Tag: deception
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Are you “of the truth”?
John 18:37 “For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Are you interested in what Jesus had to say? Do you read His words? Do you have ears to hear His message? If you do, there…
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To whom are you listening – and why?
John 16:4-7 “But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. . . But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth.” Jesus always spoke the truth to His followers, even if the…
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Strong Delusion
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 “The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore, God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that…
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Avoiding deceptions
2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” One of the Bible’s most basic messages is that things are very often not as they seem. So many times, things that appear to be very good for us are actually very evil and destructive. We are warned that “even Satan himself masquerades as…
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Good and evil: what’s the difference?
Judges 10:6 “The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.” How do you differentiate…
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Hypocrites
John 17:12 “While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.” How often have you heard someone give this excuse for why they don’t attend…
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Tragic neglect
John 16:1-2 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.” There is a reason that Jesus said the things He said. This pertains not just to the…
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Knowing God
John 15:21 “But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.” Perspective, how we see things, means everything. This includes, first and foremost, how we see God. Before we actually know God, we can think we know a great deal about Him, but our…
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Robbed blind
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” Do you realize that if you don’t know Christ your life is being stolen from you at this very moment? The verse above tells us that “the thief,” i.e., the devil, has three very specific objectives, and ONLY these three – to steal, kill,…
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