God’s Revealing Truths,
Uncovering Satan’s Lies
Part 2 of
3
Roger Stillwell – November 3,
2007
· The need for “educated” and
“efficient” laborers
§ Matthew 9:
35-38
(v. 35) And
Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and
preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every
disease among the people.
(v. 36) But
when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they
fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no
shepherd.
(v. 37) Then
saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers
are few;
(v. 38) Pray
ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his
harvest.
· Opening Word of
Prayer
· 10 of Satan’s Most Common
Lies and Deceptions
§ There is no
God...
§ The Bible is merely myths
written by men...
§ I'll get to heaven my
way...
§ I'm not a sinner. I'm a good
person...
§ Jesus was just a man, no
more and no less...
§ I don't need to go to
church...
§ I'll live my life as I
please. I'll do things my
way...
§ I don't believe in heaven
or hell...
§ We are the result of
evolution...
§ I have no time for God and
His Word...
· Lie # 06: I don’t need to go to
church…
§ Hebrews 10:
15-27
Key Verses
Hebrews 10: 20
(v. 20) By a new and living way, which
he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his
flesh;
Hebrews 10: 22-25
(v. 22) Let us draw near with a true
heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
(v. 23) Let us hold fast the profession of our
faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that
promised;)
(v. 24) And let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works:
(v. 25) Not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the
more, as ye see the day approaching.
§ Acts 2:
29-42
Key Verses
Acts 2: 37, 38
(v. 37) Now when they heard this, they were
pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we
do?
(v. 38) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive
the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2: 41, 42
(v. 41) Then they that gladly received his word
were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand
souls.
(v. 42) And they continued stedfastly in the apostles'
doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in
prayers.
· Lie # 07: I’ll live my life as I please. I’ll do things my
way…
§ Proverbs 14:
1-35
Key Verses
Proverbs 14: 12
(v. 12) There is a way which seemeth right unto
a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 14: 14
(v. 14) The backslider in heart shall be filled
with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from
himself.
Proverbs 14: 16
(v. 16) A wise man feareth, and departeth from
evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Proverbs 14: 25-27
(v. 25) A true witness delivereth souls: but a
deceitful witness speaketh lies.
(v. 26) In the fear of the LORD is strong
confidence: and his children shall have a place of
refuge.
(v. 27) The fear of the LORD is a fountain of
life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14: 32
(v. 32) The wicked is driven away in his
wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his
death.
Proverbs 14: 35
(v. 35) The king's favour is toward a wise
servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth
shame.
§ Matthew 7:
13-23
Key Verses
Matthew 7: 13, 14
(v. 13) 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:
(v. 14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the
way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find
it.
Matthew 7: 21
(v. 21) Not every one that saith unto me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will
of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7: 23
(v. 23) And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye
that work iniquity.
§ Matthew 13:
24-30
Key Verses
Matthew 13: 26
(v. 26) But
when the blade was sprung up, and
brought forth fruit, then appeared the
tares also.
Matthew 13: 30
(v. 30) Let
both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and
bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my
barn.
· Lie # 08: I don’t believe in heaven or
hell…
§ Hebrews 9:
16-28
Key Verses
Hebrews 9: 22-28
(v. 22) And almost all things are by the law
purged with blood; and without
shedding of blood is no remission.
(v. 23) It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the
heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these.
(v. 24) For Christ is not entered into the holy
places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us:
(v. 25) Nor yet that he should offer himself
often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of
others;
(v. 26) For then must he often have suffered
since the foundation of the world: but
now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself.
(v. 27) And as it is appointed unto men once to
die, but after this the judgment:
(v. 28) So Christ was once offered to bear the sins
of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
§ Revelation 20:
10-15
(v. 10) And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and
ever.
(v. 11) And I saw a great white throne, and
him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled
away; and there was found no place for
them.
(v. 12) And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which
is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things
which were written in the books, according to their
works.
(v. 13) And the sea gave up the dead which were
in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to
their works.
(v. 14) And death and hell were cast into the
lake of fire. This is the second death.
(v. 15) And whosoever was not found written in
the book of life was cast into the lake of
fire.
