Good evening friends and
welcome to another edition
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of the Eleventh Hour
Evidence coming to you
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live from the cereal
city, Battle Creek, Michigan,
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my home town.
Where David Asscherick is
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bringing us powerful
messages night-by-night.
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This evening he is going
to be telling us a little bit
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more about why we
can trust the Bible.
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But, before we go to
that presentation, my friend
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Dan Grentz and his friend
Loyd Callimore standing by
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right now to share with us
a special musical selection.
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What, what do you have
for us tonight friends.
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The love of God.
Oh! Why don't you
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just take it away right now.
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The love of God is greater far
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Than tongue or
pen can ever tell;
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It goes beyond the highest star,
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And reaches to the lowest hell;
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The guilty pair,
bowed down with care,
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God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
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And pardoned from his sin.
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Could we with
ink the ocean fill,
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And were the
skies of parchment made,
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Were every stalk
on earth a quill,
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And every man a scribe by trade;
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To write the love of God above
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Would drain the ocean dry;
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Nor could the
scroll contain the whole,
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Though
stretched from sky to sky.
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O love of God,
how rich and pure!
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How measureless and strong!
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It shall forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song.
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It shall forevermore endure
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The saints' and angels' song.
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The love of God
friends, what a glorious message
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that is that God has
loved us so much that he gave us
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his only begotten
son, isn't that powerful.
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Friends, I would like
to take this moment just
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before David comes on to
say to you with all my heart
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and whoever is
watching right now, friends.
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Jesus Christ is alive.
Amen. And you know, why we
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know Jesus Christ is
alive because he spoken to us
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through the authorative, or the
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authoritative word of
God. And not only that, but he
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has spoken to us in
our personal experiences,
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can you say amen to that. Amen.
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I'm so excited about the
word of God that powerful
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word that tells us that Jesus
is alive. Now, I want to ask
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you a question real quick
before we get started here.
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How many of you, have at
least on three occasions in
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any given meeting that
David's done been unable
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to figure out what
one of those words was,
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would you raise your
hand with me right now?
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Good, good, good and my
wife and I were thinking
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about that, we were sort
of a poor ministerial couple
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and we're thinking you
know this is an excellent
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opportunity. So, for 25.
95 we're offering you this
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Webster's Ninth New
Collegiate Dictionary.
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A one time, no I know
it's not; it's not true,
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it's not true, but
isn't it exciting that God's
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word is so clear.
God's word is so unequivocal
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that you can bank
your salvation on it.
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And there is no
doubt about that in our
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messages is there?
God has been clear,
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Pastor Asscherick,
the Lord bless you.
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Amen. As you open his word.
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What does unequivocal
mean? And Webster's Dictionary.
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What does unequivocal mean?
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Unequivocal?
you tell me brother.
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Oh! You just used
it. Talk about deer
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in the
spotlights, unquestionable.
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Oh! Good evening
everyone. Good everyone.
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You know, I didn't
see Jason all day today.
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Until just moments ago
because he was off buying
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a car. And I was off
visiting some friends today.
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And, I, I heard him
say those nice sweet things
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about me. Wasn't
that nice of him?
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See, he thought I
wasn't listening, but I was
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listening. Right
through that door, right there.
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And I just want to go
on record to saying that it
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has been a real privilege
to spend time with Jason and
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his beautiful wife
Stephanie and their two children
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and for those of you that
have Jason as your pastor.
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How many here are
locals, Jason is your pastor.
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You're blessed, amen. Amen.
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Amen, and so you can say
it about me, I can say it
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about you. He's been saying
all these nice things about
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me all week. And to me
and so finally I said alright,
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you listen to me mister.
The first week, you get to
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talk nice about me and
then it's my turn, I get to talk
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nice about you. Well,
our message tonight is an
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important one,
I hope you enjoyed
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last night message, amen. Amen.
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It was about the Bible
and how we know the Bible is
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the inspired word of God.
We're going to talk a little
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more about that and the
reason for that is, is that
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really need to
understand why it is that we
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trust the Bible.
Many people have an
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unquestioning trust in
the Bible and that's okay.
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There is nothing wrong
with believing that the
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Bible is true and that it
is God's word, but we should
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at least know the reasons why we
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believe the Bible, amen. Amen.
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Otherwise we sound
silly. I mean I have friends who
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are Muslims and if
they come to me and say,
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now why do you believe the
Bible, instead of the Quran.
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I'm gonna sound kind
of silly, if I say well,
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well I believe the
Bible because I want to.
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I mean that's not
particularly compelling is it.
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I should be able to know,
the reasons why I choose to
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believe the Bible over
say the Quran or the Hindu
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Bhagavad-Gita or the
writings of Buddha, amen.
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Amen. We need to have
good answers, remember
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how we began this
with First Peter chapter 3
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and verse 15. But,
sanctify the Lord God in your
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heart: and be
ready always. How often?
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Always. Always to give
an answer to every man that
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ask of you a reason of
the hope that is in you with
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meekness and fear.
The reason that we have
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titled this series Eleventh
Hour Evidence, is that there
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are many Christians
who know what they believe,
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but they do not know
why they believe what
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they believe. Do you see,
how that could put us into
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a, a severe predicament.
To know, what you believe,
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but not have any
clue as to why you believe
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what you believe? So,
that's why this series is
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Eleventh Hour Evidence.
It's the juxtaposition of
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that conviction that we're
living in the Eleventh Hour,
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but also our desire to
provide evidences for that,
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to provide what
everyone? Evidences. Evidences,
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and friends you
notice night-by-night.
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We preach from the
Bible. We make no apologies for
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that. But, if we're going
to spend 14 evenings talking
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about the Bible and
what the Bible teaches,
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it probably would be
hover to spend at least two
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evenings talking
about why we believe
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what's in this book, amen. Amen.
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Because friends, if this
book can't be trusted and
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you're able to, to cause
people's confidence or trust
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or belief in this book to
be moved away then the other
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eleven or twelve
messages are totally
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meaningless, amen. Amen.
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If we preach what he
Bible says, but you have no
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reason to believe what
the Bible says or to have
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confidence in it,
then it's basically a
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meaningless proposition.
So, we're going to spend
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last night and
tonight talking about the,
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the uniqueness of this book,
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the specialness of this book
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and tonight it's a
very pointed message,
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it's entitled, Be Not
Deceived A "How To" Guide.
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Be Not Deceived:
A "How To" Guide.
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And, we will be
talking more tonight about the
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Bible and it's
importance and it's role in the
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life of the
believer. So, let's begin with,
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what everyone? Prayer.
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Prayer, I invite you
to pray with me as we
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commence. Father
in heaven, we're so
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privileged to come tonight
and to so study this word.
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Father, a word
that we did not deserve,
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you revealed it to us.
Father, in this word are
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contained things that
we couldn't have known,
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if you hadn't shown
it. And, so Father tonight
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as we open up the pages
of scripture, as we open
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up these holy pages, we
pray that you will speak
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directly to our hearts
as well as to our minds that
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we may come away with
a renewed conviction that
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these are in fact
your words, powerful
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words from on high.
Be with us now, as we
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open these words,
speak directly to us.
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We ask it in Jesus name,
and everyone can say, amen.
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Why don't we begin by
going to Acts chapter 17
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to settle a little bit of
a context. Acts chapter 17,
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as you recall last
evening we talked about turning
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off the television and
turning on the Bible, amen.
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Amen. Now, I, I want
to go on record to saying
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that there is nothing evil
about the television itself.
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The device is simply
an electronic cathode ray
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emitter that in and of
itself is not evil or good.
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It's what comes
through that box that makes it
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so dangerous.
Okay, so I just want
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to be clear on that.
Many of us have, have
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brought the
devil's very teachings.
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And his very philosophies
and ideologies right into
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our homes not in the
box itself, because you can
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put beautiful nature
programs or educational
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documentaries on that
box and watch them, but
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we have brought cable
in and other things in and
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we're spending most
of our time not watching
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3ABN friends, but watching
other kinds of programs.
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Now, before the
Adventive television people
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were far more
literate. They were far more,
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what everyone? Literate.
Literate, in fact there
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are significant
studies that are basically
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demonstrating that
television is dumbing
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down our society,
because the television
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is doing so much of our
thinking for us, that was
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not the case in the
days of the Apostle Paul.
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Go with me to Acts
chapter 17, and notice
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with me in Acts chapter
17, beginning in verse 10.
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Acts chapter 17
beginning in verse 10,
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it says, then the
brethren immediately sent Paul
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and Silas away
by night to Berea.
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To what word is that everyone?
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Berea. To Berea, when
they arrived, they went into
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the synagogue of the
Jews. These were more fair
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minded then those
Thessalonica in that they
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receive the word with
all readiness and searched
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the scriptures daily
to find out whether these
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things were so.
Notice the result of their
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searching the scriptures.
Verse 12 says, therefore
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many of them believed,
and also not a few of the
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Greeks, prominent
women as well as men.
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Now, I want you to notice
that according to verse 11
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how often was it that
they searched the scriptures?
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Amen. It says they
searched the scriptures daily.
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Now, who was preaching? Who was
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preaching there in Berea? Paul.
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It was the Apostle
Paul. Now, think about that.
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Was Paul somebody
that was well-known in the
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first century, yes or
no? When Paul came into
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town and began to
preach, did people know
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who this man was or
was he just some sort of
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vagabond off the
streets. Do you think they knew
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who the Apostle Paul was?
Surely they knew who he was?
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And here the
Apostle Paul friends.
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The modern day
equivalent of our Mark
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Finley or Doug Batchelor
stands up and begins to
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preach and all of
the people instead of
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just saying, Oh!
That's right, must be right
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because Paul said it.
Oh! That must be right
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and just
undiscerningly swallowing it.
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The Bible says that
they listened to what Paul
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says, they received
the word with all readiness
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of mind, but they
didn't receive it uncritically.
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They didn't just let
it come in unfiltered.
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The Bible says, they
then went home and searched
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the scriptures. Notice
that word there, searched.
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Now what word
everyone? Searched. Searched,
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that shows effort.
It shows energy and
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diligence. It says,
they searched the scriptures
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not monthly, not
weekly, but daily to see whether
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or not what Paul
was preaching was true.
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Now friends if those
faithful in Berea were
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willing to checkout
the Apostle Paul, then you
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and I should be
very quick to check out
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everybody who preaches
us or purports to preach
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the word of God
myself included, amen.
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Amen. Now,
friends think about that.
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The fact that they
went to the word of God
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to checkout what Paul
was saying proves that
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the Bible is
authoritative. What did I say,
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the Bible is? Authoritative.
Authoritative, friends
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remember that
word yesterday Canon,
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it doesn't mean boom a
powerful gun that shoots.
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A Canon is a measuring
rod, what is it everyone?
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A measuring
rod. A measuring rod,
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and so Paul came in and he was
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preaching his
doctrines. He was preaching
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his teachings and so
the Bereans being the,
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the students of the word
that they were, they took
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their measuring rod
and they held it up to the
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Apostle Paul to
determine, if whether
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or not what he
was saying was true.
