Three Lies From The Devil About Sharing Your Faith

Ty Rice

April 2006

Three of the most common reasons that I have found as to why people don’t share their faith with others are: 

1)      Fear that they won’t know what to say

2)      That they don’t know enough and

3)      That they haven’t been saved long enough.

These are three lies straight from the devil. One of the devils biggest fears is someone getting saved getting excited about God and running out telling people, so he will quickly jump on them and start telling them these lies.

            Lets go through each one of these lies and see what the bible says about them. First is the fear that we will not know what to say. This is probably one of the biggest ones. It is actually bread from another lie that the devil tells us and that is the lie that we need to know all the answers before we can tell people about Christ. Well for one thing we will never know all the answers and if we think that we do then we have a lot more to learn. The devil wants us to think that everyone we talk to is going to challenge us with all these really deep theological questions and when we are not able to answer then we have failed. It’s another lie, I have shared my faith now with somewhere around a thousand or more people. Mostly one on one, and I can’t think of a single one of those people who have asked some deep theological questions. Yes some people asked some tough questions, and some people asked some questions that I wasn’t sure of the answer to but, if you don’t know the answer you can just say I don’t know I will have to check that out but this is what I do know…. And truthfully, most people who God has opened up and is calling once you start talking they are in receive mode and they will just listen.   

            Here is the biblical truth that destroys this lie of the devil. If you step out God will met you and He will put His words in your mouth.

Jeremiah 1:6-9 “Ah, Sovereign Lord,’ I said, ‘I do not know how to speak; I an only a child.’ But the Lord said to me, so not say, ‘I am only a child’ you must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them I am with you and will rescue you,’ declares the lord. Then the Lord reached out His hand touched my mouth and said to me ‘Now I have put my words in your mouth.”           

We must not fear what others will say or think we should only put our trust in the promises of our God that when we are obedient to His command (“you must go”) He will go with us and protect us, (“I am with you and will rescue you”)

            The second lie is that we don’t know enough I touched on it a little when discussing the first lie, but let me hit on it a little more. All of these lies overlap and connect so please excuse any double speak. The difference between the fear that we won’t know what to say and the fear that we won’t know enough is slight. The fear that we won’t know what to say is the fear that we will have know Idea how to start a conversation or shat to tell people or how to properly present the gospel. And the fear that we don’t know enough is more specifically the fear that we are not going to be able to answer peoples questions or that they are going to stump us. Again I hit on it a little nit earlier when I talked about not needing to know all the answers, but it is worth saying again, IT IS OK TO SAY I DON’T KNOW. We don’t know it all and shouldn’t act as if we do. Remember God is the one who calls to Him His people we are to be faithful vessels, and allow God to work through us and speak through us. Remember the man who was born blind that Jesus healed, the Pharisees were in an up roar because the people were amazed that the man who was formerly sitting and begging could now see, and he was telling everyone about Jesus the one who healed him. Do you remember what he said when the Pharisees questioned him.

John 9:25 “one thing I do know I was blind now I see”

You see the blind beggar did not have a great understanding of the scriptures he didn’t have his doctrine in theology he never went to seminary school or any evangelism seminar, he was touched and healed by the power of God and got excited about what God had done in his life, that’s it. If you are a born again believer you have been touched by God, you were blind but now you can see. This is true of all of us no matter where you come from or how you were saved one thing is constant in all of us we were touched by God, and He removed the blinders from our eyes.

1 Corr. 1:18 “for the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

See we were all blind before we were touched by God and we need to get excited about what God has done in our life you don’t need a degree or a seminar you just need to tell your story “I was blind and now I see” God will use you just as you are. This dose not mean that you shouldn’t worry about getting in Gods word and studying, the more you study the scripture the more ways God will use you.

            The last lie I want to discuss is I haven’t been saved long enough. Again this overlaps a little, you can look at the beggar again and see that it didn’t take a lot of training and years of school it just took a willingness to speak and an excitement about what God did in his life and he made an impact in his entire town so much so that the Pharisees called him in and then he was a witness for Christ to them. But let me give you a couple more examples. When my first child was born, Tyler my son I had never taken a parenting class, I had never had children before and I couldn’t put into words even what had just happened. All I know was my son was born and I was excited. I could hardly wait to get on the phone and start calling people; I had my whole family at the hospital gathered with us. And I just started telling people about what had happened. WE HAD A BABY HE WEIGHS THIS HE IS THIS LONG HE HAS THIS COLOR EYES HE SMILED HE CRYED HE OPENED HIS EYE!!!!!!!!       I was excited I didn’t even stop to think what am I going to tell people I’ve only been a father for an hour I don’t know what to say I don’t know what to do. I didn’t think about those things because I didn’t care I was excited something had happened to me and I was going to tell everyone. Now we just had out third child in July of this year, I was no longer a n armature I knew just what to say and just what to do so after she was born I got on the phone and I called everyone and said WE HAD A BABY SHE WEIGHS THIS SHE IS THIS LONG SHE HAS THIS COLOR EYES SHE SMILED SHE CRYED SHE OPENED HER EYE!!!!!!!! I was excited and I didn’t do anything differently even though this time I had already had two other children a boy and a girl and I knew somewhat what to expect and I guess a little more, and I had been a father for almost five years already but you know what my experience and knowledge didn’t change a thing I still just got excited and told people what had happened to me. It is the same way when we are sharing our faith. When I first started sharing my faith with others I was just a baby in Christ I’m still just a baby in Christ but what I did was I got saved healed and set free, then I got excited and I began to tell others what had happened to me, I would give my testimony and then I would give the gospel the best that I could. I must confess that Is has gotten much more refined at least the gospel part over the years and I now have a better understanding of it and know how to better communicate it to others Just as I did when I called people to tell them that my daughter Raven was born. I had a better understanding of what people wanted to know and who to call and everything else but it was still the same message and I still today share my faith with people in basically the same way I did when I first began to believe its still the same message. When we are saved we should get excited about what has just happened and we shouldn’t be able to wait to tell others.

John 1:41 “The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, ‘we have found the messiah’ (that is the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus.”

Andrew had only spent one day with Jesus but was excited and could not wait to tell his brother, Simon whose name was changed to Peter who went on to share the gospel with many, many people.

            The devil is afraid of us getting excited about God and what he has done in our lives so he feeds us these lies. We need to remember that they are from the pit we have been called to share the gospel with the nations. And it is time we start to answer that call. Get excited about what God has done in your life tell your brother tell your neighbor tell a complete stranger on the street tell everyone you meet I once was blind but now I see.