Transcript Stop Living The Lie - Simple Bible Studies

Liars
Whether we want to admit it or
not, we are all liars.
So what can we do about our
lying so that we can be saved?
Introduction
• There are many passages of scripture that
warns us about being deceived.
• Usually if we just pay attention and remain
sober minded we stand the chance of not
being deceived.
• There are times, though, that we choose to
be deceived.
• And the worst deception comes from our
own selves.
1st John 1:6-7
• “ If we say that we have fellowship with
Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie
and do not practice the truth; but if we
walk in the light as He himself is in the
light, we have fellowship with one
another, and the blood of Jesus His Son
cleanses us from all sin”
• Far too many claim fellowship with Jesus
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• calling themselves Christians,
1st John 1:6-7
• Yet attending occasional assemblies of various
denominations, etc. – even the Lord’s church.
• They do this while walking in darkness –
• Engaging in sexual immorality, speaking
profanities, using God’s name in vain, practicing
hatred, and the like.
• They put other things before God all the time.
• Occasionally, they do something to soothe their
conscience.
1st John 3:7
• “Little children, let no one deceive you; the one
who practices righteousness is righteous, just as
He is righteous;”
• It is deception to believe anything contrary to the
fact that righteous people are those who practice
righteousness.
• Yes, the grace of God is needed, but it has no
effect on those who don’t do right!
• Salvation only comes to those who obey God.
• Hebrews 5:8-9
Romans 13:12-14
• “The night is almost gone, and the day is at hand.
Let us therefore lay aside the deeds of darkness
and put on the armor of light. Let us behave
properly as in the day, not in carousing and
drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and
sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the
flesh in regard to its lusts”.
• The “works of darkness” are to be “cast off”.
• This is a requirement when one endeavors to “put
on the Lord Jesus Christ”.
Ephesians 5:11-12
• “And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of
darkness, but instead even expose them; for it is
disgraceful even to speak of the things which are
done by them in secret”.
• A Christian’s “fellowship” should have nothing to
do with “darkness”.
• 1 John 1:5 “And this is the message we have heard
from Him and announce to you, that God is light,
and in Him there is no darkness at all”.
1st John 1:8-10
• “If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving
ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess
our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we
say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and
His word is not in us”.
• It is self-deceptive to claim sinlessness.
• Worse, it makes Jesus out to be a liar.
• Cleansing comes from confession, not concealment.
• Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:23
• Sin is, indisputably, universal.
The purpose of Christ
was to save sinners.
• Luke 5:32 “I have not come to call the righteous
but sinners to repentance”.
• 1st Timothy 1:15 “It is a trustworthy statement,
deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners, among whom I am
foremost of all”.
• The one who claims to be without sin implicitly
disputes Christ’s purpose, claiming not to need
Him.
The purpose of Christ
was to save sinners.
• Proverbs 28:13 “He who conceals his transgressions
will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes
them will find compassion”.;
• James 5:16 “Therefore, confess your sins to one
another, and pray for one another, so that you may be
healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can
accomplish much”.
• Quit making excuses.
• Quit claiming that what you’re doing isn’t really
wrong.
• Quit hiding it.
• Mercy only comes through confession.
1st John 2:3-6
• “And by this we know that we have come to
know Him, if we keep His commands. The one
who says, ‘I have come to know Him’, and does
not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the
truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word,
in him the love of God has truly been perfected.
By this we know that we are in Him; the one who
says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in
the same manner as He walked”
1st John 2:3-6
• The one who self-identifies as a Christian, but
refuses to confess His name in the face of
persecution, as He commanded (Matthew 10:3233), lies!
• The one who self-identifies as a Christian, but
refuses to repent of sin, as He commanded (Luke
13:3), lies!
• The one who self-identifies as a Christian, but has
not been baptized, as He commanded (Mark
16:16), lies!
Don’t let your words convict you.
• Titus 1:16 “They profess to know God
but by their deeds they deny Him, being
detestable and disobedient, and
worthless for any good deed”.
• Works and words often deny each other.
• Don’t be that person!
Don’t let your words convict you.
• Matthew 7:21-23
• Many who call themselves Christ’s
people will be ultimately excluded from
His kingdom.
• Yeah, that will show them
_____________.
• Beware that Jesus is not speaking of
you.
1st John 2:22
• “Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is
the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies
the Father and the Son”.
• It is a lie to acknowledge Jesus as anything less than
God’s anointed one, His only Son, our true Savior.
• He was a good man, but so much more than that.
• He was a prophet, but so much more than that.
• He changed the world, but so much more than that.
• Those who won’t call Him Christ, with full
understanding of what that means, are antichrist!
1st John 4:3
• “And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not
from God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of
which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is
already in the world”.
• Antichrist is not some spooky end-times character.
• Antichrist is everyone who doesn’t openly recognize
the reality of who Jesus is.
• 2nd John 7 “For many deceivers have gone out into
the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ
as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the
antichrist”.
• Antichrist is the same as “LIAR”.
Jesus will be perceived in many ways.
• Matthew 16:13-14 “…Who do people say
that the Son of Man is?” And they said,
some say John the Baptist; and others,
Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of
the prophets. He said the them, But who do
you say that I am?”
• Like Peter, for us, what is true and rewarding
is to know He’s the Christ, God’s Son.
1st John 4:20-21
• “If someone says, ‘I love God’ and hates his
brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love
his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God
whom he has not seen. And this commandment
we have from Him, that the one who loves God
should love his brother also”.
• Claiming to love God while hating others,
especially fellow believers, is contradictory.
• Do not forget that Christ died for them also.
God Is Love
• 1st John 4:8 “The one who does not love does not
know God, for God is love”.
• 1st John 4:16 “And we have come to know and
have believed the love which God has for us. God
is love, and the one who abides in love abides in
God, and God abides in him”.
• Real love for Him is totally incompatible with
hatred toward any man.
1st John 3:15-17
• “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and
you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in
him. We know love by this, that he laid down His life
for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the
brethren. But whoever has the worlds goods, and
beholds his brother in need and closes his heart
against him, how does the love of God abide in him?”
• Hatred is a damnable in the eyes of God as is murder.
• Rather, love manifests itself in sacrifice.
• Hebrews 13:1 “Let love of the brethren continue”.
• Don’t let anything get in the way of love.
Conclusion
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We know that lying comes from Satan.
John 8:44 tells us he is the father of lies.
Sin began because of a lie.
And Revelation tells us that all liars will be sent to
eternal punishment of hell. (21:8
• Galatians 6:6 tells us “Do not be deceived, God is
not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will
also reap”.
• 2 Corinthians 13:5 “examine yourselves….”