MATTHEW: THE KING HAS COME, WEEK 191

TITLE: “THE LIE”

TEXT: MATTHEW 28:11-15

INTRODUCTION: (1) LIES AND LYING HAVE BEEN A SCOURGE TO MANKIND SINCE THE BEGINNING.

* IN FACT, IN THE BOOK OF BEGINNINGS, THE BOOK OF GENESIS, LYING BEGINS IN GENESIS 3:4&5 AS SATAN LIED IN DECEIVING ADAM AND EVE.

** THEN IN GENESIS 4:5 CAIN LIED TO GOD AFTER MURDERING ABEL.

*** AND THE TRAIL OF LIES CONTINUES IN GENESIS.

**** ABRAHAM LIED, CLAIMING SARAH WAS HIS SISTER INSTEAD OF HIS WIFE IN GENESIS 12:11-19 AND AGAIN IN CHAPTER 20 VERSE 2.

(2) SARAH, ABRAHAM’S WIFE LIED TO THE 3 ANGELIC VISITORS IN GENESIS 18:15, AND TO THE KING OF GERAR IN GENESIS 20:5.

* ABRAHAM AND SARAH’S SON ISAAC SURPRISINGLY LIED BY DENYING THAT REBECCA WAS HIS WIFE IN GENESIS 26:7-10.

** AND THEN REBECCA AND ISAAC LIED IN THEIR CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD ESAU OF HIS BIRTHRIGHT IN GENESIS 27:6-24.

*** NOW I THINK YOU GET MY POINT THAT LIES AND LYING HAVE BEEN A SCOURGE TO MANKIND SINCE THE BEGINNING IN GENESIS AND I AM ONLY UP TO GENESIS CHAPTER 27.

**** YET IT CONTINUES THROUGHOUT MANKIND’S HISTORY TO TODAY WHERE LYING HAS AFFECTED EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

(3) I MEAN EVEN FROM A MATERIAL PERSPECTIVE, EVERYONE WHO HAS A RETIREMENT FUND HAS BEEN AFFECTED THROUGH THE STOCK MARKET THROUGH THE ACCOUNTING FRAUD OF ENRON TO OTHER COMPANIES THAT LIED TO INFLATE STOCK PRICES.

* AND LYING AFFECTS RELATIONSHIPS BECAUSE PEOPLE DON’T TRUST EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF BEING LIED TO, IT AFFECTS OUR VIEW OF GOVT. WHEN A PAST PRESIDENT FLAT OUT LIED TO THE COUNTRY ON TV ABOUT AN IMMORAL RELATIONSHIP HE HAD WITH AN ATTORNEY.

** PEOPLE LIE EVERYDAY TO PROTECT THEIR INTERESTS, TO MAKE SALES, TO MAKE FRIENDS, TO FURTHER THEIR CAREERS, TO SAVE MONEY ON TAXES, TO GET MORE BENEFITS AND THEN LIE TO THEIR FAMILIES ABOUT THINGS THEY’VE DONE IN SECRET, FROM AFFAIRS, TO EXPENDITURES, TO WHERE THEY WERE.

*** YET MY LORD IS KEENLY AWARE OF EVERY LIE AND ABHORS AND HATES EVERY KIND OF LIE FROM EXAGGERATION AND EMBELLISHING THINGS TO QUOTE “WHITE LIES” OR “LITTLE LIES”.

**** THE REASON BEING HE IS “TRUTH”. MY GOD IS A GOD OF TRUTH, HIS WORD IS TRUTH, HIS SON IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE AND HIS SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH AND HIS ENEMY IS SATAN WHO IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF IT, JOHN 8:44.

- AND IN CONTRAST TO SATAN THE BIBLE CLEARLY STATES THAT GOD CANNOT LIE, READ TITUS 1:2.

(4) NOW BECAUSE GOD IS A GOD OF TRUTH AND CANNOT LIE, WE HAVE ONE WARNING AFTER ANOTHER IN SCRIPTURE ABOUT LYING AND ABOUT GOD’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS IT.

* AND I’M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU ALL THE WARNINGS ABOUT LYING IN SCRIPTURE, BUT LET ME GIVE YOU A FEW.

