Al Robertson

That's the ultimate reality is the inner life of God, the self-sacrificial life of God, the inner life of God where the members of the Trinity never manipulate each other.

They never harm each other.

They never...

take advantage of each other.

All they do is mutually give to one another.

That's the ultimate reality.

And so if I align my life up with that, my thought life up with that reality, that's called truth.

And so truth is distinguishable from love, but you can't separate it from love.

It's different than what love is, but you cannot separate the two.

And I think that's what the point is when you go to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John.

as he's trying to describe that.

The problem is that if you're a human post-fall, then all of a sudden truth becomes only about acquiring some kind of factual thing.

But it's kind of separated from where you actually live and feel and the way you move.

And then the other side of that is that we tend to also distort what we mean by commandment.

We see commandments as something other than God's revelation of the good life.

We think it's some other kind of like test or we think it's some kind of like rules that God's laid out or some kind of like barrier.

We view it as a negative, not as a positive.

So those are the two things that we're up against.

I mean, I think that when we're trying, I do think it is the big fight that we're up against is we don't understand what the commands mean.

We think that that's a burdensome, which is the whole point, right?