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The Lie - 2

5/19/2025

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Mirror Mirror on the Wall…

Imagine being perfect -a flawless state where everything is exactly right. Its warm outside – the perfect temperature. The lake reflects you living in a perfect body - living in a perfect place.
 
Then you bite into a perfect apple and suddenly your perfect home - the Garden of Eden - turns into a House of Mirrors, a place where perception fractures, where reality bends, and where you become lost—not just physically, but mentally.
 
At first, it lures you in with wonder: dazzling lights, glittering reflections, and the promise of fun. But the deeper you go, the more it turns on you. Your face stares back at you—dozens of times, in distorted, grotesque variations. You reach for a path, and your hand smashes against cold glass. Every turn looks like the last. Every exit is a lie.
 
Panic creeps in slowly. You realize you're not alone—but there’s no one else there. Just flickers of motion, slivers of shadow, the echo of your own footsteps chasing you. You hear breathing, but it's your own—rapid, shallow, scared. The walls close in, though they haven’t moved. The reflections watch you. They mock you. And then you forget which version of you is real.
 
That’s the horror: not that you’re trapped in a maze, but that you begin to fracture, too. Doubt creeps in. You lose your sense of direction, then your sense of self.
 
This House of Lies - a house of distorted truth - doesn’t just disorient you—it disassembles you. Quietly. Brilliantly. Cruelly.
 
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.- Anne Frank
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Judith Andrich
5/21/2025 01:30:51 pm

Wilma's insightful Blog is a description of the torturous Condemnation of Satan following sin-Adam and Eve's first sin and when we sin. Our sin may result in God's discipline but when we understand how God miraculously saved us through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and receive His forgiveness we are freed from the Burden of Guilt and Shame.

How did Jesus' death on the cross save us?

In the Bible, we are told that God designed the plan to save us BEFORE He created mankind because He knew that His Creation would sin.
2 Timothy 1:8 & 9 "this grace (our Salvation) was given to us in Christ Jesus Before the Beginning of Time"

In the Old Testament, also known as the Old Covenant, God instructed His creation to make sacrifices for their sins. This animal sacrifice had to be made over and over again.

In the New Testament, the New Covenant, God sent Jesus, His son, the perfect sacrifice to die on the cross for our sins-the Final Sacrifice-ONCE for ALL!

2 Corinthians 15:22 "In Adam ALL die so in Christ ALL will be made alive"

Was Jesus sacrificed in our place?
No, the Bible says that we were on the cross with Jesus.
Gal. 2:20 "I (the Apostle Paul, describing that we were ALL on the cross with Christ) have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me."

We have been Raised with Jesus Christ.
Col. 3:1 "Since then you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory."

We are a New Creation filled with The Holy Spirit:
2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come."
Acts 2:17 "In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people."
1 Corinthians 6:17 "But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit"

Did God pour out His wrath on Jesus?
No. The Bible says that God the Father, Jesus Christ the son and The Holy Spirit are One. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself!

What happens when we sin?

As a New Creation filled with The Holy Spirit, it is hard to sin. But when our flesh is tempted and we sin, The Holy Spirit Convicts us of our sin (Convicts NOT Condemns. Satan Condemns.)

Our sin may invoke God's discipline which may be painful. But we see throughout the Bible that all God's Disciplines are Redemptive in nature.

Ephesians 2:4-5: "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved."





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