Friday, June 16, 2017

You can't be deceived if you know the truth, but you can ignore the truth.

Take heed. Pay attention. Watch out. Be wary. Be cautious.

If Jesus told us to pay attention, it has to be important, right? Jesus IS telling us to pay attention, He's telling us to watch out, to be wary, to be cautious because people WILL try to deceive us.  There is no doubt about it, we have to be careful when dealing with people because any of them can deceive us, the possibility exists.  Deception is very real. And the only way not to be deceived is to know the truth. You can't be deceived by someone's lies if you know they are lying. If you aren't standing firmly on God's truth then you leave yourself open to deception.  We are told this--

2Ti 3:15  And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 
2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 
2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

Isa_8:20  To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Luk 16:31  And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. 

Joh 5:39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 

Joh 5:46  For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 
Joh 5:47  But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? 

Act 17:11  These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 

Psa 119:130  The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. 

Mat 22:29  Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 

Mar 7:7  Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 
Mar 7:8  For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 
Mar 7:9  And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. 

2Pe 1:19  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts

We know that every Christian is given a weapon to wield in the spiritual war we are born into and live in until either we sleep death's sleep or our Savior returns. That weapon is what? Do you know what weapon you possess as a Christian? Do you know what weapon we have to use against the enemy? What good does it do us if we - as the saying goes- bring a knife to a gunfight? We have to use the only weapon our God gives to us and if we try to use anything else we will fail against any evil spiritual onslaught in whatever shape or form it takes.  Our weapon-  Eph 6:17  And take… the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God

Our weapon- THE WORD OF GOD!

How do we keep from being deceived? The Word of God!

Deception-  

Mar 13:5  And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you

1Co 15:33  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 
1Co 15:34  Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. 

Eph 5:6  Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 

Col 2:8  Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 

Heb 4:12  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 

2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition

1Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 

1Co 6:9  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 
1Co 6:10  Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Deu_11:16  Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them

Gal_6:7  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

1Ti_2:14  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

2Ti_3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

Tit_3:3  For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Rev_18:23  And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

Rev_19:20  And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Rev_20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 

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