** IN PROVERBS 6:16-19 WE HAVE THINGS THAT GOD HATES. IN PROVERBS 6:16&17 IT SAYS:

*** IN PROVERBS 12:22 IT SAYS: “LYING LIPS ARE AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD, BUT THOSE WHO DEAL TRUTHFULLY ARE HIS DELIGHT.”

**** IN PROVERBS 13:5 IT SAYS: (READ IT)

(5) THEN READ PROVERBS 14:25, PROVERBS 19:22, PROVERBS 29:12.

* THEN THE PSALMIST PRAYS IN PSALM 120:2 (READ IT).

** THEN AS I MOVE OVER INTO THE N.T. ANNAIAS AND SAPPHIRA DIED FOR LYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ACTS 5:1-10.

*** IN COLOSSIANS 3:9 IT SAYS: “DO NOT LIE TO ONE ANOTHER.”

**** AND THEN IN REVELATION 21:8, GOD GIVES A LIST OF SINS THAT CHARACTERIZE PEOPLE ARE IN HELL, (READ IT).

(6) WOW, I THINK IT IS CLEAR FROM THE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU WHAT GOD THINKS OF LIES AND LYING.

* AND YOU MAY BE THINKING, RAY, I AGREE WITH YOU, BUT WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH OUR TEXT TODAY.

** WELL, PLENTY! FOR A LIE IS PROPAGATED IN OUR TEXT TODAY THAT IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 2000 YEARS NOW.

*** AND THAT LIE IS JESUS DID NOT RISE FROM THE DEAD, HIS DISCIPLES CAME AND STOLE HIS BODY WHILE THE GUARDS AT HIS TOMB WERE SLEEPING.

**** YET THAT DECEITFUL SCHEME CONJURED UP BY THE JEWISH LEADERS AND PROPAGATED BY THE GUARDS AT JESUS’ TOMB WILL BE USED BY OUR SOVEREIGN GOD AS AN APOLOGETIC FOR THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, AS WE’LL SEE IN OUR STUDY.

(7) BUT A LIE IS PROPAGATED. AND THAT LIE HAS BEEN USED BY SATAN AND OTHERS TO PROMOTE THAT JESUS WAS A FRAUD AND THAT HE DID NOT RISE FROM THE DEAD, A CORNERSTONE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIANITY.

* BECAUSE OF THAT I’VE TITLED THE MESSAGE TODAY, “THE LIE”.

** AND UNDER THAT TITLE AND THEME WE’LL LOOK AT JUST TWO POINTS, NO. 1 THE PLOT BY THE JEWS, VV. 11-14; AND NO. 2 THE PROPAGATION OF THE LIE BY THE GUARDS IN V. 15.

*** AND WITH THAT SHORT OUTLINE IN MIND, LET’S JUMP INTO OUR TEXT AND LOOK AT V. 11 WHERE WE’LL START TO SEE OUR FIRST POINT TODAY, THE PLOT. LOOK AT MATTHEW 28:11 PLEASE.

I. THE PLOT, (READ V. 11)

A. NOW THE PRONOUN THEY IN THE FIRST PART OF V. 11 REFERS TO THE WOMEN TO WHOM JESUS HAD JUST SPOKEN AND WHO WERE OBEDIENTLY ON THEIR WAY TO GIVE THE DISCIPLES HIS MESSAGE TO MEET HIM IN GALILEE, THAT HE WAS ALIVE!

* NOW AT THIS SAME TIME SOME OF THE GUARDS WHO WERE GUARDING JESUS’ TOMB CAME INTO THE CITY WHICH IS JERUSALEM AND REPORTED TO THE JEWISH CHIEF PRIESTS ALL THAT HAD HAPPENED AT JESUS’ TOMB.

** NOW ALL THE GUARDS DID NOT COME AND THE REASON IS NOT GIVEN. BUT SOME OF THEM MAY HAVE STAYED AT THEIR POST, FOR WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AS MANY AS A DOZEN GUARDS ACCORDING TO JOHN MACARTHUR AND UPWARDS TO 60 ACCORDING TO ALBERT BARNES.

