1Thessalonians
2:13 very carefully explains, “For this
cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of
God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is
in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” Have you ever considered how you receive the
Word of God? These Christians received
it as “true truth”. The Corinthian
writer was thanking God that these Christians received God’s Word as altos (230) or truth that was sure. St. Paul stipulates that the thing that made
the difference was that they received the truth as logos Theos (3056, 2316) i.e. truth from God rather than logos Anthropos i.e. truth from man.
Everyone
thinks that they know the truth, but what they think they know is often tainted
with false belief or inaccurate facts. Every word that we read in God’s Word is
“true truth”. As I have said before,
what we read in God’s Word may not be exhaustive truth but as Francis Schaeffer
often said, it is “true truth”. Because
man’s so called truth may not be truth at all or it may be only partly true,
Christian musicians must soak their minds in God’s Word so that they will have
a defense against errors and half-truths.
Another
noteworthy observation is that these Christians in Corinth had head Paul preach
what he identified as “the gospel of God”.
Christian musicians must be reminded that it is God’s will that godly
men preach the true truth of the Bible.
It is also important that Christians in the twenty-first century receive
this truth preached under God’s anointing as the logos Theos.
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