Truth is not merely an accurate record of things that has happened. Truth is absolute and universal. Truth is not information, truth is Spirit and unseen, but is communicated by Word and works. The knowledge of Truth is an experience or a fellowship with Him Who is Truth: God. God is love. Truth is love. Love is unseen, but is communicated in Word and works. The knowledge of Love is an experience or a fellowship with Him Who is love. God's love is powerful. His Truth is sometimes different than what we see and experience in this natural world. When His Truth comes into our shifting changing reality, the reality must change until He fills all things with Himself and He is the only reality.
His Word created all things. He created the world perfectly by His Word in His love. All things consist in Him and where made in Him. So things are imperfect when taken outside of Him.
He made man. He gave man authority over earth to rule. He gave man a choice: the word of knowledge of good and evil by which man had to sustain everything by his own arm, or the word of Life, whereby man could speak a word in the power of God, and thus reiging in Him and by His will and power. The choice was simple: to live outside of Him in dependence upon the power of man outside of love, in isolation of His presence and influence, outside of life, OR to live in fellowship with Him in love, and trust Him to sustain man and reign through man.
Man chose his own arm and subjected creation to frailty, because he did not have the life in himself to sustain all things. Man withdrew from God. Thus sin entered into the world and death through sin. Death is isolation from life. Death spread to all men, who still had authority by God's sovereign will.
Now since man was devoid of power and ruled with a word that could not sustain life, God's Truth was not seen fully on the earth until the days of Christ. Christ is the visible representation of the invisible. Christ is the manifestation of love. His Word is life. He came to demonstrate truth, love and power. His Truth means salvation to man and creation, because by His Truth all things were made, and by His Truth all things were reconciled back to Himself by Himself going through death to bring His Truth back to man. Jesus Christ was the full expression of Truth, of God Himself in human flesh. He was the demonstration of the knowledge of God in the heart of man, of man reigning and ruling in love.
By faith in what He said and did, we are reconciled back to Him, and that same Spirit of Truth dwells in us, and reigns through us. Morality is not that fellowship, but is man acting in seperation from God. Love is that fellowship, and is man acting by His nature, and in dependence upon Him.
The sacrifice Jesus Christ brought of Himself freed us from having to sustain ourselves by our own power, and brought us back into fellowship with Him, so we can say what He says, love as He loves, and reign as He reigns. We are to be conformed to His very own image, to be the visible representation of Him to the world. This happens only by faith in His Word of Life, in dependence upon Him, and not ourselves.
When we insist on the Truth, everything changes. We have the same spirit of faith as him who wrote: we believe and therefore we speak. We too believe and therefore we speak. We speak Him, we preach Him, we insist on the Truth, changing the reality by changing what we say and hear about God.
It's very simple: we only have life in fellowship with Christ. We only have fellowship with Christ by faith in what He did and said. This fellowship changes our speech and our acts, and it causes Christ to come to the front in every one of us. The mystery is Christ within us, the hope of glory.
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