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"IF…THEN"

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Announcements › Forums › God – January 7th, 2018 › "IF…THEN"

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  • January 3, 2018 at 8:46 pm #5704
    parthens
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    Golden Text – “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).

    Too many times the phrase “the truth will make you free” has been quoted as though it were a true statement all by itself, leaving out the fact that it is part of a much weightier “if/then” conditional clause: John 8:31-32 states clearly, “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue [abide] in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.'”

    Thus, two extremely important things — knowing truth and being set free by the truth — are completely dependent upon continuing in the truth; in other words, faithfully, intractably, ceaselessly acting upon the Word of truth.

    So, worshiping God in Spirit and truth means not only hearing the Word of truth, but responding to it by rendering worthy service to God in doing explicitly what the Word says (James 1:22) as I am led of the Spirit.

    Christ’s Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 7:24-26) prompts me to take heed that the same torrential rain came down, the same raging rivers rose, the same winds beat against the house of the one who heard the Word only as well as against the house of the one who acted upon the Word, but only the latter house remained safe, intact, and unharmed.

    “The error of the ages is preaching without practice” (Sh 241:17-18).

    January 5, 2018 at 9:27 am #5706
    MaryBeth
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    Thank you! Very important point!

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