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They didn't say,
Oh! He so charismatic,
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it must be true. Oh!
He is the Apostle Paul,
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it must be true. What they
said is, if it squares with
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the word then we know it's true.
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Are you with me now, yes or no?
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Amen. Now the reason
that I bring this out is that
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many people in this day
and age are, are, are very
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prone to be
carried away by charisma.
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Oh! He is a
great preacher or to be
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carried away by reputation,
by what word did I say?
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Reputation. Oh!
It's Mark Finley.
00:14:08.68\00:14:10.29
Oh! It's Doug Bachelor.
Oh! It's David Asscherick,
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it must be true. Friends even
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David Asscherick
makes mistakes, amen.
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Amen. Where is
my wife? My wife is
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2000 miles away saying, amen.
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Now, friends the
point here is just this,
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the Bereans searched the
scriptures daily and they
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received the word
with all readiness of mind.
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If the Apostle Paul
needed to be checked
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out to be sure that all
of his message was filtered
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from deception then
surely in these last days,
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we should be filtering
everything that comes to us.
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Through the word of God. Amen.
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Now, our message
tonight is entitled.
00:14:42.13\00:14:43.55
Be Not Deceived
A "How To" Guide.
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And let's begin by
giving a definition of deceit.
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The definition of
deceit, this is taken from
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Webster's dictionary.
I should have just had
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the dictionary
right there Jason.
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Number one, any
declaration, artifice or
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practice, which
misleads another, or causes him
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to believe what is,
what's the next word?
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False. False. So,
in a sentence deceit is
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when you try to
cause somebody to believe
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something as true
that is what everyone?
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False. False, notice
the second part of the
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definition here.
The leading of another
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person to believe
what is what's that word?
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False. Falseor not
to believe what is true,
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and thus to ensnare
him. So, the definition of
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deceit is to cause
somebody to believe that
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which is not true or to
cause them not to believe
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that which is true.
And, let us continue here.
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There are three types or three
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categories of
deception. How many types of
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deception,
everyone? Three. Three number
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one is intentional
deception. That is when an, an
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individual sets out
to purposely deceive.
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To what word,
did I say everyone?
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Purposely. To
purposely deceive, you say,
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I'm going to
deceive this person.
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This is the preverbial
crooked used car salesman.
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This is the person,
who knows that he has a
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lemon, but he wants you
to convince that the car
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was manufactured
with your name on the
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dashboard, are you with
me? Intentional deception.
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Now, the second kind is
just as dangerous, but the
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motivations are
different and that is
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unintentional deception.
In other words, maybe the
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very individual himself
or herself, who is teaching
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whatever it might be they
might actually believe it,
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but if it's false, it
doesn't mean that, that their
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sincerity makes falsehood true.
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Are you understanding
that, yes or no? Amen.
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So, let's use the car
salesman analogy again.
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Let's pretend that the
car salesman is genuinely
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convinced that this is
an incredibly good car,
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but if he has
not checked it out.
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If he is not gone under
the hood and if he is not
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kicked the tires,
friends he might be convinced
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that it's true, but
that doesn't make it true.
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And he could sell you a
lemon and unintentionally
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deceive you. Do you see
the difference, yes or no?
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Now, here is the
point. The motivation is
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different, but the
end result is the same.
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We're going to talk more
about that in just a bit.
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And we're going to talk
a little bit tonight about
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Self-Deception. This
was the third category of
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deception. So,
number one is Intentional
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Deception; number two
is Unintentional Deception
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and number three
is Self-Deception.
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Now, in order to
understand this and to
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really put this into
a Biblical frame work
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I want to bring one
very salient point out
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and that is this.
The danger of deception
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is precisely this.
The essence of deception
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is that you are unaware
that you are being deceived!
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Do you follow that?
The whole idea, the whole
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essence, the strength
and subtlety of deception is
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that you're unaware
that you're being deceived.
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For example, you've
never seen anybody with
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a sign hung around their
neck that says, I'm being
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deceived right now.
Have you ever seen that?
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No, people don't say,
I'm being deceived by the
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way because if they
have knowledge that they are
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being deceived, it
proves that it's not deceit.
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The whole idea of
deception is that you're
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just sure you're on the
right path, when in reality
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you're on the what?
Wrong path. Wrong path,
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and so you're all
sitting here tonight, you're
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thinking Oh! I'm glad
I'm here tonight at this
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seminar, I'm
glad I'm not deceived.
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The problem is
that's exactly how deceived
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people think. Do you
understand the paradox?
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Deceived people are
just confident that they
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are not deceived.
Now, this is paradoxical.
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It's a little bit like
sleeping and this is the
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illustration that I use
that really helps to impress
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it upon the mind.
You're totally unaware that
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you're sleeping
until you wake up.
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Try that experiment
at your house sometime.
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Right, you're
sleeping. And you unaware that
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you're sleeping
until you awake up.
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And, after you've a
woke then you have a context
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with which to
evaluate your fore mistake.
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You understand
that, yes or no? Amen.
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So, if you're
sitting here tonight.
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I'm just glad I'm not
deceived. You better be
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sure you're not
deceived because that's exactly
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how deceived people
think. Friends, the essence of
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deception is that
you're unaware that you're
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being deceived.
Do you understand
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this point, yes or no?
Amen. Now, with that in
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mind go with me to
the first book of the
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New Testament. That
is the book of Matthew,
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what book
everyone? Matthew. Matthew
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and in Matthew chapter
24, what theologians call
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the Olivet Discourse
Jesus is describing what
00:19:04.74\00:19:07.48
it will be like
just before his return.
00:19:07.51\00:19:09.96
He is describing the
condition of the world
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in the last days. In
the what days everyone?
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In the last days.
Last days, beginning in
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verse 1 the Bible
says, then Jesus went out and
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departed from the temple
and his disciples came to
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show him the
buildings of the temple.
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And Jesus said to them,
do you not see all these
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things assuredly I say
to you, not one stone shall
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be left here upon
another that shall
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not be thrown down.
Jesus had just left the,
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the temple for the last time.
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In fact, if you notice
that beginning in Matthew
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chapter 23, just
a few verses before
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notice verse 37. O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
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the one who kills
the prophets and stones
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those who are sent to
her, how often I wanted to
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gather your children
together, as a hen gathers
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her chicks under her
wings, but you were not willing.
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See, your house is
left to you desolate.
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For I say, you will
not see me anymore until
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you say, "Blessed
is he who comes in the
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name of the Lord." Jesus
has just left the precinct
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of the temple for the last time.
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There must have been
something in his face.
00:20:02.30\00:20:03.98
He must have looked
for a lawn or even dejected
00:20:04.01\00:20:07.29
and as he, he was
sitting there in this condition.
00:20:07.32\00:20:09.66
The disciples
came to cheer him up.
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Why do they come, everyone?
Cheer him up. Cheer him up.
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Oh! look at the
temple Jesus, look at how
00:20:14.91\00:20:16.49
beautiful it is. Look at
the way the Sun glistens off
00:20:16.52\00:20:18.77
of its beautiful stones.
And then Jesus says to them.
00:20:18.80\00:20:21.71
Do you see all of
these? You see all of these
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things that you love
and that you're trusting in.
00:20:23.82\00:20:25.57
Not one stone will be
left upon another that will not
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be thrown down.
Jesus here foretells the
00:20:28.49\00:20:30.59
destruction of Jerusalem
in A.D. 70 by the Roman
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General Titus.
Now, notice what happens
00:20:34.07\00:20:38.45
here in verse 3. The
disciples are incredulous,
00:20:38.48\00:20:40.50
they cannot believe
this. In verse 3, it says, now,
00:20:40.53\00:20:43.99
as he sat on the Mount of
Olives, the disciples came
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to him privately and
saying, "Tell us, when
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will these things be
and what will be the sign of
00:20:48.10\00:20:50.37
your coming and of
the end of the age?"
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Now, we're not going
to go into that sermon
00:20:52.17\00:20:53.81
tonight particularly.
I wish we had time to
00:20:53.84\00:20:55.61
do that, but they are
really asking two questions.
00:20:55.64\00:20:58.34
How many questions
everyone? Two. Two questions,
00:20:58.37\00:21:00.39
number is when
will these things be?
00:21:00.42\00:21:01.83
When will the destruction
of the temple take place
00:21:02.86\00:21:04.50
and the other is what
will be the sign of the
00:21:04.53\00:21:06.52
end of the age? So,
they've really asked
00:21:06.55\00:21:08.23
two questions, but in
their minds, they think
00:21:08.26\00:21:10.01
they've only ask one.
Now, notice the beginning
00:21:10.04\00:21:12.38
of Jesus response.
Verse 4, and Jesus answered
00:21:12.41\00:21:15.64
and said to them.
Now, he goes into a long
00:21:15.67\00:21:17.69
explanation here friends.
All the rest of chapter 24,
00:21:17.72\00:21:20.45
and all of chapter
25 is the answer to this
00:21:20.48\00:21:23.24
question, but notice
what's the first thing that
00:21:23.27\00:21:25.87
he says there in verse 4.
He says, take heed that no
00:21:25.90\00:21:29.72
one, what's the next
word? Deceives. Deceives you.
00:21:29.75\00:21:32.12
Now, now they say that
if I give you a list of ten
00:21:33.98\00:21:36.10
things to remember that
you will forget the middle
00:21:36.13\00:21:38.67
seven and you will
remember the first two
00:21:38.70\00:21:40.64
and maybe the last
one. You remember the first
00:21:40.67\00:21:43.07
part and the last
part. And, so the very first
00:21:43.10\00:21:45.96
thing that Jesus says,
is be careful, take heed,
00:21:45.99\00:21:49.59
be aware that no
one, what's the word?
00:21:49.62\00:21:52.27
Deceives you, now notice
he repeats this very same
00:21:52.86\00:21:55.63
idea in verse 11 of
the same chapter, jump down
00:21:55.66\00:21:58.13
to verse 11. Jesus
speaking, he says then
00:21:58.16\00:22:00.33
many false prophets
will arise and what's the
00:22:00.36\00:22:03.06
next word? Deceive
just a few precious
00:22:03.09\00:22:06.49
ignorant individuals. Amen.
00:22:06.52\00:22:08.56
What does it
say, how many? Many.
00:22:08.59\00:22:10.45
Will deceive many,
notice also verse 24 of the same
00:22:10.48\00:22:12.94
chapter. It says, For
false Christ's and false
00:22:12.97\00:22:16.18
prophets will arise
and show great signs.
00:22:16.21\00:22:18.38
We're going to comeback to that.
00:22:18.41\00:22:19.38
They're going to
show great, what everyone?
00:22:19.66\00:22:20.96
Signs. Signs or wonders
or miracles, great signs
00:22:20.99\00:22:24.57
and wonders to
deceive. If possible even who?
