One of the biggest ‘MISUNDERSTANDINGS‘, about the Devil is found in a partially faulty interpretation of the following scripture taken to a wrong and extreme position. And because of that extreme position, too many Christians are left vulnerable and open to the Devil’s destructive work. They say, ‘IT’S IMPOSSIBLE FOR SATAN TO TELL THE TRUTH? They quote that part of the Scripture that says, “…Satan is a liar and there is no truth in him”. I will revisit this in a moment, but read on.
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(John 8:43-44) Jesus said, “Why is My language (word) not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies he speaks his native language, for he is a ‘liar’ and the ‘father of lies’.”
When Jesus showed mercy on the woman taken in adultery (in John 8) and when her accusers who would have stoned her to death, left, Jesus asked her, “WHERE ARE YOUR ACCUSERS?”
She humbly and gratefully answered, “NONE, LORD”. And Jesus said to the woman, “Neither do I condemn you, ‘GO AND SIN NO MORE‘
The Pharisees challenged Jesus and tried to catch Him in His words. They also said, “We are Abraham’s children, and we have only one Father, God.
Jesus told them, “If God was your father, then you would love me. You would then obey His Word and not try to kill me.
READ: SEATED WITH CHRIST IN HEAVENLY PLACESWe often hear, ‘LOUD AND CLEAR’, Satan is ‘INCAPABLE OF TELLING THE TRUTH‘. While it is true that Satan is a liar, and is the father of lies, it is ‘NOT TRUE THAT SATAN CAN NOT TELL THE TRUTH‘.
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Jesus meant by His statement, ‘there is no truth in him, he means that ‘THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS’ whole purpose, his whole mission, his every desire to hurt God and to destroy mankind, and to take him to hell is burning in his black heart, and driving him ever onward, never slacking in his purposes of destruction, never giving him rest till he destroys every last man, woman, teenager, child, and even the unborn in the womb.
NOW, THINK ABOUT IT FOR A MOMENT. If Satan could not tell the truth, and could only lie, he also would be unable to give his hateful and destructive plans to those demons under him, and his kingdom could not survive.
He wants his army of wicked spirits to be able to help him fulfill his plans to destroy you, your spouse, and your children.
Can you understand how ‘FRUSTRATED‘ he’d be if he couldn’t get his fallen angels to understand (because he couldn’t tell the truth) that they needed to attack you, your spouse, your children, and cause family break-up, and cause your children to get on drugs, and choose the world instead of God.
Even telling the truth plays into the hands of Satan, to make his lies even more deadly.
You say, “How so?”
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An unbeliever who never knew the truth of the Bible, and was never raised to hear the Word of God, can be (and is) deceived already by Satan’s lies. The ‘Enemy of their souls’ can use 100% lies and the unbeliever swallows the lie, ‘hook, line and sinker’.
Well with the knowledgeable Christian who knows the Word of God well, it’s a different story, a different ball-game.” Satan is not stupid, but extremely ‘brilliant’, but his great intellect has been darkened by sin and honed like a sharp knife to be plunged into his victim, before he can even detect it.
What makes him so successful, His lies, or the ‘TRUTH‘? SURPRISINGLY IT’S THE TRUTH, NOT THE LIE, – AT LEAST NOT TO BEGIN WITH.
If ‘The Destroying Angel, the Devil, were to tell the knowledgeable Christian all lies, he would quickly discern the lies because he knows the Word of God so well, AND WOULD QUICKLY REJECT THEM.
But, because the Devil who’s not supposed to be able to tell the truth, and because we ‘BELIEVE THAT STATEMENT, IT GIVES THE DEVIL A GREAT ADVANTAGE TO SUCCESSFULLY DESTROY THE CHRISTIAN NOT BY HIS LIES, BUT BY HIS TELLING THE BORN AGAIN CHILD OF GOD TRUTH.
If Satan can’t tell the truth, then who’s talking to me? It certainly couldn’t be the Devil, because he can’t tell the truth, so that must be God.
WRONG!
He has just DECEIVED US, by the ‘truth’ that we believe he is incapable of telling. So it is the myth that he can’t tell the truth, that causes us to swallow the bait.
The fact is, he’s ‘LIED TO US, PUTTING INTO THE MINDS OF BELIEVERS, THAT HE’S INCAPABLE OF TELLING THE TRUTH, WHILE ALL THE TIME HE IS DISARMING US, AND BECAUSE HE IS TELLING THE TRUTH, WE ARE LETTING OUR GUARD DOWN, AND HE IS PENETRATING OUR LIVES.
First, the ‘Truth’, then the ‘lie’.
This is one time that the truth has blinded us. Satan tells more truth to the strong Bible believing Christian than he does to the unbeliever because the strong Christian knows the Bible well.
He sets the hook with truth, so when you let your guard down, he plants his lies in your heart and mind without any resistance.
BE ON GUARD AND REMEMBER THIS: SATAN KNOWS THE TRUTH AND WAS NO DOUBT GOD’S FIRST CREATION, EVEN BEFORE THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE.
