Don't You Dare Call God a Liar

How can people not believe in Jesus Christ? 1st John 5:9-10 says:
“If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son. He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son.”

Who can doubt God’s Word? People often say, “I wish I could have faith.” But they really do live by faith daily; they have faith in something. They trust doctors with their lives. They trust pharmacists to mix the right medicines. They eat the food cooked by strangers in restaurants. They take checks by faith. Some people believe everything they read in the newspapers or see on TV. John Q Public swallows hook, line, and sinker what the news commentators say.

Polls indicate that a person’s reputation, popularity, and influence are shaped by the media. Just look at any of our political figures and you can see that. No matter how twisted, biased or slanted the news coverage may be, it is accepted as the gospel truth. People believe practically everything in modern life, except they won’t believe God.

Incredibly, people believe mere men, who lie. Yet, they won’t believe God who cannot lie, whose character and integrity have been proven true countless times. Titus 1:2 tells us flat out, “God, that cannot lie,” so why wouldn’t we believe His testimony about Jesus? There’s no earthly reason not to. Yet, most men don’t believe! Why? It’s rebellion through and through. If they claimed they believed God, they would be expected to obey God. But that’s the one thing they won’t do.

But, if you don’t believe someone, what are you saying about them? You are saying that either that person is mistaken or that person is a liar. Therefore, if you don’t believe God’s witness, you are calling Him mistaken or a liar. If you think God is mistaken, you are denying the Scriptural claim that God is omniscience. Otherwise, you are calling God a liar.

1st John 5:10 says it’s the liar part. The verse says,
“He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son.”

When I’m called a liar, I react in one of two ways: Either I burn in humiliation if it’s true and I have been caught in a lie (and since I’m not God, I have lied, and I always seem to get caught); but if I’m called a liar when I’m telling the truth, then I burn with anger. “How dare you question my word?”

Well, God always tells the truth. Hebrews 6:18 claims, “It is impossible for God to lie.” So how do you suppose He reacts to being called a liar - specially when the supposed lie is about His Son? Hmm? Do you have any idea how serious this is? Do you realize the enormity of this sin of unbelief?

Hebrews 10:28-29 says this:
28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

There was a certainty of judgment in the Old Testament – the sinner would die. But there are worst things than death. There are unbearably hot places in hell, and there are even hotter places. And that worse punishment is reserved for those who treat God’s Son, Jesus Christ, with contempt. How do they do that? Like this: They say, “We don’t need your salvation. You didn’t need to die for me. You were probably crucified for your own sins. I don’t need you.” Plus, they insult the Holy Spirit whose job it is to convict us of our sin and point us to Christ.

Don’t think that God will be more lenient during this age of grace. This says exactly the opposite because we have more truth to reject. Anyone who rejects Christ is doomed.

Hebrews 10:30-31 continues:
30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The LORD will judge His people.”
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Yes, God will pour His wrath and judgment out on all unbelievers. If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will. What a terrifying thought. Don’t call God a liar by your unbelief.

John Stott writes:
“Unbelief is not a misfortune to be pitied; it is a sin to be deplored. Its sinfulness lies in the fact that it contradicts the Word of the one true God and thus attributes falsehood to Him.” By your unbelief, you call God a liar. Don’t be an unbeliever. Put your faith in Jesus.

2nd Timothy 1:12 says: “For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.

Do you know whom you believe today? John’s purpose for writing his first Epistle was so that you would believe. 1st John 5:13 says – “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe in the name of the Son of God.”

This isn’t speculation. This is truth that you can believe. We have God’s Word on it.

Sir James Simpson, the physician who discovered chloroform and a believer, was on his death bed. Someone asked him, “Do you have any speculations?” They meant speculations about death, and about his faith in Jesus.

His response was this: “Speculations? I have no speculations. He’s our lifeboat, our lifeline, our only hope. We’re lost without him.”

Is Jesus that to you?