Bible Study Truthful Living.

[Hermit]

10 SHORTCUTS TO TRUTHFUL LIVING

1. Receive the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth.
2. First thing in the morning spend at least 20 minutes of quiet time in prayer and meditation. Praying only for knowledge of God's will for you and the power to carry that out.
3. During the day, if you have to think, think only about the truth of what is
4. Only speak the truth or not at all.
5. Stop believing in stories by staying with what is true.
6. Refer life only from the soul-mind perspective.
7. Need nothing for self.
8. Remain soft and gentle.
9. Accept and be content with all things.
10. Only love the love that loves you.​

• 1 is mandatory if you don't wish the be enslaved by self-will (old nature).
• 2 is a basic requirement for seeking and improving conscious contact with God. It is a start towards continuous prayer (conscious of God 24/7).
• 1&2 allows access to everything True.
• 3-10 Any ONE of these can lead a person to Truthful Living, and the other shortcuts (3-10) will become known to you as well.
• Truthful Living is awareness of Holy Spirit in us. From this awareness Truthful Living is available to the unconditional-self (humbled).

Personally, Truthful Living waxes and wanes with me; sometimes strongly, sometimes subtly.

Here is a story (see 5). While cycling with a friend, I expressed my disappointment that I could not ride, like the elite cyclists, at 40 kph (25 mph). He said, "Sure you can, just follow me." So we upped the pace to 40 kph, but after a 100 metres I lost breath and slowed down again. He said, "See! You can ride at 40 kph. You just need to stretch it out from now on".

 

[Chopper]

We're being conscious now of truthful living. Truthful living includes "commitment." For some folk, that's a fearsome word. Commitment to a job. Commitment to a spouse. Commitment to the narrow road of Salvation. Marriage is a life long commitment to the other person.

With the lack of, or fear of commitment, two people will live together outside of marriage where they can leave at anytime without the stigma of divorce, especially in the Christian environment. Commitment to pray, family devotions, Bible study, Church attendance, and a host of other area's.

Being true to a person is being committed to that person.

Lastly, being committed to the Son of God as the only true lover of our souls is huge. The Scriptures speak of being faithful until the end of life on this earth is simply asking to commit to the Commands of Christ Jesus until we depart out of this life to the new life that Jesus has committed Himself to a promise to every Christian that....

John 14:1 "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
14:2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

That commitment, my friends, tops them all.

 

[ezrider]

Matthew 16:25
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.


How does this relate to your idea of "truthful living"?

How does someone try to save themselves alive? Yet Jesus says they will lose it.

How does one lose his life for Christ sake? Only to find life in Christ.

 

[Hermit]

It is in living a life in Christ which leads a person to live truthfully. In that truthful living their old self, based on self-will, dies.
That is what this thread is about, it is about valuing the Spirit taught knowledge of Truth to devalue deceptions of (ego) self-will.

 

[Soul man]

KNOWING ONLY CHRIST

What is truth? It is Christ, and Him crucified, 1 Cor. 2:2. Paul would not have been in agreement with John Calvin who said "God has given me the "TULIP" doctrines.
Paul would have answered, "it is all right if you want to believe that, but I do not know anything but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
And if brother Armenius had come along and said, "now, brother Paul, God told me where John Calvin was wrong, and I know how to bridge the gap better than he did, and better than anyone else, "Paul still would have said, "I am determined not to know what you said, what you think, or what happened to you. I am determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ.
That is my message to this generation. People are always asking me what I think about a certain subject or a certain person, I try not to. I tell them I am determined to know nothing but Christ and Him crucified.
Not trying to evade the issue, but rather to point them to Christ, because I know when you are saturated enough in Jesus, it will amaze you how "right" our doctrines are going to be. I am going to baptize right. I am going to talk right. I am going to preach right, even smell right.
Everything is going to be just right if I see Jesus as all in all.
But if I do all of these things and do not have Jesus, then I have missed the whole truth.
So it is important that we search scriptures to understand what Christ crucified is.

 

[Hermit]

... AND LOVING GOD

Luke 10:26-28
26. "What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?"
27. He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
28. "You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."

Loving God in this way is to love the Truth.
Everything about yourself in loving the Truth will surrender to it.
In that surrender everything that comes to mind is from God/Christ. Whatever comes to mind becomes obvious, restful, and errorless.