00:22:24.60\00:22:29.27
Even the elect. So,
three times remember the
00:22:30.23\00:22:32.23
disciples had asked,
what's it going to be like
00:22:32.26\00:22:34.19
just before you return.
When will this take place
00:22:34.22\00:22:36.65
and three times Jesus
says, be careful you're not
00:22:36.68\00:22:39.01
deceived, be
careful you're not deceived,
00:22:39.04\00:22:40.81
be careful you're
not deceived; deception
00:22:40.84\00:22:42.96
will be rampant
in the last days.
00:22:42.99\00:22:45.85
Amen. Did Jesus
believe that deception was a
00:22:45.88\00:22:49.71
legitimate danger, yes
or no? According to Jesus,
00:22:49.74\00:22:52.81
deception would
be widespread and
00:22:52.84\00:22:54.73
dangerous in the days
just before his return.
00:22:54.94\00:22:59.27
Now, let me show you
something fascinating
00:22:59.30\00:23:00.97
here, you're in the
gospel of Matthew, so just stay
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there and go to chapter
7. Matthew chapter 7 and
00:23:02.79\00:23:06.00
notice with me
verse 15 very quickly.
00:23:06.03\00:23:08.03
Matthew chapter 7 and verse 15.
00:23:08.15\00:23:10.28
This is the sermon on
the mountains and Jesus
00:23:10.31\00:23:13.22
is giving here his
first public address following
00:23:13.25\00:23:16.36
his baptism. Matthew
chapter 7 just one verse
00:23:16.39\00:23:19.02
very quickly, verse
15. Jesus says, beware of
00:23:19.05\00:23:22.38
false prophets.
What kinds of prophets?
00:23:22.41\00:23:24.74
False prophets.
False prophets who come
00:23:24.77\00:23:26.69
to you in sheep's
clothing, they come in
00:23:26.72\00:23:29.55
what kind of
clothing? Sheep's clothing.
00:23:31.12\00:23:32.09
Sheep's clothing, but
inwardly what are they everyone?
00:23:32.10\00:23:34.63
Inwardly they
are ravenous wolves.
00:23:34.66\00:23:38.15
Now, listen if a wolf
comes in a wolf's clothing
00:23:38.74\00:23:41.61
then, then you could
say, Oh! That's a wolf,
00:23:41.92\00:23:44.01
I'll stay away.
But, false prophets
00:23:44.04\00:23:46.52
don't come looking like
this. It's a general rule.
00:23:46.55\00:23:48.67
Nobody shows them and
says, I'm a false prophet.
00:23:48.70\00:23:51.37
I'm here to deceive
you. Who would fall for that,
00:23:51.40\00:23:54.27
right? That's not
how false prophets come.
00:23:54.30\00:23:56.47
When false prophets
come, they come looking
00:23:56.50\00:23:58.37
very good, very nice,
very charismatic, and their
00:23:58.40\00:24:01.56
message is believable.
Their message is, what is,
00:24:01.59\00:24:04.66
what did I say? Believable.
Believable, now Jesus
00:24:04.69\00:24:07.64
didn't say again the
false prophets will come on the
00:24:07.67\00:24:09.54
scene and say, hi
everyone. I'm here to deceive.
00:24:09.57\00:24:12.24
You would all go
right out the door.
00:24:12.80\00:24:13.99
When a false prophet
comes, he must cloak his
00:24:14.21\00:24:16.41
motivations, he must
cloak his teachings under
00:24:16.44\00:24:19.17
a different garb. And
Jesus here uses a very
00:24:19.20\00:24:22.10
salient and
powerful illustration.
00:24:22.13\00:24:23.81
He says, that when
they cone, they are wolves,
00:24:23.84\00:24:26.06
they are ravenous
wolves. That is hungry wolves,
00:24:26.09\00:24:29.04
but they're hidden
under the garb, under the
00:24:29.07\00:24:31.65
gesture of sheep's
clothing. So, you would look at
00:24:31.68\00:24:34.90
outward appearances and
you would see what looks
00:24:34.93\00:24:37.07
good, but if you
could look inside, you would
00:24:37.10\00:24:39.22
see there is
danger and deception.
00:24:39.25\00:24:41.30
Do you understand
this point, yes or no?
00:24:41.33\00:24:42.87
Amen. That, that, that
illustration right there
00:24:42.90\00:24:45.29
of a wolf in sheep's
clothing symbolizes that,
00:24:45.32\00:24:47.59
that slide that we had
up that says, the essence of
00:24:47.62\00:24:50.12
deception is the,
you're unaware you're
00:24:50.15\00:24:51.73
being deceived. Now
Jesus says, three times,
00:24:51.76\00:24:55.26
deception in the last days,
deception in the last days,
00:24:55.29\00:24:57.42
deception in the last
days, be aware of wolves in
00:24:57.45\00:25:00.59
what kind of
clothing? In sheep's clothing.
00:25:00.62\00:25:03.14
Now, go with me to
the book of Revelation.
00:25:03.17\00:25:04.63
From the first book of
the New Testament to the
00:25:05.14\00:25:07.42
last book of the New Testament.
00:25:07.45\00:25:08.47
Let's see what the book
of Revelation has to say
00:25:08.50\00:25:10.12
about deception
and the last days.
00:25:10.15\00:25:11.56
Does it have anything to say?
00:25:11.59\00:25:13.43
Revelation chapter 12
and I'm reading in verse 9.
00:25:13.97\00:25:16.60
Now, we're just going
to select a few isolated
00:25:16.63\00:25:18.33
verses here to sort of
set the larger context.
00:25:18.36\00:25:21.08
We will be spending
more time in Revelation,
00:25:21.11\00:25:23.18
as the series progresses,
but tonight we're just sort.
00:25:23.21\00:25:25.43
We're going to just,
look at a few verses and then
00:25:25.75\00:25:27.79
we'll jump back out.
Revelation chapter 12
00:25:27.82\00:25:29.66
and verse 9. The Bible
says, so the great dragon
00:25:29.69\00:25:33.61
was cast out that
serpent of old called the devil,
00:25:33.64\00:25:37.63
and Satan. Called
the devil, and Satan,
00:25:37.66\00:25:41.84
who deceives a small
percentage of the world.
00:25:42.29\00:25:45.38
He was cast out to
earth, and his angels were
00:25:45.71\00:25:47.80
cast out with him. Is
that what your Bible says?
00:25:47.83\00:25:49.62
No. The Bible says, he
deceives, what everyone?
00:25:49.65\00:25:52.02
The whole world.
It says, he deceives
00:25:52.05\00:25:53.70
the whole world. Now,
friends the whole world
00:25:53.73\00:25:57.16
I suppose that
means the whole world.
00:25:57.19\00:25:58.83
Amen. Are you with me on that?
00:25:58.86\00:26:00.85
Now, does this is
agree with what Jesus said.
00:26:01.44\00:26:03.14
False Christ and false
prophets will arise and
00:26:03.62\00:26:05.18
deceives many. Here
John says, in the book
00:26:05.21\00:26:08.14
of Revelation that
the devil will deceive
00:26:08.17\00:26:09.85
how much of the
world. Whole world, now that
00:26:09.88\00:26:12.98
raises an interesting question.
00:26:13.01\00:26:14.09
Who is this devil character?
The book of Revelation
00:26:14.12\00:26:17.16
foretells that
deception will reach epidemic
00:26:17.19\00:26:20.16
proportions in the last days.
00:26:20.19\00:26:22.11
Deception will be so
wide spread in the last days
00:26:22.14\00:26:25.50
that when John
looked at it down to the
00:26:25.53\00:26:27.20
corridors of time. He said, Wow!
00:26:27.23\00:26:29.16
The whole world is
deceived. Now, who then is this
00:26:29.19\00:26:33.22
character? Who is
this devil or this Satan?
00:26:33.25\00:26:36.24
Now, time does not
allow us to go into all of the
00:26:36.53\00:26:38.45
Biblical
teaching and history here.
00:26:38.48\00:26:39.84
But, let's just
give a very quick report.
00:26:39.87\00:26:41.69
Satan has not
always been the Satan.
00:26:42.14\00:26:44.88
The word Satan is
actually a transliteration
00:26:44.91\00:26:46.76
of the word "Satan." And
it means advisory or enemy,
00:26:46.79\00:26:50.08
one who is against.
But, God didn't create Satan,
00:26:50.11\00:26:53.97
if you go read Isaiah
14 and Ezekiel 28, God had
00:26:54.00\00:26:57.14
created a high,
holy, beautiful angel.
00:26:57.17\00:27:01.30
What word did I say everyone?
00:27:01.82\00:27:02.82
Angel. Angel and
his name was Lucifer.
00:27:02.85\00:27:05.86
Friends he was created
his Lucifer perfect to the
00:27:06.42\00:27:09.13
Bible says, he stood
in the very immediate
00:27:09.16\00:27:11.63
presence of God. He
was one of the covering
00:27:11.66\00:27:14.65
cherubs, Ezekiel
says. That is one of the two
00:27:14.68\00:27:16.88
angels that dwell in
the immediate presence of
00:27:16.91\00:27:19.28
God, yet this high,
holy, beautiful, lofty angel
00:27:19.31\00:27:23.53
eventually rebelled against God.
00:27:23.56\00:27:25.68
And he became by his
own choice, by his own
00:27:25.71\00:27:28.38
volition Satan. Do you
understand that, yes or no?
00:27:28.41\00:27:31.52
He wasn't created
Satan anymore than you
00:27:31.55\00:27:34.21
and I walking down the
street and we're walking
00:27:34.24\00:27:36.07
down the street and we
look down here and here
00:27:36.10\00:27:37.92
is a man. He is in the
gutter, he is inebriated,
00:27:37.95\00:27:40.25
he is drunk, he is
vomited all over himself.
00:27:40.28\00:27:42.11
He hasn't showered for
a month and you and I look
00:27:42.14\00:27:44.01
at one another and
say, Huh! What kind of a
00:27:44.04\00:27:45.71
mother would give birth to that?
00:27:45.74\00:27:46.97
Friends, did the mother
give birth to what we're
00:27:49.73\00:27:51.25
looking out there.
No. No, no, no the mother
00:27:51.28\00:27:53.63
gave birth to a
beautiful. You know, how those
00:27:53.66\00:27:55.71
children are there,
they look innocent, but you
00:27:55.74\00:27:56.93
will discover in about,
two hours flat, they're not
00:27:56.96\00:27:58.97
that innocent but
anyway. They look that way, and
00:27:59.00\00:28:01.55
you've got that little.
Oh! That little baby, friends
00:28:01.58\00:28:03.72
that's why you gave
birth to, not the thing that's
00:28:03.75\00:28:06.76
lying there in the streets.
God created a perfect entity
00:28:06.79\00:28:10.98
a perfect being in a
Lucifer. What kind of
00:28:11.01\00:28:13.09
a being did I say?
