2 John<\/p>\n
Read this chapter\/ book over and over asking yourself if your life is filled with truth.\u00a0 Consider your ways and correct any ways that are not lined up with truth.\u00a0 Praise truth and point out and push away false teachings.\u00a0 Your spiritual life and the spiritual life of your family depends on your actions and reactions to truth.\u00a0 We are not talking opinions, which everyone has the right to their own, but truth as defined by God is eternal and whatever anyone else believes is not acceptable.<\/p>\n
This is written to an older lady and her children.\u00a0 It is written to encourage her to maintain her walk and the walk of her child in the truth. \u00a0There is nothing more important than teaching our family the truth.\u00a0 I am saddened by parents when they want their child to find his or her own way.\u00a0 The Bible is not a truth but The Truth.\u00a0 So the ways of truth are found in its pages.\u00a0 No one would ever say \u201cI do not want to force math on my child.\u00a0 For me 2 + 2= 4: I know this truth but I\u2019d rather my child find their own truth\u201d.\u00a0 No way! \u00a0The same thing holds when teaching God\u2019s truth\u2026 it is absolute truth.<\/p>\n
She is encouraged to continue in the truth, but told to be aware of false teachers.\u00a0 Just because someone wrote a book, has a radio or TV show, or maybe even teaches does not mean they are teaching truth. The word deceiver means imposter.\u00a0 They are acting as if they are in Christ and yet they are not.\u00a0 The religion doing this the most today is the Mormons.\u00a0\u00a0 They say they follow Christ but they do not follow the Christ of the Bible.\u00a0 So beware and search truth out based on the Scriptures.<\/p>\n
Verse 8 talks about us getting off track concerning doctrine.\u00a0 It explains that if we get off track we may lose our rewards.\u00a0 God tells us that through obedience and faithfulness to Christ we are given rewards in Heaven.\u00a0 We are encouraged to store up treasure in Heaven and not on earth.\u00a0 Here it indicates that rewards can be lost or no longer increased when we do not live out the truth.\u00a0 God places great emphases on knowing and doing the truth.\u00a0 After all living in the truth is what sets us free.<\/p>\n
Think about how your life matches the truth this weekend.\u00a0 Think about how that truth is lived out in love towards one another.\u00a0 Meditate, pray and move towards living out truth.\u00a0 Remove anything that is teaching you false truth.<\/p>\n
Have a great weekend; we look forward to seeing everyone\u00a0this Sunday\u00a0at church as we teach and proclaim the truth.<\/p>\n
Let us know what you think and how this is going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}