Deception
Gen 3:13 Then
the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman
said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” How do we avoid deception??? (With the truth, (God's word is truth), so if were seldom
in the word (gleaning godly insight) deception is unavoidable! Fame, fortune, power, and pleasure are deceivers attached to our flesh for the purpose of
destruction. Apart from the spirit of Jesus in you, there is no hope! This
world spirit equals deception!)
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“Deut 11:16 Beware
that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do
not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.
Stay out of the word of God and
your heart will be deceived. Your only protection from deception is God's
word revealed through the Holy Spirit! Religion is a deception, born-again
relationship with Jesus through his Holy Spirit breaks deception. We must be
honest by revealing what and whom false gods are. Myself-sports-children-work-materialism-etc. only we ourselves can determine
that for our own lives! Whatever gets between you and seeking Jesus with all your
heart is an idol!
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Josh 9:22 Then
Joshua called for them and spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us,
saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you are living within our land? Example: figtree, many pretending to be Christians
influencing the body negatively in regards to the faith of Jesus. Most
Christians are empty professing they are not, unable to tell the difference!
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1 Kings 22:22 “The
Lord said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving
spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You are to entice
him and also prevail. Go and do so.’
God
will give you what you want, if you want leaders who will tickle your ears,
telling you what you want to hear, God will accommodate us in our embraced
deception. It is our responsibility to avoid deception through diligently
studying and acting on God's word.
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1 Kings 22:23 “Now
therefore, behold, the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all
these your prophets; and the Lord has proclaimed disaster against you.” Catholic example: people of the Catholic persuasion
because their parents' tradition or whatever are bent on their own traditional
ways regardless of the truth of God's word. If they are taught to use a rosary and the rote prayers that go along with the rosary, this tradition will not allow them to receive truth in that area. If they have been brought up to worship Mary or whatever their
traditions proclaim, and if they are not teachable - their tradition will hinder the Word of God . In a sense, God will give them over to their tradition. The traditions of man make the Word of God of no effect. The Holy Spirit only
leads in truth because He is truth and those who don't want the truth or are
deceived from the truth are being ministered by a false deceiving spirit.
(Organized religion, (most denominations) such as the Jews in Jesus day!)
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“2 Chron 18:21, 22 He
said, ‘I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’
Then He said, ‘You are to entice him and prevail also. Go and do so.’ if people are bent on their own way God will allow them to
have at it. Without the Holy Spirit and a heart for truth, deception is
inevitable!
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“Job 15:31 Let
him not trust in emptiness,
deceiving himself; For emptiness will be his reward. Emptiness
is everything but the truth, Jesus, His word by His Spirit, and the heart
that seeks him totally.
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“Ps 89:22 The
enemy will not deceive him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. The heart of one totally bent on truth according to God's
word in the power of the
Holy Spirit cannot be deceived.
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“Jer 9:5 Everyone
deceives his neighbor And
does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They
weary themselves committing iniquity. The
nature of man is pride of which he will do and say anything to be exalted for
self gain, a true friend is hard to come by. The marriage that works is the
one where two are truly teachable, determine to obey the truth in God's
order, meaning the husband leading.
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Jer 29:8 “For
thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let
your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not
listen to the dreams which they dream. Because someone (people in positions of authority, pastors etc.) says they are prophets or God told them, doesn't mean
it's true. We are all responsible to follow the truth for ourselves. Make
sure everything lines up with the word of God in the context of the character
of Jesus. We are called to follow Jesus and Jesus alone, God uses people but
we must determine who is of God. Without total commitment to Jesus, it can't
be done, deception is inevitable.
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“Jer 37:9 Thus
says the Lord, ‘Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will
surely go away from us,” for they will not go. Sometimes
we say things that we want to happen to make us feel good but unless it be by
the word of God its false hope.
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Jer 42:20 For
you have only deceived yourselves; for it is you who sent me to the
Lord your God, saying, “Pray for us to the Lord our God; and whatever the Lord
our God says, tell us so, and we will do it.” Without
a pure heart deception is inevitable. Each one of us is responsible to search
for truth and follow him (Jesus)
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Jer 49:16 “As
for the terror of you, The (arrogance of your heart)
has deceived you, O you who live in the clefts of
the rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as
high as an eagle’s, I will bring you down from there,” declares the Lord. Our own ways will always bring us to destruction
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Obad 3 “The
arrogance of your heart has deceived you, You who live in the clefts of
the rock, In the loftiness of your dwelling place, Who say in your heart,
‘Who will bring me down to earth?’
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Obad 7 “All
the men allied with you Will send
you forth to the border, And the men
at peace with you Will deceive you and overpower you. They who eat your bread Will set an
ambush for you. (There is no understanding in him.) Lesson to be learned here is to trust nobody except Jesus
through His Word. We are not talking about paranoia but just because someone
is walking beside you professing to be your friend--they may have wrong motives. Jesus through his word by
his Holy Spirit must always be first place. in your heart. There is only one
good!
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Rom 16:18 For
such men are slaves, not of our
Lord Jesus but of their own appetites;
and by their smooth and flattering
speech they deceive the hearts of
the unsuspecting. Many are charismatic, extremely convincing, but are for
self gain deceiving many goodhearted people. Keep your eyes on Jesus,
diligently in his word, having a heart sensitive to his Holy Spirit of which
will protect you!
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1 Cor 3:18 Let
no man deceive himself. If any man
among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that
he may become wise. We must deny what the world considers prosperous and hold
on to what Jesus considers prosperous!
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1 Cor 6:9 Or
do you not know that the unrighteous (will not inherit the kingdom of God?) Do not be deceived; neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, this is God's view of which must be our
view of which the world repels but remains the truth!
