Seek God's Truth

Seek God's Truth

Our goal is to help others step up, put on the whole armor of God, and Seek the Truth for themselves by using the main tool that God gave them (their mind) and the most accurate set of books that God allowed to be written (the Bible).  We'll provide the scriptural evidence as you seek God's Truth.

Thought for the Day

In Ephesians 3, Paul revealed a great Mystery to the church, one that had been hidden throughout the ages.

Before the Holy Spirit was poured out upon all flesh, in the days when God spoke to the people through His prophets, God spoke through them about many things to come.  They could see current events unfolding before their time, the coming Messiah, and even signs of the times we have to day.  They even foretold things that have not yet happened surrounding the End of Days.

But there was one thing that was hidden from all of the prophets in the Old Testament: The Body of Christ.

This was revealed to Paul, and Paul writes about it in Ephesians. Paul said that this Mystery is that "the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the Gospel." This was the Church, the body of Christ. Fellow heirs to the Jews, part of the same body, the same bride of Christ!

Paul did not say that this mystery would be sealed back up, locked in hidden mystery for another time and another place.  In fact, Paul said that this was the reason that he was made a minister, by God's grace, to preach this revelation to the Gentiles that were now to become part of the same Body.

Cult leaders would like you to believe there is a greater mystery hidden, one that even Paul did not know about.  William Branham was no exception to this rule.

In a 1963 sermon, William Branham brought a message he called, "Christ is the mystery of God revealed." Throughout this message, Branham describes the hidden mystery woven through time from the beginning of creation. The message is very plain and simple: the body of Christ was hidden in mystery. Branham is very correct in that statement, and had he stopped preaching at that point in the sermon, he would have aligned with Paul's message to the Church.

He did not.

Branham continued, telling his followers how the mystery still remained hidden.  He described how all of the other denominations missed it.  Some came very close throughout the time since the Apostle Paul, but they still could not see the Body of Christ.  Why?  Branham claimed that the Body of Christ was still hidden in mystery, and that God was preparing a "perfect bride."

This opposes Paul's ministry, proclaiming that the blood of the Cross is sufficient for all, and that all who believed in Jesus Christ would be saved. In fact, were the two standing next to each other on a platform, Branham's denial of Paul's entire ministry would have certainly ended in a debate.

Branham went so far as to say, "That's why they're blind to the Message of the end time, this last days when God is proving Himself."

His "message," at that point, replaced the message that Paul gave to the Church.  Branham was trying to make Paul's ministry obsolete, and replace the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the "gospel" that Branham called "the message."

As Christians, we should ask ourselves: Do we stand for this heresy? Do we follow men who preach against the message Paul gave to the church? Do we follow a false prophet who claimed by false vision that "he preached the same message Paul preached," and all of his followers "were resting on that?" Can we not see that his false message was a life-long argument against Paul's ministry? Are we following the message of Paul, or are we following the "message" of William Branham?

Truth of life

Speaking the Truth

“Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another”.

Authentic Christian living requires mind and heart to work together in obedience to the Holy Spirit. Without knowledge of what the Lord wants from us, we cannot serve Him rightly. At the same time, all the knowledge in the world is insufficient to make us lead a life that glorifies God. If we have no love for the Creator and His law, then we cannot forsake all other gods but Him (Ex. 20:3; 1 John 5:21). Whatever we love more than the Lord and His will becomes, essentially, our god.

Ephesians 1–3, in a sense, focuses on the heart aspects of the Christian life. To be sure, these chapters present objective content that we must know and believe for salvation. Still, this content describes the horrible predicament from which we have been saved, and it presents our glorious destiny as one unified and sanctified people. This cannot help but make our hearts leap with joy. Recalling what our Savior has done, we grow in our affection for Him, becoming increasingly eager to do His will. Thus, we take off sin and put on Jesus willingly (4:17–24).