Perfect. Perfect, in fact the
00:28:13.12\00:28:14.88
Bible actually uses that
word to describe it, but he
00:28:14.91\00:28:17.75
rebelled, he was lifted
up by the pride of his own
00:28:17.78\00:28:20.44
heart and the
ambitions of his own heart.
00:28:20.47\00:28:22.61
And he rebelled
against God. And he was kicked
00:28:22.64\00:28:24.81
out of heaven. And
we're going to talk all about
00:28:24.84\00:28:26.43
that, but I have to give
you a little synopsis to set
00:28:26.46\00:28:28.15
the context here.
That's who the Satan is?
00:28:28.18\00:28:30.68
When we get the picture
of the devil, we don't see
00:28:32.01\00:28:33.72
him as this beautiful
lofty, glorious angel.
00:28:33.75\00:28:36.69
We get this ridicules
character of the devil.
00:28:36.72\00:28:39.51
He looks like the, the
you know, the proverbial tail
00:28:39.54\00:28:43.50
with the little point on
it and the pitch fort and
00:28:43.53\00:28:46.30
cloven hooves. I
mean give me a break.
00:28:46.33\00:28:48.10
Who do you think
invented that picture of Satan.
00:28:48.13\00:28:49.94
The devil himself did.
He doesn't look like that.
00:28:49.97\00:28:53.40
He is a, as he came to
into this room right now,
00:28:53.82\00:28:55.75
he will be the most
beautiful being you ever saw.
00:28:55.78\00:28:57.64
You're following me?
Amen. Friends, listen to this.
00:28:58.41\00:29:00.83
The reason he can
deceive is because he
00:29:00.86\00:29:02.76
doesn't look like an
ogre. He looks like a beautiful,
00:29:02.79\00:29:05.68
glorious, angel of light,
that's how he was created.
00:29:05.71\00:29:09.50
Now, notice you are
still there in Revelation
00:29:10.48\00:29:12.06
chapter 12 and verse 9.
Notice Revelation chapter
00:29:12.09\00:29:14.77
13 and verse 14.
Revelation chapter 13
00:29:14.80\00:29:18.67
and I am reading in verse
14. So, we'll just look at
00:29:18.70\00:29:20.65
one more passage here
in Revelation, chapter 13
00:29:20.68\00:29:23.74
and I'm reading verse
14. And he deceives those
00:29:23.77\00:29:27.31
who dwell, what everyone?
On the earth. On the earth,
00:29:27.34\00:29:30.52
there it is again.
Deception in the whole
00:29:30.55\00:29:33.46
earth is implicated not
just a few ignorance saps
00:29:33.49\00:29:36.72
friends. The whole
earth is implicated here.
00:29:36.75\00:29:39.55
He deceives the whole world.
00:29:39.58\00:29:41.19
Now, notice what it says here.
00:29:41.22\00:29:42.19
By those signs, by those
what word is that everyone?
00:29:42.20\00:29:46.23
By those. By those
signs, have we heard that word
00:29:46.26\00:29:49.04
beside this tonight,
have you heard it before this.
00:29:49.72\00:29:51.57
Where did we hear it?
Jesus says; remember that
00:29:52.25\00:29:54.83
Matthew chapter 24 in verse 24.
00:29:54.86\00:29:56.39
He said, that many false
prophets and false Christs
00:29:56.42\00:29:58.02
will arrive and they
will show signs, great signs
00:29:58.05\00:30:01.08
and wonders. So,
apparently miracles will
00:30:01.11\00:30:04.20
be employed and sings
will be employed in order
00:30:04.23\00:30:06.99
to, to bring about deception.
00:30:07.02\00:30:09.39
To bring about what everyone?
00:30:09.97\00:30:11.07
Deception. Deception, now
lets read the rest of that
00:30:11.10\00:30:13.25
verse, verse 14. And
he deceives those who grow
00:30:13.28\00:30:15.22
on the earth by
those signs which he was
00:30:15.25\00:30:16.78
granted to do in the side
of the beast, telling those
00:30:16.81\00:30:18.69
who dwell on the earth
to make an image for the
00:30:18.72\00:30:20.04
beast, who was wounded
by the sword and lived.
00:30:20.07\00:30:22.77
So, even according to
the Book of Revelation,
00:30:22.80\00:30:24.70
deception will
reach epidemic proportions
00:30:24.73\00:30:27.55
in the last days, if
that's clear, say amen.
00:30:27.58\00:30:29.75
Amen. The whole world friends.
00:30:29.78\00:30:31.54
The whole world
deceived. Now, as the, as the
00:30:32.13\00:30:36.30
seminar progresses
we're going to look at the
00:30:36.33\00:30:37.83
nature of some of
those deceptions, but tonight
00:30:37.86\00:30:39.75
let's just be clear that
worldwide deception is a,
00:30:39.78\00:30:43.05
is a Biblical
reality. We shouldn't say.
00:30:43.08\00:30:45.89
Oh! If we find the
whole world is deceived,
00:30:45.92\00:30:47.73
we should be
surprised and say, Oh! I can't
00:30:47.76\00:30:49.20
believe that the
whole world is deceived,
00:30:49.23\00:30:50.46
amazing. We should
say that's exactly what
00:30:50.49\00:30:52.48
we'd accept according
to the Bible, amen. Amen.
00:30:52.51\00:30:55.41
According to the
very teachings of Jesus.
00:30:55.44\00:30:57.07
Now, go with me to
the writings of Paul.
00:30:57.87\00:30:59.22
We've looked at the
writings of Matthew.
00:30:59.25\00:31:00.66
We've looked at
the writings of John.
00:31:00.69\00:31:01.97
Now, let's go to
the writings of Paul in
00:31:02.00\00:31:03.22
Second Corinthians, chapter 11.
00:31:03.25\00:31:05.71
Second Corinthians
chapter 11, that's the third
00:31:06.63\00:31:10.57
of Paul's
epistles, you have Romans,
00:31:10.60\00:31:12.18
First Corinthians,
then Second Corinthians
00:31:12.21\00:31:14.17
chapter 11. And
notice this here Second
00:31:14.20\00:31:17.29
Corinthians chapter 11,
I'm reading in verse 13.
00:31:17.32\00:31:21.71
Beginning in verse
13. Second Corinthians
00:31:21.74\00:31:24.36
chapter 11, in verse
13. The Apostle Paul says,
00:31:24.39\00:31:26.67
for such are false apostles,
what kinds of apostles?
00:31:26.70\00:31:30.00
False. False
Apostle, what do you suppose a
00:31:30.03\00:31:32.21
false apostle would look
like? You think, he'd look
00:31:32.24\00:31:35.22
like a false apostle? What
do you think, he'd look like?
00:31:35.25\00:31:38.06
That's exactly, right.
He looked like an apostle.
00:31:38.09\00:31:41.06
That's Paul's whole
point; notice what he goes onto
00:31:41.73\00:31:43.37
say here. For such are
false apostles, deceitful
00:31:43.40\00:31:46.73
workers transforming
themselves into Apostles
00:31:46.76\00:31:49.42
of Christ. According to
that verse, what is a false
00:31:49.45\00:31:53.23
Apostle look like at
first investigation? What, what
00:31:53.26\00:31:56.79
will be your
initial, your original
00:31:56.82\00:31:58.78
impression that they're what?
00:31:58.81\00:32:00.13
Apostles of
Christ. Apostles of Christ,
00:32:00.16\00:32:01.91
they are wolves in sheep's
clothing. Notice verse 14,
00:32:02.72\00:32:07.24
And no wonder, says
Paul, I'm reading the
00:32:07.27\00:32:09.62
New King James and
there is a, there is a,
00:32:09.65\00:32:11.13
there is an explanation
point there and no wonder!
00:32:11.16\00:32:13.33
explanation
point. For Satan himself
00:32:13.36\00:32:16.08
transforms himself
into an angel of darkness.
00:32:16.11\00:32:21.43
Amen. Into an angel of
light. Into an angel of light,
00:32:21.46\00:32:25.52
therefore it is no great
thing if his ministers also
00:32:25.55\00:32:28.12
transform themselves into
ministers of righteousness
00:32:28.15\00:32:30.08
whose end will be
according to their works.
00:32:30.11\00:32:33.07
Now, according to
the writings to the
00:32:34.21\00:32:35.44
Apostle Paul here.
This being, this Satan,
00:32:35.47\00:32:38.35
this devil being can
transform himself and
00:32:38.38\00:32:40.90
to an angel of what everyone?
00:32:40.93\00:32:42.40
Light. Light, that's why
I said, if he came into this
00:32:42.43\00:32:44.52
room tonight, if he
just suddenly appeared,
00:32:44.55\00:32:46.61
you wouldn't say,
Oh! It's the devil.
00:32:46.64\00:32:48.75
You would be tempted to
believe the exact opposite.
00:32:48.78\00:32:51.18
You would say who is
this? So, beautiful, the
00:32:52.52\00:32:54.93
way he speaks, the
way he carries himself,
00:32:54.96\00:32:57.01
so gracefully, so
elegantly, so majestically,
00:32:57.04\00:33:00.02
you would be tempted to
say it must be from God.
00:33:00.05\00:33:03.25
Are you
understanding now, yes or no?
00:33:04.09\00:33:05.58
When you read the
description of this creature
00:33:05.61\00:33:07.90
in Isaiah 14 and in
Ezekiel 28 he is absolutely,
00:33:07.93\00:33:11.04
totally, resplendently,
iridescently beautiful.
00:33:11.07\00:33:14.73
Friends, that's why the
devil is so strong, it's not
00:33:15.71\00:33:18.34
because he is mighty and
power. He's subtle, he is
00:33:18.37\00:33:21.23
clever, he is
deceitful. Is this all kind of
00:33:21.26\00:33:24.86
coming together, yes or
no Yes. And notice this, Paul
00:33:24.89\00:33:27.96
also warned against
widespread deception just
00:33:27.99\00:33:31.38
before the return of
Jesus. Now, are we're beginning
00:33:31.41\00:33:33.71
to see a pattern
here. The answer is yes.
00:33:33.74\00:33:35.80
Jesus, Paul, and John
in the book of Revelation
00:33:35.83\00:33:39.18
make it clear that
miracles, signs and
00:33:39.21\00:33:42.90
wonders will be
employed by Satan to deceive.
00:33:42.93\00:33:46.18
Question for you,
does God still miracles?
00:33:47.59\00:33:49.69
Yes. Does God work
signs? Hallelujah, amen.
00:33:49.72\00:33:53.27
Amen. I will tell you,
I have seen miracles in my
00:33:53.30\00:33:55.25
own life right after
I became a Christian,
00:33:55.28\00:33:56.74
I broke my ankle. I
fell off a rock, I was acting
00:33:56.77\00:34:00.06
silly and I had my, my
head up above my, or my
00:34:00.09\00:34:03.07
foot up above my head
and I was climbing in the
00:34:03.10\00:34:04.82
rain, which I really
shouldn't have been doing
00:34:04.85\00:34:06.39
and I slipped off this
rock and I broke my ankle.