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1 Cor 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” This is a very prominent danger. Most people professing
Christianity are influenced by their company rather than influencing their
so-called friends. The people we associate with determine greatly our
spiritual healthiness. Unlike Moses we would rather have the pleasures and
comforts of the world than fellowship with Jesus and his true people if you
can find them. It is our responsibility to find them!!!
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2 Cor 6:8 by
glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; regarded as deceivers and
yet true; Those who speak out for the Lord are continually misunderstood.
Ministers have those who love them and those who hate them, but true
ministers of the Gospel seldom have those who are indifferent. Everywhere
that Jesus and His apostles went, they either caused a riot or a revival, but
they weren't ignored
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2 Cor 11:3 But
I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds
will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. I believe this is where we are missing it. Jesus must be
1st Pl. in everything. To know God, you have to know Jesus intimately. Jesus
told Philip if you have seen me you have seen the father. In Jesus dwells all
the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Every knee bows at the name of Jesus.
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Gal 6:3 For
if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. We
are only something in and through Jesus Pride will
destroy, many leaders if not most come to be served rather than serve as
Jesus instructed. Because people listen to us we think we are above them. flesh
is so vulnerable to fame, fortune, power and pleasure. True godly humility is
rarely found. (God told me) is common. God doesn't tell 7 leaders seven
different things on the same
subject. We really lack the heart to search the Scriptures in truth and teach
them balanced by the Holy Spirit. Example, prosperity, the word of God is
clear that God wants his people to prosper and be in health. Some say God
wants us to be materialisticly rich,
others say poverty is the way. It can't be both so why can't we read the word
and find out God's heart? (All prosperity is, is living victoriously , having
your needs met, knowing your authority in Jesus, living in his peace and
love.) (Rare to be found)
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Gal 6:7 Do not be
deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever
a man sows, this he will also reap. We
think we can live of the world and reap the fruit of the Spirit of Jesus.
Often we refuse to forgive, walk in love, diligently study to know his word,
yet we think were going to say one prayer and God is going to shower us with
gifts. (That is deception) we refuse to obey and know the truth of God's word,
yet we think we're going to sow destruction but reap blessings.
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Eph 5:6 Let
no one deceive you with empty
words, for because of these things the wrath
of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Disobedience
refers to those who reject Jesus.
Could also refer to those proclaiming to be followers of Jesus yet
disobedient to his word. Without the Holy Spirit we are incapable of
obedience to our master. Yet how many received the baptism of the Holy
Spirit? 2 Tim 3:5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away
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2 Thess 2:3 Let
no one in any way deceive you, for
it will not come unless the apostasy
comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, we
must guard our hearts with all diligence, fellowshiping with strong
believers, challenging each other in love, seeking truth as a lost Pearl.
Love of the world and its riches distracts and robs from our spiritual
wellness. We will be bombarded by every wave of doctrine under the sun but we
must stay steadfast in the truth of God's word, staying close to Jesus,
following and loving him with all of our heart! Getting every thought captive
obeying Jesus in his word!
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| 1 Tim 2:14
And
it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into
transgression. This is a reason why the woman should occupy a
subordinate rank in all things. It is that in the most important situation in
which she was ever placed, she had shown that she was not qualified to take
the lead. She had displayed a readiness to yield to temptation; a weakness of
resistance; a bending of character, which showed that she was not adapted to
the situation of headship, and which made it proper that she should ever afterwards occupy a
subordinate situation. The woman opposed a feebler resistance to the
temptation than he would have done, and that the temptation as actually
applied to her would have
been ineffectual on him. To tempt and seduce him to fall, there were needed all
the soft persuasions, the entreaties, and the example of his wife. Satan
understood this, and approached man not with the specious argument of the
serpent, but through the allurements of his wife. It is undoubtedly implied
here that man, in general, has a power of resisting certain kinds of
temptation, superior to that possessed by woman, and hence that the headship properly belongs to him.
This is, undoubtedly, the general truth, though there may be many exceptions,
and many noble cases to the honour of the female sex, in which they evince a
power of resistance to temptation superior to man. In many traits of
character, and among them those which are most lovely, woman is superior to
man; yet it is undoubtedly true that, as a general thing, temptation will
make a stronger impression on her than on him. (Adam was not deceived, he was
seduced by his wife) The woman should remember that sin began with her, and
she should therefore be willing to occupy an humble and subordinate
situation. 1 Cor11:3 Eph 5:22-24/Col 3:18/1 Tim 2:11, 12/Titus 2:5/1Pet.
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2 Tim 3:13 But
evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being
deceived.Anyone walking without love and honor to Jesus and not committing to obey his word falls in this category
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Titus 1:10 For
there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those
of the circumcision,Religion
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Titus 3:3 For
we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to
various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful,
hating one another.Notice it says we once were, not still are!
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Do not be
deceived, my beloved brethren.
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James 1:26 I
James 1:16 f anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle
his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.Speaking God's word, not our emotional feelings
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1 John 1:8 If
we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not
in us.We trip on sin, but we do not practice it, Quick to repent (change direction)
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1 John 2:26 These
things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.Oftentimes this is not malicious, but people not knowing God's word according to his spirit.
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1 John 3:7 Little
children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness
is righteous, just as He is righteous;We are not Righteous just because we intellectually proclaim Jesus But Rather because we obey his word!
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2 John 7 For
many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge
Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.These are obvious
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Rev 12:9 And
the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil
and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and
his angels were thrown down with him.We are more than conquerors through Jesus, the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony
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Rev 19:20 And
the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs
in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the
beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the
lake of fire which burns with brimstone.
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a short time.Without total commitment to Jesus and his word we won't recognize false prophets who carry deception
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