Genesis 3/Matthew 13 + Uprooting The Lies | Fighting Lies - Jean Park

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• Lies are not always obvious falsehoods; often they’re subtle distortions that sound familiar and even reasonable. For Jean, one of the lies she has carried is: “I don’t belong, I’m not wanted.”
  
  
• Genesis 3 shows the serpent’s strategy: he questions God’s Word, contradicts it, attacks God’s character, and offers an alternative authority. That same pattern is still at work today.
  
  
• These lies disintegrate us—from ourselves (through shame), from others (through isolation), and from God (through mistrust). Guilt says, “I did something wrong.” Shame says, “I am something wrong.” Lies work like weeds—invasive, spreading, choking out life.
  
  
• So how do we uproot them?
  1. Notice the disintegration – pay attention to patterns of withdrawal, defensiveness, or spiritual numbness.
  2. Identify the lie – what story is it telling you about your worth, your place, your future?
  3. Trace it back – often there’s a memory at the root.
  4. Forgive – yourself, others, even the people who planted it.
  5. Replace with truth – Scripture crowds out the lie with God’s reality.

• In Matthew 4, Jesus shows us how to respond. When confronted with lies, He didn’t argue—He declared God’s Word. Scripture is our primary weapon, and identity truths must be planted before the attack comes.
  
  
• From this passage we see that freedom comes as we: 1) notice and name the lies, 2) replace them with the truth of Scripture, and 3) trust God to redeem even the deepest lie into something beautiful for His purpose.

Pray

(Pray for truth to take root) Father, I confess the lies I’ve believed about myself—that  (name the lies). Thank You that in Christ those lies are uprooted and replaced with Your truth. Teach me to notice disintegration, to forgive, and to plant Your Word deep in my heart. Redeem what the enemy meant for harm, and turn it into something beautiful for Your glory. Amen.