“HE IS A LIAR!”

John 8:39-47                          (ESV)

“39 They answered HIM, "Abraham is our father." JESUS said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,

40 but now you seek to kill ME, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from GOD. This is not what Abraham did.

41 You are doing the works your father did." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one FATHER-even GOD."

42 JESUS said to them, "If GOD were your FATHER, you would love ME, for I came from GOD and I am here. I came not of MY OWN accord, but HE sent ME.

43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because YOU CANNOT BEAR TO HEAR MY WORD.

44 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.

45 But because I tell the TRUTH, you do not believe ME.

46 Which one of you convicts ME of sin? If I tell the TRUTH, why do you not believe ME?

47 Whoever is of GOD hears the words of GOD. The reason why you do not hear them is that YOU ARE NOT OF GOD."”

Before I begin, let me say that people who Believe are only able to SEE because their EYES have been opened by ALMIGHTY GOD (Luke 24:31) brought “into HIS marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9)!  We are no better than “this world”, as our only “goodness” is in CHRIST JESUS!  

The people of “this world” cannot understand TRUTH as it is spoken.   It is almost as though someone is speaking a foreign language to them?  JESUS said in verse 43 above “Why do you not understand what I say? It is because YOU CANNOT BEAR TO HEAR MY WORD.”  And one of the most effective tools used to prevent them from hearing is the “busyness” of their schedules.  They prefer living in the “rat-race” and to not “BE STILL, and KNOW that I AM GOD “!!!   

“The enemy”, “HE IS A LIAR”, and when he speaks he uses deception to color his lies with anything and everything that is a “delight to the eyes” (Genesis 3:6) to prevent us from SEEING what blessings GOD has for us!  Even “the Scribes and Pharisees”, the hierarchy of the temple, were blinded and couldn’t SEE the TRUTH!  Their hearts were so proud and self-righteous that humility wasn’t an option for them.  They were “deceived” by “HE IS A LIAR”!!!

The only way for us to not be “deceived” is to know the TRUTH!  Now I am certainly not the prime example of HOLINESS (JESUS should be the only ONE we observe for that!), but I am honored and blessed to be one that “HE has called out of the darkness into HIS marvelous light”!  Making sure that “HE IS A LIAR” is exposed to the “marvelous light” shouldn’t be difficult, as LIGHT obliterates darkness!  Always has, always will!!!