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John 8:31-32
[By Ron Halbrook]
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
Introduction:
1. God & Satan war for our souls
2. Jn. 8:31-32, 42-45 Jesus explains:
God uses truth, Satan lies
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
Jn. 8:31-32
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews
which believed on him,
If ye continue in my word,
then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
Jn. 8:42-45
42 Jesus said unto them,
If God were your Father, ye would love me:
for I proceeded forth and came from God;
neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech?
even because ye cannot hear my word.
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.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
Introduction:
1. God & Satan war for our souls
2. Jn. 8:31-32, 42-45 Jesus explains:
God uses truth, Satan lies
3. Satan’s lies aimed at youth
4. Jesus Christ defeats Satan
by the power of God’s truth!
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
I. Satan, the Father of Lies
A. God Blessed Adam & Eve
Gen. 1:27 Made in God’s image:
fellowship with God
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
I. Satan, the Father of Lies
A. God Blessed Adam & Eve
Gen. 2:8-9, 15-17 Provided all needs
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
I. Satan, the Father of Lies
A. God Blessed Adam & Eve
Gen. 2:8-9, 15-17 Provided all needs
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him
into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
I. Satan, the Father of Lies
B. Gen. 3:1-5 Satan Lied
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
Gen. 3:1-5
1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of
the field which the LORD God had made.
And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,
Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst
of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die:
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.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
I. Satan, the Father of Lies
B. Gen. 3:1-5 Satan Lied
Tried to plant doubt
Denied sin will be punished
Sin blesses, God prevents blessings
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
I. Satan, the Father of Lies
C. Gen. 3:6-7 Eve, Adam Acted
on Satan’s Lies
6 And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened,
and they knew that they were naked;
and they sewed fig leaves together,
and made themselves aprons.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
I. Satan, the Father of Lies
C. Gen. 3:6-7 Eve, Adam Acted
on Satan’s Lies
Satan used 3 avenues:
“Good for food:” lust of flesh
“Pleasant to the eyes:” lust of eyes
“Make one wise:” vain pride
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
I. Satan, the Father of Lies
C. Gen. 3:6-7 Eve, Adam Acted
on Satan’s Lies
Satan used 3 avenues
Satan used Eve to influence Adam
They experienced guilt of sin
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
I. Satan, the Father of Lies
D. Gen. 3:8-19 God Confronted Sinners
Vs. 8 Adam & Eve hid in shame
Vv. 9-13 God called them to account
Vv. 14-15 Satan to be defeated
Vv. 16-21 Adam & Eve to suffer
Vv. 22-24 Adam & Eve sent from Garden
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II. Satan’s Tactics of Deception
A. Sows Seeds of Doubt
B. Denies Sin Will Be Punished
C. Presents Sin as Blessing,
God’s Word Prevents Blessings
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
II. Satan’s Tactic of Deception
D. Blind Us to Real Results of Sin:
Break our fellowship with God
Harm ourselves & others
Enslave us to sin
Multiply sins
Eternity in hell
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
II. Satan’s Tactic of Deception
E. Makes God Out to Be a Liar!
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
III. Satan Continues to Lie
A. Isa. 5:20 Turns Truth Upside Down
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!
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
III. Satan Continues to Lie
B. Jer. 6:13-15 Peace with God in Sin
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest
of them every one is given to covetousness;
and from the prophet even unto the priest
every one dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter
of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace;
when there is no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall
among them that fall: at the time that I visit them
they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
III. Satan Continues to Lie
C. Matt. 15:7-9 Man-made Doctrines
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy
of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me
with their mouth,
and honoureth me with their lips;
but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
D. Jn. 8:42-45 Jesus Exposed Satan
& His Followers
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father,
ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came
from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech?
even because ye cannot hear my word.
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.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
III. Satan Continues to Lie
E. 2 Cor. 4:3-4 Blinds by Our Selfish Desires
3 But if our gospel be hid,
it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world
hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
III. Satan Continues to Lie
F. 1 Jn. 2:15-17 Uses 3 Avenues to Deceive
15 Love not the world, neither the things
that are in the world. If any man love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh,
and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,
is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof:
but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
IV. The Nature of Man
A. Gen. 1:27 Made in God’s Image,
Not Evolved from Animals
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
IV. The Nature of Man
B. Eccl. 12:13-14 Purpose of Life:
Love & Obey God
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments:
for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment,
with every secret thing, whether it be good,
or whether it be evil.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
V. The Parent-Child Relationship
A. Eph. 6:1-3 God’s Truth for Children
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord:
for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother;
(which is the first commandment with
promise;)
3 That it may be well with thee,
and thou mayest live long on the earth.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
V. The Parent-Child Relationship
B. Eph. 6:4 God’s Truth for Parents
4 And, ye fathers,
provoke not your children to wrath:
but bring them up in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
A. Basis of All Moral Choices:
Unselfish Love for God & Man
Matt. 22:36-40 Basis of all truth
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
Matt. 22:36-40 Basis of all truth
36 Master, which is the great commandment
in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang
all the law and the prophets.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
A.Basis of All Moral Choices:
Unselfish Love for God & Man
Rom. 13:8-10 Love seeks welfare of others,
does no harm
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
Rom. 13:8-10
Love seeks welfare of others, does no harm
8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery,
Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Thou shalt not covet;
and if there be any other commandment,
it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore
love is the fulfilling of the law.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
A. Basis of All Moral Choices:
Unselfish Love for God & Man
Satan’s basis for our moral choices:
Selfishness
Unrestrained desire
Stubbornness
Rebellion against God
Use & abuse others
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
B. Sober Mind to Please God
& Defeat Satan
Prov. 20:1 Avoid intoxication:
it deludes the mind
Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging:
and whosoever is deceived thereby
is not wise.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
B. Sober Mind to Please God
& Defeat Satan
Prov. 23:29-35 Avoid intoxication:
it leads to other bad moral choices
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
Proverbs 23:29-35
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions?
