Your Pigs Are Lying

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Sermon Transcription:

The word the Lord has given me for you today is titled Your Pigs Are Lying. Your pigs are lying.

I want to start off with reading to you Revelations 22:1, 17. Revelations 22, verse 17: "And the Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come.' And let him who hears say, 'Come.' And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the Water of Life freely. Whoever desires, let him take the Water of Life freely." That's what the word says. The Spirit is going to cry out into your heart, and that is what the word says. The Spirit is going to cry out to you through the people around you that know the Lord, that love the Lord, that are a part of the Bride of Jesus Christ. It's going to be one cry: "Come. You can come. Whoever desires, let him take of the Water of Life freely."

And I pray that today you may hear from me, and from the Holy Spirit in your own heart, and from those around you after you fellowship. I pray that you hear that call: you can come to the Father, and you can take the Water of Life freely. And it is my heart, and it's been my prayer preparing for this service, that your heart, your soul, that your entire being one more time may really hear that call.

It's one thing to hear it with your ears, but to experience, to understand, and to live that the Holy Spirit is speaking to your heart and that He is moving you—that He's pushing you, whatever is going on in your life—to come to the Father, because Christ made a way to come to the Father and to take of the rivers of living water freely. But before we focus on that, I want to look at the biblical context, if you will. I want to learn together with you the significance of pigs in the Bible, as the title of this word is Your Pigs Are Lying. The significance of pigs in the Bible.

I want to take you all the way to one of your favorite books. I want to take you to Leviticus 11, verse 7. Leviticus 11, verse 7: "And the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet it does not chew the cud, is unclean to you."

Now, most of you will know that the Law of Moses had a lot more than the Ten Commandments in it, and this was one of those occasions where laws were being given, direction was being given for the details in the lives of the people of God. And the word very specifically says, "This will be unclean to you." The swine, the pigs, will be unclean to you. Who's "you"? These were the Jews. These were the people that were under that law, that were under the laws of Moses. Yet there is a parallel that we can draw to us today, who are not under the Law of Moses. We do not serve the law; we serve our Lord. But we are under the law of liberty, the word tells us. The Holy Spirit has come into your and my life, and He also brings very detailed direction into our life.

He may ask me to lay things down that you get to keep forever, and He may ask you to make commitments that He has never asked of me. Yet we have been placed under the law of liberty, where now the Spirit of God walks with us, and He teaches us how we—how you and I—should walk because of the call that He has on our life, because of the purpose that He has for our very day. And so, in a very similar way, there's going to be things in my life, there's going to be things in your life, where the word really is: "This is unclean to you." There are things the Holy Spirit has shown in my life I should not be doing. I can't show you from the Ten Commandments that they're sins, yet there's many things the Holy Spirit has asked me to lay down, and He's never asked me to preach that to anybody. But it is unclean. It is to be separated from me. And there are so many things that, if you walk with the Lord, the Spirit will teach you are specifically, to you, unclean to you. You should stay away from that, or you should move on from that relationship, or you should move into a place where you can be a little protected from the things, maybe in weak areas of your life, where the Lord is seeking to guide you into a life that is designed to keep you, designed to make you flourish—things that can be unclean to you.

That's what the pigs represent this afternoon: things that are unclean to you. And then let me read to you just a couple of chapters earlier, Leviticus 7, verse 21: "Moreover the person who touches any unclean thing, such as human uncleanness, an unclean animal (like the pigs), an unclean animal, or any abominable thing, unclean thing, and who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people."

So here we have the pigs. They represent that unclean thing in their time—very literal—an animal that they could not touch. If they touched it, they were already unclean. They were to be cut off from the people. There was a process and a system to get them, if you will, clean again, but it was quite the hassle. But in every case: unclean. You get close to it, you touch it, all of a sudden it had real consequences. And we see one of the ways that the Law of Moses had such power in the lives of the people of God in its time: If you do touch these pigs—if you draw near to these pigs, if you draw near to what is unclean to you, what the Lord has shown you is unclean to you—the word says you shall be cut off from the people. And if there's any area of your life where the Lord has shown you something that you should stay away from, or give up, or move on from, and you've been messing around with it, that Law of Moses still tries to give the same message to you now: that you have done these things, now that you have touched this thing, now that you've gone back to this thing, now you're going to be cut off from God's people.

You're going to be cut off from everything the Lord has to offer. But that is what the pigs represent—those things the Lord has marked in our individual lives. A lot of the things may be very similar in our lives, but there's many beyond that. And when we touch them, all of a sudden that message starts to come up: you're going to be cut off from the people. You're not going to be able to enter in to worship. You're not going to be able to have an encounter with the Lord when you open your Bible. You're not going to be able to pray. Heaven is going to feel like brass. You've touched that unclean thing. With all of that in mind, now knowing what the pigs represent in this word, now let's read the story of the lost son. Luke 15, starting in verse 11:

"Then He said: 'A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, “Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.” So he divided to them his livelihood.'"

