The Disciple and Truth

By David and Stephen Olford

Text: “If you abide in my word you are my disciple indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31-32).

Thought: Having entered the “School of Discipline”, there is a lifelong responsibility which emerges for every true disciple of Jesus Christ—a responsibility which calls for three expressions of disciplined living in the Christian’s experience:

1) The Daily Loyalty to the Truth.

“If you abide in my word” (v. 31). Jesus insisted that to be a true disciple demanded loyalty to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as it was revealed in Him.