*** SO A LOT OF GUARDS COMING INTO JERUSALEM AT ONE TIME WOULD HAVE ATTRACTED CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION AND WORD OF THEIR MISSION WOULD SURELY HAVE REACHED PILATE’S EAR.

**** FOR YOU SEE IF PILATE, THE GOVERNOR AT THIS TIME, WOULD HAVE HEARD FIRST, THESE MEN MOST LIKELY WOULD HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IMMEDIATELY FOR DERELICTION OF DUTY.

1. SO THESE GUARDS GO TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS FIRST, KNOWING THAT THEY HAD A PERSONAL STAKE IN ALL OF THIS, SINCE THEY HATED JESUS, AND WERE THE ONES THAT INITIALLY WENT TO PILATE TO GET A GUARD AND MAKE THE TOMB OF JESUS SECURE IN 27:62-66.

* AND IN REALITY THESE GUARDS HAD MUCH LESS TO FEAR FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS THAN FROM PILATE, AND THEY PROBABLY HOPED THOSE LEADERS COULD SOMEHOW PROTECT THEM FROM THE GOVERNOR.

** NOW WITH THAT IN MIND, NOTICE IN THE LAST PART OF V. 11 THAT THE GUARDS REPORTED TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS “ALL THAT HAD HAPPENED”.

*** AND ALL THAT HAPPENED IS REPORTED BY MATTHEW IN THE VERSES THAT PRECEDE OUR TEXT IN MATTHEW 28.

**** AND THAT WOULD BE THE EARTHQUAKE, THE ROLLING AWAY OF THE STONE, THE BLAZING ANGEL SITTING ON THE STONE AND THE EMPTY TOMB.

2. AND THOSE SOLDIERS HAD TO KNOW THAT THOSE HAPPENINGS HAD A SUPERNATURAL ORIGIN, AND IT WAS KNOWLEDGE THAT CAUSED THEM FIRST TO SHAKE VIOLENTLY AND BECOME LIKE DEAD MEN ACCORDING TO V. 4.

* NOW THE AMAZING THING TO ME IS, THE CHIEF PRIESTS HEAR ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED SUPERNATURALLY AND THEY ARE NOT PHASED.

** IT REALLY DID NOT MATTER TO THEM WHETHER OR NOT JESUS WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, JUST AS IT DID NOT MATTER THAT JESUS HAD PERFORMED MARVELOUS MIRACLES BEFORE THEIR OWN EYES.

*** YET SOME OF THE CHIEF PRIESTS HAD STOOD BENEATH THE CROSS, TAUNTING JESUS AND SAYING IN MATTHEW 27:42, “LET HIM COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS AND WE SHALL BELIEVE HIM.”

**** BUT THEIR HEARTS WERE NOW EXPOSED, BECAUSE THE RESURRECTION WAS A GREATER MIRACLE THAN COMING DOWN FROM THE CROSS WOULD HAVE BEEN, AND YET THEY DID NOT BELIEVE.

3. WHICH REMINDS US OF WHAT ABRAHAM TOLD THE RICH MAN WHO WAS IN HELL IN LUKE 16:26, “IF THEY DO NOT LISTEN TO MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY BE PERSUADED IF SOMEONE RISES FROM THE DEAD.”

* WHICH SHOWS US THAT THE HEART THAT IS HARDENED TO GOD WILL NOT BE PERSUADED BY ANY MIRACLE OR BY ANY AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE, NO MATTER HOW COMPELLING.

** SIGNS AND WONDERS ARE NOT THE ANSWER FOR UNBELIEVERS TO BELIEVE. FOR IF GOD DOES NOT INTERVENE IN A PERSON’S LIFE WITH HIS SAVING GRACE, NO AMOUNT OF SIGNS AND WONDERS WILL BRING ABOUT BELIEF, BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL FREELY CHOOSE SIN AND THEIR WAY OVER GOD’S WAY.

*** WELL, THE SOLDIER’S NEWS MOST LIKELY BROUGHT ALARM, FEAR AND CONFUSION TO THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, BUT IT DID NOT BRING REPENTANCE AND FAITH.

