When people try to challenge the Bible’s truth I can’t help
but wonder if that is a work of Satan. If lying is the opposite of truth, then
consider John 8:44:
You
are of your father the devil,
and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a
lie, he speaks of his own [native language]: for he is a liar, and the father
of it.
As the Father of lies, the first plan of attack that Satan
ever used was to question God’s truth. In the Garden of Eden Satan tempted Eve
by asking her, “Did God really say…?”
He attacked the absolute truth of God’s Word.
Eve then began to wonder if perhaps God didn’t really say
that. Satan used enough of God’s words to be cunning, but he left out enough of
them to be deadly.
People often promote their pastors (or leaders or life
coaches) by showing that they use the Bible, but the key is how much of the
Bible they use. In the Garden, and when tempting Jesus in the wilderness, Satan
quoted the Bible, but in each instance he strategically left out parts.
I am not saying that human error denotes lying, or that
pastors who reject truth are satanic. What I am saying is that it is certainly
Satan’s artillery in this spiritual warfare to deceive people into rejecting
God’s absolute truth.
Peter warned that there would be false teachers by whom “the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of (II Peter 2:2).”
In Jude 1:3 we are told to “earnestly contend for the
faith,” so it is the duty of every Bible-believing Christian to stand up to these
false teachers who change God’s truth into something that cannot be known.
Jesus said that Satan’s native language is lying; what
language do you speak?
(Read Part 1 here )
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