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. Prodigal means wasteful—with wasteful living.

Here Jesus is telling the parable, and He's telling the story of someone that came to the Father and wanted all of the inheritance, but then begins to live off of it in a wasteful way—begins to spend the resources of the Father, if you will, wasteful—begins to spend the grace the Father has bestowed upon him, never worked for it, received it all from his Father. He begins to waste it. He begins to spend it. And then we read verse 14: "But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want." Now, you and I know from the end of this story that he had not spent all, but that was his perspective. He thought he had spent it all. He had now found himself in a place where he had spent all that he could at least see that the Father had provided in his life. He had been wasteful. He had moved on from where the Father had him, and now all is gone. "Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything."

But when he had come to himself, he said: "How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father and will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.'" This is what the pigs bring about in your and my life. This man was living off of what the Father had provided in his life in a wasteful way. He was wasting it. He was doing stuff with it that the Father would have never intended it for—abusing the grace, using it to just still be forgiven when I mess with sin, using it to just get away with more than other people, and yet believing I can just go on. And then one day, all of a sudden, the bottom falls out of it, and he says, "All is now gone. All is now gone." And he ends up drawing nearer and nearer to the unclean stuff, until he lives in the place where he's with his pigs—which was unheard of for a Jew.

That was the people that were under that law. Literally, these were his unclean things. And he lived there, and he gladly would have eaten the food of the pigs—even lower, the scraps that the pigs would have received. He would have desired to make that his food. And when you and I draw that near to the uncleanness that God has either saved us from, or warned us for, or pushed us away from, and we begin to live in that place, those pigs begin to speak. It may not be literal words—it may affect your feelings, it may affect the way you think—but in the end you begin to sound the exact same: "I'm not a worthy son in the Father's house. I could maybe be a servant. I could maybe still show up, but the Father is never going to treat me as a full son. The Father is never going to treat me as a full daughter." I'm here to tell you today: your pigs are lying. God has a word for you today.

Verse 20: "And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.'" He had accepted what the pigs were doing to his heart. "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put it on him, put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry.'"

Church, whether you are online or in person with us today, whoever I'm speaking to—you've been eating with the pigs. You've made it your home to live consistently with uncleanness, whatever it may be in your life. And you have baptized yourself in that uncleanness; you have found refuge and safety in that uncleanness. And you have run back to that same place time and time and time again.

You have taken into your life what the Spirit has shown you in the past is supposed to be unclean to you. It's not supposed to be even touched by you, let alone ate by you, or let alone put inside of you. And now the pigs are speaking to you. Now the pigs are affecting your feelings, the way you think about yourself: "I've wasted the Father's grace. I've wasted the Father's resources. I'm not worthy to be a son. I'm not worthy to fully be a daughter. I'm going to be cut off for this thing. This thing is going to get to me, and it's going to eventually draw me so deep into a place where I will no longer be able to hold on to the crumbs of faith that I have left. They will no longer be able to come up into my heart, and unbelief is going to start to kick in. It is slipping through my hands like sand."

Church, your pigs are lying. Pigs do not tell the truth. This is the word of the Lord to you:

When the father saw him, he ran. When the father saw the man—when the father saw the man that had been wasting everything the father had worked for, when the father saw the man that had spent it in the most unclean way possible—when he saw that man, he ran. When he saw that man, he kissed him. He put a ring around his finger. He put sandals on his feet. He ordained the celebration should be held because his son had come home. Church, the Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." So many in the body of Christ—here and all around you, everywhere you go—they all have the voice of those pigs in their head that say, "You can't come home. Not like this. Not with what you've done. Not with what you've spent it all on. You knew better. You had received already from the Lord." The pigs are lying. You have been lied to.

I want to read to you 1 Corinthians 6:11: "And such were some of you. But you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God." Church, you are not unclean. I don't care what you've touched. You are washed by the blood of Jesus Christ. No uncleanness can stick to you. I don't care how close you get. God will convict you; He'll lead you out; He knows how to chastise His children. But I'm telling you: no uncleanness can stick to you when the blood of Jesus Christ has washed you. No accusation will stand before my Father when the Son has washed you. Nothing will stand. Your pigs are lying. Ephesians 2:13 says this: "But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Jesus Christ."