**** FOR THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADERS ONLY CONCERN WAS THEIR OWN SELF-INTEREST, KEEPING THE TRUTH FROM THE PEOPLE TO PROTECT THEIR INFLUENCE, POWER AND WEALTH.

4. AND THE PLOT STARTS TO UNFOLD IN V. 12. LOOK AT V. 12 PLEASE.

B. READ V. 12. NOW THE FIRST REACTION WAS TO QUICKLY CONVENE THE SANHEDRIN, THE JEWISH HIGH COUNCIL.

* THE CHIEF PRIESTS ASSEMBLE WITH THE ELDERS FOR AN EMERGENCY MEETING ON HOW THEY MIGHT BEST OBSTRUCT THE SPREADING OF THE NEWS THE SOLDIERS HAD BROUGHT.

** SO THEY “COUNSELED TOGETHER” HERE IN V. 12.

*** AND COUNSELED TOGETHER WAS A FORMAL PHRASE USED OF OFFICIAL DECISIONS IN MATTHEW’S GOSPEL IN MATTHEW 12:14; 22:15; 27:1, 7.

**** AND AT THIS MEETING THE SANHEDRIN DECIDED ON A 3 POINT RESOLUTION WHICH WILL UNFOLD HERE IN VV. 12 THROUGH V. 14.

1. NO. 1 TO BRIBE THE SOLDIERS. THE OLD PAYOLA APPROACH.

* NO. 2 TO SPREAD A LIE ABOUT THE BODY OF JESUS.

** AND NO. 3 TO PROTECT THE GUARD, THE SOLDIERS FROM POSSIBLE REPRISAL BY PILATE.

*** NOW HERE IN V. 12 THE FIRST PART OF THEIR RESOLUTION IS TALKED ABOUT, A LARGE SUM OF MONEY WAS GIVEN TO THE SOLDIERS.

**** THE SANHEDRIN WOULD PAY A HIGH PRICE OF MONEY FOR THEIR LIE TO BE SPREAD.

2. AND IN V. 13 THE 2’D POINT OF THEIR RESOLUTION IS TALKED ABOUT, LOOK AT V. 13 PLEASE.

C. READ V. 13. NOW THE 2’D PART OF THE RESOLUTION WAS A PLAN TO DISSEMINATE THE LIE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE.

* THE SOLDIERS WERE TOLD TO SAY THAT JESUS’ DISCIPLES CAME BY NIGHT AND STOLE HIM AWAY WHILE THEY WERE ASLEEP.

** NOW BOTH THE GUARDS AND THE SANHEDRIN KNEW FULL WELL THAT WAS NOT TRUE, OTHERWISE THEY WOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO DEVISE SUCH A FALSE AND PREPOSTEROUS STORY.

*** AND OF COURSE THE PURPOSE OF THE LIE WAS TO HIDE THE TRUTH.

**** AND IT WASN’T EVEN A GOOD LIE.

1. FOR NO. 1, YOU’RE TELLING ME THE DISCIPLES WHO FORSOOK JESUS AND FLED AT HIS ARREST WOULD COME UP AGAINST 12 TO 60 ARMED GUARDS AND TRY TO GET JESUS’ BODY. NO WAY!

* NO. 2, YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT IF 12 TO 60 MEN WERE ALL ASLEEP AT ONE TIME AND DID NOT HAVE A NORMAL WATCH OF SOLDIERS STANDING GUARD, THAT THEY DID NOT HEAR THE HUGE STONE BEING MOVED AND THE ROMAN SEAL BROKEN. COME ON!

** NO. 3, HOW MANY ROMAN SOLDIERS WOULD CONFESS THEY FELL ASLEEP ON DUTY, THAT COULD LEAD TO DEATH.

*** AND NO. 4, IF ALL THE SOLDIERS WERE ASLEEP, HOW DID THEY KNOW THE DISCIPLES STOLE HIS BODY?

**** AND IF SOME ONLOOKER OR WITNESS HAD TOLD THE SOLDIERS WHAT HAD HAPPENED, WHY DID THEY NOT IMMEDIATELY SEARCH FOR THE DISCIPLES AND TRY TO RETRIEVE THE BODY, TO GET THE EVIDENCE, RATHER THAN RUN TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS TO REPORT THEIR FAILURE.

