11/02/2025
🎙️ THE TRUTH VS. THE LIE
By Andra P’Lonas (The Maverick – Space Lord)
WQVZ 1700 Mission Radio
When the scribes and Pharisees brought the woman “caught in adultery” before Jesus (John 8 : 1-11), they weren’t defending the Law — they were staging a scene.
It was a manufactured crisis, meant to trick Him into reacting to a lie so they could claim power that wasn’t theirs.
Jesus refused the trap. Calm truth disarmed deception: “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”
That same tactic still works through those who serve the father of lies. Manipulators create chaos to drain the strength of those who walk in truth.
Psychologists call it gaslighting, triangulation, or covert aggression — when people invent or magnify conflict so others react emotionally and lose focus (Singer 2003; Hassan 2015).
Cult researchers describe it as deceptive manipulation, a false-conflict ritual, or an orchestrated test of loyalty (Lifton 1961).
Scripture names it plainly: a spirit of deception, spirit of confusion, or spirit of accusation (1 Kings 22 : 22; John 8 : 44; Revelation 12 : 10).
It’s the same lying influence that manufactures false crises to steal a believer’s focus and authority.
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✝️ THE POWER DYNAMIC
Satan has no authority of his own. Jesus stripped him of it at the Cross (Luke 10 : 19; Colossians 2 : 15).
The only power he can access is what a believer gives away by believing a lie.
When we stand in truth, the enemy is powerless; when we agree with deception, we lend our divine authority to the deceiver.
That’s why God said, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against you in judgment you shall condemn” (Isaiah 54 : 17).
That means every false word spoken against a child of God will be exposed and judged.
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📖 JOB’S LESSON
In Job 1–2, messengers came one after another with reports of disaster.
If Job had paused and said, “Show me proof,” the story might have gone differently.
Instead, he accepted their words as truth — and that opened the door for destruction.
Satan couldn’t touch Job without Job’s agreement through belief in false reports.
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💠 TRUTH IS ITS OWN LAW
Truth doesn’t need any help to exist.
Truth stands on its own — it is its own law, its own power, and its own evidence.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, and Jesus promised that the Spirit “will guide you into all truth” (John 16 : 13) — not partial truth, but all truth.
The Holy Spirit also convicts the world “of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment” (John 16 : 8-11) — condemning the prince of this world, who is already judged.
Satan is a liar and the father of lies, and his children imitate him (John 8 : 44).
But we who belong to God follow Jesus’ example, doing what we see our Father do (John 5 : 19).
Before He went to the Cross, Jesus prayed for every one of us who would believe through His disciples’ word (John 17 : 20-21).
He asked the Father to keep us, and the Father will not lose a single one.
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🕊️ THE WAY OF JESUS
Jesus told us, “If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two.” (Matthew 5 : 41)
He said, “If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also.” (Matthew 5 : 39)
He told us to pray for those who persecute us (Matthew 5 : 44).
When we obey those words, we release the situation to the judgment of Heaven.
The Holy Spirit becomes the Judge, and the angels of God are the ones who now execute judgment against Satan and his followers —including any human voices that willingly join him in deceiving God’s people.
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🧠 STANDING WELL
I’ve done the work. I stay under professional care and protect my mental, spiritual, and emotional health.
I refuse to let unhealed people define my wellness just because they’re comfortable in their sickness.
Truth is my power source, and no staged drama can unplug it.
Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8 : 32)
The lie is already condemned.
The deceiver and all who cling to deception, adultery, and witchcraft will be destroyed (Revelation 21 : 😎.
That destruction of darkness has already begun — because truth has stepped into the light, and the light always wins.
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📚 Sources (APA Style)
• Holy Bible, John 8 : 1-11; Job 1–2; Isaiah 54 : 17; Luke 10 : 19; Colossians 2 : 15; John 8 : 32, 8 : 44, 16 : 8-13, 17 : 20-21; Matthew 5 : 39-44; 1 Kings 22 : 22; Revelation 12 : 10; Revelation 21 : 8; 2 Corinthians 2 : 11 (KJV).
• Hassan, S. (2015). Combating Cult Mind Control. Freedom of Mind Press.
• Lifton, R. J. (1961). Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. Norton.
• Singer, M. (2003). Cults in Our Midst. Jossey-Bass.
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