NOTES FOR “WHAT IS TRUTH” AND “WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH”

SPIRIT

John 4.23-24 – Spirit = 7308 – Hebrew = ruah = Wind, breath, spirit; from the base meaning of “wind” or “breath” come the meaning of spirit as an immaterial supernatural being, and as the immaterial part of the inner person, with a possible focus on the reasoning and thinking faculty: “mind” or “heart”.

4151 Greek = pneuma = wind, breath, things which are commonly perceived as having no material substance; by extension; spirit, heart, mind – immaterial part of the inner person that can respond to God.

TRUTH

John 4.23-24 – 225 Greek = aletheia = truth, truthfulness; corresponding to reality.

Hebrew = 571/530 = emet = faithfulness, reliability, trustworthiness, truth, what conforms to reality in contrast to what is false; the “book of truth” is a reliable book, referring to heavenly scroll.

John 16.13ff – Spirit of truth will show you things to come.

17.3-5 – the only true God and Yeshua whom you have sent. Yeshua = Yahweh saves. Glorified you on earth – glorify me.

17.6; 14 – they kept your word; given them your word.

17.14 – Yeshua prays that they aren’t taken out of the world, but kept from evil.

17.17-23 – Sanctified by truth – Your word is truth – Sanctified = set apart, made holy, active dedication and service to God or the act of regarding or honoring something or one as holy.

17.26 – Declared your Name unto them.

18.36 – Everyone who hears my voice is of the truth

Hebrews 4.12 - For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

DECEIVE IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION

Deceived = Greek 4105 = to lead astray, cause to wander, to be deceived, deluded, seduce.

Deceive = Webster’s Dictionary = mislead by false appearance or statements

Deceit = stratagem, falseness

Revelation 12:9… And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 18:23… And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

Revelation 19:20… And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Revelation 20:3… And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Revelation 20:8-10… And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

⁹ And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

¹⁰ And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

In the Bible in the Book of Revelation, it says that Satan will deceive the whole world (Revelation 12:9). The emerging church movement has three essential elements that are consistent throughout the movement that may help this great deception to occur:

1. The embracing of mysticism
2. The belief that the kingdom of God will be established on earth BEFORE Christ returns.
3. The rejection of eschatology (the study of the end-times and Bible prophecy relating to it).

The combination of these three things could help to bring about the great falling away of which the Bible speaks. We pray that every Bible-believing Christian will be able to comprehend these things and warn their families and loved ones.

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” (II Thessalonians 2:3)

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” (I Timothy 4:1)
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