In seeing your own truth, you see your neighbours truth as well. How can you not love your neighbor.

 

[ezrider]

Truthful Living?

What have I learned? I guess truthful living is whatever I declare it to be. If I were to summarize some of the comments, I would declare truthful living is defined as living with the Truth; Truthful Living is knowing the Truth, or loving the Truth. Just seems to me to be a lot of circular logic.

But the OP connected the idea of truthful living to the truth that makes you free. But free from what? Some of the discussion has centered around freedom from our fears, but there has been no specificity, nor instruction on how the truth helps us to overcome those fears. Truth is the absence of fear: What is that supposed to mean anyway?

What is truth? What is it that we fear? How does Christ help us to overcome this fear, so that the truth might set us free?

 

[Hermit]

Hello ezrider.
My words in blue

Truthful Living?

What have I learned? I guess truthful living is whatever I declare it to be. If I were to summarize some of the comments, I would declare truthful living is defined as living with the Truth; Truthful Living is knowing the Truth, or loving the Truth. Just seems to me to be a lot of circular logic.
Lot of circular logic if Truth is whatever you declare it to be. Truth can only be whatever God (Truth) reveals (God's-will) via the Holy Spirit in parted into us by baptism of the Spirit.
Seeking Truth through prayer and meditation ("Be still, and know that I am God...")Psalm46:10. to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

But the OP connected the idea of truthful living to the truth that makes you free. But free from what? Some of the discussion has centered around freedom from our fears, but there has been no specificity, nor instruction on how the truth helps us to overcome those fears. Truth is the absence of fear: What is that supposed to mean anyway?
All our fears come from our ego-mind (false-self). Fear is anything the ego senses that will cause false-self to feel exposed and vulnerable. Fear is a lack of faith. Fear is a lack of believing in God (Truth).
Most of our fears are based on the fear of things not going OUR WAY (going the way of our self-will). Example: Confusion is the fear of something not going our way of thinking. The truth, if we accept it, will clear up the confusion, because the truth is doubtless and not confusing, and in doing so, the fear of losing self-esteem will disappear because the truth will dissolve the confusion.
Those who live truthfully in Christ, through faith, lack fear. They know that all fears are untrue for their Being (in Christ). That is why the Truth sets us free from fears.

What is truth? Whatever is not to be afraid about.
What is it that we fear? Whatever we believe to be true but is not true. We fear losing self (collection of false beliefs) to the Truth.
How does Christ help us to overcome this fear, so that the truth might set us free? John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me..." Jesus died so Christ (the Savior) and our part in God may live. Jesus Christ is showing the world that though we have a body (the source of all our fears), we are not the body, but the soul. Those that believe in Christ will overcome their fears of this world (self-will reality), and become brothers and sisters of Christ, living the way of truth.

 

[eddif]

Good morning Friends of Soul man's and my Bible Studies. We have a new topic. This was suggested by Hermit, this is what he said....

Truthful Living. What does it mean and how to incorporate it in/as our new nature.

It is a very good idea to do a health check-up on our Christ-nature to see if we are expressing what Jesus intends us to work out in our daily lives that demonstrate that we are abiding in Christ Jesus by adhering to His Way, Truth, and Life.

TRUTH, what an awesome nature of Jesus, the Son of God, truth!! Look what He told the believing Jews....

John 8:31 "So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Freedom. When I think of how Truth causes freedom, and lie's only cause guilt and heartache, Truth is where we should walk.

Sooooo, lets focus on what our good Brother Hermit suggested and look at Truth from all angles and have a productive thread....Thank you Hermit for directing this new study.

Ok All Angels (you asked for it).
My welding glasses are just about dark enough to keep my eyesight and prevent understanding.

John chapter 16 deals with truth in three areas:
Sin
Righteousness
Judgement

Our message is to all these three areas.

We bring news to those in sin.

We lift up Christ as our righteousness because he went to the Father to intercede for us.

We announce the judgement.

Weak, strong, male female, Jew, Gentile,bond, free all are recipients of the Gospel.

We do not pick one area to concentrate on.
Fishers of men are involved in all areas. The resurrection is not past yet. Come to the knowledge of truth.

Romans 7:25

Redneck from Mississippi
eddif