To Know the Truth is Deliverance

Deliver Us From This Present Evil World

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And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you Free" (John 8:32). This is God's Method for Deliverance. Through Faith in Him, He makes us to "know the Truth"."20 Now the God of Peace, that brought again from the dead our LORD Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, 21 make you Perfect in every good work to DO His Will, working in you that which is Wellpleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be Glory for ever and ever. Amen"(Hebrews 13:20-21). And we are to cooperate with Him in the doing and working. "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that Good, and Acceptable, and Perfect, Will of God" (Romans 12:2). For "For it is God which worketh in you both to WILL and to DO of His Good Pleasure"(Philippians 2:13). Jesus' Example to us was that, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" (John 5:17).

Any person who knows that Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (John 14:6), is a hypocrite if he doesn't follow the Truth. "37 Pilate therefore said unto Him, Art thou a King then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a King. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear Witness unto the Truth. Every one that is of the Truth heareth My Voice. 38 Pilate saith unto Him, What is Truth?" (John 18:37-38). Staring Truth in the face, Pilate denies Truth. This is what we do when we refuse the Counsel of His Truth. "He that is of God heareth God's Words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God" (John 8:47). This is the test of whether a person knows God, or not. Do you believe what He said? "He that hath received His Testimony hath set to his seal that God is True" (John 3:33). "Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear Record of Myself, yet My Record is True: for I know whence I came, and whither I go" (John 8:14). To believe Jesus' Word is to "know the Truth" (John 8:32)."And the Truth shall make you Free" (8:32). Mark it down. "We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the Spirit of Truth, and the spirit of error" (1John 4:6). "So then Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10:17).

Human action testifies to the heart condition of man, "for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7). Therefore, a true child of God hears the Word, and by hearing, obeys the Word of God. "Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" (1Corinthians 1:20).

"6 Howbeit we speak Wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7 But we speak the Wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden Wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the LORD of Glory. 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing Spiritual things with Spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are Spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is Spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man... 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise" (1Corinthians 2:6-15,18).

The Word says, that we are to "be renewed in the spirit of your mind" (Ephesians 4:23) by "proving what is acceptable unto the LORD" (Eph 5:10). "Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the Will of the LORD is" (Eph 5:17). "21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is Good. 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil" (1Thessalonians 5:21-22). And so, brethren, "for this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the Knowledge of His Will in all Wisdom and Spiritual Understanding" (Colossians 1:9). Love the LORD. "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the Love of the Father is not in him" (1John 2:15). Remember, that though it is "not by works of [our own] righteousness which we have done, but according to His Mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" (Titus 3:5), that still, as His children and in His Righteousness, we are to be "as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance" (1Peter 1:14). "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" (John 5:17). His Truth does Deliver.

(Romans 6:6) "Knowing this, that our old man [our old way of living] is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."
(Romans 8:10) "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is Life because of Righteousness."
(Romans 8:37) "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us."
(Galatians 5:24) "And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts."
(Galatians 6:14) "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our LORD Jesus Christ, by Whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."

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