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The Tree of Light and its Truth
The Truth of God Forever Stands
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The truth of God forever stands.
All other ways are dust
That spread through tongues of fallen man,
Fomenting pride and lust.
But those who find their life in Christ
Survey the famine past;
For in our heart His grain doth rise
To be our soul's repast.
Though words and words all 'round us swirl
There is one truth alone
Whose beam spreads forth, to all the world,
The way where God is known.
All other words feign will deny
The Christ who came to save,
But in our heart His star doth rise
To light His righteous way.
Broad are the ways that seemeth right
But ends thereof are death.
Lo one, the narrow, leads to life
Through Christ whose blood was shed,
And by whose Spirit we abide
In truth that e'er will stand.
For one day we as one will rise
To stand before the Lamb.
Words: 2016 by Stephen Popovich
Music: Ellacombe 1868 by William Henry Monk
The Unchanging Essence of Truth
1John 2:7
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. (KJV)
The immutable call
The essence of truth is the path of love (2Jn.5-6); both old and new testaments (Matt.22:37-40, Gal.5:14)---reflecting our God who does not change (Ja.1:17-18).
Believers beware
Beware following those who speak words of counterfeit light, but they merely serve to justify their walk is in the flesh with its lusts (Heb.13:7-9).
1.The truth of God forever stands.
All other ways are dust
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD. (Ps.117:2)
Truth Fulfilled
1John 2:8
Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. (KJV)
3. But we who find our life in Christ
Survey the famine past,
And in our heart His grain doth rise
To be our soul's repast.
Fulfilled truth revealed
Jesus fulfilled truth because He
both spoke and perfectly personified the word of the Father (Jn.1:14). The truth spoken by Moses were the guardrails for fallen man, but Christ was and is the reality of the Way (Is.9:2, Jn.1:17).
Fulfilled in man
Truth
is fulfilled in us when the love of Jesus shines through us to one another (Jn.15:10,12)---confirming prophecy of the born again heart (Ez.36:26-27) which is the light and life of Christ in us (2Pet.1:19).
And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth (Jn.17:19)
Words, words everywhere but only one truth
1John 2:21-23
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?
He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. (KJV)
Only way to God
Only the words of Jesus, when received by faith, effectuate His cleansing blood and resurrection life. No other words can remedy my dead, sin stained soul (Jn.14:6).
The True Shepherd
Only
one voice resounds through
the world offering words of life that lead to heaven; this is the voice of Jesus contained in scripture and ministered by His laborers of love in the fields of the world (Jn.10:27-28).
Spirit confirmation
We know the truth because the resident Holy Spirit burns it into our soul
(Jn.15:26, 1Cor.2:9-16, Lk.24:30-32).
Proceeds from the Father
We have the Father if and only if we have Jesus. We have Jesus if and only if we receive the words He offers us from the Father (Jn.17:8:20-21).
All other words
Those who deny the words
of Jesus do so because they are trapped in the words of darkness that provide a convenient and well-worn path for the lusts of the flesh. Only the gospel of Jesus provides an escape from the broad road of destruction that holds sinners like flypaper in this perishing world (Jn.8:38,42-45).
4. Though words and words all 'round us swirl
There is of truth but one,
Whose beam spreads forth to all the world
The way where God in known.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death (Prov.14:12)
6. Broad are the ways that seemeth right
But ends thereof are death.
Sanctification
1John 2:26-27
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. (KJV)
2.That spread through tongues of fallen man
Fomenting pride and lust
Anointing
The "anointing" is the baptism of the Holy Spirit that seals us into God the moment we receive the "word of truth", that is, the gospel of salvation through Christ (Eph.1:12-13).
Engaging God's Word
The Spirit's work is to engage the heart of fallen man with God's word; First from the outside by convicting us of truth (Jn.16:7-11); And then on the inside by generating life in all who receive God's gospel (Titus
3:5) and illuminating in us God's truth (Jn.16:12-14, 1Cor.2:9-11);---making us fully alive and sanctified in Gods truth (Jn.7:38-39).
Grace
The grace of life and light that is promised in God's word is realized in our heart by the work of the Holy Spirit (Eph.5:8-9, Gal.5:22-25)
7. Lo, one, the narrow, leads to life
Through Christ whose blood was shed.
And by whose Spirit we abide,
In truth that e'er will stand.
For one day we as one will rise
To stand before the Lamb.
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. (3Jn.1:4)
Antichrists
1John 4:1-3
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard
that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (KJV)
5. All other words feign will deny
The Christ who came to save,
But in my heart His star doth rise
To light His righteous way.
Masqueraders
Satan and his fellow fallen angels are artful deceivers who speak the false light of lies that lead away from God toward eternal destruction (2Cor.11:13-15).
Deceivers
Deceivers are marked by their misrepresentation of who Jesus was and what Jesus said (2Jn.1:7). Satan attempts to hide the light of the true gospel by spreading words of darkness. He also desires to derail believers from walking in, and further reflecting, the true light (Eph 5:6-8).
A believer who adheres to false
doctrines, will lack rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ (1Cor.3:11-15).
The truthful lip shall be established forever, But a lying tongue is but for a moment Prov 12:19
Thy truth O Lord is love enduring,
And for us a way,
A voice with rod and staff, assuring
We shall never fall