“Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.” Proverbs 23:23
God is Truth, Jesus is Truth, to properly worship them can
only be done in truth. “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:24 God does not accept worship
in any other form than Truth, God does not accept anything that isn’t done in
Truth. The truth of the bible is a revelation from God the Spirit or the Holy
Spirit, no one just learns the truth. “But the Comforter, which is the Holy
Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
John 14:26 So we must all praise God that He has allowed us to understand the
truth we do understand. As Christians we must search the scriptures daily to
seek more truth, and if we fail, we will not be blessed with more truth. People
that fail to attend church is also failing in their feeding of God’s sheep. Jesus
created the church as an institution of biblical learning, and a place of
proper worship. Jesus told His disciples just before His crucifixion these words,
“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall
glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.”
John 16:13 - 14 The truth is not what you believe truth is, it is what God
teaches you it is. No one believes the entire truth, that is why we never stop
searching, studding, and learning with much prayer.
What does the Lord mean when He says, “Buy the truth”,
He means to purchase it at any cost. He doesn’t mean with money because money
buys you nothing with God. He means to acquire it at any cost and pay any price
to get it. But if you can’t but it with money then how can buy it? You buy with
dedication, hard work, much prayer, and attending church. God said, “Study
to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15 The word “study”
means - to make effort, be prompt or earnest - The thought is this the
workman needs to be diligent in his labors of their study so that they will not
be ashamed when his work is inspected by the Lord. Biblical lazy people, people
with not enough time to study and attend church is not being diligent in his
labors of study. They will lack the truth and be biblically ignorant. Then God
says once you learn the Truth, “and sell it not” which means never surrender
it. We must cleave to it and guard it, even at the risk of thy life, also at
any cost. A biblical education in Truth is as glorious as our salvation because
both were given to us by God through the power of the Holy Spirit. The
difference is we can lose one but not the other. There are so many ways a
believer can surrender their gift of truth. One way is to stop going to church,
another way is to stop giving time to studding, another way is to listen to
false teachers. I have seen so many Christians lose their belief in the truth
simply by listening to false teachers. It has been said, “if you play with fire
one day you will bet burnt” and it is so true. God warned us, “Look to
yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but
that we receive a full reward.” 2 John 1:8 Adam Clark said, “Be
on your guard against these seducers; watch, pray, love God and each
other, and walk in newness of life.” False teachers are everywhere,
and Satan is using them to mislead you into false doctrine. If you are not
guarding yourself against them, they will take your truth, you will sell it for
their lies. Listen to God, “If there come any unto you, and bring not
this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God
speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”
2 John 1:10 – 11 You will sell the Truth for the lies of Satan and lose the
blessed gift of God of believing and walking in Truth. Folks, I have seen it in
Christians and Pastors alike, do not believe Satan, you do not owe it to hear
what they have to say. You are not to be open minded, and if they teach a little
truth today, tomorrow will be full of lies. Remember this, Satan was very subtle
with Eve, very sly, He know how to get you, so walk very careful and never
sell the truth.
