Category: deception-delusion-discernment
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Fractured Scripture
In some episodes of the classic cartoon, Rocky & Bullwinkle, there used to be a segment they called “Fractured Fairy Tales” where they would re-write well-known stories into a new version containing some of the original and some revised parts. Contrary to the opinion of many people who consider themselves “smart,” the Bible is not…
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Dreaming or Awake?
Don’t you hate it when you’re watching a show on television or at the movies—really into it—investing emotion into what’s transpiring, etc., only to have it revealed that it was all a dream? Or for Star Trek fans, sometimes it turns out to be a holodeck program. Sometimes it’s even a dream within a dream…
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Do Not Lie To One Another
I saw a disturbing thing on Pinterest. I rarely look at it, but this pin immediately caught my eye. It said, “What if gays are a test from God to see if Christians will really love one another?” Wow! Yet another tactic from the devil–get people to question whether God is unhappy with them for…
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Letter of Caution
I would like to share a message I wrote to a brother in Christ who is considering attending Bethel School of Spiritual Ministry. My first message was quite short and to the point. This is my reply to his detailed response about how he had already researched them and felt that the criticisms against them…
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Mirror, Mirror
I’ve been thinking about how unnecessary, and often even harmful, mirrors can be. They encourage us to focus on the outward appearance rather than the inner condition. They enable us to make comparisons with others, feeling prideful if we think our appearance is more desirable than others. (Why? Did any of us choose our looks or…
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End of All Things
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. 1 Peter 4:7 I chose this verse tongue-in-cheek in honor of the “Revelation 12 sign” that has Youtubers in a frenzy. It even made it into the mainstream news. The world is NOT ending today (September…
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What Kind of Faith? (or “Let No One Deceive You”)
Question: Does your faith reassure you that even though you slip many times and “get dirty” the “pristine white robe” that was provided to you by Jesus when you believed on Him for salvation, He will forgive you and wash you clean again every time you ask Him (1John 1:7-10, Rev. 22:14); or does it…
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Who’s Your Daddy?
A word of encouragement to be ready when Jesus returns: Please don’t buy it if the devil tries to sell you the lie that children of God can enjoy their sins just as much as the rest of the world. Our old nature loves to hear it, because its just plain easier to go along…
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Not Under the Law (or “The Emperor’s New Clothes”)
This article was updated August, 2018. For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another,…
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Light and Salt (or Stand Up for the REAL Jesus, the TRUE Light of the World)
Please don’t think that to be a “nice” person or “good” Christian that you have to accept the ways of the world when they go against the moral values taught in the Bible. Really – God made some people in the wrong gender of body, or He made a mistake when He made genders at…
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How to Live in Your Last Days
I personally believe for many reasons that we are in the last days before the return of Jesus, but it doesn’t really matter if I’m right or not. None of us knows when our own last moment on this earth will be, and so we should be living as though that could be at any…
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The Eclipse
These are dangerous times we’re living in. Not because we’ll be harmed by today’s total eclipse (August 21, 2017), but because of the risk we take when we let anything obscure the Light of the world from our view. Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me…
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Different Drum
Wonder why I keep beating the same drum about how children of God should behave like it if they are serious (and not call themselves by His name if they’re not – 2 Tim. 2:19)? Because in the Bible, God gave us a picture of what it means to belong to Jesus. When we are…
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Set Free
When I felt this message beginning in my heart a few days ago and began to write it down, I didn’t have an idea yet what I would call it or when I would finish it, but God did. So here we are celebrating Independence Day in the United States once again and here is…
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The Way is Hard
Question: If it’s so EASY to get into heaven that all we have to do is claim to believe in Jesus, then why did He say that the way is EASY that leads to destruction and HARD that leads to eternal life? It almost seems like there’s more to this, doesn’t it? What is hard…
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Time to Wake Up!
There often seem to be two camps among professed believers in regard to repentance, and they are opposite extremes. One side says that we must work for salvation, or if not, that work is still required to keep it. The other side says that we don’t work for salvation and neither is anything else required…
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Subliminal Suggestion?
I saw a disturbing thing at Walmart yesterday. They had two magazines side by side. One with Emma Watson dressed as Belle and the other with the Virgin Mary. Both of their heads were facing slightly downward and to the right. The resemblance of the composition of each picture was extremely noticeable. Is this just…
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Itching Ears
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 2 Timothy…
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Entice Unsteady Souls
They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! 2 Peter 2:14 kit, stacked papers, border: Days Gone By by Kristmess Designs
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No Deceit
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death, though He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. Isaiah 53:9 stacked papers: Forget Me Not by Kristmess Designs
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Oppressors are Children
The expression of their faces bears witness against them, And they display their sin like Sodom; They do not even conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves. Say to the righteous that it will go well with them, For they will eat the fruit of their actions. Woe to the…
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Put on Christ
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality,…
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Days of Deception
I watched Steven Bancarz’ testimony today. Wow, that is exactly what young people today are up against. I have heard so many of these same beliefs expressed by someone I know who has become entangled with the “new age” despite being raised Christian (just like this man was.) And it’s just like he said he…
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His Anointing
I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. But the anointing that you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as He has taught you,…
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Do Not Be Deceived
(Updated: 11-3-18) Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Galatians 6:7-8 I have grave concerns about how doctrine has been changed in The…