By the Scripture’s Own Writers
The most pressing need of all people who desire life and liberty in a free world is for the truth. To continue in the word of a mere man who speaks out of His own wisdom makes one a disciple of such man, but also leads to bondage . Not so, however, with the word of Jesus . To continue in His word makes us free as His disciples, knowing the truth, because His is not the word of one merely of human origin or possessed of mere human wisdom.
He called upon His hearers to be honest and to examine and recognize His real identity and that of His Father. Why? Because, said He, “this is life eternal, that they might know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent .” John 17.3
That truth is echoed by one of His disciples, who wrote : “This is the true God, and eternal life.”‘ Jesus stuck to the word he preached, because it was the truth. He was finally arrested by religionists, held in custody and abused and derided, falsely accused, and then nailed to a tree till lifeless. But he died a free man. He died because he did not choose to fight back with powers that were at His command.
He yielded to death because he knew more benefit would result from His death than to fight for further life in the flesh. He died because the interests of the truth concerning himself and His Father would be more fully served by suffering innocently unto death than by continuing to live as a man. As truth cannot for ever be crushed to earth, so neither could this faithful Truth-teller; for His Father duly freed him from death’s bonds and ushered him into a freedom as wide as the universe and wherein he will “never see death”.
What is His word, or doctrine, wherein we must continue in order to be His disciples andknow the truth and be free? We cannot turn to any of the many conflicting religions for His word, because he told the practicers of religion they were guilty of “making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which you have delivered”. Matthew 15.1-9
Thereafter the religionists killed him, because His word found no place in them. Jesus did not teach like the religionists, who referred to human authorities and traditions of religious men. Hence, “the people were astonished at His doctrine : for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes .” Jesus revealed the source of His word of truth . He said : “My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me. If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.” Privately he said to His disciples : “The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me .” Then, joining with His disciples in prayer, he said to His Father : “Sanctify them through thy truth thy word is truth.” John 17.17
It is His Father’s written Word that is the truth ; which was why he repeatedly quoted it as His authority and guide during His earthly life. If we would continue in His word and be His disciples, we must likewise turn to His Father’s word of truth. Then we shall come to know the truth and be made free with a God-given freedom that no human or devilish powers can take away.
To find life eternal we must know in truth “the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom [He) has sent” . THis knowledge we can rightly acquire only by means of the written Word of God . That Word instructs the truth-seekers and freedom-lovers : “Buy the truth, and sell it not ; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding .” “Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth ; that thou might answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee ?”
You must buy the truth at the cost of your time and effort spent in searching God’s written Word, doing so without religious bias and prejudice . Otherwise you will be like the religious leaders, “ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth .” The divine instruction given through one of Jesus’ faithful disciples who continued in His word and came to know the truth is : “Study to shew yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth .” To enable you thus to buy the truth and thereafter continue in it and “sell it not”, this website is published .
Through all the following pages, this website will continue in His word, and these pages will set out the scriptures in support of the truth, as quoted from the Bible. Man’s chief and most vital study is God and His purpose.