2. THE WHOLE THING DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE. THIS IS A RIDICULOUS LIE.

* IN FACT, EVIDENCE FOR THE RESURRECTION IS SUPPLIED BY THE VERY STORY THAT DENIES IT.

** AND BECAUSE IT CAME FROM JESUS’ ENEMIES RATHER THAN HIS FRIENDS, IT SHOULD BE ALL THE MORE CONVINCING TO SKEPTICS.

*** INTENDING TO CONCEAL THE TRUTH, THE SANHEDRIN AND THE SOLDIERS ACTUALLY REINFORCED IT.

**** THEIR LIE WAS ABSURD. BUT THAT’S THEIR STORY AND THEY WERE GOING TO STICK BY IT BECAUSE IT WOULD HELP SAVE THEIR HIDE. FOR IN V. 14 WE SEE THE THIRD PART OF THE SANHEDRIN’S RESOLUTION. LOOK AT V. 14 PLEASE.

D. READ V. 14. NOW THE THIRD PART OF THE JEWISH COUNCIL’S RESOLUTION OFFERED PROTECTION FOR THE SOLDIERS.

* “IF THIS SHOULD COME TO THE GOVERNOR’S EARS, WHICH WAS PILATE, THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS REASSURED THEM, WE WILL WIN HIM OVER AND KEEP YOU OUT OF TROUBLE.”

** AND IN THE PAST, THE THREAT TO MAKE AN UNFAVORABLE REPORT TO CAESAR, THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADERS HAD USUALLY MANAGED TO HAVE THEIR WAY WITH PILATE.

*** PILATE WAS A SHREWD POLITICIAN, SO THEY KNEW HE WOULD NOT RISK TROUBLE WITH CAESAR OVER A JEWISH CORPSE.

**** SO IF THE SANHEDRIN CAME TO THE SOLDIERS DEFENSE, THE GOVERNOR PROBABLY WOULD GIVE THEM NO MORE THAN A REPRIMAND.

1. SO THE SOLDIERS WOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF FINANCIALLY AND WOULD BE PROTECTED FROM PILATE AND ANY REPERCUSSIONS FROM SLEEPING ON THE JOB.

* AND IN RETURN, ALL THEY WOULD HAVE TO DO IS PROPAGATE THE LIE THEY WERE TOLD TO TELL.

** AND THAT’S WHAT THEY’LL DO AS WE MOVE ON TO V. 15 AND SEE OUR 2’D AND LAST POINT TODAY, THE PROPAGATION. LOOK AT V. 15 PLEASE.

II. THE PROPAGATION, (READ V. 15)

A. NOW THE SOLDIERS GLADLY TOOK THE PAYOFF, THE MONEY, NO DOUBT OVERJOYED THAT THEY NOT ONLY WOULD NOT BE PUNISHED, BUT WOULD EVEN BE REWARDED.

* THEY HAD TO WALK OUT OF THAT MEETING THINKING WOW, LIFE IS GOOD. ALL I HAVE TO DO IS LIE AND I’LL GET PAID FOR IT AND PROTECTED IN THE PROCESS.

** BUT I AM REMINDED OF WHAT JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 16:26, READ IT.

*** AND BELOVED BY LYING FOR GAIN AND PROTECTION, THE SOLDIERS WERE SELLING THEIR SOULS TO THE DEVIL AND THIS HUGE LIE ABOUT GOD’S SON WOULD BE REJECTION OF GOD’S SON AS SAVIOR AND LORD AND WOULD LEAD TO ETERNAL CONDEMNATION.

**** BUT THEY WALK OUT OF THAT MEETING BEING DECEIVED AND TELL “THE LIE” AS THEY WERE INSTRUCTED.

1. AND THEN MATTHEW COMMENTS, “AND THIS STORY IS WIDELY SPREAD AMONG THE JEWS, AND IS TO THIS DAY.”

* NOW THIS DAY MEANS THE DAY THAT MATTHEW WAS INSPIRED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO WRITE THIS GOSPEL, ABOUT A.D. 63, SOME 30 YEARS LATER AFTER THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.

