The Spirit Is The Truth

1 John 5:6b And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

When I was about 28-29 years old, I purposed to read the Bible a little bit each day. I was somewhat regularly attending a Church, and was curious about God. I started in Genesis. The first few chapters were interesting, but they flew in the face of what I was brought up believing about evolution. I read on. I came to chapter 5 and found out that this Adam fellow cranked out a kid when he was 130 years old. Then it goes on the say that Adam lived another 800 years, and died at the ripe old age of 930. Then his son Seth simmers out at the age of 912. "No way" I thought!

I picked er' up again in the New Testament, ya know because it was "newer." I read about this Jesus guy and all of the miracles that he was doing. I was so resistant to all of it. None of it appeared truthful to me. Our Pastor at the time came out to our home to see how things were going. I opened up this Bible before him and pressed him to explain to me how all that I was reading could be true. He gave me no explanations, no arguments, no apologetics at all. He told me I needed to pray to God and ask him for assurance.

A year passed and something amazing happened. My wife and I had our Bibles open and were listening to a cd of Pastor John McArthur preach through Luke 9. He was telling us the cost of discipleship. What it meant to follow Jesus as Lord and Christ. Reflecting back to that event, it was the first time I had ever believed anything I read in the Bible was true. The Spirit of God inwardly convinced me of the truthfulness of the Scriptures.

Before I became a Christian, there was nothing that could convince me of the truthfulness of the Bible, and the message of redemption through the Bible. Now, there is nothing you can tell me to convince me that the Bible is not the Word of God. Because it is the "Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth." 1 John 5:6