 25:1, 65:16; Daniel 4 :37; Romans 2:2), JESUS is Truth (John 1:14,17, 3:19-21, 14:6; Revelation 3:7,14, 6:10, 19:11) and The HOLY SPIRIT is the Spirit of Truth (John 14:15-18, 15:26, 16:13; 1 John 4:6, 5:6).

 

The Truth of GOD must be known as a relationship to set us free! We all know people who know a lot of scripture yet they do not live according to the freedom of all the scripture they quote. We all know people who have been Church going, tithe paying Christians for years yet they do not live in freedom from sin. It is not the information of truth that we know it is the source of Truth – GOD; that we know and that sets us free!

 

As many Christians know, it is from a personal relationship with GOD that we know The Truth and are set free! The True and Living GOD – Elohim is not a religious GOD – He made humans in His Own Image and made us to live and rule with Him in His eternal home. There is much that we do not understand about being made in His Image and living and ruling with Him in His eternal home, but that does not stop us from knowing Him personally and being set free from sin and sickness.

 

In John 8:31-32 JESUS’ qualification for being a disciple was to abide in His Word and that by abiding in His Word we will know the Truth and be set free. How do we abide? By being a part of it, to abide in something involves more than knowledge but to partake of it, to participate with it. To know it personally and intimately as a husband and wife, JESUS is the groom and the Church is the Bride. We have to open everything in our life every area should be open to His inspection, care and protection. He has opened His life to us so that we know everything about Him, to the point that His SPIRIT lives in us; making us living Temples of GOD in the earth; and He has given us His written Word to make sure we have the opportunity to get to know Him. Between His Word and His SPIRIT there is no reason for a person who wants to know and have a personal and intimate relationship with GOD not to be able to! Like a marriage it takes time, openness and commitment.

 

It is not just Truth, GOD is Love (1 John 4:7-8), Light (John 1:4,9, 3:19-21; Revelation 21:23-25, 22:5), Life (John 1:4, 11:25-26, 14:6) and Wisdom (Proverbs 8, James 1:5). As we know GOD we will be able to know all of these attributes of GOD and make them part of our life in CHRIST!