Truth-in Reality.

Joh_3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Joh_8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Joh_14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Doing truth.  How do you do truth? Our lives can be made up of lies, seriously they can be. We love to deceive ourselves. Some people spend their entire lives deceiving people along with themselves. They do not seek truth at all, not really. Truth is living the reality of our Savior. Our Savior sets us free. Our Savior is truth.

How are we to be free in any other way than knowing our Savior? 

The reality of Christ is something we don't think about enough.

Do we want to come to the light? Do we want our deeds manifested that they are known to be from our Savior? 

More on the tomorrow prayerfully,  I am exhausted from preparing for Hurricane Irma.

All through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever- all in TRUTH.

Lord, Full of Truth.

Joh_1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Jesus was full of TRUTH.

Jesus was TRUTH.

Do we want truth? Or do we prefer lies to truth?

Why would we prefer lies to truth? Because we like sin. We like living in the darkness. We like this because simply put we are SELFISH.

As long as we look to ourselves we will not be looking to Christ.

Not a single sin occurs that isn't self-focused in some way.

We sin when we are led away of our own lusts and let that lust create sin in us.  We will have lusts, but lusts can be denied (through our Savior, through the Holy Spirit). 

Jesus is TRUTH, Jesus is filled with TRUTH, we are not filled with truth if we are not filled with our Savior!

The truth isn't easy in a world that is plagued by sin. Where sin is called good and acceptable, where sin is even called holy and righteous- and we stand against what the majority believe is good, acceptable, holy and righteous, it is then we have to realize just how hard it is to live in truth.  So many do not find it hard because they are deceived -their truth is really lies and they can never see it because they refuse, they like their blindness.

With all the horrors in our world we choose to ignore a lot of sin because it is not the worst of sin. We teach ourselves to accept the lesser sins, the lesser lies because they really aren't all that bad, they aren't hurting anyone. We base our lives on what we determine is good or bad, and when we do that we are playing God. It's what GOD determines is good and bad, not us! It is the One who knows the end from the beginning who determines what is good and bad. It is our CREATOR who has the right, our REDEEMER who has the right, not us! We need to decide to FOLLOW their TRUTH not the truth we find acceptable.

Please, LORD full of TRUTH, please help us to follow all YOUR truth and not be deceived, not be corrupted by the evil, not be led away by evil, please! Save us from OURSELVES! Please!

All through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ now and forever and ever!

Truth.

Joh 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 

Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

Worshipping in spirit and truth.

So many concentrate upon the worshipping in spirit but not the worshipping in truth.

We have to seek the truth.

The following are verses on TRUTH- tomorrow by the grace and will of God we will study this more in-depth! Please, Lord, please we would know and follow truth, YOUR truth!

Joh_1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Joh_3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Joh_8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Joh_14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Joh 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments. 

Joh 14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 

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. 

Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 

Joh 15:26  But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 

Joh 15:27  And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. 

Joh_16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

Joh_17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Joh 17:18  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 

Joh 17:19  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 

Joh_18:37  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.

Rom_1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness

Rom_1:25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

1Co_13:6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth

2Co_4:2  But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

2Co_6:7  By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left

Eph_1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Eph_4:15  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ

Eph_4:21  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus

Eph_5:9  (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

Eph_6:14  Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness

Col_1:5  For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel

Col_1:6  Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth

1Th_2:13  For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

2Th_2:10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2Th_2:12  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2Th_2:13  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth

1Ti_2:4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

1Ti_2:7  Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

1Ti_3:15  But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

1Ti_6:5  Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

2Ti_2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2Ti_2:18  Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

2Ti_2:25  In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth

2Ti_3:8  Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

2Ti_4:4  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Tit_1:1  Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness

Tit_1:14  Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

Jas_3:14  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Jas_5:19  Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him

Jas 5:20  Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. 

1Pe_1:22  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently

2Pe_1:12  Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

2Pe_2:2  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

1Jn_1:6  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth

1Jn_1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1Jn_2:4  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1Jn_2:21  I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

1Jn_2:27  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

1Jn_3:18  My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

1Jn_3:19  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.

1Jn_4:6  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.

1Jn_5:6  This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

2Jn_1:1  The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

2Jn_1:2  For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

2Jn_1:3  Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

2Jn_1:4  I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

3Jn_1:3  For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.

3Jn_1:4  I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

3Jn_1:8  We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.

For our sake He was made poor.

2Co 8:8  I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. 

2Co 8:9  For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 

2Co 8:10  And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. 

2Co 8:11  Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 

2Co 8:12  For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 

2Co 8:13  For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 

2Co 8:14  But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: 

2Co 8:15  As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack. 

This isn't a commandment it's a testimony to love's sincerity.

Truly a lot of people believe communes, and any society whose political bent is towards equality towards all is wrong. Ideas of dictators spring up, and leaders who are corrupt and only want more power for themselves fill us we aversions and rightly so. This world has been run by many corrupt leaders- kings, presidents, dictators, prime ministers, queens etc.  We know cruelty and abuse of power so well. The rich do seem to get richer and the poor do seem to get poorer.

This message- this testimony to love's sincerity talks about our abundance supplying another's need, and our needs being supplied by another's abundance.  This is truly love realized on the highest level isn't it? 

