"WHO IS THE LIAR?"

1 John 2:21-23                           (ESV)
"21 I write to you, not because you do not know the TRUTH, but because you know it, and because no LIE is of the TRUTH.
22 "WHO IS THE LIAR" but he who denies that JESUS is the CHRIST? This is the antichrist, he who denies the FATHER and the SON.
23 No one who denies the SON has the FATHER. Whoever confesses the SON has the FATHER also."



Most reasonable people understand that the opposite of TRUTH is to transmit a LIE!  According to scripture, no LIE is of the TRUTH.  The purpose of a LIE is to deceive.  The "great deceiver" is none other than satan himself.  JESUS said in John 8:44-45 "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and DOES NOT STAND IN THE TRUTH, because there is NO TRUTH IN HIM. When he lies, he speaks out of HIS OWN CHARACTER, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But BECAUSE I TELL THE TRUTH, you do not believe me."  Deceivers cannot abide TRUTH because it is our of their CHARACTER!

When a person who has yet to be born again speaks FROM HIS HEART, remember his character has yet to be transformed by the regeneration of the HOLY SPIRIT.  They have no other choice but to deceive because the prince of "this world" has yet to be dethroned from their life.  They maybe a good person, but "your will is to do your father's desires" and they will sometimes unknowingly, and unwillingly, resort to deceit because of their "character".

There are those who attempt to classify themselves as "mediocre Christians", someone who is not ON FIRE for the LORD?  But scripture indicates that person has been deceived, "because no LIE is of the TRUTH"!  JESUS HIMSELF says in Luke 16:13 "No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve GOD and money."  We have the privilege of choosing which we will serve.  But choices have consequences and the great deceiver wants to focus on anything BUT THOSE CONSEQUENCES!!!

Scripture records in 1 John 2:22 "WHO IS THE LIAR" but he who denies that JESUS is the CHRIST!  To be identified as "WHO IS THE LIAR" has to rank up there with "depart from ME, I never knew you" (Matthew 7:23) that the unbelievers will hear at the Judgement?  We have a choice we all must make.  Either we can be a BELIEVER that "GOD exists and that HE rewards those who seek HIM" (Hebrews 11:6), or we can fall into the category of "WHO IS THE LIAR"??  Will you be deceived???