WALKING IN TRUTH IN A WORLD FULL OF LIES
~2 John 1:4-11
Truth has become a play toy in the hands of man. Bend it. Stretch it. Shape it to make it fit whatever we want it to say. Truth has never been redefined by God. John said he rejoiced to see believers “walking in the truth” ~2 John 1:4. It still matters to God that we walk in truth today because it is not an option. It is a command of the Father. Truth is not a feeling. Truth is what God has already spoken in His Word.
John reminded believers of something very old. The command to love one another is not new. It goes all the way back to the beginning. Real love is not sentimental fog. “This is love, that we walk according to His commandments” ~2 John 1:6. Love and obedience are bound together. You cannot claim to love God and reject what He says at the same time. Jesus Himself said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” ~John 14:15. In a world where love is used as an excuse to disobey, Scripture pulls the mask off and defines love by obedience to the God who is holy.
John also gives a warning that rings louder today than ever. “Many deceivers have gone out into the world” ~2 John 1:7. They are deceivers because they deny the truth about Jesus Christ. They claim to speak for God while rebelling against the clear teaching of Scripture. God calls such people “the deceiver and the antichrist.” That is not soft language. Scripture is sharp in its dealings with spiritual lies because the danger is real. The enemy always attacks the truth about Christ. If someone denies who Jesus is, or adds to His teaching, or claims new revelation that contradicts what God has already given, that person is not sent by God. “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits” ~1 John 4:1.
The Spirit of God calls us to watch ourselves. Not through fear, but through biblical clarity. John says, “Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for” ~2 John 1:8. In other words, guard your walk with God. Do not drift. Do not let smooth talk or spiritual sounding claims pull you off the foundation of Scripture. The warning is direct. “Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God” ~2 John 1:9. No matter how sincere a person may sound, if they go beyond what Christ taught, they step outside the truth.
God draws a hard line. “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him” ~2 John 1:10. This is not about being rude. It is about refusing to partner with or to encourage someone who is spreading lies about Christ. To support false teaching is to be a partaker of it. Scripture gives this command to protect God’s people and to keep the truth clear and pure. Light has no partnership with darkness. “What fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness” ~2 Corinthians 6:14.
Walking in truth is not complicated. It is costly, but not complicated. It means loving God, loving one another, and refusing to compromise with anything that contradicts the Word. It means testing every teaching by Scripture. It means guarding your life from spiritual counterfeits. And it means staying rooted in Christ, the One who came in the flesh, died for sinners, and rose again. Whoever abides in His teaching has both the Father and the Son ~2 John 1:9.
In a world filled with voices, only one voice leads to life. Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me” ~John 10:27. The path is narrow, but it is clear. Walk in the truth. Stand in the truth. Live the truth. And let the Word of God be the anchor that holds you steady when everything around you shifts.
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New Testament: 2 John 1:1-13
Summary: Walking in Truth and Love
This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. John defines love, not as a sentiment or an emotion, but as obedience to God’s commands (1 John 5:2-3). Those who are obedient to the truth as contained in God’s commandments, the fundamentals of the faith (1 John 2:3-11), are identified as walking in love. John 14:15, John 14:21; John 15:10. ~ MacArthur Bible Commentary
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Let me give you just a brief survey of what the Bible says about divine truth. God is the God of truth, according to Deuteronomy 32:4, meaning He is the source of it. Christ is the truth and full of truth, John 14:6, John 1:14. The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of truth in John 14:17. The Bible is called, in Daniel 10:21, the Scripture of truth. We are saved by the truth. We are sanctified by the truth. We love the truth. We are judged by the truth. We are set free by the truth. We worship in the truth. We serve God in the truth. We rejoice in the truth.
We speak the truth. We think on the truth. We desire the truth. We manifest the truth. We hear the truth. We obey the truth. Most comprehensively, we walk in the truth. That is to say, we conduct our lives in the realm of the truth. It determines how we think and how we speak and how we act. We walk in the truth.
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