Bound to the Ground by a Lie?

The Devil is “a liar and the father of it” but Jesus said that if you will abide in His Word “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." People often pull part of this scripture out of context and say, “the truth shall set you free” but it’s not true if they are calling true is not “the Truth.” What most people call the truth is merely fact. The truth is the Words spoken by Him who is True. He can not lie because He is faithful forever therefore His Words can not be changed and remain forever True. The Truth is like mathematical law. It’s absolute and can not be changed. You can apply it or deny it but you can not change it. It’s “forever settled in heaven.”

Facts are subject to change but the Truth remains the same. For example it used to be a fact that men couldn’t fly and “they” said that it was true and, “that if God would have wanted man to fly He would have given them wings.” It was accepted as truth by the majority but it wasn’t true because God had already said, “"If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." The facts masquerading as truth kept man bound to the ground until someone decided to believe something different and change it. And they must have believed that they could fly even before they could actually fly or they would have never even tried. And lots of people lied when they said, “you can’t fly” and it’s still the same today. If you buy the lie you won’t even try and will remain in some kind of bondage until you die.

So if the Truth is the absolute of God’s Word then what’s “The Lie” and what’s the main goal of it? In the beginning the serpent came and said that if they would eat of the fruit that “they would be like God.” But it was a lie because they we’re already “like God.” They were created in His image and according to His likeness. But the enemy brought the lie that they had to “do something” to be like God and works religion was born. Because if they had believed they were already like God then they wouldn’t have been able to “do” anything to try to make themselves like God. They exchanged the Truth of God for the lie, and so separated themselves from the God of Truth began to die. Spiritually, they died instantly in the aspect that they were separated from God who is Life. For Truth and lies cannot abide together. The Truth brings life and freedom and the lie brings slavery and death. So the just of the lie is that you have to work and strain and strive and try to survive and to be “like God.” But to do that you have to believe that you’re really not, but if you just keep trying then maybe someday, way, way far away you might come to be.

But just like the Wright Brothers had to believe that they could fly before they ever would fly. You will have to believe that your are already like God before you be able to be like God. As long as you are “trying” to be like God, you are believing that somehow you are not like Him and bound to the ground by a lie. But when you believe in the Truth and receive Jesus as Lord, you became a partaker of the Divine nature. And your Spirit, the core of your being, the real you, is reunited with God and recreated as He originally intended, exactly like Him.
Then when you know that you are like Him than you will actually start to act like Him. (He is Love) And the more you ABIDE in His Word the more you find out about who you are and how you are and the more of the Truth you actually KNOW the more free you will be.

John 8:31-32
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
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John 8:39-47
Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You do the deeds of your father."

Then they said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father — God."

42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God." NKJV

Ps 119:160
160 The entirety of Your word is truth,
And every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.
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Isa 25:1
25 O Lord, You are my God.
I will exalt You,
I will praise Your name,
For You have done wonderful things;
Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
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Jer 10:10a
10 But the Lord is the true God;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
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Dan 10:21a
21 But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth.
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Dan 10:21
21 But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth.
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John 1:14
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
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John 1:16-18
16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
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John 14:6
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
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John 15:1-8
15 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
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John 15:26
26 "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
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John 16:13-14
3 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
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John 17:3
3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
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John 17:17-19
17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
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John 18:37
Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."

38 Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?" …

Rom 1:24-25
24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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Gal 2:4-5
4 And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage), 5 to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
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Gal 3:1-4

3 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
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Gal 5:7-10
7 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
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Eph 1:13
13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
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Eph 4:20-24
20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
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1 Thess 2:13

13 For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.
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1 Tim 2:3-5
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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1 John 2:20-21
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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1 John 2:27
27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
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1 John 4:6
6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
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1 John 5:6-7
6 This is He who came by water and blood — Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.
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1 John 5:20
20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
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2 John 4-6
4 I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father. 5 And now I plead with you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning: that we love one another. 6 This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
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3 John 2-4
2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 3 For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
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Rev 15:3
3 They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying:

"Great and marvelous are Your works,
Lord God Almighty!
Just and true are Your ways,
O King of the saints!
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Rev 19:11-12
11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.
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2 Peter 1:4
4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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2 Cor 5:17-18
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God…
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Rom 8:29
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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Eph 5:1
Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
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Gen 1:26-27
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
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1 John 3:1
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
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