When Scripture talks about "walking in truth" it simply means that Christians walk in such a way that they bring their lives into conformity with God’s revealed Word—morally and doctrinally—where you hear God’s Word, receive God’s Word, read God’s Word, believe God’s Word, persevere in God’s Word, and are a doer of God’s Word. We, as Christians, are expected to stand firm in the truth of God’s Word as our standard bearer for all matters pertaining to Christian living and believing. To simplify it, however, we could say that to "walk in truth" is to know the answer to two important questions. (1) Who is Jesus Christ?; and (2) What must a sinner do to be saved?. And how once answers those two questions will determine whether they you are walking in truth or damnable error.
18 - Walking In Truth (Part 2)
2 John 1-4
November 13, 2022 • Pastor Ronald H. Gann • 2 John 1–4
01 - Introduction: Walking In Truth & Love
May 29, 2022 • Pastor Ronald H. Gann
The three small letters written by the apostle John—1-3 JOHN—were written to the third-generation church in around Asia minor who had lost the conviction of the first-generation church (and even struggled to maintain the beliefs of the second-generation church). John saw flagrant deceptions accepted as gospel truth and a lazy church that was slow to correct and quick to capitulate. Out of his remarkably retentive memory—no doubt quickened, inspired, and energized by the Holy Spirit—John wrote 1-3 JOHN to remind his readers about what it means to walk worthily in the manner of Christ.
02 - The Word Of Life
June 5, 2022 • Pastor Ronald H. Gann • 1 John 1:1–4
In the person of Jesus Christ there appears to be a living dichotomy, where two contrasting things exist in one man at the same time. That is, Jesus has both a divine nature and human nature. As such, he is the God-man who, as the 'word of life', brings life everlasting to those who believe in him as the Word of God made flesh. But how, exactly, does this wonderful truth affect and effect believers? In 1 John 1:1-4, the apostle John reminds us that the 'word of life' allows us to be in fellowship and communion with God whereby the life and likeness of Christ in us becomes more evident to those around us.
03 - Walking In The Light
June 19, 2022 • Pastor Ronald H. Gann • 1 John 1:5–10
To have genuine fellowship with a holy God, we must walk in the light, as God Himself is in the light. It’s easy to claim to have fellowship with God—as so many self-deceived people do—but it’s another thing altogether for it to be true. And so, in 1 John 1:5-10, the apostle John provides a litmus test that, to his inspired way of thinking, was sure to separate the sheep from the goats, the wheat from the tares, the straw from the chaff, and the authentic from the inauthentic. Let he who has ear to hear, let him hear!