Covenant Reformed News – March 2024 • Volume XIX, Issue 23
This article argues that biblical truth must be inherently connected to godliness and sanctification, grounded in the doctrine of the triune God and supported by exegesis of key passages like John 17:17 and 2 Timothy 3:16-17. The author demonstrates that Scripture itself—inspired by the Father, embodied in the Son, and applied by the Spirit—is the divinely appointed means of spiritual health and sanctification for God's people.
The Truth Is According to Godliness (2) Why is the truth—and why must the truth be—according to godliness? Because the Scriptures are the Word of the holy Triune God! Is not Jehovah the Father of truth and the Father who sanctifies us (Jude 1)? Is not the only begotten and incarnate Son “the truth” (John 14:6)? Is He not “the mystery of godliness” as “God … manifest in the flesh” (I Tim. 3:16)? Is not the Third Person of the Godhead “the Spirit of truth” (John 16:13) and the Spirit of...