Benefits of the Truth

BIBLE TRUTH

 

What Does The Bible Say About Truth 

If we ever need to know anything, it is the truth. And, the truth is that Jesus Christ is the Saviour. He is the Saviour of the world. (Little) 1 John 2:1 said it like this, "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world." That is the truth.  Jesus Christ died for us to be saved.

 

MANY PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE JESUS AS A SAVIOUR

So many people in the world today does not believe in Jesus as a Saviour. So many people think, perhaps he was just a prophet or someone that was just born in the eastern part of the world. 

Friends, he came here born of a virgin Mary. God caused him to be here. And, because of the truth we suffer a lot of times. But, there is one good thing about it. Jesus said in Timothy 2: 12, "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him:"

If you truly believe in the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, there is something greater for you than what the world is going to receive. That greatness is the goodness of God. 

God made a covenant before and to Abraham, Isaac and to Jacob. God made a covenant with the children of Israel. God has made a covenant with you. He has made a promise to you today. If you will do his commandments, you can have everlasting life. 

BECAUSE OF THE TRUTH, WE SUFFER

Because of the truth, we suffer persecutions. We suffer loss of friendship. People perhaps who were our friends at one time may turn their backs on us when we turn to God...when we turn to Jesus. That is nothing new. Jesus said, "If the world hates you, it is because they hate me."

If you love the Lord and you turn your heart and life over to Jesus Christ because of the truth, you will have to suffer. You will have to go through life laying down the filth of the flesh and suffer for his sake. 

LOVE THE ONE AND DESPISE THE OTHER

I want to take my text in Saint John 8:31, "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;" 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. That sounds awful good and easy. What is it that he makes you free from? Many people want to claim that they can hold onto the world with one hand and to God under the other arm. You see people walking around with a bible. I used to hear the preacher say, "They've got the bible tucked under one arm, and the world under the other." We can't go that way. You have to either love the one and despise the other or cleave to the one and hate the other.

You can't walk with Jesus Christ and like the elements of the world.  You can't have the pleasures of this world.  I think about Moses when his mother went and hid him.  You know Pharaoh was out to kill all the children there.  She had went and hid Moses in the flags of the river.  The bible said that he was raised in the house of Pharaoh but he chose rather to suffer the affliction when he became of years.

 

THE WAY OF SUFFERING

  

In Hebrews 11:24,  ''By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God,".  

There is  suffering that we have to do because of the truth.  Because of what God has put in his word, you are going to have to suffer.  There are going to be people that won't have much to do with you anymore.  Don't think strange about that.  That is just a trial that you will have to go through.  You will be tempted.  You will have times that you will want to go back and do the things that you did when you were in sin.  Those things will come to you. 

  

Satan will try to destroy you and cause you to want to go back into those things.  But, just as Moses chose rather to suffer those afflictions with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for that season (it just a very little time)... the more we get into this, you will understand what I am talking about when I say it is just for a season...in just a little time because the covenants of God are forever.  They are everlasting forever and ever.  God's promises are true but Moses chose rather to suffer those afflictions with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. 

 

YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH

 

Now, I want to get on into St. John 8:32 (Jesus said), "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 

 

34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.  I will ask you today…what are you serving?  Who do you serve?  What do you look to?  What is Lord of your life?  Is Jesus Christ Lord of your life?  John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

  

The only way you can get to God is through Jesus Christ, and you have to obey his word.  You have to obey the truth.  This truth that we are talking about is a way of suffering.  It is a way of laying the filth of the flesh aside.  It is a way of knowing how you ought to live and living according to God in the spirit. 

 

WHAT IS LORD OF YOUR LIFE

  

What is Lord of your life today?  Does sin reign over you?  Does sin cause you to do things maybe that you are ashamed of?  Is your life full of sin that causes you not to want people to come around at certain times because you are afraid of what they think about you? 

  

If so, let Jesus come into your heart.  Let the truth come into there, and believe him.  Believe that he is the way of salvation...of deliverance.  Jesus is the way. I want to read the 34th verse again.

 

34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.   35  And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.  The 36th verse says, "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 

  

GOD CAN MAKE YOU AN OVERCOMER 

 

When Jesus Christ does something…when God does something, you don't have to worry about it.  He can cleanse you.  He can make you whole.  He can make you to where the filth and the things that you lived in your life, (the things that you just couldn't seem to lay aside), he can make it to where you can overcome those.  But, only through him. I think about what the Lord said that through God…Acts 17:28 "For in him we live, and move, and have our being;". It is God that allows us to do the things. 

 

I have quoted this many times, Job 12:10 "In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind."  When I was a child I used to hear the pastor say it kinda like this, "All God has to do is snap that brittle thread of life of yours, and it is over for you."  Man is as the flower of the grass.  His time is short and then it witherth

 away.   

 

LIFE IS BUT A VAPOR

 

Our life is but a vapor and if we don't take that truth of Jesus Christ and apply it to our heart, they is nothing I could say here today that will help you.  If you don't accept the word…if you don't accept the truth and know within yourself that God is in your heart and in your life… that Jesus Christ is in you…that your life is hid with Christ in God…if you don't get to that place, nothing I say is going to do you a bit of good.  All that it is going to do is bind the tares.  And, we don't want to be in that crowd. 

