THE TRUTH WILL BE TRIUMPHANT



It is fearful to live in this world as believers in Christ when we look around us and see the multitudes who hate the very God we love and serve. We are made uneasy by the decline of the society around us and the ever-growing wickedness and idolatry of the day. Looking at these things, thinking on them, we only become more fearful. The odds are always against us humanly speaking but that is not the case in reality. Though we may view things as Elisha’s servant, what is seen by the natural eye is not the reality as it wasn’t then. “And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?” [II KINGS 6:15]. Isn’t that us so often?

But listen to what the prophet told him: “And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray Thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha” [II KINGS 6:16-17]. No, we are to be of good courage and endure hardness as good soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are to put on the whole armor of God and wield the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.

We stand in this day as the children of God with the gospel of His glory and grace in our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. We proclaim the gospel of salvation in and only in Christ alone in the face of all the works-mongers of the hour. We are to be valiant for the truth as it is in Christ Jesus. We do not enter into this daily combat with the weapons of apologetics, logic, debate or dispute. Ours is the truth of God in Christ.

“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” [II CORINTHIANS 10:4-5]. 

We fight the good fight of faith as those who have already been given the victory. Christ’s victory is ours. “One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you, as He hath promised you” [JOSHUA 23:10]. “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong” [I CORINTHIANS 16:13]. Christ, His truth and His people will be triumphant!


-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard

Sovereign Grace Baptist church of Jacksonville, North Carolina USA

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