Yet the command to put on Jesus is a bit abstract, and we are left with this question: What does it mean to clothe ourselves in Christ in terms of practical, everyday living? Paul answers this question in the latter part of Ephesians 4, explaining, in a manner that our minds can easily grasp, how those who have put on Christ must live. Verse 25, for example, tells the Christian to “speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.” The apostle emphasizes truth-telling here, especially within the church. Lying to others, particularly fellow believers, is not an option for the Christian. We are members of one another, and lies weaken the unity of Christ’s body, sowing seeds of division, discord, and distrust.

A propensity to lie is a particularly clear indication that we are refusing to put on Christ. “All mankind are liars” (PS. 116:11) because those who are in Adam hate the truth. They prefer to twist facts to advance themselves, tear down other people, excuse their failings, and even avoid needed confrontations that can break the peace between friends and family. In Adam we are liars, hiding our sin and the sins of others to maintain a veneer of peace. But we are in Christ — who is truth Himself (John 14:6) — and so truth must be our highest goal.

The Suppression of Truth

“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness” (v. 18).

The Gospel Paul preached is a revelation of the righteousness of God (Romans 1:17). It is a revelation of God Himself, and particularly of His character and justice. Man, made in God’s image, lost his conformity to God’s character and righteousness when he rebelled against God. When God reveals Himself and His righteousness to a sinful man, that man is destroyed by God’s wrath. Now, however, God has revealed His righteousness in such a way that a man may be saved and restored to conformity to God’s character and justice. This righteousness, says Paul, is received by faith.

In verse 18, Paul begins to expand on the thought that when God reveals himself to sinners, they feel His wrath. His wrath is manifested against the ungodly because they suppress the truth by their wickedness. Translations vary, and some say that the wicked hold the truth in wickedness. This verb hold means “clasp, seize, possess, hold tightly,” and is used positively in places where we are enjoined to hold tightly to the truth of God.

Here the idea is that all men know the truth and they clasp it, but in such a way as to suppress it. Men are not ignorant of God’s truth. They know God and they know about His righteous character. They know that they hate Him and reject His righteous character; but in order to reject Him, they must know Him. Paul says in verses 19–20 that they know this because (1) God Himself actively makes it known to them, and (2) the creation clearly reveals Him and His truth.

All Truth Is God's Truth

Sometimes the slogan “All truth is God’s truth” is used to justify dealing in any sphere of knowledge as an act of worship or stewardship. The impression is given that just knowing God’s truth and recognizing it as such is a good thing, even a worthy end. But the problem with this is that the devil does it.

“If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.” (1 Corinthians 8:2-3). Which I take to mean that until we know in such a way that we love God more because of it, we do not yet know as we ought to know.

Alongside “All truth is God’s truth,” we need to say, “All truth exists to display more of God and awaken more love for God.” This means that knowing truth and knowing it as God’s truth is not a virtue until it awakens desire and delight in us for the God of truth. And that desire and delight are not complete until they give rise to words or actions that display the worth of God. That is, we exist to glorify God (1 Corinthians 10:31), and merely knowing a truth to be God’s truth does not glorify him any more than the devil does.

All truth exists to make God known and loved and shown. If it does not have those three effects it is not known rightly and should not be celebrated as a virtue.

I give thanks that unbelievers see God’s truths in the natural world in a limited way. They know many scientific and cultural facts. But they do not feel desire for God or delight in God because of them. So these facts are misused. This is not a virtue.

I also give thanks that that believers may learn many of God’s truths from unbelievers and see them rightly and thus desire God more and delight in God more because of those truths, so that unbelievers become, unwittingly, the means of our worship.

Thus an unbeliever’s knowing God’s truth is not ultimately a virtue—that is, not a knowing that accords with God’s purpose for knowing—nevertheless that knowing may be a useful knowing for the sake of what God makes of it for his self-revealing and self-exalting purposes in the world, contrary to all the expectations of the unbeliever whose knowing God uses.