UNADULTERATED TRUTH

Psalms 119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

What is lying? We sometimes lie to man. That’s when we deceive one another. God-fearing people try not to consciously do that. There is also the lying which we do to ourselves. It is more difficult to discern because we are creatures of excuses, and we like to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. Then there is the lying which consists in absolving ourselves from responsibility and guilt by twisting God’s words, by changing their perspective. We add or subtract to them (which we are not meant to do) in order to make them fit our purposes and human carnal mind.

The worst lie is the one that looks much like the truth. The concept and doctrine that is so diametrically opposite to the truth is easily spotted. While the righteous discerns it, he can be easily fooled by the lie that has taken the appearances of the truth. The devil uses this as a very smart and sly two-sided psychological strategy. On the one side, he appears as this creature with horns and a pitchfork, wearing red pajamas, promoting illicit sex, violence and rock music; and on the other side he comes in the disguise of a handsome smooth tongue preacher, teacher, or even in the form of a beautiful woman. He loves to take a whole lot of truth and mix it with a little of his lies. He does it using against ourselves our own tendencies to compromise in order to gratify our lust of the eyes and of the flesh.

We need to remember that the truth is a pure essence of doctrine. If it contains even a fraction of a drop of lie, it has been contaminated and it is not pure truth anymore. Rat-poisoning is 99.99% rat food with 0,01% poison, but it is fatal to the rodent.

With this in mind, let us check our heart with the truth of the pure word of God as interpreted by the Holy Spirit (John 16:13). Let us honestly subject our doctrine, our beliefs, our *“conversation”, our Christian practices to It’s pure truth. We will be able to concur with David, I hate and abhor lying: but thy Law do I love.

* Conversation: In the King James Bible, the word “conversation” means: lifestyle.

Matthew 15:3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

Galatians 1:6-9 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: (7) Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. (8) But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. (9) As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.