2Jn 1:2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
The TRUTH'S sake- which DWELLS IN US.
Remember what we studied yesterday?
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
The TRUTH dwells in us through the SPIRIT of TRUTH.
2Jn 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
2Jn 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2Jn 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
WE Walk in the TRUTH.
JESUS IS THE TRUTH.
There is NO NEW commandment!
The commandment from the beginning has always been to LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
If we WALK in TRUTH, we are WALKING after HIS COMMANDMENTS, and if we are WALKING after His commandments we are WALKING in LOVE.
People don't want to see that it's all connected, they'd much rather hear words that are pleasing to their ears, soothing to their conscience. They do NOT want to truly believe that we are to be something different than what we are. People love to believe that they can indulge themselves, living after their flesh nature simply because they HAVE a flesh nature! Denying themselves is NOT something anyone wants to believe is true. Putting aside SELF and all that means isn't what we want to hear!
We are put out when we have to deny ourselves.
People are constantly looking for ways to indulge self and have Christ but the two do NOT go together! When we get to a place where we are comfortable with indulging ourselves and believing in our Savior we have allowed ourselves to be deceived. We need to examine ourselves….
2Co 13:5 EXAMINE YOURSELVES, whether ye be in the faith; PROVE your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2Co 13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
2Co 13:7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
2Co 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2Co 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Here is an excerpt from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Bible- 2 Corinthians 13:1-6--
'If therefore they could prove themselves not to be reprobates, not to be rejected of Christ, he trusted they would know that he was not a reprobate (2Co_13:6), not disowned by Christ. What the apostle here says of the duty of the Corinthians to examine themselves, etc., with the particular view already mentioned, is applicable to the great duty of all who call themselves Christians, to examine themselves concerning their spiritual state. We should examine whether we be in the faith, because it is a matter in which we may be easily deceived, and wherein a deceit is highly dangerous: we are therefore concerned to prove our own selves, to put the question to our own souls, whether Christ be in us, or not; and Christ is in us, except we be reprobates: so that either we are true Christians or we are great cheats; and what a reproachful thing is it for a man not to know himself, not to know his own mind!
TRUTH!
We have to EXAMINE OURSELVES!
2Co 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
The SPIRIT of TRUTH is in US!
If we do NOT have this SPIRIT of TRUTH we have to know it, NOT be deceived!
RIGHT this moment EXAMINE YOURSELF! Is CHRIST in you? Are you LIVING HIS TRUTH? Or are you cheating yourself?
Do you agree with CHRIST and all HIS TRUTH? Do you LOVE CHRIST? Do you keep HIS COMMANDMENTS? Do YOU LOVE as HE LOVES?
We have to examine ourselves, prove ourselves, comprehend that it is up to US to do this and up to CHRIST to FIX US. WE have to recognize our need to be FIXED, understanding that we need to fall at the feet of CHRIST and beg His forgiveness for our sins, for our evils, for our transgressions, for our selfishness, for our desire to deceive ourselves, to live in deception that allows us to indulge ourselves with SELFISHNESS and all that is against our God.
We need CHRIST in US! And Christ will not be in us if we are filled with self and all that entails. Please LORD help us to recognize all that is in us that would keep us from having YOU IN US and then to seek YOU and YOUR forgiveness! Help us, Lord, help us!
More tomorrow all by the GRACE of our GOD!
IN HIS LOVE!
The TRUTH'S sake- which DWELLS IN US.
Remember what we studied yesterday?
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
The TRUTH dwells in us through the SPIRIT of TRUTH.
2Jn 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
2Jn 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2Jn 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
WE Walk in the TRUTH.
JESUS IS THE TRUTH.
There is NO NEW commandment!
The commandment from the beginning has always been to LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
If we WALK in TRUTH, we are WALKING after HIS COMMANDMENTS, and if we are WALKING after His commandments we are WALKING in LOVE.
People don't want to see that it's all connected, they'd much rather hear words that are pleasing to their ears, soothing to their conscience. They do NOT want to truly believe that we are to be something different than what we are. People love to believe that they can indulge themselves, living after their flesh nature simply because they HAVE a flesh nature! Denying themselves is NOT something anyone wants to believe is true. Putting aside SELF and all that means isn't what we want to hear!
We are put out when we have to deny ourselves.
People are constantly looking for ways to indulge self and have Christ but the two do NOT go together! When we get to a place where we are comfortable with indulging ourselves and believing in our Savior we have allowed ourselves to be deceived. We need to examine ourselves….
2Co 13:5 EXAMINE YOURSELVES, whether ye be in the faith; PROVE your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2Co 13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
2Co 13:7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
2Co 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2Co 13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.
Here is an excerpt from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Bible- 2 Corinthians 13:1-6--
'If therefore they could prove themselves not to be reprobates, not to be rejected of Christ, he trusted they would know that he was not a reprobate (2Co_13:6), not disowned by Christ. What the apostle here says of the duty of the Corinthians to examine themselves, etc., with the particular view already mentioned, is applicable to the great duty of all who call themselves Christians, to examine themselves concerning their spiritual state. We should examine whether we be in the faith, because it is a matter in which we may be easily deceived, and wherein a deceit is highly dangerous: we are therefore concerned to prove our own selves, to put the question to our own souls, whether Christ be in us, or not; and Christ is in us, except we be reprobates: so that either we are true Christians or we are great cheats; and what a reproachful thing is it for a man not to know himself, not to know his own mind!
TRUTH!
We have to EXAMINE OURSELVES!
2Co 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
The SPIRIT of TRUTH is in US!
If we do NOT have this SPIRIT of TRUTH we have to know it, NOT be deceived!
RIGHT this moment EXAMINE YOURSELF! Is CHRIST in you? Are you LIVING HIS TRUTH? Or are you cheating yourself?
Do you agree with CHRIST and all HIS TRUTH? Do you LOVE CHRIST? Do you keep HIS COMMANDMENTS? Do YOU LOVE as HE LOVES?
We have to examine ourselves, prove ourselves, comprehend that it is up to US to do this and up to CHRIST to FIX US. WE have to recognize our need to be FIXED, understanding that we need to fall at the feet of CHRIST and beg His forgiveness for our sins, for our evils, for our transgressions, for our selfishness, for our desire to deceive ourselves, to live in deception that allows us to indulge ourselves with SELFISHNESS and all that is against our God.
We need CHRIST in US! And Christ will not be in us if we are filled with self and all that entails. Please LORD help us to recognize all that is in us that would keep us from having YOU IN US and then to seek YOU and YOUR forgiveness! Help us, Lord, help us!
More tomorrow all by the GRACE of our GOD!
IN HIS LOVE!
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