Our Battle For Truth!
"Therefore take up the whole armor of
God.... Stand therefore, having girded
your waist with truth."
Ephesians 6: 13-14
Paul’s second letter to Corinthians is a defense
of his apostleship in the face of opposition and
attacks from the false apostles (2 Corinthians
11:13-15). He was in spiritual battles. However
he made it clear that spiritual warfare is not a
physical battle using the world’s weapons of war.
Instead, it is a battle of thoughts,
arguments,
and ideas waged in the battlefield of the mind
(10:3-6). That is, it is a battle for the truth.
The battle for truth began in the Garden of Eden
when Satan lied to Adam and Eve, contradicting
what God had told them (Genesis
3:1-5). When
Satan can convince us to doubt God’s word, he
weakens our foundation of faith, the truthfulness
of God and His promises.
That is why when describing the
Christian’s
spiritual armor, Paul calls a Roman soldier’s
belt of truth. We are
sanctified—conformed
to Christ—by the truth of God’s Word
(John 17:17).
Just as Jesus rebuffed Satan’s temptations
with the truth of God’s Word, we must do
the same (Matthew 4:1-11). Truth wins the
spiritual war.
"The truth of Scripture
demolishes
speculation."
R. C. Sproul
