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  GIVE WAY TO TRUTH
  by Elisabeth Elliot
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Summary: Elisabeth Elliot's sermon encourages believers to prioritize
truth over reason to foster unity and love in relationships.

Topics: "Faith And Reason", "Surrender To Christ"
Scripture References: Proverbs 3:5, Isaiah 1:18, Romans 12:2, 1 Corinthians 8:1

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Elisabeth Elliot reflects on a disagreement with her husband, realizing
how reason can be a powerful tool used by the enemy to create division
between people who love each other. She acknowledges the temptation to
idolize reason and make sacrifices for the sake of being right. Christ
calls us to be faithful to Him and surrender our reasons to the truth.
While reason is a gift from God, faithfulness to Christ purifies and
elevates it to a higher level, as seen in the conflicts between Job and
his friends and Jesus and the Pharisees.

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Through a disagreement with my husband Lars yesterday I suddenly
recognized an instrument used powerfully by the enemy to drive a wedge
between two people who love each other (and there is nothing which fills
the enemy with such glee as destroying unity). It is reason. I had good
reasons for my argument and so did he. Reason comes very close to being
an idol to me at times, and I am tempted to make sacrifices on its
altar.

"Be faithful to Reason!" whispers the Destroyer. "Do not let go!"

"Be faithful to Me," Christ says, "give up your reasons, give way to
Truth."

Reason is one of God's great gifts. We have intelligence and the faculty
of reason, to be employed in the service of God and other people.
Faithfulness to Christ (who is Truth) does not negate reason, but
purifies it, raises it to a higher level.

"Pure" reason, logical argument, stood between my husband and me, as it
stood between Job and his friends, and Jesus and the Pharisees.

"Knowledge gives self-importance--it is love that makes the building
grow. A man may imagine that he understands something, but still not
understand anything in the way he ought to!" (1 Cor 8:1,2 JB).

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/elisabeth-elliot/give-way-to-truth/
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