Text: “For Thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes; and I
have walked in Thy truth. I have not sat with vain persons, neither will
I go in with dissemblers. I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and
will not sit with the wicked.”
Good morning, Christian walking in the Truth! It
is one thing to say that one KNOWS the truth, it is quite another to actually
prove one is walking in the Truth. Amen? We who are utterly
privileged to know the Truth (Christ Jesus), must at all times seek to show
that we are walking in the Truth. Our witness for Christ is a daily
necessity.
“If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk
in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth; but if we walk in the light, as He
is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus
Christ His Son cleanseth (cleanses and continues to cleanse) us from ALL
sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
(Jesus Christ) is not in us.” (1 John 1:6-8)
It has been my own personal experience - this past
thirty-four plus years - that the true Christian’s walk is never in a
completely straight line. A strange thing for a Pastor and a Bible
Teacher to say, but TRUTH and HONESTY are what really matters in the Christian
life, and if we are honest and truthful, we KNOW we too often fail the Lord as
we ‘walk as pilgrims through this barren land’ of life. Amen? God
knows our heart’s; He understands the weakness of our mortal frame; He gives us
His grace.
The apostle Paul was brutally honest in relation to
his own daily state as a natural born sinner like you and like me.
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth
no good thing; for to will is present with me (I know what I should be
doing/saying/thinking); but how to perform that which is good I find not (I
fail too often). For the good that I would (do) I do not; but the evil
which I would not (do), that I do…O wretched man that I am! Who shall
deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ
our Lord…” (Romans 7:18-25)
One thing to always remember
when seeking to understand such deep Bible teachings is this: the Lord God
rewards you and I according to the sincere motives of our hearts, and not
according to what we actually achieve in any given area of our daily
lives.
“…For the Lord seeth (sees and continues to see) not
as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh
on the heart (the motivation of the essence of ones being).” (1 Samuel
16:7)
Verse 3. “And I have
walked in Thy truth. Some talk
of truth; it is better to walk in it. Some vow to do well in future, but
their resolutions come to nothing; only the regenerate man can say, ‘I have
walked in Thy truth.’” (C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, page 132)
“…but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light,
we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son
cleanseth (cleanses and continues to cleanse) us from ALL sin.” (1 John
1:7)
Verses 3-4. God will not shake the wicked by the hand, as the
Vulgate reads: (Job 8:20), neither must the godly man. David proves the
sincerity of his course by his care to avoid such society.” (George Swinnock
1627-1673)
The Bible doctrine of Separation is one of the
most neglected doctrines taught in the church today - “Wherefore come out from
among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean
thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be
My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” - (2
Corinthians 6:14-18)
We Bible-believing Christians are now children of God,
through faith in God’s Son, Christ Jesus. We are Eternally SEPARATED from God’s
wrath against sin, and unto Eternal life with Him. Praise God it is so, we are
a separated and most peculiar people. Thanks be to the Lord God! (1 Peter
2:9-10)
We who where once worldly
‘goats’ are now Christ’s ‘sheep‘! (John 1:12-13)
Christ, and Christ alone could determine and achieve
this Eternal separation for us. Christ Jesus is, therefore, ‘the Great
Separator’. Glory to His Name. Thank you, Lord. (John 17:1-3)
The Eternal purpose of God the Father was, is, and
shall be, perfectly fulfilled by His only begotten Son, Christ Jesus. Christ
was sent to save all those whom the Father had determined to save ‘…from before
the foundation of the world…’. Christ came, in obedience to His Father’s
Eternal will, to save all those whom God the Father had ordained to receive
Salvation - and that is what He continues to do today. Christ causes this
Eternal separation. If Christ has separated us from the world, we should
do the same, continually. We can either be His ‘sheep’, or worldly
‘goats’, we can’t be both!
Let us determine afresh to walk in the light, in God’s
Truth; in Christ‘s fellowship.
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