Bound By The Lie, Set Free By The Truth
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37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Dedicate Jonah Malachi Pruitt
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The creator of all things is the truth.
Truth is first, the lie comes later.
Jesus Identifies Himself as the Truth
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus is God’s expressed truth, He is the Word.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word was made 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.
God cannot lie. Hebrews 6:18 says it is “Impossible for God to lie”. He is the Father of Truth.
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
He is the truth, and his children tell the truth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
When you lie, your body tells on you. (Lie detector). The reason is because you are made in the image of God. When you lie you break that image.
Why? It’s the vibration of your nerves that they pick up on that lie detector. See? It’ll tell you. Because why? Man was not made to lie in his original beginning. It’s sin and the devil that’s on you that makes you lie. 59-1223 - Questions And Answers
Satan is identified as a liar.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Satan’s first lie
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
He added one word to God’s Word, and made it a lie.
The worst lies are 99 percent true.
See, every lie has got a lot of truth in it. That’s right. Now, if it’s a real lie, just a right, what we call the black lie, or the little white lie…The little white lie is the real lie.
You can see the big black lie, but it’s that little white one that has got a whole…Like the one that the devil told Eve…See? Just one little thing off the cater, that’s what the—our churches are listening to today.
They’re saying, “Oh, you’re right in your principle of baptism; you’re right in this; and you’re right in that.” But he fails to let you know you got to have love for that brother out there. Though he’s right or wrong, stand shoulders with him, the Kingdom of God, in the Presence of God. 58-0301B — The Great Commission
White lies matter.
Bro. Branham said if “It don’t condemn me to tell a little white lie” It’s because “You ain’t got nothing to condemn” “That don’t hurt my conscience.” You got no more conscience than a snake has hips.
Illustrate: Bro. Branham’s white lie.
Make sure what you’re saying is the truth.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
God can’t lie, the devil can’t tell the truth.
Jesus tells the Jews that a lie is bondage and the truth is freedom.
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Many of them would not continue.
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
They didn’t like that, because they thought they were free.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
We’re Message believers, we have a prophet.
34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
The lie that binds is the same lie that was told at the beginning.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Truth must be loved, or it will be rejected in favor of a lie. You must reject truth to believe a lie.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
It should be translated there, as I looked in the lexicon, “the lie,” not “a lie.” “The lie,” same one he told Eve. 63-0318 — The First Seal
The lie that Satan told Eve, was ninety percent Truth, ninety percent Truth. And the lie that you can tell! How I’ve heard men bypass pieces in the Scripture, just to keep from…It hurts their theology. But if this part’s right, that part’s right! Let’s put it together and make it fit through the whole Bible. 53-0325 — Israel And The Church #1
So that’s the way that the unbeliever, the unidentified person with God, he’ll say, “Oh, I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I believe God is the Father of Jesus Christ. I believe all these other things.”
But when it comes down to This other part, “Oh, That’s for another day,” See? There’s the lie of it. That’s right. He’s trying to twist a little of the right Word around, to make it deceiving to the people.
But what? Jesus made the thing clear. He said, “These signs shall confirm the Message that I have sent.” Yes, sir. 62-0122 - Confirmation Of The Commission
Now, when Adam and Eve listened to the lie of the devil, the holy image of God left them, their fellowship was broken with God. Their fellowship of oneness with God was broken. The very minute they listened to the lie of the devil, that broke their fellowship.
And the very minute that you listen to the lie of the devil, it’ll break your fellowship. That’s the very minute that you go out from the Presence of God, like she did, is when you failed to take God’s Word just as It is.
Now look, I want to ask you something. We all know there’s a God. And if God is so correct with His Word, and so determined that He’ll judge the people by His Word, then He’s got to preserve a Word somewhere to judge the people by.
This Bible is It. Don’t you forget that. It’s the Bible that God will judge the people by, for It said in Revelation 22, “He that will take one Word away from It or add one word to It.”
See, not just say, “Well, I go to church. I believe. I believe God.” Why, every devil in the hell believes Him. Every one of them’s religious, every one.
But it just takes one word, that breaks the fellowship right there. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. And where your weakness is on disbelieving God’s Word, there’s where you want to put a new link, strong with the rest of it.
If you believe Jesus Christ saves, then you must put a link in there that believes He heals. If you believe He was, you must believe He is. Hallelujah! If you believe He was, and wondering whether He is, that link will break, then you’re lost. 62-0211 — Oneness
You must know The Truth to be free.
How do you know I’m telling you the truth?
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
You won’t guess at it.
How would they know the truth? By Spiritual Revelation given by the Father.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
The whole Bible is the revelation of God. The whole Church is built upon the revelation of God. There is no other way to know God, only by revelation. “To whom the Son will reveal Him.” Revelation; everything is revelation. So, to acce-…not to accept the revelation, then you’re just a cold theologian, and there is no hope for you. 65-0221E — Who Is This Melchisedec?
The Holy Ghost will lead you as an individual to the Person of Christ, the Truth.
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
God uses men, but the Holy Ghost is the teacher of truth.
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
Unction = Anointing
21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Many people have said, “since Jesus is the truth, I will only follow those things written in red”. And they are still deceived.
Others say, “I will only hear a certain preacher”, but they are still deceived.
Others say “I will only hear a prophet”, and they are still deceived.
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.
