“We destroy people’s arguments and every proud thing that raises itself against the knowledge of God. We capture every thought and make it give up and obey Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:4c-5 NCV
The Scripture says: “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.” Paul listed some of these weapons. One was commitment to the truth. The word “commitment” means hand over to be kept safe. The Corinthian Christians were in danger of being deceived by false preachers and accepting a distorted gospel (2 Cor. 11:4). Distorted gospel means “another Jesus or another spirit or another gospel.” So they did not keep “The Truth?” Paul encouraged the Corinthians to stay in one Gospel Truth which was the same Jesus that died on the Cross. The same Jesus rose from the dead. The same Jesus now sits at the right hand of the Father. The same Jesus Christ is coming again. That, my friend is the Gospel Truth!
I asked Tony, my husband to share with me “what commitment to the truth” really meant to him. His responded: Be faithful in reading God’s Word. Try to find the meaning of the word you do not understand. Read a few translations to compare and understand what the verse meant. (Really commitment means a little bit more work to study. Commitment was like make up your mind to study the Truth, God’s Word) Study the Word… Try to understand the Word…Practice by doing what the Word says…
By using this weapon “commitment to the Truth” against the enemy, the church (born again believers) will come forth victorious. Paul tells us to make sure that the Truth, God’s Word stays intact, not twisting any way that was already written in His Word. The word intact means with no part missing; untouched, and whole. So we are encouraged to remember Jesus’ Word, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
