Satan's Lies Work Against Everything that is Real and Genuine

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

Satan tries to vaporize truth and reality and to cement lies and the phony. That is what Evolution is all about, trying to vaporize the creation, the creator, the fall into sin, and the flood in our minds and cement naturalism. That is what amusement and entertainment is all about. We have a great number of churches that no longer deal with reality but try to draw in the crowds with entertainments. That is what bickering and quarrels are about. That’s what un-forgiveness is about.

Satan has many servants to help him propagate his lies. Lies bind us up, if we accept them. Satan has a host of fallen angels, demons. He has every natural mind of man—the fallen nature in every person. He especially uses lukewarm Christians and those dogmatic and relentless unsaved who are dedicated to opposing the Holy Spirit. These are the people who have sought out places of influence as teachers, news casters, movie stars, rock stars, TV personalities, cartoonists, lawyers, judges, and lawmakers. They have sought out these positions of influence so that they could give the message that they get from their father, Satan. That is not to say that all people in these positions are following Satan, but most of them are.

Once you are born again, you have just begun. You are just a baby in Christ. If you get "stuck" at this point, you will remain a baby. Satan is shouting lies to get you "stuck" and to keep you from pressing into fulfillment in Jesus. Satan is saying, "There is no need to press in." He will tell you that you are filled with the Spirit when you are not. He will offer false gifts of the Spirit to keep you from the real and genuine. He will give you a false church order and false church government and false ministry gifts to keep you from that which is real.
Wisdom consists of the free gift of Righteousness, which leads to Holiness, and then to Redemption, transfiguration, and life.

Wisdom consists of the free gift of Righteousness, which leads to Holiness, and then to Redemption, transfiguration, and life.

The purpose of SeekFind.net is to be salt and light to show the way to the fulfillment that is only available through the Lord, Jesus Christ. For every pattern, or order, God created, Satan has created many disorders. Satan creates lies, false ways, which he places beside the real and genuine ways of God. God provides true ways that lead to life and fulfillment of God's ultimate purpose in you. Satan provides diversions, options, and creative ideas that lead to frustration and spiritual death. Satan simply looks for ways to frustrate the purposes of God in your life.

SeekFind.net lists some of the ways that Satan uses, but be assured that Satan has another lie right around the corner. The Bible warns about many of Satan's lies, but it would be impossible to list them all. The real secret is to know the Holy One of Israel, Jesus. As we come to know Him better, we have better discernment. At present, we are still not complete in Him, but God has a vision for our completeness, our fulfillment in Jesus. This plan is being fulfilled before our very eyes. The church is being built according to the pattern that is in Scripture. The clever ideas of Satan are being purged out of the church. Now, through the church, God is showing His wisdom to the principalities and powers. The church is literally, not figuratively, the Body of Christ. It is not a club that can be put together any old way. It is a living Body, the Body of Christ, joined to the Head, Jesus. When someone desires to bring worldly elements into the church, they are trying to defile Christ. When the house of God is built according to the pattern, then Christ will manifest Himself in that temple. Through the Bible, God has spoken about and we have heard about the manifestation of the sons of God. That manifestation is simply the church coming into unity with Jesus to the extent that the we become one with Jesus according to His prayer that is recorded in the gospel of John. When we come to that unity, every precept of man will have been removed and the pattern will be complete in the spiritual temple. That is when Ephesians 4 will be fulfilled, and the church will arise as one totally complete and unified man, Head and Body, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That will change the world more than the great flood ever did.

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