Things are not always as they seem. We can be so easily deceived in so many
ways. Our senses can be tricked, our
minds confused. We can be convinced to
believe things even when our senses tell us otherwise, even when the evidence
exists to show otherwise. No one is
immune from deception entirely.
Sometimes our deception comes from outside sources. We can be given wrong information, or our senses can be tricked. Even our minds can be tricked through convincing words that something is true when it isn’t.
More often than not though, we deceive ourselves. We often want something to be true. That desire within ourselves for something to be true makes us vulnerable to deception. We have a tendency to use that as a filter for our senses and thoughts so that we allow in what supports what we want to believe and at the same time reject off hand anything that goes against what we want to believe about things.
People do not deceive or are not deceived in a vacuum. There are motivating factors that lead a person to deceive. People will intentionally deceive others to gain wealth, power, or love. The deceived may desire the same things, making them an easy target for deception. A scam artist, for example, may try to convince you to invest your money and promise you a great return all the while knowing he is just going to take your money. We set ourselves up for that kind of deception.
Sometimes a person can be an honest deceiver. These people do not intentionally set out to deceive, and do not even think they are deceiving. The really believe in what it is they believe. The victims of this deception may also honestly believe the deceiver. This is where the phrase comes up about the blind leading the blind. Neither the deceiver nor the deceived is aware of the deception.
The greatest deceptions come in the form of spiritual deception; namely about Yahweh and His son Jesus. The source of deception comes from the devil. Satan is known as the Father of lies. John 8:44 says of the devil, “for he is a liar, and the father of it.” And what is the greatest lie the devil tells? 1John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Anything and everything that takes a person away from the knowledge of Jesus as the Christ and the son of the living God is deception.
2 Timothy 2:13 tells us that “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” In this information age where at the touch of a keyboard access can be had to the entirety of the knowledge of mankind we can see this to be true. Lies and deception can flash around the world in nanoseconds to be gobbled up by the willingly gullible. The onslaught of information has caused great confusion to the point where many now call evil good and good evil. Isaiah 5:20 pronounces woe upon those who do so.
Sometimes our deception comes from outside sources. We can be given wrong information, or our senses can be tricked. Even our minds can be tricked through convincing words that something is true when it isn’t.
More often than not though, we deceive ourselves. We often want something to be true. That desire within ourselves for something to be true makes us vulnerable to deception. We have a tendency to use that as a filter for our senses and thoughts so that we allow in what supports what we want to believe and at the same time reject off hand anything that goes against what we want to believe about things.
People do not deceive or are not deceived in a vacuum. There are motivating factors that lead a person to deceive. People will intentionally deceive others to gain wealth, power, or love. The deceived may desire the same things, making them an easy target for deception. A scam artist, for example, may try to convince you to invest your money and promise you a great return all the while knowing he is just going to take your money. We set ourselves up for that kind of deception.
Sometimes a person can be an honest deceiver. These people do not intentionally set out to deceive, and do not even think they are deceiving. The really believe in what it is they believe. The victims of this deception may also honestly believe the deceiver. This is where the phrase comes up about the blind leading the blind. Neither the deceiver nor the deceived is aware of the deception.
The greatest deceptions come in the form of spiritual deception; namely about Yahweh and His son Jesus. The source of deception comes from the devil. Satan is known as the Father of lies. John 8:44 says of the devil, “for he is a liar, and the father of it.” And what is the greatest lie the devil tells? 1John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Anything and everything that takes a person away from the knowledge of Jesus as the Christ and the son of the living God is deception.
2 Timothy 2:13 tells us that “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” In this information age where at the touch of a keyboard access can be had to the entirety of the knowledge of mankind we can see this to be true. Lies and deception can flash around the world in nanoseconds to be gobbled up by the willingly gullible. The onslaught of information has caused great confusion to the point where many now call evil good and good evil. Isaiah 5:20 pronounces woe upon those who do so.
The truth is:
John
3
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even
so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the
world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the
world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds
may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Anything
that removes a person from this truth is deception. Be not deceived. The world passeth away,
and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (1
John 2:17) What is the will of God? Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. And, Mark 16;15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all
the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
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