 

We want to be in that part where he said that we would shine forever.  That the righteous would shine as the sun in the kingdom of the Father forever.  If you will, listen to this preacher today.  Lay aside the filth of the flesh.  Come to Jesus. 

  

Matthew 11:28 Jesus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  There is rest from the sin that you are in.  There is rest from that and today if you do know the Lord as your Saviour, (Galatians 4:12)  Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. 13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.  15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of?  for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.  16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

 

DON'T GET ANGRY WITH THIS PREACHER

 

Today, if I am speaking to you as a sinner...if you are living in sin, and you haven't laid it aside please don't get angry with this preacher for telling you this.  I don't want to become your enemy because I tell you the truth.  I want to speak this to you in love because I want you to make it to heaven.  I have set my goal to go to God's heaven and that is where I intend to go.  God made this earth when he put Adam here.  He didn't intend for man to have to till the ground and sweat the way he does today.  He didn't intend for the woman to have to bear the children with pain.  None of those things would have happened. 

  

God had a perpetual mist to come up and make the earth to grow, and that would have been awesome but Adam listened to his wife, and his wife listened to the devil.  And, that lie that he told caused sin upon the earth. 

 

BY THE OBEDIENCE OF ONE SHALL MANY BE MADE RIGHTEOUS

 

Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.  Today, that is what I want you to have.  I want you to have that righteousness.  I want you to have that peace, that love, and that joy that Jesus Christ gives us. 

 

Even in Christ Jesus we suffer but it is a glorious suffering because the suffering of this present time is not worthy to compare with the glory that shall be revealed in us.  When Jesus Christ comes back to this earth, things will be worth it all.  It will be worth it all after a while. 

  

May God bless you is my prayer.  Let this word find a resting place in your heart.

 

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These Stones

 

 

 

THESE STONES:  JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST

Abraham's Seed Would Be Heir of the World

In Matthew 3:9, "And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham".

God had made a promise to Abraham that he would be heir of the world.  Romans 4:13 "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."  

One of my favorite passages is Genesis 13: 14, "And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:  15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever."

SALVATION 

Why is that such an integral part of my life?  It is because that is what salvation is all about.  It is about the promised land that God has given to us.  Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.  That promise today is not just to the natural seed of Abraham but it is to us the Gentiles.  That is what John was saying right there in the ninth verse.  He said, (Matthew 3:9 - I'll read the last part) "for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones (these stones had a "s") to raise up children unto Abraham."  The first part:  And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father:

Just because they were the natural seed of Abraham didn't mean they were the only ones that were going to receive that because he said, "God is able of these stones"...these stones were the Gentile race.  Thank God for that. 

IT ALL CAME THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST

Where would we be if God had not turned to us.  It all came through the blood of Jesus Christ. God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.  Verse 10, "And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.  11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, (speaking of Jesus Christ) whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:. 

What John did was only unto repentance.  What Jesus did was to cleanse us.  When we repent we can actually be cleansed.  Everything can be washed away.  Thank God for Jesus Christ. 

You know, God had blessed Job with many blessings in life.  It was amazing the things that Job had.  Job was a perfect man and was upright.  Job 1:1, "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

HOW TO GET GOD'S BLESSINGS

If you want God's blessings, Job Chapter 1:1, will let you know how you can get them.  You've got to be an upright person.  Proverbs 2:21  For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. That is what we want to be is perfect with God.  The only way we can do that is through Jesus Christ and by the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Back to these stones, Job had went through a lot in life.  Everything that he had to suffer, all of the pains that he suffered was a lot.  He had lost a lot of his family.  He lost a lot of his blessings that he had.  God had given him many sheep, the camels were about three thousand.  He had five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses and a very great household.  He had a lot in his life but there was some destruction that came Job's way.  He lost all of his children.  He lost all of his cattle, sheep and the houses that they lived in.

He had gotten to the point that he just wanted to die.  He wanted God to take him out.  

FRIENDS TRIED TO CONSOLE JOB

Three of his friends actually tried to console him but one in particular, El'-i-phaz came and brought him encouragement.  This is what he told him in Job 5: 17 - 24...Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:  therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:  18  For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: (you can see he was trying to tell him that God might take this away,and you may be going through a problem today) he woundeth, and his hands make whole.  19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.  20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.  21  Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue:  neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. (this man was about to tell him something very special.) 

22  At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.  23  For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee  24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

 I hope the verse (23 "For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field:" has captured your attention.  This "league of the stones of the field"...he was in a certain group that was called for a certain purpose.  

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From Part 2 of "These Stones" with Pastor Stoney Kiser

God had told Abraham that his seed would be heir of the world. I believe that is where heaven will be when it is all said and done. He said he would take the curse off of the earth and that the throne of God would be in it. So, if you want to make heaven your home...you need to be heir of the world. You need to be joint heirs with Christ.

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"These Stones"  Part 1 

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