What Is Satan's LIE In Connection With Life?

What is Satan's LIE in connection with life? 

 

He OFFERS False life, Another Kind of life that Looks Like the True one. 

 

Satan FALSIFIES true life, and, instead of being Spiritual life, it is just SOUL life. 

 

Do you know the difference between Spiritual life and Soul life?

 

Satan attacked the soul life of Adam. 

 

You know what the soul is, do you not? 

 

It is your Reason, your Emotions, your Will. 

 

Satan began by REASONING with Adam, and, oh, what a Dangerous thing it is to argue with Satan! 

 

NEVER Reason with the devil, or, in other words, Do Not Listen To His Arguments! 

 

There Is A Sting In His Tail! 

 

So Satan first came to man's Reason and started an argument: "Yea, Hath GOD Said?". 

 

Gen 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

 

Immediately a QUESTION about GOD was Lodged in the mind. 

 

There is a Terrible Destiny bound up with that Question!

 

Then Satan Appealed to Adam's FEELINGS, and, pointing to the Fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he said: 'You see how Lovely and Full of juice that fruit is! 

 

How much it is to be Desired!' 

 

So Adam Looked at the fruit and said: 'How Lovely! 

 

I think I would like some of that.

 

His Emotions went out to it, and when Satan has got your Mind and your Emotions, it is not far to your WILL! 

 

The next thing was that Adam Took the fruit. 

 

He used his Will, and the Damage was done.

 

It is all symbolic, but, you see, it contains Eternal Principles. 

 

The whole kingdom and reign of Satan are built upon that basis. 

 

The Mind, the Heart and the Will of humanity are captured by the devil, but it is False life. 

 

What about all the Emotion in the world, even in Christianity? 

 

There is a Vast Difference between Spiritual, Eternal Life, and Soul life. 

 

There is such a thing as False life, and that thing is the Master-Stroke of Satan!

 

You will remember that there was a time in the history of Israel in the wilderness when certain sons of Aaron brought False fire and offered it upon GOD'S Altar. 

 

You Know What Happened! 

 

You know all about GOD'S Jealousy. 

 

There is a vast amount of False fire in this world today. 

 

It looks like True Life, True Fire, what is of GOD, But There Is A LIE In It...

 

And The Fruit Of That Tree Is Bitter Fruit In The end.

 

~T. Austin Sparks~

So Many Millions Of Nominal Christians!

Mat 7:21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 

2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Never have there been so many millions of nominal Christians as there are today.

And never has there been such a small percentage of Real believers. 

Never has Christendom been so crowded with those who have a Form Of Godliness, but who are strangers to its transforming power. 

We seriously doubt whether there has ever been a time in the history of this Christian era when there were such multitudes of Deceived souls within the churches...

Who truly believe that all is well with their souls, when in fact the wrath of God abides on them!

It is not that those empty professors who call themselves Christians are all conscious hypocrites, rather they are deceived souls...

And the tragic thing is that in most churches there is nothing in the preaching which is at all calculated to un-deceive them...

Instead, there is only that which bolsters them up in their delusion! 

There is a large class in Christendom today who are satisfied with a Bare Profession. 

They have heard some of the fundamentals of the Christian faith, and have given an intellectual assent thereto, and they mistake that for a saving knowledge of the Truth. 

Their Minds are Instructed-but their Hearts are Not Reached, Nor their Lives Transformed! 

They are Still Worldly in their affections and ways. 

There is No Real Subjection to God...

No Holiness of walk...

No Fruit to Christ's Glory.

Mat 7:13  Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Mat 7:14  Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

~Arthur Pink