Message Title: The War On Truth — Four Lies that Ruined the World
Message Truth: Satan’s motive is murder; his method is a lie.
Message Text: Genesis 3:1-5
Satan had rather we believe a lie and think a wrong thing than do a wrong thing. The thought is the father of the deed. It is more dangerous to believe a wrong thing than to do a wrong thing. If we believe a wrong thing, then we’ll keep doing the wrong thing repeatedly.
1)LIE NUMBER ONE: GOD IS NOT GOOD (Genesis 3:1)
The devil is trying to get Eve to think negatively about God. He wants Eve to think that God is withholding goodness from her and that God is not good.
2) LIE NUMBER TWO: GOD IS NOT TRUTHFUL (Genesis 3:1)
The first step was to get Eve to think negatively about God; plant a doubt…the next step was easy, which was to get Eve to think skeptically about God. What Satan did in Genesis 3:1 was to put a question mark after the Word of God.
Deceptive Philosophies
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.” Colossians 2:8
When you believe a lie, you live a lie then you suffer consequences of a lie.
3)LIE NUMBER THREE: GOD IS NOT RIGHTEOUS (Genesis 3:4)
Since you don’t believe that God is good and loving, and since you don’t believe that God is truthful or that the Bible (God’s Word) is truth, then you don’t have to worry about judgment.
4)LIE NUMBER FOUR: GOD IS NOT GRACIOUS (Genesis 3:4-5)
In this passage, Satan is saying in effect that God is not good, truthful or righteous, and that we need not fear Him; that we need to be our own god. He is saying that we need to work our way up until we are as God.
He is saying that we need to be liberated and need not depend upon God.
- Autonomy- a law unto yourself.
- Freedom- always has boundaries and boundaries are blessings.
