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The Enemy of Truth


A lie is an enemy of the truth, and Satan is the father of lies. He originated lies, and he has children, since he’s the father, who perpetuate his lies. Because if he can deceive us and draw us from the truth as God declares it to be, he can draw us away from God into error, into failure, and into spiritual defeat. You can only overcome lies with the truth.


The abandonment of truth is wreaking havoc in our world as people abandon the truth in order to

pursue a lie that feels like the truth. But truth has an enemy. Truth has an enemy. We're told this in

John chapter 8. Jesus says in verse 43, "Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is

because you cannot hear my Word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires

of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there

is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the

father of lies. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me".

The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 6, verse 18, by two unchangeable things it is impossible for God

to lie. Jesus says about Satan there is no truth in him. In Isaiah chapter 14, verses 12 to 14, it talks

about the lies of Satan. It talks about the fact that his one goal is to build a kingdom that rivals God.

It says, "I will be like the most high". He wanted independence. He didn't want to have to answer to a

higher authority. When God created man he created Adam, and he created Adam and gave him the

well-known instruction in Genesis 2, verse 16: "But the Lord commanded the man, saying, 'From any

tree of the garden you may freely eat, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may

not eat it, for the day that you eat from it you will surely die.'" And it's a Google tree that has good

information in it, bad information in it.

In chapter 3, Satan shows up. He's already there, but he shows up and he begins his process of

deception, starting with Adam and Eve, and at the root of his deception was his opening question in

chapter 3, verse 1: "Hath God said"? Satan brings a thought to Eve's mind, a question mark, and now

she begins to question 'cause the thought is now rotating in her head. Please notice the thought did

not come from her. The thought came from the devil but was introduced to her. He introduces his

thought until it becomes her thought. Satan's strategy is to take his thinking and make it your

thinking. When he takes his thinking and makes it your thinking, it says she saw that the tree was

good for food. It was a delight to the eyes, and it could make one wise. So she eats of the fruit, Adam

eats of the fruit, and they lose fellowship with God because they're removed from the garden. When

this happens, their whole world collapsed.

So you had collapse and ultimately physical collapse because you're going to die. And like in a

football game, when Adam stepped offside, the whole team of the human race was penalized. You

see, when a player jumps offside, it's not just the player that's penalized. The whole team has to go

back. Because we are in Adam, and in Adam all die. He wants to break our fellowship with God

through the process of deception. That's his goal, knowing that God will separate and that he's got

you now. He's got you, he's got me, and he's had us. All of us at various levels can testify at points in

our lives whether mentally or physically or spiritually he got you.

Now, Satan has a problem. He's got a challenge. He's not omnipresent, so he has helpers called

demons. These rogue angels called demons assist Satan's goal of deception. He has assigned a

demon to you who has studied you, but what he wants to do is introduce to you something that will

be consistent with what he knows you're apt to respond to. These demons then create doctrines. He

says there are deceitful spirits and demons that teach doctrine, but notice it says he uses men who

are seared in their conscience.

So you got Satan talking to demons and demons talking to people, and the demons, the people that

the demons talk to talk to other people to teach them, to teach them. A doctrine is a teaching. He

has a course. Satan has a course. The demons are trained. They find people that they can train who

can speak into your life lies. They have been educated and trained as deceivers. He says, and they

deceive in a number of ways. He says they deceive by denying you things that God says is okay.

You know what Satan did in the garden? He got Eve to focus on the one tree she couldn't have

instead of all them other trees she could. God said, "From every tree of the garden you may freely

e one tree she couldn't have instead of all them other trees she could. God said, "From every tree of

the garden you may freely eat". But he got them focused on this tree in the middle that you can't

eat. You can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't.

How many people do you know who've run away from Christianity because of all the negatives of

what you can't do? So they give doctrines, and they give it about things that are very legitimate. If you

are enduring your Christian life more than you're enjoying it, you're listening to demons. If you are

enduring your Christian life more than you are enjoying it, that means Satan has got you duped and

tricked and looking at the wrong thing. He got you looking at one thing and not the breadth of things.

