Who Is Right About God?

Whoever is truly free from sin and from the mind and spirits of this world, and is exuding and demonstrating God’s love to those around them. That’s who is right, and everyone else is wrong. Period. I’m not talking about a figurative freedom from sin like modern Christianity teaches, but rather being literally free from the power of the sinful nature that we were all born with. That is what the new birth experience is for, and that is altogether what it’s about (Rom. 6:3,4; II Cor. 5:17). And I’m not talking about a cheery Christian love, which is really only the same love that this world has for it’s own, but just dressed up in a religious guise. I’m talking about the real thing, “the love of God [that] is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost,” if we have the Spirit, that is (Rom. 5:5). That love is produced not only by having the Spirit, but by also allowing God’s Spirit to put the sinful nature to death inside of us (Rom. 6:6; Rom. 8:13; Col. 3:5-10; I Pet. 4:1,2). It is truly that simplistic. We let the old element die, so that the divine element can live and be seen and felt with us. It takes some suffering in the flesh, as the aforementioned passage from I Pet. 4 states; but it is certainly more than worth it to grow in God’s love, and the knowledge thereof.

To be able to truly identify with those we read about in the Bible is worth whatever it takes to get there, because we know where they are going, or rather where they have gone to. And if we expect to be where they are when this life is over, we are surely going to have to be like them, in reality and in truth. And it is certain that we can be, for it is our calling; and because “it is God which worketh in [us] both to will and to do of his good pleasure" (Philip. 2:13). We just have to continually let him know that it is our priority and goal in life for him to do just that in us. Whoever does these things is who is right about God, and everyone else is wrong; regardless of what they appear to be doing, and regardless of what they have to say. So in the end it’s more a matter of who really is right with God, rather than who is right ABOUT God. The apostle Paul simplified for us so that we would make no mistake in the matter: "Now the end of the commandment is [love] out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling" (I Tim. 1:5,6). I believe that tells that story. Amen and God bless.