00:34:06.42\00:34:08.34
Just like that third
time. Now, I become a
00:34:08.81\00:34:11.90
Christian about
four months earlier and
00:34:11.93\00:34:13.34
I prayed to the Lord
Jesus Christ, I wish I had time
00:34:13.37\00:34:15.35
to go into to all the
story. I prayed, I said, Lord
00:34:15.38\00:34:17.51
Jesus please heal my
ankle and I wanna tell
00:34:17.54\00:34:19.36
you a story God
healed my ankle overnight
00:34:19.39\00:34:21.36
instantaneously. I took my
crutches back the next day.
00:34:21.39\00:34:23.50
The lady who had given
me the crutches just the
00:34:23.53\00:34:25.22
day before said, what
are you doing. I said God
00:34:25.25\00:34:27.38
healed my ankle. She
said you must have a twin.
00:34:27.41\00:34:29.18
She thought I, she
thought I was somebody else.
00:34:30.96\00:34:32.88
And so I had to lift up
my sock and to pull lift up
00:34:32.91\00:34:33.88
my pant leg, and pull
down my sock and this,
00:34:33.89\00:34:36.75
this swelling was gone, but the
00:34:36.78\00:34:38.09
blackness was still
there. I said look, it's healed
00:34:38.12\00:34:42.17
and then I went right
into work and Oh! I got to tell
00:34:43.29\00:34:45.24
you this story real
quick. I went to work that was
00:34:45.27\00:34:46.98
day and I was working
in a vegetarian restaurant
00:34:47.01\00:34:48.25
and the very doctor,
who had x-rayed my ankle the
00:34:48.28\00:34:51.37
day before and who
had pronounced it broken
00:34:51.40\00:34:53.56
came in to eat. And
I walked up, I said hey
00:34:53.59\00:34:57.28
good to see you Dr.
Gary, oh nice to see you.
00:34:57.31\00:34:58.98
What are you doing, you
should be on your crutches.
00:35:01.10\00:35:02.40
And I said, I said
doctor, Jesus healed my ankle.
00:35:02.43\00:35:05.24
And he said, he
must have because it was
00:35:05.78\00:35:07.12
broken yesterday. Amen, Amen,
00:35:07.15\00:35:09.24
Friends, God still works
miracles, but that doesn't
00:35:09.27\00:35:11.89
mean that every
miracle is from God.
00:35:11.92\00:35:14.75
Amen, Now, do you have
indications that Satan can
00:35:14.78\00:35:17.16
work miracles. Oh!
Yes, we do. We talked about
00:35:17.19\00:35:19.99
it yesterday and remember
there in, in Pharaoh's court
00:35:20.02\00:35:22.12
and Moses threw down
his stick, boom it becomes
00:35:22.32\00:35:24.77
a serpent, but then
they, they retaliated and they
00:35:24.80\00:35:26.98
threw down their
sticks became a serpent.
00:35:27.01\00:35:28.91
God turned all the
water there into blood and,
00:35:29.87\00:35:31.77
and the Pharaoh's
magicians were able to do
00:35:31.80\00:35:33.85
the same and God sent
the frogs and they could
00:35:33.88\00:35:35.66
do the same. He has
limited miracle working power.
00:35:35.69\00:35:39.34
Now, according to the
Bible, these miracles are
00:35:41.34\00:35:43.64
going to be used in
the last days to deceive
00:35:43.67\00:35:46.73
people and to get
them away from the firm
00:35:46.76\00:35:49.08
foundation namely the
Bible. Now, this raises a
00:35:49.11\00:35:51.87
paradoxical situation.
What if somebody comes
00:35:51.90\00:35:54.64
in the name of God
talking like you would
00:35:54.67\00:35:56.89
expect an apostle of
God to speak, working
00:35:56.92\00:35:59.03
miracles that looks like
miracles of God, but then
00:35:59.06\00:36:01.47
they say something
that ever so subtly, ever so
00:36:01.50\00:36:05.21
discretely and, and, and
to a small degree is contrary
00:36:05.24\00:36:09.65
to what the word of God
says. Now, what do you do?
00:36:09.68\00:36:13.62
Friends, now you're
faced with a severe dilemma.
00:36:14.50\00:36:16.81
What kinds of
miracles do you think false
00:36:16.84\00:36:18.96
prophets would
work by the way, anyway?
00:36:18.99\00:36:20.44
Killing people right,
that's, that's, that's how
00:36:21.63\00:36:24.42
we'll know they're
false prophets, because they
00:36:24.45\00:36:25.90
are gonna come on the
scene and they're gonna
00:36:25.93\00:36:26.98
say, die and they will
all die, it was a, no, no, no
00:36:27.01\00:36:29.98
friends that's not a kind
of miracles a false prophet's
00:36:30.01\00:36:31.69
gonna work. They are
going do the opposite, amen.
00:36:31.72\00:36:34.90
Amen. If they are
false prophets, and they are
00:36:34.93\00:36:37.35
false Apostles and there
are false Christs, they are
00:36:37.38\00:36:39.82
going to do the very
kinds of miracles that the
00:36:39.85\00:36:41.33
apostles and, and Christ
did in the first century.
00:36:41.36\00:36:43.90
Not causing people
to die, but causing them
00:36:43.93\00:36:46.31
to be healed and become better.
00:36:46.34\00:36:47.93
Amen. Now, put, put
yourself into this situation
00:36:48.44\00:36:50.68
friends, here comes
a religious teacher and
00:36:50.71\00:36:52.67
somebody has just been
healed before your very eyes.
00:36:52.70\00:36:55.68
And he is preaching
from the Bible, but, but
00:36:56.65\00:36:58.59
you're listening you're
like the Bereans, you are
00:36:58.67\00:37:00.34
receiving the word
with all readiness of mind,
00:37:00.37\00:37:01.73
because you're saying
you know, something is not
00:37:01.76\00:37:03.16
clicking here. Friends,
all of those miracles and all
00:37:03.19\00:37:07.01
of that charisma, all of
that can be piled up into
00:37:07.04\00:37:10.27
one balance and
you put just one little
00:37:10.30\00:37:12.96
inconsistency with
the word of God and the
00:37:12.99\00:37:14.72
other balance and
you've got a false prophet in
00:37:14.75\00:37:16.85
your hands. No
matter, how good he looks, how
00:37:16.88\00:37:18.78
good he sings, or
how nice he preaches.
00:37:18.81\00:37:20.92
Amen. Amen. But see most people
00:37:20.95\00:37:23.52
aren't that discerning
today. Most people just open
00:37:23.55\00:37:28.26
wide and insert whatever.
They imbibe it, they are
00:37:28.29\00:37:32.57
not studying, they are
not searching, they are not
00:37:32.60\00:37:34.63
discerning like
the Bereans were.
00:37:34.66\00:37:37.12
And, friends when
miracles get in play,
00:37:38.52\00:37:39.84
people are being
deceived in this day and age
00:37:39.87\00:37:41.42
without the use of miracles.
How is that, that deception
00:37:41.45\00:37:44.23
going to increase
exponentially, when
00:37:44.26\00:37:45.96
rampant miracle
working is taking place?
00:37:45.99\00:37:48.02
It will be off the
charts, off the charts and most
00:37:48.05\00:37:51.62
people know more
about sports, they know more
00:37:51.65\00:37:54.05
about television, more
about the latest movies,
00:37:54.08\00:37:55.90
and more about any
other subject under the Sun
00:37:55.93\00:37:58.15
than the word of God and
they're not even going to
00:37:58.18\00:37:59.99
know that these
people are false prophets and
00:38:00.02\00:38:02.33
deceiving them. One
of the great preachers of
00:38:02.36\00:38:04.82
yesteryear HMS
Richard said these words.
00:38:04.85\00:38:06.96
He said, you should know
your Bible well enough to
00:38:07.08\00:38:09.44
know when
someone is misquoting it.
00:38:09.47\00:38:11.53
Amen. Sometimes I
purposefully misquote my
00:38:11.56\00:38:15.44
Bible just to see if
people will pick it up.
00:38:15.47\00:38:17.18
And it's amazing, now
what I do obvious ones.
00:38:17.69\00:38:19.74
He transforms himself
into an angel of darkness,
00:38:19.77\00:38:21.69
everything no, no, no
that's an angel of life.
00:38:21.72\00:38:23.89
But, one time I was
meeting with a group of deacons.
00:38:24.52\00:38:26.54
A group of, what did
I say everyone? Deacons,
00:38:26.57\00:38:28.52
we were have a
little morning worship and
00:38:28.55\00:38:29.77
I said you know, the
spirit of God has really laid
00:38:29.80\00:38:31.78
something in my heart.
And I want to share with
00:38:31.81\00:38:33.31
you this morning. Let's
go to the book of Hezekiah.
00:38:33.34\00:38:35.51
With all of the
earnestness and sincereness
00:38:36.71\00:38:38.25
I could muster.
Now, friends these were
00:38:38.28\00:38:39.61
deacons and I was
just, I didn't led on it all.
00:38:39.64\00:38:42.26
I said let's go to the
books of Hezekiah and all of
00:38:42.29\00:38:44.56
those deacons had six
deacons head down in to
00:38:44.59\00:38:46.70
word and, so I see
them going back to the
00:38:46.73\00:38:52.88
beginning, this is true
story, they are going back
00:38:52.91\00:38:55.06
to the beginning
Hezekiah, Hezekiah.
00:38:55.09\00:38:56.54
It took them a good
two minutes to figure out
00:38:56.57\00:38:58.88
Hezekiah wasn't in the Bible.
00:38:58.91\00:39:00.47
Now, friends let
me tell you something,
00:39:02.42\00:39:03.81
that's
dangerous. Amen, Amen, Amen.
00:39:03.84\00:39:07.23
I have turned on
television stations, what,
00:39:07.88\00:39:09.40
what was the camera at,
which one are you on here?
00:39:09.43\00:39:11.61
This one right
here, I've, I have gone to
00:39:11.64\00:39:13.30
television
stations not 3ABN, amen.
00:39:13.33\00:39:16.27
Religious stations,
well I have seen religious
00:39:16.30\00:39:18.95
people preaching foolishness.
00:39:18.98\00:39:20.87
I mean all kinds of foolishness.
00:39:21.32\00:39:22.58
One time I saw this
guy, who was preaching his
00:39:22.61\00:39:24.13
heart out and he was,
he was up front and the
00:39:24.16\00:39:26.06
people were, were
streaming down to the
00:39:26.09\00:39:27.69
front and dropping
money on the stage.
00:39:27.72\00:39:29.13
I mean piles of money
and, and he, you could
00:39:29.16\00:39:32.08
tell he was lost for
words. As he was making this
00:39:32.11\00:39:33.76
sort of alter call,
this appeal and he said,
00:39:33.79\00:39:36.17
just like the scripture
says. So, into the anointing.