1 Timothy 6:17 says that if God gives it to you to enjoy, you should enjoy it. So Satan wants to steer

you and me away from the truth so that he can control the agenda of our lives. Now, he wants to

draw you from the truth so that you don't have access to God. That's his goal. And why does he want

to get you away from the truth?

Let me tell you something that you need to know about you and me and us. Psalm 139, verse 16,

"Your eyes have seen my unformed substance". That's God creating life in the womb, by the way.

"And in your book were all written the days that were ordained for me when as yet there was not one

of them". Number one, that verse cancels out abortion, okay? "You were aware of me when I was in

the womb". And what was in the womb? Me. That's personhood, okay?

That's another subject for another day. But notice what else he said about you, about me. There's a

book. There's a book with all your ordained days. Let me tell you what that means. God has written

out his program and purpose for your life. It's written in a book. You've got your own book with your

own name on it, and that book with your name is designed to fulfill the ordained purpose of God for

your life. That's your book. It's not my book. I got my book. You got your book. So what Satan wants

to do is remove you from the truth so that you don't fulfill your book, so that the purposed plan of

God for your book is not realized because you and I wandered from the truth. We discarded the truth

partially or fully and were duped by the deception of Satan.

Revelation chapter 12, verse 7, "There was a war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with

the dragon". So there's spiritual warfare among angels. It's called the angelic conflict. "The dragon

and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found

for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil

and Satan, who deceives" here's our word, "the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth", that's

where he does his business, "and his angels were thrown down with him". Those are the demons.

"And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying", now watch this, "now the salvation and the power and

the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come", watch this, "for the accuser of our

brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before God day and night".

Satan is called the accuser. This is a legal term. You must picture this as a courtroom. The Bible is

full of court scenes, full of court scenes. You find lawsuits. You find justice. You find judges. You

got legal activity taking place in heaven, which is why we have it on earth. This is a courtroom. The

prosecuting attorney is Satan. He is bringing judgment against every believer when we sin. When

we sin he has evidence against us because we have disobeyed God, giving him material he can use

in court. Why does he go to court? He goes to court for the same reason a prosecuting attorney

goes to court: to condemn us. And the purpose of condemning us is to legitimize righteous

judgment against us for our betrayal of God by believing his lie, which has led us into sin.

We don't have time today, but you can see it worked out in Zechariah chapter 3 the first seven verses.

Joshua was the high priest, and he's in court. He's in court, and Satan is the accuser bringing

accusation against Joshua the high priest, and it says in that passage that his clothes had to be

changed because he was dirty. So Satan had accusation against him. The accusation was true,

which gave him prosecutorial rights. He did this against Job. He accused Job before God. So Satan

is there in order to bring condemnation legitimately for sins we have committed or is in our

propensity.

Now, he is the accuser of the brethren, and since angels don't need sleep, it says day and night. So

this is a 24-hour courtroom scene. So now come out of the spiritual realm for a moment and think

about court. You're in court now, 'cause this is legal. His goal in court is to bring judgment,

condemnation, or keep God from intervening in your prayers, intervening in your circumstances,

intervening in your challenges. So that's the scene. Verse 11, "And they overcame him". And they

overcame him. Satan is the accuser, but he can be overcome concerning his accusations. Satan can

be beaten in court. The Bible says about Jesus Christ in John chapter 2, verse 2 that if any man says

he doesn't sin, in those first couple of verses he says, he's a liar 'cause we all sin. But it says but we

have an advocate.

Remember we're in court. The Greek word advocate means lawyer. An advocate is a lawyer. We say

that today, talk about a lawyer being an advocate. It's a legal term, 'cause we're in God's court now,

okay? Satan does not now beat you with power, he beats you with legislation. He takes you to court.

He says, "I'm going to sue you because look at the infraction you committed". But we have an

advocate. We got a defense attorney. And I like it, it says we have an advocate with the Father, and I

like knowing that my advocate is the judge's son. So I got a little family thing working for me. Jesus

Christ the righteous, they overcame him. The word overcome, which is a favorite word of John, yakol,

this is how it's pronounced. That word overcome is used of both a state and a standing. A state

meaning a legal position in a practical ramification.

