OUR FATHER WHOSE SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT TRUTH

Proverbs chapter 13 verse 5 says this;

The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves.

Thes righteous being referenced here but through the prism of the new covenant, are those who are under the Lordship of Jesus and being led by the Spirit of God having been made righteous by the blood of the Lamb.

In John chapter 16 verse13, the Spirit of God is called the Spirit of Truth and to be led by the Spirit of Truth automatically puts one into diametric opposition to that which is false. Bearing false witness, deception, fraud and false doctrine are among the things which are under the category of  'false'.

The righteous will find themselves convicted in the spirit if they engage in such things and will repent of them and oppose them. They will discern them and  root them out so that they do not take hold in them or in their communities.

On the other hand, the wicked, being those who are led by the spirit of this world, get trapped in the things that are false with no discernment to warn them of the encroachment of falsity in their lives and they have no resistance or remedy to it.  They are then covered with the stench of shame from the consequence of operating in falsehood.

This proverb declares that one of the hallmarks of righteousness is the hatred of what is false.

May we always be alert to falsehood so that it does not infiltrate our lives.

Amen.

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