Tag: liar

The one who does not believe God has made him a liar. (1 John 5:10)

Those words struck me this morning.

When we do not believe God, we are effectively calling him a liar.

Satan called God a liar in the garden of Eden and taught Adam and Eve to do the same. (Genesis 3:3-6)

When we reject his word as outdated or flat out wrong, we call him a liar.

Perhaps the biggest thing people struggle with is the idea that Jesus is the only way to have a relationship with God. That he is the only way to eternal life. (John 14:6)

We especially struggle with that when we think of our loved ones who don’t know Jesus. Couldn’t there be other ways?

But to say that is to call God a liar.

John tells us that God has testified to his Son as being the only way through the water, the blood, and the Spirit.

Through Jesus’ baptism, God testified to who Jesus was and his mission of salvation. (John 1:29-34 )

When Jesus died, his blood cried out a better word than Abel’s (Hebrews 12:24).

A word that instead of crying for vengeance, cried out for forgiveness (Genesis 4:10-11, Luke 23:34, John 19:34-35).

And the Father answered by tearing the temple curtain, opening the way for us to have a relationship with God. (Matthew 27:50-51)

The Spirit then testified to what Jesus had done at Pentecost, and continues to testify to this day. (Acts 2:16-21, John 15:26, 16:7-10, Romans 8:14-17)

When we reject that testimony and insist there must be other ways, we call God a liar.

Do you ever question the things God teaches and testifies to in his Word?

Let us never compromise his word, especially what he has to say about salvation. Instead, let us hold fast to his testimony and take it to the ones we love so that they may know him, and that our joy may be complete. (1 John 1:1-4)

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. The one who has the Son has life. The one who does not have the Son of God does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12)