· Lie # 09: We are the result of
evolution…
§ Psalm 139:
13-20
Key Verses
Psalm 139: 13-16
(v. 13) For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's
womb.
(v. 14) I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right
well.
(v. 15) My substance was not hid from thee, when I
was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the
earth.
(v. 16) Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being
unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance
were fashioned, when as yet there was none of
them.
§ Mark 10: 5,
6
(v. 5) And Jesus answered and said unto them,
For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
(v. 6) But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and
female.
§ John 1:
1-4
(v. 1) In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(v. 2) The same was in the beginning with
God.
(v. 3) All things were made by him; and without
him was not any thing made that was made.
(v. 4) In him was life; and the life was the
light of men.
§ Genesis 1: 9-13,
20-23
Key Verses
Genesis 1: 11, 12
(v. 11) And God said, Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the
fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the
earth: and it was so.
(v. 12) And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed
was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
Genesis 1: 21
(v. 21) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged
fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
§ Genesis 1:
24-31
(v. 24) And God said, Let the earth bring forth the
living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of
the earth after his kind: and it was so.
(v. 25) And God made the beast of the earth after
his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth
upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was
good.
(v. 26) And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth.
(v. 27) So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created
he them.
(v. 28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
(v. 29) And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for
meat.
(v. 30) And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl
of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is
life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was
so.
(v. 31) And God saw every thing that he had
made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day.
§ Genesis 2: 4-7, 15, 18 and
21-25
(v. 04) These are the generations of the heavens
and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God
made the earth and the heavens,
(v. 05) And every plant of the field before it
was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God
had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the
ground.
(v. 06) But there went up a mist from the earth,
and watered the whole face of the ground.
(v. 07) And the LORD God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul.
(v. 15) And the LORD God took the man, and put
him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep
it.
(v. 18) And the LORD God said, It is not good
that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for
him.
(v. 21) And the LORD God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh instead thereof;
(v. 22) And the rib, which the LORD God had
taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the
man.
(v. 23) And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh
of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of
Man.
(v. 24) Therefore shall a man leave his father
and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh.
Note: See Matthew 19: 3-6
(v. 25) And they were both naked, the man and his
wife, and were not ashamed.
· Lie #10: I have no time for God and His
Word…
§ Hebrews 11:
6
(v. 6) But without faith it is impossible to
please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek him.
§ 2 Timothy 2:
1-26
Key Verses
2 Timothy 2: 1-4
(v. 1) Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the
grace that is in Christ Jesus.
(v. 2) And the things that thou hast heard of
me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able
to teach others also.
(v. 3) Thou therefore endure hardness, as a
good soldier of Jesus Christ.
(v. 4) No man that warreth entangleth himself
with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be
a soldier.
2 Timothy 2: 15
(v. 15) Study to show thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth.
2 Timothy 2: 19-21
(v. 19) Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth
sure, having this seal, The
Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of
Christ depart from iniquity.
(v. 20) But in a great house there are not only
vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to
honour, and some to dishonour.
(v. 21) If a man therefore purge himself from
these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the
master's use, and prepared unto every
good work.
2 Timothy 2: 24-26
(v. 24) And the servant of the Lord must not strive;
but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
(v. 25) In meekness instructing those that oppose
themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the
acknowledging of the truth;
(v. 26) And that they may recover themselves out
of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his
will.
§ Romans 15:
1-7
(v. 1) We then that are strong ought to bear the
infirmities of the weak, and not to please
ourselves.
(v. 2) Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
(v. 3) For even Christ pleased not himself;
but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on
me.
(v. 4) For whatsoever things were written aforetime
were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope.
(v. 5) Now the God of patience and consolation
grant you to be likeminded one toward
another according to Christ Jesus:
(v. 6) That ye may with one mind and one
mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
(v. 7) Wherefore receive ye one another, as
Christ also received us to the glory of God.
§ James 1: 19, 22,
27
James 1: 19
(v. 19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to
speak, slow to wrath:
James 1: 22
(v. 22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own
selves.
James 1: 27
(v. 27) Pure
religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from
the world.
· Closing Word of
Prayer