“Pilate saith unto him, What is Truth?”
I can tell you what it’s not: Truth is not hypocrisy, it is not watered down, it is not: vain, prideful, exalting, manipulating, evil or sinful. Truth is DIVIDING.
Now please, let me be the first to point out that I am not talking about the word truth, as you find it in Webster’s dictionary. I am talking about the Truth. Jesus said “I come not to bring peace but a sword.” The Bible tells us that, the “sword” is the Word of God, and if you are living according to the Word it will act as a sword and DIVIDE. It will divide you from many things, of which might include: friends, family, co-workers, places of entertainment, but ultimately it will divorce you from one thing and thereby divorce you from many things different things……….. “Huh?” Let me explain…… When the Sword of the Spirit comes in it severs you from the carnality within. What is carnality? It is the evil (carnal) nature that every man is born with. This nature has the propensity to sin and follow Satan. Jesus came so that man could be DIVIDED from this nature. It was never his will for us to continue in the life of committing sin. By diving the nature to sin from a man’s heart, with the vehicle of the manifestation of the Spirit, he gives us an innate wantonness to do His will and forsake the will of evil. In short, if you have a weed problem, you divide the root from the ground, you don’t just cut it off at the stem. The Spirit of God gets down to the root of the problem.
What I have been thinking about this week is the unavoidable dividing truth of the gospel. The Bible calls us to be separated, apart, sanctified-that is to say set apart for a HOLY purpose. It is the division that brings salvation to a soul, and the grace of God that makes it possible. You cannot have salvation without separation from sin, you cannot have separation of sin without the sacrifice of Jesus; the sacrifice of Jesus would not have been possible without the grace of God.
“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;” –Titus 2: 11-12
When the face of unrighteousness meets the person of Truth……one must go. This is what I have been thinking on this week; what have you been thinking on?