00:39:36.20\00:39:39.31
He's preaching his heart out.
00:39:41.03\00:39:42.00
People by the
hundreds are coming down and
00:39:42.01\00:39:43.26
dropping piles of
money on to the stage.
00:39:43.29\00:39:45.47
Like the scripture
says, so into the anointing.
00:39:45.50\00:39:47.57
I said I'm onto something
here, so we kept saying
00:39:47.60\00:39:49.30
that the, you must so
into the anointing come
00:39:49.33\00:39:51.77
forward, you want to
be blessed, so into the
00:39:51.80\00:39:53.55
anointing and I
thought so into the anointing.
00:39:53.58\00:39:56.15
Umm! Well, I've, I've,
I'm been a preacher for a
00:39:57.21\00:39:59.77
little while and, I
wonder where that text is.
00:39:59.80\00:40:02.38
So, I you know,
start looking through, not
00:40:02.41\00:40:04.29
finding it, get on my
little computer Bible type in,
00:40:04.32\00:40:06.60
so anointing, anointing,
anointer, anointed. Umm!
00:40:06.63\00:40:09.53
So, maybe he meant
sowing like you sow a
00:40:09.56\00:40:11.46
garment no, no, no
friends I can't find that
00:40:11.49\00:40:14.50
verse in the
Bible. And yet people were
00:40:14.53\00:40:17.81
streaming forward by the
hundreds to lay their money.
00:40:17.84\00:40:20.28
Friends, I was
incredulous. Any charlatan, any
00:40:20.83\00:40:25.69
miracle worker can get on
that stage and if he looks
00:40:25.72\00:40:27.92
good and he talks
good, and he says good,
00:40:27.95\00:40:29.49
most of people don't
know their Bibles well
00:40:29.52\00:40:31.05
enough to know, when
they are being led down
00:40:31.08\00:40:32.87
the primrose path, amen. Amen.
00:40:32.90\00:40:37.17
Now, friends to
compound things as if
00:40:38.09\00:40:40.39
this wasn't
enough perhaps the most
00:40:40.42\00:40:43.22
dangerous kind of
deception is self deception.
00:40:43.25\00:40:45.66
Go with me to Jeremiah
chapter 17 and verse 9.
00:40:46.69\00:40:48.82
As, if all these
wasn't enough if it wasn't
00:40:48.85\00:40:51.66
enough that John said
and Paul said, and Jesus said
00:40:51.69\00:40:53.82
the third
deception in the last days.
00:40:53.85\00:40:55.65
We not only have
these elements working from
00:40:55.68\00:40:57.63
outside, we've got
some bougtent enemies
00:40:57.66\00:41:00.32
working from the
inside. Notice with me John
00:41:00.35\00:41:02.91
chapter 17, John
chapter what everyone?
00:41:02.94\00:41:04.91
17. 17 or Jeremiah
pardon me, Jeremiah chapter 17
00:41:04.94\00:41:08.56
and notice verse
9. Jeremiah chapter 17
00:41:08.81\00:41:11.09
and verse 9. Now, this
is a tough one friends,
00:41:11.12\00:41:13.56
it says the
heart, the what everyone.
00:41:13.92\00:41:17.10
The heart. The heart,
now that doesn't mean the
00:41:17.13\00:41:18.66
cardiac muscle. It
means the, the mind with the
00:41:18.69\00:41:22.42
seed of the emotions
that's what it meant to the
00:41:22.45\00:41:24.19
Hebrew, the mind with the
emotions wrapped up in it.
00:41:24.22\00:41:26.52
It says the heart is
deceitful above how many things?
00:41:27.82\00:41:31.85
All things! Oh! And
it gets worse friends,
00:41:31.88\00:41:34.31
I'm sorry and desperately
wicked, who can know it?
00:41:34.34\00:41:37.16
What is
deceitful above all things?
00:41:39.43\00:41:41.16
The heart. The heart,
now that's must mean that if
00:41:42.14\00:41:44.62
the heart is deceitful
above all things then it
00:41:44.65\00:41:46.25
must even be more
deceitful than Satan itself
00:41:46.28\00:41:48.35
or himself. So,
friends think about this.
00:41:48.90\00:41:51.30
You've got, you've got a
war on the outside, false
00:41:51.33\00:41:53.78
Christ's, false prophets,
false apostles and Satan
00:41:53.81\00:41:56.60
himself trying to deceive
from the outside and then
00:41:56.63\00:41:59.06
you have got an
enemies in the gates.
00:41:59.09\00:42:00.62
Namely your own heart
that you're so desperately
00:42:00.89\00:42:03.11
wicked. You and I
in an unconverted,
00:42:03.14\00:42:05.32
unregenerate state
we, listen carefully now.
00:42:05.35\00:42:07.65
We want to believe
alive. Especially if that light
00:42:07.88\00:42:11.52
caters to our carnal
nature. Oh! Really I can sin all
00:42:11.55\00:42:15.48
I want to sin and
I'm still heaven bound.
00:42:15.51\00:42:17.09
Oh! I like this sound of that.
00:42:17.45\00:42:18.54
I'm going to his
church. You understand, Pastor
00:42:18.57\00:42:22.28
Saint Albert says,
Oh! You know, we talk too
00:42:22.31\00:42:24.13
much about sin, let's
talk more about grace.
00:42:24.16\00:42:26.12
Oh! I like the sound of this.
I want to go to his church.
00:42:26.15\00:42:28.76
Friends listen, there is
no sense in talking about
00:42:29.90\00:42:32.01
salvation, if you
don't talk about sin.
00:42:32.04\00:42:33.85
Amen. Amen. Amen.
Safe from what? Sin.
00:42:33.88\00:42:37.47
I can remember when I
would see those bumper
00:42:38.37\00:42:39.85
stickers Jesus saves,
before I was a Christian.
00:42:39.88\00:42:41.90
I thought saves from
what? Don't go preaching
00:42:41.93\00:42:45.83
grace until
you're first preach the
00:42:45.86\00:42:47.44
somebody's lost, amen.
Amen. Now, people don't
00:42:47.47\00:42:50.23
like to hear that, but
too bad. I'm not paid to make
00:42:50.26\00:42:53.29
you happy and
neither is Jason, amen.
00:42:53.32\00:42:55.07
Amen. We're paid
to preach the word.
00:42:55.10\00:42:56.82
And if you don't
like it, too bad.
00:42:56.85\00:42:58.74
Amen. Amen, we're
not out to win popularity
00:42:58.77\00:43:01.00
contest, none of the
prophets in the Old Testament
00:43:01.03\00:43:02.87
were, they were sawn
in half, chopped in two,
00:43:02.90\00:43:05.22
pulled apart not
because they were saying things
00:43:05.25\00:43:07.35
that people liked.
Because they were saying things
00:43:07.38\00:43:09.64
people didn't like.
And, so friends the heart,
00:43:09.67\00:43:12.86
it wants to believe
that which, which allow it to
00:43:12.89\00:43:15.52
do any old things it
wants to do and still be heaven
00:43:15.55\00:43:18.72
bound. Friends, the
heart is deceitful above all
00:43:18.75\00:43:20.69
things and
desperately wicked. Amen.
00:43:20.72\00:43:23.14
So, people self deception
becomes an actual reality
00:43:23.17\00:43:25.80
and now notice
several quotations here, James
00:43:25.83\00:43:27.37
chapter 1, verses 22
and 26. Notice these verses,
00:43:27.40\00:43:29.56
but be doers of the
word and not hearers only,
00:43:29.59\00:43:32.36
deceiving yourselves.
If anyone among you thinks
00:43:32.74\00:43:36.55
he is religious and
does not bridle his tongue,
00:43:36.58\00:43:38.24
but deceives his
own heart, this one's
00:43:38.27\00:43:40.14
religion is useless.
Now, friends think about that,
00:43:40.17\00:43:43.38
whose job is it to
deceive you? Whose job?
00:43:43.41\00:43:46.85
It's the devil's
job to deceive you?
00:43:46.88\00:43:48.47
And what James is
here saying, is that some
00:43:48.50\00:43:50.52
people will do the
devil's job for them for him.
00:43:50.55\00:43:53.22
They are deceiving themselves.
00:43:53.67\00:43:55.04
Are you
understanding, yes or no? Amen.
00:43:56.32\00:43:57.88
Oh! Gets worse
though, gets far worse.
00:43:57.91\00:43:59.53
Look at this from,
from Galatians 6:3.
00:43:59.56\00:44:01.00
For if anyone thinks
himself to be something
00:44:01.30\00:44:03.00
when he is nothing,
he deceives himself.
00:44:03.03\00:44:05.20
Notice this from, from
Second Corinthians 3:18.
00:44:06.09\00:44:07.73
Or First Corinthians
3:18, let no one deceive
00:44:07.76\00:44:10.26
himself, if anyone
among you seems to be wise in
00:44:10.29\00:44:12.59
this age, let him become a
fool that he may become wise.
00:44:12.62\00:44:15.84
Friends, it, it is a
dangerous thing to start
00:44:17.12\00:44:19.60
thinking about
people being self deceived.
00:44:19.63\00:44:21.93
Self deceived, I want to
go through this very, very
00:44:22.73\00:44:25.65
quickly I read a book
several years ago call
00:44:25.68\00:44:27.23
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard in that
00:44:27.26\00:44:29.14
store, in that book,
she tells a story of one
00:44:29.17\00:44:31.23
cardiac, cataract surgery
was first being perfected.
00:44:31.26\00:44:34.00
And what was happening
was that they were able to
00:44:34.03\00:44:35.86
take people who had been
blind because of bad diet
00:44:35.89\00:44:37.65
and bad lifestyle
choices for 15-20 years, they
00:44:37.68\00:44:40.64
could go in, perform
this cataract surgery and they
00:44:40.67\00:44:42.87
could suddenly see.
Now, these are people who
00:44:42.90\00:44:45.50
thought they would be
terminally blind, the man
00:44:45.53\00:44:47.51
comes in, does the,
the revolutionary new
00:44:47.54\00:44:50.47
surgery and now they can
see. But, she records this
00:44:50.50\00:44:53.87
frightening detail.
She says, in that book that
00:44:53.90\00:44:56.55
many of the people who
had been blinded, blinded
00:44:56.58\00:44:58.69
for the longest, who
have become accustomed
00:44:58.72\00:45:00.81
to being blind. After
they've their site restored
00:45:00.84\00:45:03.40
for the rest of their
lives they wore dark sunglasses.
00:45:03.43\00:45:06.03
I mean patches over
their eyes that prevented them
00:45:06.06\00:45:08.18
from seeing because
it was too new for them.
00:45:08.21\00:45:10.67
And they had become
accustomed to the darkness.
00:45:10.70\00:45:12.86
Friends that is
medically documented.
00:45:14.61\00:45:16.30
People who could
see, but opted not to see.
00:45:17.67\00:45:20.48
And friends the, the most
terrible, the darkness kind
00:45:21.47\00:45:24.16
of blindness must be
willful, chosen blindness.
