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The Truth and the Lie

Truth is infinitely more than an accurate account of facts or a probability that specific causes result in specific effects. Scientists deal with such facts in the physical world. However, there is a dimension of truth that scientists cannot determined by their measurements. It is the truth that is an accurate picture of God, His will, His ways, and His eternal purpose in Jesus Christ.

Satan is a lie. What Satan tells us about God is a lie. What Satan tells us about God’s will is a lie. What Satan tells us about God’s ways is a lie. What Satan tells us about God’s eternal plan is a lie. Because the Antichrist spirit, the spirit of Satan, controls the activities of the world in the present hour, the whole world is one great lie.

(4/6/2008) The teaching today is taken from the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation. We find that Michael and his angels are going to drive Satan and the rebellious angels from the heavens and force them into the earth. When that takes place, there will be great rejoicing in Heaven, but it will be the worst period of world history for those living on the earth.

God at any time can empower Michael to remove Satan and his angels from the heavens. However God, according to His own wisdom, is waiting until some of the saints overcome their accuser.

The struggle is between the truth and the lie. It does not matter how the politics of the United States are resolved. Earth’s problems, including wars, are caused by the struggle between the truth and the lie. Do not nourish your fallen nature by becoming angry over who is left-wing and who is right-wing. Set your mind on God and His Christ. Here is where the solution lies.

Satan and his angels shall be cast into the earth when enough saints press forward into total victory in Christ. Christ overcame the lie that the world spirit is. Now we, through Christ, must overcome the lie that the world is.

We overcome the lie, the accuser by three means. First we must have faith in the authority of the shed blood of Christ. Second we must overcome the accuser by the word of our testimony. Third we must set aside our own life that Christ may live in us. If we come short in one of these three area, the accuser, the lie concerning God, will not be overcome.

The shed blood of the cross makes it possible for us to approach God without condemnation. Apart from trusting in the forgiving authority of the blood of Calvary, we will not be successful in overcoming the accuser.

Remember, the lie has four dimensions: the Nature of God; the will of God; the ways of God; and the eternal purpose of God in Jesus Christ, that is, God’s intention to enter the earth and establish His Kingdom and His will here. The true testimony, the true witness of God, must portray accurately these four aspects of God.

Much American preaching in our day does not tell the truth about God. It overemphasizes the love of God and minimizes the severity of God. As a result, American believers often believe a lie about the Nature of God.

Much American preaching in our day does not tell the truth about the will of God. The will of God is that those who profess faith in Jesus Christ behave in iron righteousness, fiery holiness, and stern obedience to the Father. Instead the lie being preached numerous pulpits is that we presently are in an unscriptural “dispensation of grace,” meaning that all God requires is a statement of faith in Christ.

The truth that God demands a change in our sinful behavior is not always presented. Thus we have a lie that cannot possibly overcome the accuser. This is because what Satan accuses us of is our sinful behavior!

Romans 10:9,10 is repeated again and again. Romans, Chapter Six, is ignored or preached incorrectly. We in America are in a theologic no man’s land, believing and preaching a lie.

Much American preaching in our day does not tell the truth about the ways of God. The ways of God are described in Micah. God has shown us what is good. It is that we behave righteously, love mercy, and walk humbly with God, as did Enoch. Instead we are hearing that none of this matters because of the dispensation of grace. Once we profess faith in Christ our behavior is irrelevant. We have believed a lie. A dispensation of grace will never overcome the accuser.

Much American preaching in our day presents a lie concerning God’s eternal purpose in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are told that it does not matter what happens to the earth or its nations. All that is significant is that at any moment now, Christ will appear and “catch away His waiting bride to Heaven.” The earth will be possessed by Satan. The saints will be in a sort of Disneyland in the sky, doing whatever they please, enjoying themselves to the fullest.

I think we have decided that the prayer, “Your Kingdom come; Your will be done in the earth as it is in Heaven,” will never be answered

It is difficult to decide which of the four lies is the most destructive. However, as long as this is the witness the Christian churches are giving, the accuser will not be overcome. Satan and his rebellious angels will remain in Heaven.

