TRUTH

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye CONTINUE IN MY WORD, then are ye MY DISCIPLES indeed; and ye shall know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall make you FREE. Here is a very well-known example of verses with the end result quoted without giving the CONDITION. In this case we all want to be free--end result, without consideration of the CONDITION of true freedom, which is being DISCIPLED BY JESUS AS WE CONTINUE IN HIS WORD! The word DISCIPLE in the setting is a learner of the ways of Jesus or becoming a pupil. It's not just the ability to quote the Words that He spoke; but rather HE, the LIVING WORD made flesh (JOHN 1:14), becomes us, the Word made flesh, disciplined to become a living representative of Him in our mode of life as examples to our community. CONTINUING IN HIS WORD. CONTINUE: MENO--to stay in a given place or state, to abide, dwell, endure, be present, remain. The relative noun of this verb MENO is MONE--an abiding place, a staying place, residence. When Jesus said in JOHN 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions, wonderful though it seems, He wasn't talking about stone and lime buildings over the hilltop. He was talking about you and me becoming Temples of the Living God, Temples of His Father, down here, right now! (1 CORINTHIANS 3:16) I would suggest this was the desire of God in the Garden of Eden. He wanted Adam to invite Him in because Adam was lonely. Because of failure on Adam's part to ask God to mansion in him, God in his great Love and Mercy gave him Woman, which only exacerbated the problem as they were still lonely. Otherwise they wouldn't have decided to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and by doing so give their allegiance to the serpent.------Wo/man will always be lonely until we ACKNOWLEDGE God, in Jesus, into our lives. KNOWING THE TRUTH. TRUTH: ALETHES--not concealed, revealed. This is the opposite of the verb LANTHANO, which means to lie hid, hidden, be ignorant, unawares. Paul said to the Corinthian Church that he would not have them to be ignorant. Many of us have not the TRUTH because we are not willing to be discipled of Jesus and are in bondage to men who do not desire us to be Free. They make disciples by insinuating that their ministry has the greatest or only revelation and that they are the interpreters of the Word for us. You can be assured that if the word brings you into religious bondage and fear, it is not of Jesus! SET FREE. FREE: ELEUTHEROO--not a slave, liberated to go at pleasure as a citizen (taking responsibility), exempt from (religious) obligation or liability. Hirelings place bondages of religious liability on their disciples, holding over them all manner of fearful consequences if they fail to continue in their word. Continuing in the Words of Jesus gives us the true glorious freedom of the Sons and Daughters of our Heavenly Father.