Can you handle being wrong about anything? If you are wrong then does that imply failure?
How can you fail God? Is that possible after Christ’s finished work? Will He leave you if you fail? Will He separate Himself from you if you fail?
No. Hebrews 13:5, Romans 8:35-39.
What is failure if He nailed the penalty of failure to obey the law to the cross in His flesh?
Is death failure? Death has no power over Him in me. Christ has the keys of death and hades in me.
Suggested reading, Luke 18:10-14.
Many times I am wrong about whatever in my life and I eventually willfully admit or acknowledge it to God, myself, my wife, my children or others. In doing so, I acknowledge or reflect Truth. This ‘reflection’ of truth liberates me from the old me or thinking. It liberates me from the bondage of pride, arrogance, and self-sufficiency.
The words “confess” and “acknowledge” in the following scriptures is homologeo.
It means to literally “to say the same thing.”
Romans 10:9-10, 1 John 1:9, 2:23, 4:2-3, 4:15.
If I am not “saying the same thing” in accordance with word of truth then I am a law unto myself. By definition, I would be leaning towards anarchism.
The Law says, “Do not steal.” Hypothetically, let’s say I stole something and then was caught. The owner of what I stole tells me, “What I did was not only wrong, but hurt them.” Theft can be emotional, spiritual, physical and not just material. In this scenario, what is truth?
Luke 10:27, “And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.”
I can only love God, His Son, or my neighbor if the truth of real love has been revealed to me or in me. I do so only by His faith in me. As I grow in truth, or as it grows in me, so does my discernment of good and evil.
Paul says in 1 Cor. 6:12, “Everything is permissible for me”–but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”–but I will not be mastered by anything.”
And in 1 Cor. 10:23, “All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.”
Given the aforementioned example of stealing, and having the post-knowledge of truth I should be liberated from the yoke of slavery to steal because the truth sets me free. John 8:32.
The truth is more than not wanting to steal from my neighbor because I’m not supposed to. That seems superficial. In Him, by His faith, I don’t steal because the Spirit of His Son cries, “Abba, Father” in me. By this same Spirit, I love God, myself, and my neighbor. The diffusing, absorbing knowledge of the truth of this love consumes and metabolizes me. It changes my nature at every core of who I am from glory to glory forever. Therefore, His will is mine and mine is His by grace.
In Christ, when truth reveals itself, its nature is all-absorbing and all-consuming.
So, I “say or live out the same thing” in accordance and harmony with the nature of the truth because of the intrinsic essence of truth.
Fundamentally, truth is becoming me and I am becoming truth by the sanctifying work of the Spirit of God by revelation and grace.
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