Saturday, September 29, 2012

The Spirit of Truth

Is there a personal guide to help you win in life?

When I was in school I always did well in math.  However, some of my classmates had trouble with math, particularly as the math became more advanced.  They would often ask me to help them with their homework and I never turned anyone down. My goal was to get them to understand the principles that were needed so they could solve any similar math problem on their own.  After all, I would not be able to help them when they had to take a test.

I found the best way to help them was to explain the problem and how to solve it in a way that made sense to them.  Invariably, the moment would come when they suddenly understood.  When that moment came, they almost always asked the same question.  "That was easy after you explained it, why didn't the book or the teacher explain it like that?"

The truth is that the book had explained the problem and how to solve it in a broad way to make sense to teachers and to lay down a foundation that made sense to some of the students in class rooms everywhere.  The teacher explained the problem in a more specific way to make sense to as many of the students as possible in that class by building on top of the foundation laid down by the book.  There was nothing wrong with their explanations but those explanations had to be targeted at a group.  On the other hand I was able to tailor an explanation for the individual that I was helping by completing the explanation that the book and the teacher had already built.  My explanation only needed to make sense to one person while the book and the teacher need to build something that made sense to as many people as possible.

We were a small school and I knew each of my classmates.  I knew how they thought, what their interests were, and how to tailor an explanation for that person.  This is why my classmate found that they could understand the math that had previously seemed impossible for them to understand.  All they needed was for someone could bridge the gap between the foundation laid down by the book, what the teacher had built upon that foundation and how they thought about things.  They were perfectly capable of performing any math that was required of them if they had someone to guide them.

In like manner, the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) has sent the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) to live with you forever to help you understand the truth and the Spirit of Truth will never turn you down.  The Spirit of Truth can help you at all times because the Spirit of Truth is not only with the Child of Truth (someone who obeys The Father of Truth because they love Him) but the Spirit of Truth lives in the Child of Truth (John 14:16-17).  The Spirit of Truth was sent from the Father of Truth, at the request of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ), to tell you about the Man of Truth in a way that makes sense to you (John 15:26).  The Spirit of Truth was sent to help you because that is better than the Man of Truth still being on the Earth (John 16:7).  The Spirit of Truth is truth that always agrees with the Father of Truth and the Man of Truth because all three are joined together as one (1 John 5:6-7).  This is why this spirit is called "the Spirit of Truth".

You cannot really understand the Book of Truth (the Bible) without the help of the Spirit of Truth.  The Book of Truth explains truth in a broad sense to make sense to those that the Father of Truth has commissioned to be teachers of truth and to lay down a foundation for readers everywhere.  The teachers of truth explain truth from the Book of Truth in a more specific way to make sense to as many people as possible in their audience by building on top of the foundation laid down in the Book of Truth.  The Spirit of Truth is able to tailor an explanation that will make sense to you.  The Spirit of Truth knows how you think, what your interests are and how to tailor an explanation for you. You can understand a truth that you might have found impossible to understand before.  All you need is the Spirit of Truth to bridge the gap between the foundation laid down by the Book of Truth, what the teacher of truth had built upon that foundation and how you think about things.  You are perfectly capable of grasping any truth if you have the Spirit of Truth to guide you.

The Spirit of Truth will guide you into all truth written in the Book of Truth, even to the point of showing you future events, in a way that makes sense to you (John 16:13).  The Spirit of Truth helps you by teaching you everything that you need from the Book of Truth and helping you to remember everything that is written in the Book of Truth (John 14:26).  The Spirit of Truth helps you by making the Book of Truth new to you each time you read it (Romans 7:6).  The Spirit of Truth helps you find life in the Book of Truth where you would find only death on your own (2 Corinthians 3:6).  The Spirit of Truth helps you to be able to live out the truth found in the Book of Truth (Ephesians 5:9).  The Spirit of Truth helps you to obey the truth written in the Book of Truth so that you to be able to really love other people with a clean heart (1 Peter 1:22).

Why is the Spirit of Truth able to do this?

The Spirit of Truth told men what to write in the Book of Truth (2 Peter 1:21).  The Spirit of Truth will cause you to be able to understand what was written in the Book of Truth by those men in a way that makes sense to you (1 John 4:6).

The Spirit of Truth will not only help you to understand the truth found in the Book of Truth but the Spirit of Truth will help you to find practical ways to put that truth into practice. You need the Spirit of Truth to win the fight by living out the truth found in the Book of Truth ten minutes at a time.

How does the Spirit of Truth help you win the fight?

The Spirit of Truth helps you to worship the Father of Truth in the way that He must be worshiped. (The Book of Truth, John 4:23-24)  The Spirit of Truth helps you by causing life to flow out of your inner most being like a river (John 7:38-39).  The Spirit of Truth helps you over come every argument of those that reject the truth (Acts 6:9-10).  The Spirit of Truth helps you know who is ready to hear the truth and how to talk to them about the truth (Acts 8:28-39).  The Spirit of Truth will help you understand the truth of any vision or dream given to you by the Father of Truth (Acts 10:19-20).  The Spirit of Truth helps you by warning you of trouble before it comes so you can be prepared (Acts 11:28-29).  The Spirit of Truth helps you by keeping you from going to the wrong places (Acts 16:7).  The Spirit of Truth helps you by warning you of decisions that will lead to trouble (Acts 20:23).  The Spirit of Truth helps you by telling others to tell you the same thing that you were told (Acts 21:4).  The Spirit of Truth helps you to pray the will of the Father of Truth by causing sounds that do not sound like any human language to come out of your mouth when you pray (Romans 8:26-27).  The Spirit of Truth will help you to understand the deep truths of the Father of Truth (1 Corinthians 2:10).

In other words the Spirit of Truth helps you to be like the Man of Truth so you can be a Child of Truth.

The Spirit of Truth helps you to live out the righteousness found in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) like the Man of Truth by helping you to be spiritually minded (Romans 8:4-6).  The Spirit of Truth helps you to live in righteousness like the Man of Truth by helping you to put to death the wrong desires of your body (Romans 8:10-13).  The Spirit of Truth helps you to demonstrate the power of the Man of Truth (1 Corinthians 12:7-11).  The Spirit of Truth helps you to demonstrate the character of the Man of Truth (Galatians 5:22-25).

Perhaps you want the Spirit of Truth living in you so you can be like the Man of Truth, but you do not know how to begin.  It all starts when you come into the House of Truth.  You only need to surrender your will completely to the Man of Truth because you believe that the Man of Truth rose from the dead after dying for your disobedience to the Father of Truth (Romans 10:9).

The Spirit of Truth will cause you to be born again in your spirit in the same way that your mother caused you to be born in your body when you come into the House of Truth (John 3:5-7).  The Spirit of Truth will live in you when you come into the House of Truth (Romans 8:9).  The Spirit of Truth will lead you in living as a Child of Truth and tell your spirit that you are a Child of Truth when you come into the House of Truth (Romans 8:14-16).  The Spirit of Truth will justify you so you can be a Child of Truth when you come into the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 6:11).  The Spirit of Truth is the seal that you are a Child of Truth when you come into the House of Truth (Ephesians 1:13).

Come into the House of Truth.

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