It has been said that the Christian life isn't a playground; it is a battleground and we know that Scripture says that the Enemy is a liar (John 8:44).
That doesn't mean that we're not going to find ourselves believing his lies when our emotions get in the way, or when our diagnosed Depression flares up.
Our most powerful defense is the Word of God, so let's use it to refute the words of the Enemy, as Christ did during His temptation in Matthew 4 and compile a list so we know where to look when we need it!
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Lies I've been told include:
---You can't do that. You're weak.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13
---You call yourself a Christian???
Eph 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Eph 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Eph 1:5
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
---Your family is not going to be happy with your decision to follow Christ. Do you want to upset them?
Mt 10:34
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Mt 10:35
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mt 10:36
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Why would God love you? How could He love someone like you?
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20)
"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:4-7)
"We love him, because he first loved us." (1 John 4:19)
You're a failure! As a man and a father and a servant of God! Why should God even bother with you any more?
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour .... O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:4, 5, 8)
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Rom. 8:1)
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Phil. 4:3)
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:13, 14)
You will never find your way out of the forest.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. Isaiah 42:16
Judge not lest ye be judged.
God needs your help.
2 Chronicles 20:6 "And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in Heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?"
Daniel 3:17 "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king."
Matthew 3:9 "And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham."
Romans 11:23 "And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again."
2 Corinthians 9:8 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
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Just look at you, you're a failure, a sinner, and you'll never amount to anything for the Lord! Why don't you just hang it up while you're behind!
You'll be a lot better off just quittin', 'cause there ain't no need in causin' the Lord any further embarrassment.
"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but
God is faithful, who
will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be
able to bear it."
1 Cor. 10:13
"For I know that in me (that is, i
n my flesh,)
dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God
through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."
Rom. 7:18-25
"For a just man
falleth seven times, and
riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief."
Prov. 24:16
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The Russians are going to nuke you and your flesh is going to melt off your bones, so you might as well have some fun now.
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. Luke 12:5
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Man-made "global warming" is going to wipe-out planet Earth.
Sorry, but you're wrong. The "global warming" big bang does not come by the hand of man.
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." 2 Peter 3:10
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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(10-14-2009 07:21 PM)Jeff Wrote: [ -> ]:clown10:
Man-made "global warming" is going to wipe-out planet Earth.
Sorry, but you're wrong. The "global warming" big bang does not come by the hand of man.
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." 2 Peter 3:10
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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THAT was good Brother Jeff!