Teaching | The Truth About Lies: Part 02 | Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil E02
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
How do we identify the lies that we are believing about God and ourselves? John Mark talks on the destruction that deception and believing lies can cause in our lives with a teaching on the Fall. Then he shows us how to identify and overcome those lies: by living with spirit and truth and refining our desires with the practices of Jesus.
Key Scripture Passages: John 8v44-45; Genesis 3v1-15; Luke 4v1-13; Ephesians 6v13; James 4v7-8; 1 Peter 5v8-9
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https://practicingthewayarchives.org/practices/fighting
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the Fighting the World, the Flesh and the Devil series. |
| 0:14.0 | We live in the middle of a war between truth and lies that is millennia old but at least feels more acute to me than any time in my short life. |
| 0:31.0 | Deception is at the root of almost every single problem that we face |
| 0:36.4 | in our society and in our soul. And in this cultural moment of truth decay and pathological lies and the whole thing that is our new normal, |
| 0:47.0 | I find Jesus' teachings more compelling than ever before. |
| 0:51.0 | Jesus and the writers of the Bible, |
| 0:53.6 | and most church leaders down through history, |
| 0:55.8 | warn us constantly of the danger of deception, |
| 1:00.1 | false doctrine, false teachers, denial of the truth, lies, yet in the modern Western world |
| 1:07.2 | all too often all of those warnings fall on deaf ears. |
| 1:10.9 | Read the New Testament, a constant theme all the way through is the |
| 1:15.2 | danger of false teaching and false teachers. The only people who sound that |
| 1:19.4 | alarm anymore are pretty much angry fundamentalists and we just filter them out. So often |
| 1:26.3 | we think we have moved on and we have not but for Jesus deception is at the root of all that is messed up right now because it's deception. |
| 1:36.0 | Jesus does all this work to tie deception to temptation to sin. |
| 1:41.3 | All temptation to sin is in a sense the temptation to believe a lie, to believe |
| 1:46.6 | an illusion about reality. And more than that, Jesus ties both this deception and with it its temptation to a creature that he calls the |
| 1:56.5 | devil. Now on that note last week if you were here we kicked off our practice on |
| 2:00.2 | fighting the devil by saying that what comes to mind when most of us and again |
| 2:05.0 | myself included think about the devil or what in the charismatic tradition is |
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