- Overcomer Literature Trust
- Swindon
- Wiltshire
Truth recognisable by truth.
The truth is the truth everywhere, and carries conviction of truth to all who know the Spirit of Truth. It is this fact which the apostle John describes in words that seem very strong, and yet are reasonable in the light of the indwelling Spirit of Truth, which he knew so fully. “We are of God; he that knoweth God heareth us”, i.e. any man that knows God will be able to recognise God in us, and recognize the truth, “he who is not of God, heareth not us.... By this we know the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:6) There is then, something deeper for testing what is truth and what is error, even than the proving of the spirits by the test of 1 John 4:2, according to these words of the Apostle John. “We know the Spirit of Truth” in another, John appears to say, “by the Spirit of Truth abiding in us, Who at once recognizes the truth wherever it is seen”. This is reasonable! Christ cannot be divided! Neither can the Spirit of Truth in one believer be contrary to the Spirit of Truth in another at one and the same time. It was thus the Lord Himself spoke when He said, “Everyone that is of the truth heareth My voice”.
TRUTH IS TRUTH, AND TRUTH WILL CONQUER all things opposed to it. It will command recognition by the co-witness of the Spirit of Truth. “By manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God”, wrote the apostle. A man’s conscience acknowledges truth. It needs no argument; no defence; no upholding. It requires only witnesses, God will do the rest! Let the Spirit of Truth, then lead us into all truth, by revealing truth, by our desiring truth, by our obedience to truth, by our walking in the truth, and speaking the truth, until the Spirit of Truth so breathes through us that He can convict and reveal truth to others seeking the light of truth.