So legally, we are overcomers. It's like saying legally I am married, legally you are married if you're

married, okay? That's a legal status. But we also know you can be legally married and personally

miserable. So just 'cause you have a legal status don't mean that you have a positive standing, 'cause

you could be legal status but in perpetual conflict. When the defense attorney enters the room, he

has the right to overcome the lawsuit that has been against you that's breaking you with fellowship

God, with God so that your book is not lived out in completion. But he can be beaten in court, and in

this courtroom there are three things that beat him in conclusion. He says in verse 11 they overcame

him because of the blood of the lamb. The blood of Jesus Christ, that is his sacrificial death on the

cross, is not a 2.000-year-old event only.

We believe in a cross, not a crucifix. A crucifix is a cross with somebody still on it. Our Savior is no

longer on the cross. The cross is a historical event with practical, contemporary relevance. The

constitution was written many years ago. It's relevant today. You claim, "I know my rights". You

claim what was written then for what it can do now. The cross took place then, but it can get some

stuff done now. When you appeal to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, there's no better time to do that

than communion. When you appeal to his cross, which paid the penalty for your sin, what you are

saying to the accuser, "That accusation has already been covered. That accusation, real as it is, has

already right now been paid for". You are appealing to something back then for its relevancy today.

The second thing that will win you in the courtroom, he says, is the word of their testimony. The word

testimony is a legal term. In court you testify. It is a legal term, meaning that you are giving judicial

witness not based on what you see, follow me here, but based on what God says. So you literally

bring to the courtroom. See, some of us need to learn to have a Bible study with the devil. See, if

you're only having Bible studies with Christians, you ain't using it. Remember when Jesus was

tempted in the wilderness, and he had a Bible study with the devil? He told the devil, "It is written, it is

written, it is written".

Now, you can't have a Bible study if you don't know what's in the Bible. See, what you have to

understand is Satan is allergic to Scripture. He has an allergy. You hit him with the Word, he goes...

He's allergic to Scripture because he cannot handle God's Word. He can handle your word, and he

loves to hear you say I think and I feel, 'cause that word has absolutely no authority in his court. But

when you bring his Word, the Word of thy testimony; that is, you give testimony. When the 12 spies

went in, what happened? Twelve spies, ten came back and said, "We can't beat them". Caleb came

back and said, "Yeah, but God told us to go in there 'cause we could beat them".

See, majority not always right. What God says must be more important than what you see. They said,

"There are giants in the land". Caleb said, "But what did God say? I see, but what did he say"?

Because that's evidence in this courtroom, it is the word of your testimony, and that testimony is the

testimony of God's truth. Finally he says they did not love their life even when faced with death. That

means that they were fully committed, fully surrendered. They were not casual Christians, part-time

saints. Jesus has a huge fan club. He's looking for some followers. He got a fan club, and every

Sunday folk gather in the stadiums 'cause they want to see Jesus on Sunday. But all the fans are in

the stands.

Jesus is looking for somebody getting on the field. They did not love their life even to death. It meant

they were fully surrendered, fully committed. They weren't part-time Christians. They were all in. We

all fall short, we all fail, but we have an advocate, a lawyer, and he knows how to handle a courtroom.

When you appeal to the blood, when there is the word of your testimony and you give the judicial

witness to God's truth; when you are all in, case dismissed, case dismissed. I am not suggesting that

there won't be battles with the devil. I am not suggesting that Satan's not going to come after you if

you become a person of the truth. I am not suggesting that you won't get bloodied, thrown down,

thrown against the ring, punched, flipped, grabbed, and abused. I am not suggesting that. What I am

suggesting is victory has already been predetermined and that you will come out more than a

conqueror in Jesus Christ who loved you and gave himself for you.

A lie is an enemy of the truth, and Satan is the father of lies. He originated lies, and he has children,

since he's the father, who perpetuate his lies. Because if he can deceive us and draw us from the

truth as God declares it to be, he can draw us away from God into error, into failure, and into

spiritual defeat. You can only overcome lies with the truth. So on every subject find out what God

has to say, because with the truth you wind up being set free, with a lie you wind up being in

bondage. Satan can't handle the truth, so give him and his children God's perspective so you can

live free.



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