Abide in the Word: Truth That Sets You Free

The word of God as I read more and more and more like quantity time in the word, it literally lifted my spirits. That's what it means when it says it's alive. It's literally living and changing your life as you're devouring it. The other thing I love about this verse is it says that it pierces even to the vision of soul and spirit. Meaning if you're in the word of God and you're reading something, it's gonna tell you, you know that we're three parts, right? We're spirit, we're soul, and we're body. And our spirit is our Jesus man and our soul is our carnal side, our natural man. [00:50:06] (39 seconds)  #LivingWordPower

So we have got to guard. We are Jesus followers. We know we know the truth. The truth will set us free if we are careful to speak life. And what is the best thing that we can do? Psalm ninety one four says, and I love Psalms 91, if you're ever looking for an encouragement about God and how he wants to care for you, just go there and just spend some time letting him love you and remind you that he's got you. But Psalms ninety one four, it says, he shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings, you shall take refuge. [01:04:16] (38 seconds)  #UnderHisWings

Instead, they were discouraged by a negative report and everyone 20 years old and older died in the wilderness because of it because of it. So this is why we have to be super careful about what we let influence us because there will be lies that we will totally hear from the enemy, but there will also be negative influences that may have a grain of truth to it. But again, I said last week, what is the word the Lord has given you? You have to believe the word of the Lord. [00:58:24] (30 seconds)  #BelieveGodsWord

God's truth found in this word will protect you if you will let it. You have to get knowledge of and put action to this word. Do not go to war without this shield. Thank you. Amen. [01:05:04] (22 seconds)  #WordAsShield

And so in this case, he's addressing these pharisees who are constantly after him after him and trying to get him killed. And he basically says, you are of your father, the devil. And in this verse, he states that the devil does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him, and that when he lies, he speaks out of his own character. [00:38:47] (26 seconds)  #TruthVsDeceit

I often hear God getting credit for the devil's work and even Jesus addresses this in the gospels where he talks, when when he's healing people, people come at him and say, well, he's doing this by the power of the devil and and Jesus says, a kingdom that comes against itself will fall. How can I be healing people by the power of the devil? And so I wanna talk here about lies. [00:36:47] (24 seconds)  #DiscernTheSource

And, in this today, we're gonna talk about replacing lies, which I think is such a beautiful subject that we that we should know intimately about truth because we are followers of Christ. So today, we're jumping in in John chapter eight. So we were post, post crucifixion last week. Now we're going backward a little bit in time, and we are with Jesus while he is, addressing a group of Jews, people that believed him and people that did not. So we are gonna be in John chapter eight verses 31 through 36. [00:35:16] (39 seconds)  #ReplaceLiesWithTruth

But something they always said to me is the word of God has to become your own. And for ten years, I really learned so much, and I I will never despise that time because it was a huge blessing, but I didn't spend that time really getting to know the word for myself. And so about a year after my baby Eden was born, that is when I started praying and saying, God because truthfully, up until that point, I really love sitting under teacher teaching, but I I kinda didn't have much of a desire to put the effort in myself, and that is my confession. [00:45:54] (34 seconds)  #MakeScripturePersonal