You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth.
Job 27:5-6
5 God forbid [chaliylah] that I
should justify [tsadaq] you: till I die [gava`] I will not remove [cuwr]
mine integrity [tummah] from me.
6 My righteousness [tsadaqah] I hold [chazaq] fast, and
will not let it go [raphah]: my heart [lebab] shall not reproach [charaph.] me so long as I live [yowm]. KJV-Interlinear
5 'Far be it from me that I
should declare you right; Till I die I
will not put away my integrity from me. 6
'I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go. My heart does not reproach any of my days. NASB
Truth is the perfect matching of facts with
reality. When facts are replaced with
opinion, consensus, conjecture, or anything else, then it is no longer the
truth, but the opposite - a lie.
People who reject truth, will stop at no limits in
their attempt to prevent truth. People
who avoid truth will do their best to prevent others from hearing truth. People who are indifferent toward truth, will
not hold back in inventing their own beliefs.
People who hold a disdain for truth will conspire and even manufacture
phenomenal webs of lies in order to discredit and confuse truth. People who oppose truth will invent their own
opinions, beliefs and philosophies, regardless of facts.
But truth needs no ally. Truth needs no crutch to support it. Truth needs no support from other opinions.
Truth is self-evident.
Truth is always obvious to those who are tolerant and patient, and
objective in their approach to life.
Truth is always made clear to those who function (legitimately) within
their spiritual lives.
Truth comes only from God. Truth is communicated only by means of the
Holy Spirit. Truth is only perceived
from within the fellowship sphere. Truth
is only useful to the believer who is advancing in their spiritual life.
Any compromise of truth, any dilution of truth, any
modification of truth, any alternative to truth is a lie.
Sincerity, strong opinions, strong feelings, outgoing
or inward personality attributes, or moral standards are not evidence of truth
nor are they substitutes for truth.
Job makes all of his comments from a position of
truth. Since truth cannot be defeated,
standing with truth is never a losing decision.
There is never anything to be gained by setting truth aside.
Job has been hammered repeatedly by his friends. Job has been suffering immensely for quite
some time now. Job has had many
opportunities to disavow truth. It would
have been very easy to just let his friends win their argument, to give in to
their public opinion peer pressure, to just let go in hopes that all of this
pressure will simply disappear.
All of the observable evidence was on the side of his
friends, and the apparent lack of action directly from God could easily have
made Job slip into anxiety and anxious self-pity.
But Job lived his life based on the principles taught
in the scriptures. Job did not live or
form his life based on the opinions of others, even while being exposed to the
public eye.
A life based on true, repeat, 'true' principles can
never be moved.
A life based on invented principles will always
eventually fail.
The mature believer in silence, speaks louder than the
most violent thunderstorm.
Those who are spiritually deficient have no choice but
to bring noise and cause adversarial disruption to society, and they will end
up no better off than one standing before a strong downwind, making themselves
wet from doing what they only know how to do into the wind.
Now is the time to post a prayer.
End Of Lesson
Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
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