We are a creature of wanting to know absolute truths. It provides comfort, simple understanding, and full completeness. As human beings what greater peace does that bring, than knowing things will not change?
On the contrary, there is Relative Truth, which seems to bring inconsistency, subjectiveness and insecurity. It suggests that everyone is right, everyone is a winner, no standards or lawgivers. How unsettling is that? How uncomfortable is it to follow after a boss or leader and for them to give unclear instructions? Would much get accomplished? It would be much easier to agree to disagree, to move on, or to say that everyone is right in their motives to get the task complete. Technically the task is not complete and whole. The absolute truths found in scripture will not change, are for all people, all the time, and in all situations. Peer with me to find how we can know.
1 John 5:18-20 gives us assurance. John is placing emphasis on the assurance of knowledge. Each verse begins with “We know.”
Verse 18 states, “We know whosoever is born of God does not sin, but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.” One who has God as his spiritual Father (obeyed the gospel) will not choose to live a life of sin and serve the devil.
In verse 19, it says, “We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.” This confidence of our position in Christ, gives us protection from the “wicked one” that rules the citizens of this worldly life. We know to whom we belong to, and when we walk and proclaim boldly our faith in Hom, there is no room for the evil one. James 4:7 says, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
1John 5:20 reads, “And we know that the son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.” God has supplied us with complete and reliable evidence through His Word for us to know Him. And to know Him is to have eternal life. I John 5:11-12 says, “And this is the testimony that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
And finishing up the chapter in 1 John 5, verse 21 states, “Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.” This gives us instruction of how we can guard ourselves from falling. Idolatry can be in many forms and whatever you are replacing God with, you are making that your idol. There is great danger for the Saints if we don’t guard ourselves and then arm ourselves with the Word of God.