Stay True To What You Know

1 John 2:20

"But ye have an unction from the Holy

 One, and ye know all things." 

        John reminds his people that all of them possess knowledge. The people who had gone out were Gnostic's who claimed that there had been given to them a secret, special and advanced knowledge, which is Gnosticism; "practices of doctrines of several, pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects, which was not open to the ordinary Christian. John reminds them and all Christians, that in matters of faith the humblest Christian need to have no feeling of inferiority compared to the most learned scholar. There are, of course, matters of technical scholarship, of language, of history, which must be the preserve of the expert; but the essentials of the faith are the possession of every man.
        This leads John to his point. He wrote to Christians then, and for Christians today. Not because we do not know the truth, but because we do. The greatest Christian defense is simply to remember what we know. What we need is not new truth, but that the truth which we already know needs to become active and effective in our lives. It is the simple fact, that in the Christian life things would be different, "if" we would only put into practice what we already know. That is not to say that we never need to learn anything new; but it is to say that, even as we are, we have the "True Light" to walk by, "if" we would only use it. 
         Amen!!

Reading: (1 John 2:18-29)

May God Bless You 

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry