Keeping It Real: Varner

TWO THINGS THAT WILL KEEP IT REAL

NOTE: Last month's chronicles emphasized Christ in you, the hope of glory. This month I want to develop the above theme.
TRUTH is REALITY. The Hebrew word for "TRUTH" means, "stability, certainty, trustworthiness; firmness, faithfulness, sureness, and reliability" (Psa. 25:5; 43:3; 86:11). The Greek word for "TRUTH" is aletheia and it means, "what is true in REALITY; in fact, certainly." It is derived from a (as a negative particle) and lanthano (concealed, hidden, or secret). Vine's Dictionary adds that aletheia means, "the REALITY lying at the basis of an appearance; the manifested, veritable essence of a matter" (see Jn. 8:32; 17:17; Eph. 6:14; 2 Pet. 1:12; and 3 Jn. 1:4). All of God's people need to KEEP IT REAL!
What will KEEP IT REAL for all the Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Charismatics and the Faith Movement? They must clearly understand the essential TRUTH that THE WAR IS OVER! It is FINISHED!
Isaiah 40:1-2, KJV COMFORT ye, COMFORT ye (console) My people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye COMFORTABLY (to the heart of) to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her WARFARE IS ACCOMPLISHED (filled, satisfied, completed), that her INIQUITY (perversity, depravity) is PARDONED (to satisfy a debt): for she hath RECEIVED of the LORD's hand DOUBLE for all her sins ("I have punished her in full for all her sins" - TLB; this was done IN CHRIST that we might receive the DOUBLE PORTION of blessings).
John 19:30, KJV When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, IT IS FINISHED (teleo - to end, complete, execute, conclude, discharge a debt; to fulfill) and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost (compare John 4:34; 5:36; 17:4).
What will KEEP IT REAL for all the Kingdom, Sonship, and Third Day people? They must clearly understand the TRUTH that the WORD that has been forever SETTLED in the HEAVENS (Psa. 119:89) must be ESTABLISHED in the EARTH (made FLESH in TIME, incarnate); and that the KEY to that ESTABLISHMENT is ORDER!
2 Corinthians 13:1, KJV This is the THIRD TIME I am coming to you. IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES shall every word be ESTABLISHED (both MOSES in Deut. 17:6; 19:5 and JESUS Matt. 18:16 set forth the SAME principle).
Isaiah 9:6-7, KJV For unto us a CHILD IS BORN (at Bethlehem), unto us a SON IS GIVEN (30 years later at the Jordan): and the GOVERNMENT shall be upon His shoulder (of the SON): and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His GOVERNMENT (Kingdom) and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to ORDER IT, and to ESTABLISH IT with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever..
FURTHER RESOURCE: My books, Whose Right It Is, and Freedom From Twelve Deadly Sins, available at http://www.kelleyvarner.org/newsletters/clicks.asp?queueid=27428&relationid=315332&url=http://www.kvmonlinestore.org/.