Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

"So that we would know the truth and no longer believe the devil's lies."

DECEPTION builds ego. It reinforces false pride. False pride is that which isn’t truth. A man can declare himself a king and build himself a throne. He will act like he imagines a king acts. But in reality, to those viewing him, he is a fool. Proverbs speaks many things of the fool. That he is a sluggard, convincing himself work isn’t necessary until want comes. Want comes because he was lazy, as we’d say. But at the time of work, he didn’t see it but chose a lie. What he couldn’t see was the truth of his appearance.

Satan became the adversary by telling himself a lie. Somehow, he convinced himself he could raise himself above Elohim. Elohim is the first word used for “God” in the Bible. It is plural meaning “gods,” a picture of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They created the earth and all that is on it. They made man in Their image after Their likeness. Yet, Satan was sure he could do better. This was a lie. He, in fact, conceived lying. Jesus called him the father of lies. Those angelic beings which followed him in his rebellion were lying to themselves as well. We know this by reading the Word. Two plus two, equals four.

“Ye 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 speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

But what Satan couldn’t see that the fallen angels also didn’t see was the effect of their pride, which grew based on the lie. There is no curse given by God. He is complete and total life. He is complete and total goodness. He is the complete and total essence of love. There is no darkness, no shadows, no evil in Him, nor is He tempted by it (James 1:13). What we see as the curse of wickedness and evil is instead a complete lack of God’s presence. Where demons and devils are there is no life of God, no goodness of God, no fullness of God’s love. There is no wisdom there, nor knowledge and understanding either. And so they believe lies.

Jesus said He saw Satan fall like lightning (Luke 10:18). The lie Satan believed cost him all he had. He was absent of the presence of God; he had no authority, no beauty, no wisdom and understanding, no shape or form either. We know this because he placed himself in the serpent and spoke a lie.

Suicide is a lie that you are not worth it and no one cares. That you are better off dead. Sickness and disease, injury, accident, and birth deformity are all lies. Poverty is a lie. Emotional outbursts: anger, hatred, strife, criticism, taking offense are all lies that your defense of you will solve what upsets you.

But nothing we are, nothing we do, can save us. That’s what Jesus does.

We are told to walk in the Spirit. This means having an intimate one-on-one relationship with God. It is hearing Him and seeing Him work, seeing Him manifest Himself, in our lives. It is allowing Him to direct our fleshly nature, our mind, will, and emotions. He did this in Jesus Christ when He walked the earth. Jesus did not do a sin because He didn’t think sin. He turned even His thoughts over to the Father. He walked on water, an impossibility in the human body, because He turned that moment over to the Spirit.

He hung on the cross, despite the pain, and released His spirit into the hands of the Father at the moment He did because the peace of God was within Him (John 14:27). He endured suffering because God was in Him and God was upon Him in His flesh.

He didn’t believe the devil’s lies but was truth and spoke truth (John 14:6), presenting a gospel, the good news of peace and healing to all men. He forgave even the Pharisees. They did not know what they were doing. And a Roman soldier, viewing everything, declared Him the Son of God. He offered a convicted thief Paradise. We must see this in the words He spoke. Because Jesus said, “Today you will be with me in Paradise.” Today, that day. With me, together. This eliminates any teaching of His suffering in the spirit. He was and is God in the spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit without measure (John 3:34).

He preached to the fallen angels in hell’s prison (1 Peter 3:19). Here is another proof of His victory. Though His body lay in the grave, Jesus was King of Kings and Lord of Lords, victorious over all principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness.

He was raised from the grave for you and me. His Resurrection is the Father’s proof of what He can do in us. From Jesus’ mutilated body, unrecognizable as a man (Isaiah 53:2), He made a glorious body (Philippians 3:21), no longer needing blood but filled entirely with the Spirit of God. God who made man became man to become God resurrected in order to resurrect us so that we would know the truth and no longer believe the devil’s lies. Unrest is a lie. Worry is a lie. Disappointment happens, but depression is a lie. That God is far from you and hardhearted is a lie. That His reverence demands the strictest obedience is a lie. We cannot obey in our own power. But by walking with the Spirit of God, who was sent to live in us, we can do all things and see them in peace from God’s perspective.

“The secret to real peace and contentment is an abiding trust in Christ—realizing that my strength comes from him; and through the peace, strength, wisdom and perspective that Christ gives me, I can handle whatever happens.” (Philippians 4:13)

We can have God-dependent, holy, wonderful lives in complete health with no fear that anything will ever go wrong. The psalms promise us restoration of soul, preservation of soul, goodness and mercy following us, God’s hand upon us and His Spirit around us, complete peace and freedom from ever being offended. The New Covenant says we have His wisdom and revelation of Him, His peace in our thoughts and in our heart, and blessings so great we can’t even imagine them. Acts 10:38 tells us what Jesus came to do, set men free from the work of the devil. Who believes a lie still. For that is the nature of lying.

A man cannot walk on water. But a man led of the Spirit can. A man absent of God will drown unless the Savior takes His hand. Which He did and that man went on to proclaim the Word of God.

“Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!” (Colossians 2:15 TPT)

“Through his death, he revealed the truth about God and—in his humanity—eradicated selfishness, thus he completely destroyed Satan’s weapons of lies and selfishness, and triumphed over Satan at the cross.” (Colossians 2:15, Remedy)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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