I recently had an interesting experience at the gym I go to.  I was working out when I heard someone say all men are liars.  It was a group I sometimes interact with, so I turned around and said, “Wait a minute, are you sure you want to say that?” One of the women said yes.  They had been giving their male trainer a hard in jest.  I jokingly asked, “Does that mean all women are emotional?”  She said maybe.  I then asked her in a less joking way, “Was Jesus a liar?  She paused and said I don’t know if I want to go there.  I then said, “Jesus was real, and He was a man; was He a liar?”  She said of course not.

To that, I was able to ask, “Should we not believe everything He said then?”

The devil is a liar and the father of lies! He cannot be trusted, but when someone has put their trust in him, whether knowingly or not, the lies he tells become their truth, clouding their ability to hear and recognize the truth.  Unless the Holy Spirit’s revelation from the gospel being declared breaks through their hearts, they remain in darkness.

Jesus used this reasoning when He was on earth contending with those who wrongfully accused Him and refused to believe in Him.

John 8:46 Which of you can truthfully accuse me of sin? And since I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 Anyone who belongs to God listens gladly to the words of God. But you don’t listen because you don’t belong to God.”

This reasoning still stands today! It has been more than proven that Jesus was perfect and sinless!

That means He never lied!  If He never lied and only spoke the truth, why should we struggle to take Him at His word?

The reason He did not lie is that God cannot lie, and He only spoke what He heard the Father speaking.

Psalm 89:35 I have sworn an oath to David, and in my holiness I cannot lie:

This should bring great joy to our hearts and begin to blow the clouds of doubt from our souls so that the faith we have received from Him can operate freely.  Look at what Paul testified to!

Titus 1:1   Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, 3 but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;

God cannot lie. Jesus is God, and He cannot lie. The Holy Spirit is God, and He cannot lie!  We have a triple guarantee when it comes to the things God has spoken to us from His word and what He speaks to us here and now in revelation from the Spirit.  Liar?  I think not!  The devil is for sure, this world is for sure, but our Father cannot lie and will fulfill all that He has promised to us!

If Jesus cannot lie and thus is not a liar, why not believe all that He said?  Why not dig into His word even more to discover the many promises made by the One who cannot lie and who swears by His holiness to fulfill His word? I am grateful that I can rely on all that He has promised!