Working in Truth


Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! (John 1:47)


The Lord commends those who are devoid of deceit because such a man or woman has come to a place of oneness with Him (John 17:21). One of the claims of Jesus is that He IS the Truth, hence His words carry everything that bears truth (John 8:40). The oneness with the Father is exhibited in not speaking of Himself but of the Father. This is where preachers of the Word need to be sure that the place of their spiritual standing is with Jesus and not from humanistic perspective, as He is with the Father lest there is speaking of untruth. A speaking that is not founded in Christ is alien of Father and there is from another father (John 8:38), and the other father speaks out of deceit (John 8:44). Messages from the pulpit should draw us to the conformity of Christ, not self realization but Christ exaltation (John 3:30). Truth comes in the form of the double edged sword (Heb 4:12) before it brings comfort (Hos 6:1).


They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
(John 8:39)


The works of Abraham was that he believed God in obedience and it was imputed unto him for righteousness (Jas 2:23) and further more ‘this is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom he hath sent’ (John 6:29). Truth is the work of God ‘which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure’ (Phil 2:13) before working out with fear and trembling. ‘In the beginning Moses had realized that he was the one to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in his individual perspective, but he was not the person for the work until he had learned true fellowship and oneness with God….We must also learn that our individual effort for God shows nothing but disrespect for Him— our individuality is to be rendered radiant through a personal relationship with God, so that He may be "well pleased" (Matt 3:17)’ (Oswald Chambers).


For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
(Mat 24:5)


Those who preach outside of the oneness with Jesus can preach another Jesus, another gospel (2 Cor 11:4). Listeners require the nobility ‘in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.’ (Acts 17:11). Notice how many followers of preaching icons we have today. Do these icons speak of themselves or of Jesus, as Jesus speaks of the Father? Have some of these icons subtly usurped the Lordship of Jesus? Sadly people pursue the messenger more than Message Himself.


If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
(1Jn 4:20)


How do we know that we are in the truth or in deceit? A life lived founded in truth prefers another. Firstly for Father and second for others, however we should take note that the measure of our love for the Lord is in how much we love the brethren. The pilgrimage of a believer living in truth will take him or her to the conformity the image of Christ (Rom 8:29). The truth of Christ has the power to make us free (John 8:32) from sin (not in sin) with the grace and freedom to forgive the vilest offender, to love our enemies, to bless those who curse us, pray for the best of our persecutors, esteeming others better than ourselves…. These demonstrate the love and meekness not of us, but that which proceeds from our oneness in Christ. We cannot deny God the privilege of working in truth, we shouldn’t be surprise that God uses the most unlikely and uncomfortable situation and people to do so… because He wants to bring many sons to Glory (Heb 2:10).