** AND HISTORICALLY THIS LIE WAS STILL COMMON AMONG THE JEWS OF THE 2’D CENTURY ACCORDING TO CHURCH FATHER JUSTIN MARTYR.

*** AND THIS SAME FALSEHOOD CAN BE HEARD EVEN TODAY.

**** SO “THIS LIE” HAS BEEN PROPAGATED FOR 2000 YEARS NOW. AND ALTHOUGH IT IS RIDICULOUS, SOME PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE IT.

AND AS I WRAP UP OUR STUDY TODAY (1) LET ME SAY IT IS EASY TO BELIEVE A LIE.

* PEOPLE DO IT ALL THE TIME BECAUSE OF THEIR SINFUL HEARTS, REGARDLESS OF HOW RIDICULOUS IT IS. SINFUL PEOPLE MORE EASILY EMBRACE LIES OVER TRUTH.

** AND ALTHOUGH THE TRUTH IS POWERFUL, WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THE POWER OF A LIE AND REJECT A LIE AND BE PEOPLE OF TRUTH.

*** AND MATTHEW’S ACCOUNT OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST SIMPLY, BUT FORCEFULLY SHOWS THAT ANY EXPLANATION BUT THE ACTUAL BODILY RESURRECTION OF JESUS CONTRADICTS THE FACTS AND OFFENDS REASON.

**** THE TRUTH OF THE RESURRECTION IS SO ABSOLUTE THAT EVEN A LIE AGAINST IT, HELPS PROVE IT.

(2) AND WHETHER THE TESTIMONY IS FROM JESUS’ FRIENDS OR HIS ENEMIES, THE SAME CONCLUSION IS INEVITABLE.

* THE HISTORICAL EVENT OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST IS ATTESTED BY SOUND EVIDENCE. THE LIE MAY GO ON, BUT THE TRUTH IS EVIDENT.

** BUT LAST OF ALL TODAY IN APPLICATION, LET US BE REMINDED THAT LYING LEADS TO LYING.

*** AND IF YOU START DOWN THAT SLIDE, THERE’S A GRAVITY THAT KEEPS PULLING YOU DOWN. FOR INVENT ONE STORY AND YOU’LL HAVE TO INVENT ANOTHER TO COVER IT UP.

**** LYING ALWAYS HAS A SNOWBALL EFFECT, AND THE WAGES OF LYING IS MORE LYING.

(3) AND LET US TAKE A LESSON FROM THESE SORRY LEADERS TALKED ABOUT IN OUR TEXT. TELL THE TRUTH AND LIVE FREE FROM THE WORLD THAT YOUR COVER MAY BE BLOWN.

* AT HOME REQUIRE THE TRUTH FROM YOUR CHILDREN AND GIVE THE TRUTH TO THEM.

** AT WORK, BE UP FRONT AND SQUARE. FOR THE BUMPS YOU MAY FEEL OVER THE TRUTH ARE NOTHING LIKE THE BOULDERS YOU’LL HAVE TO CLIMB BY LYING TO PROTECT YOURSELF.

*** BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, WE SHOULD BE PEOPLE OF TRUTH FOR OUR GOD IS A GOD OF TRUTH, AND ALL LIES OFFEND HIS HOLINESS.

**** MAY WE BE PEOPLE OF TRUTH, AND IF WE ARE NOT AS A PATTERN OF OUR LIVES, MAY YOU REALIZE THAT SATAN, A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF IT, IS YOUR FATHER.

(4) I CLOSE WITH JOHN 8:44 AND THEN I’LL PRAY.

JOHN 8:44 – “YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, AND YOU WANT TO DO THE DESIRES OF YOUR FATHER. HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, AND DOES NOT STAND IN THE TRUTH, BECAUSE THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. WHENEVER HE SPEAKS A LIE, HE SPEAKS FROM HIS OWN NATURE; FOR HE IS A LIAR, AND THE FATHER OF LIES.” (LET’S PRAY)

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