We overcome the accuser by trusting in the forgiving authority of the blood of the Lamb. We overcome the accuser also by the word of our testimony concerning God, His will, His ways, and His eternal plan in Christ. If the testimony we are given is a lie, we cannot overcome the accuser.

There are three areas of our personality that must be active as we set out to overcome the accuser by the word of our testimony. First, we must keep the four truths firmly in our mind. We do this by presenting our body as a living sacrifice each day so that we are transformed by the renewing of our mind. If we permit our mind to be polluted with the lies of the world spirit, we cannot possibly overcome the accuser.

Second, we must reveal God’s Person, will, ways, and eternal purpose in our speech. The mark of spiritual maturity is that of speaking only what is purposeful and builds up the listeners.

Numerous Christian believers talk altogether too much. They do not think about what they are saying or are going to say. Their mouth runs far ahead of their brain. If we would give a true testimony with our mouth we must consider carefully what we say, and pray about it before blurting out whatever delicious morsel appears on our tongue.

The third area of our personality that must be active as we set out to overcome the accuser by the world of our testimony is that of our actions. Several passages of the New Testament tell us how we as Christians are supposed to behave. An excellent example of these passages is the third chapter of the Book of Colossians.

We are admonished, in this chapter, to set our interests in Heaven where Christ sits at the right hand of God, and we with Him. We are to put off the activities of our sinful nature. We are to clothe ourselves with the new man who behaves in true righteousness and holiness.

Whenever we break God’s moral laws, we bear the testimony of Satan, who himself is the false day star. We assure both the physical and spirit realms that Satan’s way is correct. We cannot overcome the accuser when we are lying, stealing, raging, seeking preeminence, gossiping, committing adultery or fornication, speaking words that are nasty, seeking to amass more money than we need.

It is important what we say about Christ and His salvation. But if we ourselves are thinking, speaking, or acting in an ungodly manner, we are testifying of the fact that Satan’s rebellion against God is the path to love, joy, and peace. We have joined ranks with Satan. We are strengthening his position in Heaven.

Jesus Christ is the true Day Star, the Morning Star, of God. He tells us the way to God. Satan encourages us to move away from God. Jesus tells us the truth concerning God, His Person, His will, His ways, and His eternal purpose. Satan tells us that God wants us in Heaven so there is no witness of God in the earth.

Christ gives us the Life that God is. Satan give us the death that Satan is.

The Christian witness in the Western nations of our day is more true to Satan’s desires than it is the desires of Jesus Christ. As a result, God is raising up enemies who are seeking to destroy the Western nations and install a religion other than Christianity. It is our fault, pure and simple.

We have not begun to experience the hard times that are coming. We can see glimpses of it as the courts set themselves to decide whether the parents have the right to govern what children are being taught in school, or whether the decisions are to be made by professional educators. To resist this trend may result in numerous Christian families being broken up, as seems to be happening in Germany.

We cannot possibly overcome the accuser until we are ready to forget about our own survival and safety and live each day in the Presence of Christ. Christ absolutely must become our life if we are to survive and assist others throughout the age of moral horrors on the horizon. We must “love not our life unto the death.”

The saints who have gone before us preferred to live underground with their families rather than submit to the edicts of the government of Rome. We are nowhere near such iron consecration in America. We are soft, pleasure-loving people who have been lulled to sleep by the unscriptural teaching of a pre-tribulation rapture that will carry us to Heaven lest we experience the suffering that has been the lot of Christians throughout the centuries—and the true prophets of Israel before them.

I do not know how God is going to get us ready for the trouble that is at hand. The Christian preaching simply has got to change from traditions to the Scriptures. We preachers must not be telling people they are not going to suffer, because if we do we are going to see them deny Christ in the day of trouble. If we deny Christ, even though we are facing the loss of everything we hold dear, Christ will deny us before the Father. Are we prepared for this?

By and large, Evangelical preaching is not bearing a true witness of God. Let each one of us make certain we are finding Christ for ourselves, and know what He wants us to think, say, and do, at all times. If we follow the crowds to the churches, destruction may come upon us before we are prepared.

Every true Christian has been chosen to be a witness to the truth of God, according to the pattern set forth above. When we bear a true witness we are hastening the day when the Father will empower Michael and his angels to drive Satan from the heavenlies.


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