Church, today the Spirit is seeking to show you that all along, these pigs have been lying. You're not going to be a half—a half son or a half daughter—in the Father's house. I don't care. The Father doesn't care. When He saw him, He ran. When He saw him, the gifts came out. When He saw him, the son came to find out he hadn't spent everything. The Father still was willing to give. The Father still was willing to embrace. But he found out by coming home. He found out by coming back with all of his heart, with all of his mistakes, with all of his shortcomings—coming back to the Father that he had so deeply wanted—to find out how the Father responds when all we have is our small step of faith that says, "I'm going to come back." "But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ."

There's nothing separating you, Church. Nothing is separating you from the Father anymore. Christ paid for the sins of the world. All that is holding you back is that unbelief the pigs have spoken—that unbelief that says, "I'm not worthy anymore to be called Your son. I'm not worthy anymore to be called Your daughter." The Father will show to your heart how He responds, if you are willing to come to Him one more time as you are—that He may change what you are wearing. He put a robe on him. He put a robe on His son. "And the Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come.' And let him who hears say, 'Come.' And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the Water of Life freely." This is one of the last real messages before the Lord found it just to stop adding to our inspired Scriptures. One of the last words to the Church. This is the message of the Spirit of God to you. It's not rejection. The Father is affectionately waiting for you to one more time surrender all of your heart.

The son knew the Father. He'd been in the house of the Father. but he had taken all that was given and kind of just done his own thing with it, and now all those voices overwhelmingly telling him he don't really—he can come home, but don't really belong there anymore, not fully.

I want to invite you, if throughout this service the Spirit has touched your heart, what God is seeking to do—if He has touched your heart, there's something there that the pigs had convinced you of, and the Holy Spirit is seeking to replace it with how the Father really looks at you, what the Father really has in store for you, how He will really respond to you if you come to Him with all of your heart. If He's done that in this service, I want to invite you to come to the front and to pray with me together as we ask the Lord, “Lord, show me how You welcome me one more time, and take away my pigs, Lord God, that the pigs and their voice may be gone in Jesus’ name.”

If that's you, I want to invite you to come to the front. Father, we come before You, Lord, and Lord, we thank You, God, for such a simple—Lord God, such a clear—Lord God, reminder, Father, of what You really have in store for us this day, Lord God. Father, thank You, Lord God, that no one that comes into Your presence remains guilty. Lord, thank You, Lord God, that the guilty always become forgiven when they draw near to the throne of grace, Lord God. Lord, we stand against all that the voices of pigs, all that the voices of our uncleanness, all that the voice of the enemy has sought to bring about in our things, in our feelings, Lord God, that would keep us, Lord, from coming home, that would keep us, Lord God, from trusting You with all of our soul, all of our mind, all of our heart, Lord God—fearful in our hearts, Lord, of how You will respond to us, fearful, Lord, that we no longer hold the portion of a son, the portion of a daughter in Your kingdom.

Lord God, I stand against it in the name of Jesus Christ. Let it be done away with, Lord. That is not the voice of Your Spirit. Your Spirit says, “Come,” and the Bride says, “Come.” There is a way—all who desire, let them come and take of the waters freely. Lord God, I pray that You reveal to the hearts, Lord God, online as well, Father, that You are calling them forth. Lord God, because when You saw the son, You ran, Lord God. You ran. You put a robe on him, You gave him a ring, Lord God. You have it in Your heart to restore us into full sonship, to restore us as a full daughter in Your kingdom, Lord—that nothing of our call may have been lost, that nothing of our purpose in this generation may be tainted. Lord, You redeem in one day, Lord God, what the enemy destroyed in decades. Lord God, You are worthy. You are all-powerful. You have brought us near, Lord God, to Your throne in Christ Jesus. Once we were far off, Lord God, yet You have sent Your Son, You have sent Your Spirit, and You are calling us, Lord God, to look up into Your throne and realize that we have been brought near by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Lord God, all we can do is worship You. All we can do is bless You, Lord God. You are worthy of our shout of glory. You are worthy of all praise. You are worthy of all honor. There is no God like You, Lord God. We bless You. Hallelujah to Your name. Hallelujah to the Lamb of God. Hallelujah, Lord—you are worthy. Lord, I pray that You bring healing. Lord, I pray that You bring healing, Lord God, from all the uncleanness—Lord, everything that has drawn near to us, or we've drawn near to it, Lord. Father, I pray for healing. Lord, I pray, Lord, that every son, every daughter may see their child again, revealed by the Spirit of the Living God. I pray, Lord God, that the trust and the boldness of a child, Lord God, may rest upon Your people. I pray, Lord God, that every accusation, every lie be exposed and done away with in the name of Jesus. Lord, as we worship, I pray, Lord God, that the shackles fall off and that Your Spirit fills Your people. In Jesus’ name.

-Pastor Stan Mons