00:45:24.19\00:45:27.76
Amen. Are you
understanding. Amen.
00:45:27.79\00:45:29.65
There was many who
know exactly what the
00:45:29.68\00:45:31.08
Bible says, but they
blind themselves to it.
00:45:31.11\00:45:33.73
And they think because
they can't see it like the
00:45:33.76\00:45:35.49
proverbial ostrich and
I'm a birdwatcher by the way
00:45:35.52\00:45:37.21
ostriches don't stick
their heads in the dirt, it's a
00:45:37.24\00:45:39.18
total misnomer, but the
proverbial ostrich sticking
00:45:39.21\00:45:42.36
their head in there and
saying, if I don't see it,
00:45:42.39\00:45:44.83
it must not be there.
Friends the heart is wicked.
00:45:44.86\00:45:49.40
The devil is wicked, the
heart deceitful, the Satan
00:45:50.24\00:45:53.22
is deceitful, you
got a whole a lot working
00:45:53.25\00:45:54.99
against you. The
answer is, how, how can we
00:45:55.02\00:45:57.52
prevail over such an on
slot against such a salvo
00:45:57.55\00:46:01.04
of a texts. What
about Eve? God had said some
00:46:01.07\00:46:05.00
very simple words in
the day did not eat us there
00:46:05.03\00:46:06.81
up thou shalt surely
die. Four words, thou shalt
00:46:06.84\00:46:09.19
surely die. He said
that, plain as day to Adam
00:46:09.22\00:46:11.81
and then a talking
serpent appeared in the tree and
00:46:12.09\00:46:14.30
said, you know, when the
day that thou eateth there
00:46:14.33\00:46:15.34
of thou shalt not surely
die. He inserted a word, not
00:46:15.37\00:46:18.44
surely die. Now, which
do you think sounded it
00:46:18.47\00:46:20.04
nice? I will tell you
I like that second one.
00:46:20.07\00:46:23.38
I get to do, what I want
to do, and I won't surely die.
00:46:23.90\00:46:26.13
And, so she believed
what, what she wanted to
00:46:26.16\00:46:29.06
believe friends, if
she would have stood on a
00:46:29.09\00:46:31.05
plain thus saith the
Lord. Satan's temptations and
00:46:31.08\00:46:33.81
deceptions would have
had no efficacy in her life.
00:46:33.84\00:46:36.87
Friends the moment
that you step off a platform
00:46:38.81\00:46:40.86
of a plain thus saith
the Lord you're on thin ice.
00:46:40.89\00:46:43.16
I'm glad to tell you and
I say it with no pride but
00:46:44.21\00:46:46.52
with great humility
that every single thing that
00:46:46.55\00:46:49.13
I believe, everything
that I believe in the Bible.
00:46:49.16\00:46:51.66
I can trace to a
plain thus saith the Lord.
00:46:51.69\00:46:54.02
And friends if you
can't trace every single thing
00:46:54.05\00:46:55.87
that and I don't, I
didn't say, if Pastor Asscherick
00:46:55.90\00:46:58.05
or Pastor Asscherick can
trace what I believe to a
00:46:58.08\00:46:59.91
plain thus saith the
Lord. No, no, no you would
00:46:59.94\00:47:02.88
have been able to
trace when you believe to
00:47:02.91\00:47:04.41
a plain thus saith
the Lord, amen. Amen.
00:47:04.44\00:47:06.80
Friends we need to be
standing on those thus
00:47:07.66\00:47:09.71
saith the Lord's.
Second Timothy 3:13, its not
00:47:09.74\00:47:12.80
gonna get any better
friends, it's gonna get
00:47:12.83\00:47:14.19
verse. But, evil men
and imposters will grow
00:47:14.22\00:47:16.37
worse and worse,
deceiving and being deceived.
00:47:16.40\00:47:19.62
Paul said, at the
end of time is not gonna
00:47:21.26\00:47:22.68
get better, its not
gonna get easier, evil men and,
00:47:22.71\00:47:25.29
and imposters will
grow worse and worse
00:47:25.32\00:47:27.99
deceiving and being
deceived. Well, what about the
00:47:28.72\00:47:31.66
elixir for
deception. Friends, the cure for
00:47:31.69\00:47:33.81
deception is the
word of God, amen. Amen.
00:47:33.84\00:47:36.72
John, John chapter 17
and verse 17 says, Sanctify
00:47:36.75\00:47:39.74
them through thy
truth; thy word is truth.
00:47:39.77\00:47:43.44
It is the Bible alone
that can cut through the
00:47:43.47\00:47:47.33
miasma of deception.
Your intellect cannot do
00:47:47.36\00:47:51.23
it, some of the
smartest people I know are some
00:47:51.26\00:47:53.25
of the most
deceived people I know.
00:47:53.28\00:47:54.75
An education will not
get you through deception.
00:47:54.84\00:47:57.26
Amen. Amen. Amen.
Friends, listen to me very
00:47:57.29\00:48:01.43
carefully, we must be
standing on the Bible on
00:48:01.46\00:48:04.16
plain thus saith the Lord,
not a thus saith my pastor,
00:48:04.19\00:48:06.90
thus saith my family,
thus saith this theologian,
00:48:06.93\00:48:08.93
but what the
Bible says, amen. Amen.
00:48:09.10\00:48:11.10
The word is truth,
in fact go with me to
00:48:11.71\00:48:13.78
Second Timothy.
Second Timothy chapter 2
00:48:13.81\00:48:16.29
and verse 15. The Apostle
Paul was writing to young
00:48:16.32\00:48:19.24
Timothy and his words
of counsel are saliently
00:48:19.27\00:48:21.87
advise for you and
I. Second Timothy 2,
00:48:21.90\00:48:23.74
Second Timothy chapter
2, I'm reading in verse 15.
00:48:25.33\00:48:27.73
The Apostle Paul say,
in verse 15, Be diligent to
00:48:28.51\00:48:31.53
present yourself
approved to God, a worker who
00:48:31.56\00:48:35.01
does not need to be
ashamed rightly dividing.
00:48:35.04\00:48:38.71
The word means
understand. Rightly dividing the
00:48:38.74\00:48:42.37
word of, what's
that next word everyone.
00:48:42.40\00:48:44.71
Truth. Truth, what
is Paul call the Bible.
00:48:44.74\00:48:47.69
He calls it the word of truth.
00:48:47.72\00:48:50.00
And friends a lie is
the opposite of the truth.
00:48:51.22\00:48:53.75
If there is deception,
the only way to cut through
00:48:54.84\00:48:56.65
the deception is
with the sharp sword
00:48:56.68\00:48:58.64
of the word of God.
Amen. Remember that verse
00:48:58.67\00:49:01.12
I quoted for you yesterday,
let me quote it again.
00:49:01.15\00:49:02.66
Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 12.
00:49:02.69\00:49:04.01
For the word God is
quick and powerful and
00:49:04.04\00:49:05.94
sharper than
any two edged sword.
00:49:05.97\00:49:07.27
Piercing even to the
dividing as under of soul
00:49:07.30\00:49:09.20
and spirit and of
the joints and morrow.
00:49:09.23\00:49:10.62
And he is discerner of
the thoughts and intense
00:49:10.65\00:49:13.05
of the heart.
Remember the difference between
00:49:13.08\00:49:15.69
a butcher and a surgeon.
Is that a butcher cuts to
00:49:15.72\00:49:17.72
kill, but a
surgeon cuts to heal.
00:49:17.75\00:49:19.53
And the word of God
can cut sharp right through
00:49:19.56\00:49:23.08
the devils intricately
woven deception, Amen.
00:49:23.11\00:49:26.30
Amen. But, friends, if you
don't have the tool in your
00:49:26.33\00:49:29.02
hand, it doesn't do
you any good. It might be
00:49:29.05\00:49:30.79
sharp, a good friend of
mine, Pastor Torres called
00:49:30.82\00:49:32.43
me one morning, he
need to me to preach and he
00:49:32.46\00:49:33.81
said, Pastor
Asscherick, is the sword sharp?
00:49:33.84\00:49:36.17
Amen. And I said,
Pastor Torres the sword is
00:49:36.20\00:49:40.23
always sharp. The
question is can I wield it?
00:49:40.26\00:49:42.35
Amen. Amen. Amen.
Friends, this sword is
00:49:42.38\00:49:46.10
sharp, no question about
that. The question is this,
00:49:46.13\00:49:49.73
can you wield it?
Is it sharp for you?
00:49:49.76\00:49:52.08
Friends, the word of
God is a sharp two edged
00:49:53.53\00:49:55.23
sword in Revelation
chapter 19. Jesus is depicted as
00:49:55.26\00:49:57.73
coming forth to conquer.
To conquer the nations to
00:49:57.76\00:50:00.18
finally set this
whole thing right.
00:50:00.21\00:50:02.02
And the Bible says, he
has a sharp sword going
00:50:02.11\00:50:04.59
out of his mouth and
he doesn't eat a little
00:50:04.62\00:50:06.33
blade friends, it
means the word of God.
00:50:06.36\00:50:08.16
Amen. The word of God
alone that can cut through
00:50:08.19\00:50:10.70
the miasma, intricacies of
deception in these last days.
00:50:10.73\00:50:13.41
Friends, there was a
time, where it was illegal to
00:50:13.44\00:50:15.64
have a Bible, if you
had a Bible in your purse,
00:50:15.67\00:50:18.47
on your purse, or in
your house. You could be
00:50:18.50\00:50:20.69
killed, it was illegal friends.
00:50:20.72\00:50:22.80
It was what word did I say?
00:50:23.39\00:50:24.57
Illegal. You could be killed,
your family could be killed
00:50:24.60\00:50:27.13
or ostracized or isolated
just for only this book.
00:50:27.16\00:50:29.93
Thousands, tens of
thousands have died with
00:50:30.22\00:50:32.86
this book being the
main reason that they went to
00:50:32.89\00:50:35.66
that steak or were burned
or had their heads cut off.
00:50:35.69\00:50:38.56
And yet this blood bought
book sits friends ideally by.
00:50:38.59\00:50:41.35
Well, who was the
great preacher C.H Spurgeon,
00:50:41.38\00:50:44.17
who was preaching to
his congregation one day and
00:50:44.20\00:50:45.65
he said, many of you have
so much dust on your Bible,
00:50:45.68\00:50:48.83
you could right the word
condemnation in the dust.
00:50:48.86\00:50:51.70
Friends, there was a time
were, wasn't so easy to be
00:50:54.04\00:50:55.82
a Christian. Well, you
could be killed for rolling
00:50:55.85\00:50:57.37
this book. There was
a time, when Bibles were
00:50:57.40\00:50:59.35
not so easily
printed and men and women
00:50:59.38\00:51:01.24
diligently pain
sticking, you would sit down and
00:51:01.27\00:51:03.79
copy those words.
