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IN THE TRUTH

John 8:46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

There has probably never been a more overstated phase by organized religion than “In The Truth” repeated over and over again by its members, like a magic phase that changes everything into truth as long as it in done in the name of Jehovah God's by Watch Tower Society (WTS).

Sadly, it members parrot these words in almost every sentence they speak among themselves, as though somehow they are in the truth by association with the WTS.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Truth What Is It?

Romans 9:1 I tell the truth “in Christ”. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

If a person is in the truth than they are walking in truth in their daily lives, and they should love the truth, that is, all of the truth, not hand picking some truth(s) at times, while denying other inconvenient truth(s) not fitting into their religious teachings.

First, which should be obvious by any Christian's that studies God's word the bible, the phase “in the truth”, means being in Jesus Christ as “The Truth”. Subsequently, when a member of the WTS makes such a statement they may or may not realize it, they are saying? They are in Christ Jesus as “The Truth of YHWH”, not a man made organization,which is legally established by certain doctrinal policy.

Being In The Truth

Ephesians 4:21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

Being in the truth is important to all Christian's because it is where their name came from, Jesus Christ a Christian's, not a Jehovah's God, one cannot be “in Jehovah God”, and yet live, hence, God has provided us a King mediator se we can be in his truth, which is Jesus Christ, because we have sin.

However, a person that is a member of a man-made religious organization can be in the WTS, that is, claiming that its teaching are the truth, but Biblical, they are not in the truth, which is, Jesus Christ, like the first century Christians were, spoke of often of being in Christ Jesus as the truth.

Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Important Distinction

Why is it important for Jehovah's Witnesses and other Christian's religions to understand this distinction about being in the truth?

Well, first of all, the phase (in Christ) was used hundreds of times by the apostle Paul alone, not including John, and others, and of course, it was not just a convenient phase for them, rather, it was truth, spoken by God's Holy Spirit.

When a person accept Christ Jesus, God's Holy Spirit is given them, anointing them, make them a part of the living imperishable life of Christ Jesus, yes! They received a new life, their old life was impaled with Christ Jesus, and they are raised into the life of Christ Jesus, as part of his spiritual body, which also makes them the temple of God.

Ephesians 1:13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation,--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.

Colossians 3:1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."{Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27}

Subsequently, at one time the WTS had many claiming to be anointed, in the truth, or in Christ Jesus, but unfortunately, they now have most of their members professing to live on the earth non-anointed, so they have no concept of what being “in the truth” means? These members are not “in the truth”, because they associate with God's anointed, no! They are either a sheep or goat, which has not been decided until Christ comes with God's Holy angles and separates the sheep from the goats; by how they treat Christ Jesus brothers, which should be noted, if these sheep love love truth? They Knew not when they have done good too Christ Jesus brothers, that is, both the sheep and goats, not just one group, but both groups, did not honestly know!

In The Truth or In the Lie?

When one states they are in the truth there can be no lie, this is what God Himself stated through the apostle John, which makes no sense to and man-made organization having both fruit on its branches of good and evil, or some truth and some lies.

1 John 2:21 I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Those actually “in the truth” have no lie on their branches, because they are a part of Christ Jesus spiritual body, an no lie exist in Christ Jesus being incorruptible by such darkness as a religious lie, this is why the anointed of God are virgins, speaking truth!

1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

Revelation 14:4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Humans as well as their groups are not the truth, there is only one person designated by YHWH as truth, and that is God's own Son, Christ Jesus, Christ Jesus is the living word of God, so he is also the living truth, by his action upon earth he proved the truth of God, he lived a perfect life without sin, making him the only truthful man to every live on earth.

All other men/woman are liars according to God's word the bible, and anyone saying that they are “in the truth”, while being outside of Christ Jesus life, in a man-made organization, claiming they are the truth, is also a liar!

Rom.3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.
3:11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

There is only one truth, one spirit, one body, and one faith, which God calls His Word or Truth.

John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Walking In Truth

Those walking in the way, or the truth, are walking in the life of Christ Jesus, which they are a part of. They are not “acting” like the truth, no! They are a part of the truth of God, by the free gift of life, God has given them, in Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

John 5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

John 5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

John 5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

John 6:47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

John 6:48 I am the bread of life.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

They are not repeating words as truth, they are living in the truth, and Christ Jesus speak truth through them, if they listen too him as their mouth piece, and as their head of the body.

1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Philippians 2:16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

They can tests the spirits to see if they originate with God, because they are a part of the truth, and they have the life of Christ Jesus in them as the truth. They are not the truth, they are a slave of the body of truth, Christ Jesus, which is the living Word of God.

When one of God's anointed builds an earthly organization it does not make it the truth, no! Christ Jesus is the truth, they stay a part of the truth provided they remain in Christ Jesus, giving glory to God through Christ Jesus, and not too an organization.

The organization is not truth, it is words spoken by fleshly people substituting the life of Christ Jesus for man-made rules of laws.

Christ Jesus is the temple of God, a living temple, filled with the life of Christ Jesus as God's truth. We are a part of that temple provided we remain in the body of Christ Jesus, no an organization on earth.

1 Corinthians 12:21 The eye can't tell the hand, "I have no need for you," or again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you."

Those of God's anointed must worship in this temple, the life of Christ Jesus,to say a virgins, without spotted of the world, or false religion.

James 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

They cannot mixs the two, and come up clean, what does this mean? It means that mixing yeast into the incorruptible unleavened bread of Christ Jesus, ferments the whole lump.

The only way to worship in truth and spirit is to be “in the truth”, which is Christ Jesus. In other words, we have our place of worship God has legal designated as His Temple, sanctified by the high priest Christ Jesus, there is no other place of acceptable worship for us, but in Christ Jesus, not in the WTS, or any other substitute place worship built by mans hands for worshiping God.

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

James 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

Loving the Truth

Ephesians 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love.

How do we love the truth, is it by an organization doctrine(s), or is it by the life of Christ Jesus in us that is the truth? Well, there is still more, it is loving the life of Christ Jesus which we are made part of by God's love. The love of Christ Jesus body, is the same love a man loves his own flesh, which in this case would be his wife, as one person before God. Subsequently, the love of truth would be Christ Jesus loving his own body, that is, his spirit body of members anointed by God's Holy Spirit, and the fruit of that body, which is truth; love is where all the other fruits flow from too us making them the truth!

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Ephesians 4:15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

We love truth, we walk in truth, and we are in the truth, the way of life that bring life to those learning the truth of Christ Jesus. We certainly do not love organization that has both good and evil in it, and which pollutes the truth of Christ Jesus life in us, we don't trade the unmerited gift of God in His giving us the imperishable life of Christ for earthly treasures.

No, we love truth, we love Christ Jesus life, that bring us life, we love his headship, and his pure waters giving life in us and those we share the “Word” with, that is, Christ Jesus the Word of God the truth, by Holy Spirit. Hence, where two or more are gather in Christ Jesus name.

We have truth among us speaking through us too God's glory

2 Corinthians 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Colossians 1:5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News.

2 Timothy 2:15 Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

1 John 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Conclusion

“In the truth” is a life saving reality for those made a part of the holy vine of God, Christ Jesus, let us not speak words of the flesh to others repeating dead words, having no power in a person life in giving them the life, and new personality from God. No, but rather lets us speak truth in love, as faithful members of living Word of God as minsters of a New Covenant.

2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

2 Corinthians 3:6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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