You must come under teaching. You say, “I don’t need no one to teach me after the Holy Ghost is come.” My friends, that gives me just a little room to doubt whether you’ve really got it, or not, then.
The way you’re acting with it. See? See, the thing you’re doing. Now, why, if there is no…if the Bible says the Holy Spirit is the teacher, why did the Holy Spirit put teachers in the church then, to set the church in order, the same Holy Spirit?
Sure. We don’t need any seminaries to go around, a big bunch of men to look out, these things: the Holy Spirit is a teacher. See? It’s a teacher, and It gives some fellow a gift of teaching, then you must be subject to that gift. 54-0516 — Questions And Answers (Law Having A Shadow)
Philip was an evangelist, not a prophet, but he was carried by the Spirit to preach to the Eunuch, and when the Eunuch caught the revelation, he acted on it.
You could sit under perfect teaching and be lost. Judas did. the devil had access to his mind.
2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;
Your mind is accessible to the enemy, whether you are listening to a tape, reading the Bible, or listening to a preacher.
The mind is no man’s land.
The human mind was chosen for the place of the battle, where it was begin, and that is because that decisions are made from the mind, the head. 62-0311 — The Greatest Battle Ever Fought
Many times we are bound because of misunderstandings in that battleground.
John was in prison, his eye got filmed over because He misunderstood Jesus.
Bro. Branham’s dream.
And she said, “Brother Branham, deliver us from this.” Said, “This is a house of hell.” And said, “You’ve been misunderstood.” And said, “These…And you misunderstood these people, too.” 65-1126 — Works Is Faith Expressed
They were bound by misunderstanding, but they were delivered by the Name of Jesus Christ, the Truth.
And I thought, “Well, how could I deliver them? I haven’t got strength enough in my arms to break those bars.” So I said, “House of hell, give way to the Name of Jesus Christ.”
And all the creaking and popping, and rocks rolling, and bars falling; and people running, screaming, “Delivered!” and screaming at the top of their voice, and was all delivered. 65-1126 — Works Is Faith Expressed
The enemy has a right to your mind, but the elect cannot be deceived.
To believe the devil’s lie is to serve Satan, even though you may want to call him Jehovah. But the elect will not be deceived.
Furthermore, the elect will not only be kept, but as this move becomes the “IMAGE ERECTED TO THE BEAST,” the saints will be gone in the rapture. CAB-08 — 8 - The Philadelphian Church Age
(Eagle story)
Then, after you recognized the very Word of God was Eagle Food, then you left the other thing. You have then been formed into the living image of the living God. You heard from your theophany. “If this earthly body be dissolved, we have one waiting.” 65-0221E — Who Is This Melchisedec?
A Theophany is a Word Body.
Now, the different between Him and you, as a son. See, He was, at the beginning, the Word, an en morphe body. He came in and lived in that, in the Person of Melchisedec. Then, later, we never heard no more of Melchisedec, because He became Jesus Christ.
Melchisedec was the Priest, but He became Jesus Christ. Now, you bypassed that. Because, in that form, He knowed all things, and you have never been able to know that yet.
You come like Adam, like me, you became from the attribute to the flesh, to be tempted. But when this life is finished here, “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.”
That’s where we go; that is the Word. Then we can look back and see what we done. Now we don’t understand it. We have never become the Word; we’ve just become the flesh-man, not the Word.
But, and look, clearly makes it clear, you will never be the Word unless you was a thought at the beginning. That proves the predestination of God. See? You can’t be the Word unless you’re a thought. You had to be in the thinking, first. 65-0221E — Who Is This Melchisedec?
You were an Eagle to begin with. Just as Jesus was the Truth about the Father, your Word Body (theophany) is the truth about you.
The voice you heard wasn’t a man’s voice.
I wasn’t the One that appeared down on the river; I was only standing there when He appeared. I’m not the One that performs these things and foretells these things that happens as perfect they are; I’m only one that’s near when He does it. I was only a voice that He used, to say It.
It wasn’t what I knew; it’s what I just surrendered myself to, that He spoke through. It isn’t me, it wasn’t the seventh angel, oh, no; it was the manifestation of the Son of man. It wasn’t the angel, his message; it was the mystery that God unfolded.
It’s not a man; it’s God. The angel was not the Son of man; he was the messenger from the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ; He is the One that you’re feeding on. You’re not feeding on a man; a man, his words will fail. But you’re feeding on the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man. 65-0725M — The Anointed Ones At The End Time
As you feed on the Word of the hour, you are learning the truth about you, and you are becoming that truth.
What is Truth? He is the Truth. Pilate was hearing His Words, but He was not the elect.
Truth is what was in the mind of God before time began.
The men of Sychar thought they knew the truth about the woman at the well, but the life she lived had been the lie, Jesus was the truth. They were bound, but she was free.
The men who caught her in the act thought they knew the truth about the woman caught in adultery, but what she had done was the lie, Jesus was the Truth. They were bound, but she was free.
At the time Jesus was crucified Pilate was bound by the lie, the Pharisees were bound by the lie, the people who cried “crucify” were bound by the lie. But the thief on the cross, was set free by the Truth.
They heard from their Word Body.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
Let every man’s Word be a lie, and God’s be true. We have heard from our Word Body, we know the truth and the truth has set us free. Free from worry, free from fear, free to worship Him in Spirit and Truth.