Our selfishness prevents us from supplying, and prevents others from supplying as well - while people live in want. When we are wanting we are so thankful for the supply when it comes to us.  Where is the harm in being gracious and giving, in supplying and taking?  This is life isn't it? Helping our fellow man whenever we can, yet all too often we stop helping- we draw a line in the sand of our generosity so we do not live in the poverty we are trying to alleviate.  So many lines are drawn and yet, we placate ourselves for what we do, telling ourselves we did enough, or at least we did something.  How do we know when it is enough?

Love's testimony. 

May God help us to know and do His will in giving and in receiving and keep us from evil's grasp in all things.

All through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, now and forever!!!!!!!!

Godly Sorrow.

2Co 7:8  For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. 

2Co 7:9  Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. 

2Co 7:10  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 

2Co 7:11  For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 

Sorrow to repentance.

Sorrow after a godly manner.

Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation.

Worldly sorrow works death.

When we read the Word of God often we can be convicted in ourselves of things we've done wrong, things we need repentance for. We seek repentance and by the grace of God we are forgiven. We seek forgiveness and repent, we sorrow for our wrong doing. Today so many would have us condone wrong rather than reject it in ourselves. Satan cries out for us to believe sinning is acceptable- that evil is good and good is evil. When we stop believing that sin has a penalty, that sin is wrong, then we are deceived. When we don't believe we need to repent then we are deceived.

Paul made the Corinthians sorry with a letter, an epistle- they didn't like what they heard - they were chastised for wrong doing, they were rebuked, they were hurt by the words they heard but their hurt, their pain, their sorrow was for their own salvation. They were shown truth and the truth hurt them but it hurt them to the point they recognized their error. They wanted to change, they no longer wanted to commit the sins they'd been committing. They repented of their evil- a true sorrow, a true desire to change.

If we, today, are reproved for our sins and ignore the reproving by twisting and turning things so we excuse or sins, then we are guilty and not forgiven. We need godly sorrow in our lives. We need to comprehend truth.  This is truth…

Joh_8:32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Worldly sorrow does not bring repentance unto salvation. Worldly sorrow laments selfishly, not selflessly. Worldly sorrow longs for self. Godly sorrow longs for God.

Please, Lord, please let us long for YOU.

All through Jesus Christ our LORD, our SAVIOR, now and FOREVER!

Endure Sound Doctrine.

2Ti 4:2  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 

2Ti 4:3  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 

2Ti 4:4  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 

2Ti 4:5  But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. 

2Ti 4:6  For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 

2Ti 4:7  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 

2Ti 4:8  Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. 

The time will come when people will NOT endure sound doctrine…but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears.

People will turn away from truth, from sound doctrine because it pleases them to follow things that are not of sound doctrine.  It's not that people will turn away from an outward show of truth, of Christianity, of putting on the appearance of being a Christ follower. People will appear true, for all intents and purposes they will be good Christians and it is NOT for us to judge any person's eternal life, not ever. However, we have to follow sound doctrine regardless of what every anyone else follows. Once we know truth we cannot deny that truth. We can't change truth to suit our own desires. We can't expect an easy go of things, can we?

FEW there be that find it….
MANY will say to me in that day…
NARROW is the way…
BROAD is the path…

Mat_7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Mat 7:21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 

Mat 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 

Mat 7:23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 

Mat_7:13  Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat

We need to comprehend that the truth, the sound doctrine of the truth will not be popular with most people, God's word tells us this truth. Do we believe the truth?

May God help us know truth, to know sound doctrine, to now only know sound doctrine but follow that doctrine, believe that doctrine, teach that doctrine. All by the grace and will, the mercy and love of our SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD now and forever!

Spirit

Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 

Joh 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 

Joh 16:15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

The Spirit of truth.

A guiding Spirit.

A speaking Spirit.

A hearing Spirit.

A teaching Spirit.

A glorifying Spirit.

A receiving Spirit.

Jesus wants us to receive the Spirit of truth. Jesus wants us to be guided by the Spirit of truth. The Spirit of truth is REAL.

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

Joh 3:7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 

Joh 3:8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 

Joh 3:9  Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 

Joh 3:10  Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 

Joh 3:11  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 

Joh 3:12  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 

Joh 3:13  And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 

Joh 3:14  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 

Joh 3:15  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 

We must be born of the Spirit.

The Spirit is so incredibly real! We need to be taught of the Spirit and we WILL be taught of the Spirit as we surrender ourselves wholly to God allowing Him to live in us, to work in us.

Act 8:29  Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. 

Truly the Spirit speaks to us!

Act 10:19  While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. 

Act 11:12  And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house

Act 13:2  As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. 

Act 13:3  And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. 

Act 13:4  So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. 

Act 16:6  Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 

Act 16:7  After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. 

Act 20:22  And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: 

Act 20:23  Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. 

1Co 12:11  But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will

1Ti 4:1  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils

The Spirit!

The Holy Spirit will guide us, He really, really will!  However, we know from this last verse many will give heed to SEDUCING SPIRITS.

We need the Holy Spirit in our lives not the devil's spirits who will deceive at every opportunity!

We need the Spirit of truth!

May we receive the Spirit of truth, heeding ONLY the Holy Spirit and no other spirit that may approach us!

We don't SEE Spirits but they exist, they really exist and to not believe is to be deceived.  The Holy Spirit will protect us, teach us, guide us, comfort us, give us the spiritual gifts we need to do the will of God. May we be blessed with the Holy Spirit's guidance in every facet of our lives! All through Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR, now and forever!!!!!!!