Text: John 8:44
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.
Introduction: Because of the depraved
nature of man, lies are more often believed than is the
truth. Men will often accept a colossal lie rather than
a simple truth. The more bizarre and outlandish the lie,
the better some folks like it. That's one reason so many
'conspiracy theories' abound and will not die.
Because of this quirk in human nature, confidence men,
fortune tellers, medical quacks, religious charlatans,
and politicians are with us and thriving. The greatest
liar and most prolific teller of untruths is the father
of lies, the devil.
I. A few of the devil's offsprings;
A. Definition of a lie. Anything said
or done with intent to deceive.
B. Regardless of their intent, lies are
against God.
Heb 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it
was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong
consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon
the hope set before us:
1 John 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know
not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie
is of the truth.
C. Lies, like all living creatures
multiply. [Oh, What a tangled web we weave, when first
we practice to deceive.- scott]
D. Being against God and having the
ability to multiply, makes even the smallest lie,
something to shun.
Ezek 35:13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted
against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I
have heard them.
E. Even Truth, when mixed with error,
becomes a lie.
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more
than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
II. Meet a few of the devil's children.
Like all proud fathers he would desire that everyone
accept his family.
A. His firstborn.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye
shall not surely die: This one is still around.
B. In imitation of Adam, this firstborn
has a brother.
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be
as gods, knowing good and evil.
Isa 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good
evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter!
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C. 'The Rebel' - 'You can be your own
god!' This one caused Moses problems, Judas to betray
Christ, false churches to multiply and he's still
stirring up fusses in the Lord's churches.
D. The child called 'Broken Vow'
Acts 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan
filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep
back part of the price of the land?
Eccl 5:4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to
pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which
thou hast vowed.
Eccl 5:5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than
that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
C. The child called ''miss Goody Two
Shoes" Self righteous, Salvation by works etc.
Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all
our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do
fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have
taken us away.
D. The son called 'Church Hater'. He
has many aliases.
1. "Church of your Choice.'
2. 'Don't need-a-Church'
3. Sometimes he joins a church and then
changes his name to 'It's none of their business what I
do.
4. 'Miss Snooty' She keeps looking for
a church worthy of her and her great talents.
E. 'No Hell' this is Satan's child who
hasn't a care in the world because he thinks this is all
there is.
F. Mr. Not Now. This is the
procrastinator of the family. His intentions are to
somehow do better someday.
III. You must either break away from
Satan's family or become one of the bunch.
IV. The only effective weapon against
this family of lies is Truth.
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free.
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