They would copy those words
00:51:03.82\00:51:06.19
and they knew that if
they would found, if they were
00:51:06.22\00:51:08.06
discovered that they
would be killed on the
00:51:08.09\00:51:10.08
spot and yet it was
so important to them
00:51:10.11\00:51:11.77
to get the word out. Amen.
00:51:11.80\00:51:13.46
Now, the devil has
learned that if he can't,
00:51:13.49\00:51:14.99
if he can't beat
him, you join him.
00:51:15.02\00:51:16.44
And, so instead of
taking the Bibles away.
00:51:16.47\00:51:18.18
He is given us an on
slide of Bible and now we've
00:51:18.21\00:51:20.27
every kind of Bible
study notes, study Bibles.
00:51:20.30\00:51:22.43
African American
Bible, Woman's Bible,
00:51:22.46\00:51:24.20
Death Bible, Devotional Bible,
00:51:24.23\00:51:25.47
every kind of Bible.
And yet they sit just like
00:51:25.50\00:51:28.74
it, Oh! That's look
nice there. We put it on the
00:51:28.77\00:51:33.06
coffee table and then we
take the TV guide and put
00:51:33.09\00:51:36.31
it right on top of
that. You're understanding
00:51:36.34\00:51:38.83
friends, hasn't
always been that way.
00:51:38.86\00:51:40.56
When you neglect this
book friends it is a slap
00:51:41.39\00:51:43.40
in the face to those
martyrs, who spend their
00:51:43.43\00:51:45.91
life's and shed their
blood to give you this book.
00:51:45.94\00:51:48.38
Amen. You think about
that, you think soberly
00:51:48.41\00:51:50.44
about that. In 15, in
1455 in Mainz, Germany,
00:51:50.47\00:51:54.03
Steven Gutenberg
printed the Bible.
00:51:54.06\00:51:55.47
The Gutenberg Bible is
the first book ever to be
00:51:55.50\00:51:57.79
printed on a printing
press. And friends that, that
00:51:57.82\00:52:00.67
printing of the Bible
there on the 15 century
00:52:00.70\00:52:02.73
correspondent almost
identically and synchronously
00:52:03.46\00:52:06.66
with the coming of the
protestant reformation.
00:52:06.69\00:52:09.29
When the Bible got back
into the hands to the people.
00:52:09.32\00:52:11.07
They said, wait a
minute many of the things that
00:52:11.20\00:52:13.41
the church is teaching
and the cardinals, and the
00:52:13.44\00:52:15.06
popes, and the prelates,
and the bishops, and the
00:52:15.09\00:52:16.76
priest many of
the things they teach
00:52:16.79\00:52:18.50
aren't in the word.
And, so they said, Umm!
00:52:18.53\00:52:21.09
I have to make a
choice between the church and
00:52:21.12\00:52:23.26
the word and
hallelujah they choose to
00:52:23.29\00:52:25.49
staying on the word. Amen.
00:52:25.52\00:52:27.23
Solo scripture, the
Bible and the Bible only.
00:52:27.26\00:52:29.93
We're gonna talk more
about that as we continue.
00:52:31.17\00:52:32.87
People like Martin
Luther and others were, were put
00:52:33.77\00:52:36.21
on trial, burned at
the stake why because they
00:52:36.24\00:52:39.27
choose to believe,
what the Bible said, and not
00:52:39.30\00:52:40.96
what the church said.
But, Revelation chapter 19
00:52:40.99\00:52:43.70
says, the Jesus will
come in a sharp sword goes out
00:52:43.73\00:52:46.36
of his mouth. What kind of sword
00:52:46.39\00:52:47.52
goes out of his
mouth? A sharp. A sharp sword
00:52:47.55\00:52:49.58
is the word of God.
It says, with that sword
00:52:49.61\00:52:51.58
he will smite nations.
Friends I urge upon you
00:52:51.61\00:52:56.63
tonight, you can be undeceived.
00:52:56.66\00:52:58.39
It's not going to get
any easier from the outside
00:52:59.26\00:53:01.17
and it's not going go get
any easier from the inside
00:53:01.20\00:53:02.84
by the way. That's
why you need a new heart.
00:53:02.87\00:53:04.68
I quote you the great
promise of Ezekiel 26,
00:53:05.81\00:53:07.73
a new heart also will I
give you and a new spirit
00:53:07.76\00:53:09.85
will I put within you,
and I will take away the stony
00:53:09.88\00:53:11.66
heart out of your
flesh and I will give
00:53:11.69\00:53:13.02
you a harder flesh.
Amen. Friends, your heart is so
00:53:13.05\00:53:16.18
deceitful from the
inside God has to give you
00:53:16.21\00:53:17.83
a new heart. And,
the devils not gonna make
00:53:17.86\00:53:20.12
it an easier on the
outside, amen. Amen.
00:53:20.15\00:53:22.38
Which is why we must
fortify our minds with
00:53:22.41\00:53:24.30
the Bible. We learned
last night that the Bible
00:53:24.33\00:53:26.62
can be trusted, amen.
Amen. We looked at the case
00:53:26.65\00:53:29.04
with the Bible and the
claims of the Bible and
00:53:29.07\00:53:30.74
the consistency of the Bible.
00:53:30.77\00:53:31.87
Last night we looked at
the historical record and
00:53:31.90\00:53:33.94
the canonization of the Bible.
00:53:33.97\00:53:35.34
And I'm telling
you tonight friends,
00:53:35.37\00:53:36.68
you better stand on the word.
00:53:36.71\00:53:38.33
Amen. Amen. Evil men
and imposters will grow
00:53:38.36\00:53:43.26
worse and worse,
deceiving and being
00:53:43.29\00:53:44.64
deceived. It's
only going to get worse.
00:53:44.67\00:53:46.20
So, then the cure for deception.
00:53:46.73\00:53:48.95
Here it is, are you
ready? Our message is entitled,
00:53:48.98\00:53:51.83
be not deceived a how
to God. I want to tell you,
00:53:51.86\00:53:55.67
how not to be deceived
and it is simple, it is basic.
00:53:55.70\00:53:58.79
Number one, read the
word. Let me talk about
00:53:59.14\00:54:01.45
that for just a
moment. Read the word, friends
00:54:01.48\00:54:05.33
you need to spend
time reading the word, not
00:54:05.36\00:54:07.46
just books about
the word, amen. Amen.
00:54:07.49\00:54:10.05
It's okay to read
books about the Bible,
00:54:10.38\00:54:11.90
but listen to me.
The sum total of time
00:54:11.93\00:54:14.16
that you spend
reading books about the Bible
00:54:14.19\00:54:16.15
should not exceed
the time that you spend,
00:54:16.18\00:54:18.09
reading the Bible. Amen, Amen.
00:54:18.47\00:54:21.11
So, just, just do a
little addition. How much time
00:54:21.21\00:54:23.46
do you spend reading
books about the Bible,
00:54:23.49\00:54:24.87
add it all up and if
it's more than time you spend
00:54:24.90\00:54:26.92
reading the
Bible. You need to make a
00:54:26.95\00:54:28.52
reprioritization, a
re-evaluation, amen.
00:54:28.55\00:54:31.05
Amen. So, number
one read the Bible.
00:54:31.08\00:54:32.92
Number two, read the word.
Number two, study the word.
00:54:33.69\00:54:36.38
There was a
difference between reading
00:54:36.41\00:54:37.56
and studying, amen.
Amen. Anybody who has taken
00:54:37.59\00:54:40.65
anatomy at the collegian level.
00:54:40.68\00:54:42.49
Will tell you
reading an anatomy book
00:54:42.52\00:54:44.16
will not yield an A on the test.
00:54:44.19\00:54:46.30
Probably you get it
about a D, if you're lucky.
00:54:46.67\00:54:48.65
Friends, there is
a difference between
00:54:48.86\00:54:50.08
reading something
through in a shallow
00:54:50.11\00:54:51.63
profiteering
way and studying it.
00:54:51.66\00:54:53.31
And God says, study
to show by self approved
00:54:53.34\00:54:55.83
on to God. A
workmen that need it, not be
00:54:55.86\00:54:57.64
ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth.
00:54:57.67\00:54:59.81
We must read it, but we
also must study it, amen.
00:54:59.84\00:55:02.43
Amen. Got it read and study it.
00:55:02.46\00:55:04.37
Number three is believe
it. Believe the word, I, I
00:55:05.16\00:55:08.79
cannot over state
the simplicity there just
00:55:08.82\00:55:11.35
believe the word, if the
Bible says it I believe it,
00:55:11.38\00:55:13.77
that settles it, amen.
Amen. All of the learned
00:55:13.80\00:55:16.57
in the era died and
intellectual scholarly men
00:55:16.60\00:55:18.73
in the ages and in
the modern times could say
00:55:18.76\00:55:21.29
I don't believe it
because it's not scientifically
00:55:21.32\00:55:23.00
accurate or, or
philosophically accurate,
00:55:23.03\00:55:25.48
hogwash, I will
stand on the Bible
00:55:25.51\00:55:27.76
over and against
what, any man says.
00:55:27.79\00:55:29.42
Amen. Amen, I don't
care what his degree is.
00:55:29.45\00:55:32.55
Number four,
obey the word, amen.
00:55:33.13\00:55:35.15
Amen. Then do you're
gonna good to be or hear
00:55:35.18\00:55:37.03
of the word and not
to do. Obey the word.
00:55:37.06\00:55:39.83
Number five, cherish
the word. Hold that word
00:55:39.86\00:55:41.82
near indeed to
your hearts friends.
00:55:41.85\00:55:43.45
Get the Bible and keep it
with you, get one of those
00:55:43.77\00:55:45.27
little pocket Bible
and keep it in your pocket.
00:55:45.30\00:55:46.87
There are many times in
a day, moments in a day.
00:55:47.07\00:55:48.88
When you could
be reading it, amen.
00:55:48.91\00:55:50.81
Amen. You waste time
in a day; you could be
00:55:50.84\00:55:52.81
reading the word.
Put it in your car.
00:55:52.84\00:55:54.61
Put it in your
pocket, get it on tape and put
00:55:55.62\00:55:57.66
in your car.
And then number six,
00:55:57.69\00:55:59.98
what's that say right there.
00:56:00.01\00:56:00.98
Amen. Don't keep it for
yourself friends, if you
00:56:01.00\00:56:03.04
have the cure for the
cancer, you wouldn't put
00:56:03.07\00:56:04.68
it in your closet
and hide it, amen.
00:56:04.71\00:56:06.09
Amen. Tonight you've
been given the cure for
00:56:06.12\00:56:08.24
deception. Share the word, amen.
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Amen. Friends, I
recommend to you this book.
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This is the sharp sword
that can cut through the,
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through this, through
the miasma and through
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the
sophistications of deception.
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You must have the
word, you must know the word,
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you must read the word,
you must believe the word,
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now with the raising of hands.
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How many of you say that's me?
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I want to believe
that word, I want know,
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what I want to love it, raise
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your hands high to heaven.
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