SATAN KNOWS GOD, AND KNOWS THE WORD OF GOD AND EVERY DETAIL OF IT.
IT’S THE ONLY BOOK THAT REALLY MATTERS TO SATAN. He has his wicked ‘spirit lawyers’ who do nothing but study the Word of God.
Other spirits observe everything you and I do and say. Every time we say something in disobedience to the Word, and every time we do something sinful and contrary to God’s Word, they write it in their book of ‘ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE BELIEVER’.
REMEMBER, SATAN IS THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN, RIGHT? We as Believers are taught that Satan has no legal right to accuse a Christian, because we have been brought into covenant with God and we have been brought under the blood covering and therefore, Satan can’t accuse us, right?
Well, that’s correct as long as we are fully trusting and obeying God’s Word. God’s Word says, in (I Jn 1:7) ‘IF’ we walk in the ‘LIGHT’ as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with the other ‘AND’ (THEN) the ‘blood’ of Jesus cleanses us from all unrighteousness”.
This Scripture says that as long as we walk in the light, the blood of Jesus cleanses us, but if we disobey God and start hating our brother, we have just walked out of the light and stepped into darkness by not obeying God’s Word and by not living an obedient life before God.
So, if we stop walking in the light and stop obeying God’s Word and start doing our own selfish thing, Satan has found his case against us, and that case will be in every area where we are violating the Word of God, and it will be justified, ‘UNLESS, OR UNTIL WE REPENT’. When that happens, and we repent, his case has just been invalidated by the cleansing power of the Blood of Jesus, ‘PRAISE GOD’.
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So, when he tells the truth we say, “that can’t be the devil, because He is telling us that Jesus is the only Savior, that Jesus died for the sins of all, and that, (GET READY NOW), that It is Jesus blood that has redeemed us, cleansed us, and washed away all sin.
YOU SAY, …. “NOW WAIT A MINUTE. SATAN CAN’T CROSS THE BLOOD LINE. HE CAN’T TOUCH YOU IF YOU’RE UNDER THE BLOOD, YES, THAT’S TRUE, BUT HERE’S WHERE SATAN PLANTS HIS LIE/S.
We had a Satanist in our Church who baited us with (some truth) mixed with the lie. She told us that she was a Satanist (which was true), and she told us that she pretended to be a Christian and was a worker at PTL (Which was true),
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but that she had gotten saved at Jim Baker’s PTL, (a lie, which we initially believed), and that she had come to out church, and asked us if we would pray for her deliverance, and give her our covering, prayers, and protection from the Satanists in our area where she was part of their coven (this was a lie. She wasn’t a Christian at all, but was sent to destroy us and our Church).
For 6 months she had us fooled, but God showed us what she really was, and we won, and she lost. GOD GET’S ALL THE GLORY. PRAISE HIS NAME.
There’s another area where Satan will never lie, and will ‘ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH. HE’S AFRAID NOT TO. You and I understand clearly that God knows all things, right?
We all know that if God knows all things, and Satan is not stupid. He dwelt in heaven for perhaps millions of years as the ‘ANOINTED CHERUB THAT COVERED’. Covered what? The very Throne of God. He was the Worship Angel of heaven.
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He understood very well that God knows everything about everything, from the beginning of creation until the end of time, and then beyond into eternity without end.
So, he will never lie to God, because he knows that God knows everything about him, and all his plans to destroy. HE ALSO HAS BEEN GIVEN STRICT ORDERS THAT HE CANNOT DO ANYTHING TO DESTROY ANYONE WITHOUT HIS (GOD’S PERMISSION).
When men live godly, trusting and loving Jesus, God never gives Satan permission to destroy them. (Job was godly and loved, trusted and obeyed God, but left one door open, and that was fear and doubt. HE SAID, “THAT WHICH I GREATLY FEARED HAS COME UPON ME”.
Fear and doubt is a door opener for Satan to penetrate our lives, and in Job’s case God gave permission for Satan to attack him, but God gave strict orders to Satan that he could not take his life.
BE PRAYERFUL, AND BE AWARE THAT THE DEVIL CAN AND WILL TELL THE TRUTH WHEN IT SERVES HIS PURPOSE TO DESTROY. So be aware of his deception, know the Word well, and stay CLOSE TO GOD.
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DON’T SET YOUR HEART ON WHAT YOU WANT, BUT WHAT GOD WANTS. WHEN WE TAKE OURSELVES OUT OF THE EQUATION, AND SET OUR HEARTS ON WHAT GOD WANTS, WE ARE LESS LIKELY TO BE DECEIVED BY THE DEVIL.
ASK GOD, FOR THE ‘GIFT OF DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS. STAY HUMBLE AND OPEN FOR CORRECTION.
DON’T FEEL THAT YOU HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS. REMEMBER, ALSO, SCRIPTURE SAYS, ‘IN THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSELORS THERE IS ‘WISDOM’. AMEN AND AMEN.
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