"Commitment to the Truth"
“We destroy people’s arguments and every proud thing that
raises itself against the knowledge of God. We capture
every thought and make it give up and obey Christ.”
2 Corinthians 10:4c-5 NCV
The Scripture says: “For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal.” Paul listed some of these weapons.
One was commitment to the truth. The word “commitment”
means hand over to be kept safe. The Corinthian Christians
were in danger of being deceived by false preachers and
accepting a distorted gospel (2 Cor. 11:4). Distorted gospel
means “another Jesus or another spirit or another gospel.”
So they did not keep “The Truth?” Paul encouraged the
Corinthians to stay in one Gospel Truth which was the same
Jesus that died on the Cross. The same Jesus rose from the
dead. The same Jesus now sits at the right hand of the Father.
The same Jesus Christ is coming again. That, my friend is the
Gospel Truth!
I asked Tony, my husband to share with me “what commitment to
the truth” really meant to him. His responded: Be faithful in
reading God’s Word. Try to find the meaning of the word you do
not understand. Read a few translations to compare and understand
what the verse meant. (Really commitment means a little bit more
work to study. Commitment was like make up your mind to study the
Truth, God’s Word) Study the Word... Try to understand the Word...
Practice by doing what the Word says...
By using this weapon “commitment to the Truth” against the enemy,
the church (born again believers) will come forth victorious. Paul
tells us to make sure that the Truth, God’s Word stays intact, not
twisting any way that was already written in His Word. The word
intact means with no part missing; untouched, and whole. So we are
encouraged to remember Jesus’ Word, “I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