who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause?
who hath redness of eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine;
they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth
his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women,
and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst
of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick;
they have beaten me, and I felt it not:
when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
B. Sober Mind to Please God & Defeat Satan
1 Pet. 5:8 Sober mind defeats Satan
Be sober, be vigilant;
because your adversary the devil,
as a roaring lion, walketh about,
seeking whom he may devour:
Sober: literally “to be free
from the influence of intoxicants,”
“to abstain from wine,”
thus morally alert (Vine’s
Expository Dictionary of NT Words)
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
B. Sober Mind to Please God
& Defeat Satan
Tobacco addiction gateway to other drugs
Tobacco is now considered “the gateway” drug and is
as hard or harder to quit than heroin. The nicotine itself is
powerfully addictive and to enhance the addiction additional
additives are placed in the tobacco before the final product.
Evidence is abundant that the tobacco industry targets
youth in an attempt to boost sales by making addicts of
our children (Art Adams, certified drug & alcohol counselor
in Indiana, “Addictive Behaviors: Substance Abuse &
Dependence,” The Inspiration & Authority of the Bible, 189)
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
B. Sober Mind to Please God
& Defeat Satan
Intoxication & addiction lead
to many other destructive moral choices
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
B. Sober Mind to Please God
& Defeat Satan
Satan’s lie: be the “master”
(become the “slave”)
Alcoholic
Drug addict
Abuse family
Divorce
Theft
Prostitution
Murder, suicide
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
C. Friends Influence Moral Choices
Friends of strong moral character help us
make good moral choices
Ps. 119:63 “I am a companion
of all them that fear thee,
and of them that keep thy precepts.”
Prov. 13:20 “He that walketh
with wise men shall be wise: but
a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
C. Friends Influence Moral Choices
Satan offers evil companions to deceive
1 Cor. 15:33 “Be not deceived:
evil communications corrupt good manners.”
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
C. Friends Influence Moral Choices
Satan: influence us thru plurality of peers
Ex. 23:2 “Thou shalt not follow a multitude
to do evil.”
Matt. 7:13-14 “Enter ye in at the strait gate:
for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat:
Because…narrow is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find it.”
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
D. Love & Honesty VS. Gambling
Honest ways to get gain
Eph. 4:28 Honest labor
Prov. 31:16, 24 Exchange of goods, services
Matt. 7:9-11 Gift of love
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
D. Love & Honesty VS. Gambling
Rom. 13:8-10 Gambling violates love, honesty
Gamble: wager on outcome of chance event,
play game of chance for stakes
Steal: take gain w/o honest means
Covet: seek gain w/o honest means
Harm others: object of coveting,
victim of stealing
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
D. Love & Honesty VS. Gambling
Satan appeals to our selfish desires:
use others to get something for nothing
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
D. Love & Honesty VS. Gambling
Satan’s lie: be the “master”
(become the “slave”)
Compulsive gambling
Abuse family
Divorce
Theft
Alcohol & other drugs
Prostitution
Murder, suicide
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
E. Choices involving Sexual Morality
Gen. 2:24 Marriage: fulfill sexual nature
in context of love
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh.
Commit to secure family relationship
1 man & 1 woman in lifelong covenant
Two united as one in unselfish love
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
E. Choices involving Sexual Morality
Prov. 5:15-23 Faithful mates find fullness of
God’s blessings:
“Let thy fountain be blessed:
and rejoice with the wife of thy youth”
Heb. 13:4 “Marriage is honourable in all,
and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers
and adulterers God will judge.”
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
E. Choices involving Sexual Morality
Sexual morality protected by purity
in thought & deed toward opposite sex,
reserving sexual love for marriage
1 Tim. 5:2
The elder women as mothers;
the younger as sisters, with all purity.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
E. Choices involving Sexual Morality
Sexual morality protected by purity
in thought & deed toward opposite sex,
reserving sexual love for marriage
Gal. 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness,…drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you
in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
E. Choices involving Sexual Morality
Sexual morality protected by purity
in thought & deed toward opposite sex,
reserving sexual love for marriage
Lasciviousness: “unbridled lust…
‘wanton (acts or) manners, as filthy
words, indecent bodily movements,
unchaste handling of males & females’”
(Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon N.T.)
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
E. Choices involving Sexual Morality
Sexual morality protected by modest dress
1 Tim. 2:9-10
9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves
in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety;
not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10 But (which becometh women professing godliness)
with good works.
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
VI. Moral Choices
E. Choices involving Sexual Morality
Satan tempts us to violate sexual morality
Fornication
Adultery
Incest
Pedophilia
Homosexual
Bestiality
Pornography
Immoral songs
Dancing
Immodest dress
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VII. The Plan of Salvation
A. God Provides the Basis of Salvation
His love, mercy, & grace in Christ
John 3:16
For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
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VII. The Plan of Salvation
B. Man Receives Salvation
by Submitting to God’s Conditions
Total, obedient faith in the gospel of Christ
Rom. 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God unto salvation
to every one that believeth;
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
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VII. The Plan of Salvation
B. Man Receives Salvation
by Submitting to God’s Conditions
Total, obedient faith in the gospel of Christ
Mark 16:16
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.
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VII. The Plan of Salvation
C. Satan Changes God’s Plan
Be saved w/o Christ
Baby baptism: saved w/o faith in Christ
Faith only: saved w/o baptism into Christ
Deceived, we remain in bondage to Satan
GOD’S TRUTH VS. SATAN’S LIES
Jn. 8:31-32
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews
which believed on him,
If ye continue in my word,
then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free.