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Deception

Deception TOPIC TAG(542) Biblical Usage: Lie, false Christs / prophets, bread of deceit. Dictionary Definition: 1. the act of deceiving; the state of being deceived. 2. something that deceives or is intended to deceive; fraud; artifice.

Devotional: Trust Truth, It Has No Agenda And Never Falls Short

Isaiah 59:4, "None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity."

Devotional: Jacob's Despicable Beginnings as a Scam Artist

Genesis 27:19, "And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

Devotional: War Against the Devil's Lies. He is the Father of Lies

John 8:44, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."


WAR AGAINST THE DEVIL'S LIES. HE IS THE FATHER OF LIES

Devotional: Caught Up In Deceit We Refuse To Know God

Jeremiah 9:6, "Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD."


CAUGHT UP IN DECEIT WE REFUSE TO KNOW GOD

Illustration on Lying: The By-Whiskey Speech - A Misleading Equivocation

The illustration of the The By-Whiskey Speech - A Misleading Equivocation provides us a great example of how lies and deceptions can easily be taken as truth. Equivocation is a word seldom heard in our society, but it is practiced frequently by politicians and persons in authority who have no moral compass.

Devotional: Redeemed But Still Deceived

Hosea 7:13, “Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.”

REDEEMED, BUT STILL DECEIVED

The Love of Money Corrupts Us To Take Advantage of Our Fellow Man

James 5:4. The Bible tells us to love our fellow man. This is not possible when we are corrupted by the love of money. The love of money compels us to take advantage of our neighbor at every turn. An example of this is between employee and employer.

Sixth Law of Sowing and Reaping: There is No Escape From the Laws of Sowing and Reaping

Galatians 6:7. The final law of sowing and reaping is that there is no escape from the laws of sowing and reaping. The laws of sowing and reaping are immutable much like the laws of gravity. If we sow little, we will always reap little. If we sow in kind, we will reap in kind. Whatever we sow, a little or a lot, we will always reap more. If we sow good things, we will reap good things.

A Fool: A Person Without God Who Thinks Himself Wise

Romans 1:22. We can be great debaters and think ourselves wise, but without God we are fools. God is the source of all knowledge and truth. He is the one that reveals knowledge to us. We can only accumulate and store knowledge. People deceive themselves and others when they think they are the source of wisdom.

Keeping Your Sins Secret Will Not Save You, But Kill You

Romans 7:11. Keeping your sins secret only compounds your problems. God did not give you knowledge of sin just so you could keep your sins secret. Sins unconfessed end up rotting you from the inside out and will eventually lead to death (Romans 7:11, “For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me”).


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