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Real Life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Hey you guys, I'm going to be talking to you just very, very personally about deception

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and I'm just going to pick up a few elements out of the latest book, living in the days

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of deception, but I'm going to be reading from Scripture and I'm wondering if you're falling

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pray to Satan's tactics of deceiving you.

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Let's jump into this.

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Here is Jack Hibb's.

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Deceptions that are prevailing, not only prevailing, but prevailing based upon, listen, based upon

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the very prophetic word of Jesus, okay?

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So deception is not something that we are being victims of or victimized by.

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The fact is Jesus Christ Himself, the Old Testament bears witness and the epistles

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of the apostles all speak about deception.

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Now here's the thing, and this is very sobering and it's something that I hesitate because

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you might be tempted to not take yourself down this road and yet it's a road that I must

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take myself down several times a week when I say several times a week, I say this because

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I studied the Bible for teaching several times a week because I preach and teach two

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different sermons from two different books of the Bible each week.

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And having said that, this is what I mean, that I am constantly concerned with my sword

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I would trust up and my shield of faith, up, sword the word, shield the faith, up, looking

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for and watching out for how I could be deceived.

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Now you might say, oh, that's ridiculous, what a depressing thought, I never think like

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that.

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Yeah, you need to stop writing that off because all of us need to be extremely careful regarding

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deception.

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And the number one element of deception that we can figure out, and I say that as someone

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who joins the ranks of Christians for 2,000 years where we do our best to figure out and

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search for and watch out for deception because if Eve and Adam can be deceived by Satan's

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work and if great people throughout history can be deceived by Satan's plots in plans.

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If Jesus said, if it were possible, even my very elect would be deceived, then please

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do not assume that you cannot be deceived.

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The moment you assume that you cannot, that you're somehow what's super Christian or

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that you are somehow galvanized against it because you don't think it's going to happen,

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that's one of the hotel signs that you are slipping into deception is that you would say

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that can't happen to you.

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Thank God Paul the Apostle didn't have that attitude, Paul the Apostle was always on guard

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regarding the deception that Satan would launch against him.

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Don't you think Peter who was pretty much full of himself like many in the church today

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and then he encounters a great humbling and Jesus tells him, Peter, I want you to know

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something that Satan has approached me and he has asked me that he could have you.

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So Satan knocks on the door of Jesus and says, hey, can Peter come out in play?

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Satan had no games in mind except to destroy Peter.

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But Jesus who knew all things handed Peter over to Satan's temptations and remember Jesus

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said, Peter Satan has asked for you to sift you as wheat.

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When you return, isn't that frightening statement?

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When you return, strengthen your brothers and then right after that Peter denies Jesus

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Christ three times, but he did that because he became full of himself.

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You see Jack that's a mean thing to say, no, it's not, it's very accurate.

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Didn't Peter say when Jesus said, all are going to forsake me and Peter said, not me,

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all these other losers, they might forsake you, but not me, Jesus, you can count on me.

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And Jesus announced to him, I tell you what Peter, before the rooster crows three times,

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you will have denied me thrice three times.

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What a shock, right?

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So what if I were to say to you, what if you were to say to me, hey, as followers of Jesus,

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we better be very, very careful.

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Now I do not believe personally that Satan can steal your salvation.

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I think if you are truly born again, you cannot be unborn again.

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So the burden is upon you to determine, are you truly born again?

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And if I have to explain what that means to you, then you're not.

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Okay, that's a very important thing.

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I just said, if I have to explain to you what being born again is, then you're not.

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Because all those who are in the family of God know that they are, but that doesn't

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keep us from being deceived.

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We can be deceived by false teachers and false prophets, and thus you and I are living

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in the days of deception.

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And so Jesus said to the disciples when they took him to Jerusalem to show him, and to

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kind of boast actually about it, you can read, you can start reading in Matthew chapter 23

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at about verse 37, right into chapter 24.

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And the disciples showed Jesus all the grandeur and beauty of the temple and how beautiful

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it says, how beautiful the stones were.

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And you know, if you've never been to Jerusalem, what it actually is saying, because you have

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to witness these stones when you go to Jerusalem, when they showed Jesus all of these massive

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foundations, stones that are some of them, the size of an 18-wheeler container, shipping

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container, truck, massive, some of the biggest stones on earth were the foundational stones

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to the temple.

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Jesus said to them, I'm going to tell you something, these are all going to be torn down.

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And they were so shocked, they said, they actually asked three questions with one statement.

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In Matthew chapter 24, they said, when's this going to happen?

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How can this be?

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And what will be the sign of the end of the world?

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Jesus number one answered to all three questions.

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By the way, that's your homework.

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Go to Matthew 24 and see if you can find the three questions they ask in one breath.

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Jesus has the same answer for all three questions.

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Beware that no one deceives you.

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Hey, Jesus, when is that going to happen?

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Beware that no one deceives you.

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How could this possibly be?

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Beware that nobody deceives you.

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When's the end of the world?

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Notice they equated the destruction of the temple with the end of the world because the

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temple is where you met up with God.

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They hadn't figured out yet that God would soon be living inside of them because the

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day of Pentecost had not yet come.

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And Jesus's answer to them was, be careful, beware that nobody deceives you.

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That's the number one thing.

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The biggest burden on Jesus' heart before the end came for him and his earthly life was

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watch out you guys that nobody deceives you.

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He spoke that to his brethren, to the apostles.

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It's pretty remarkable.

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So check this out about deception and why this book was written, living in the days

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of deception.

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So if Jesus said, watch out that nobody deceives you.

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And Matthew chapter 7, Jesus says, many false prophets will come in my name and they will

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do great signs and wonders and deceiving many.

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So Paul writes to Timothy years later in 1 Timothy chapter 4, verse 1, he says, now

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the spirit expressly says, that's an awesome statement.

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The Holy Spirit has extremely, specifically, crystal clear Lee has revealed something

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to us.

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What is that?

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That in the latter times or the end of days, some will depart from the faith.

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It doesn't mean they lose their salvation.

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It means that they were people who were among you and I who were looking just like you

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and I, maybe even better than you and I.

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But when times of difficulty, trial, persecution, like 2024, for example, in the world, that

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the pressures that hit caused them to collapse.

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So listen, when difficult times come, the Christian

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does not need to be afraid because the Christian and their faith will be tested and proven

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true.

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The world might be on fire, but the believer knows, hey, you know what?

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This is terrible what's happening, but God's in control.

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And I don't know where we're going to eat next, but we belong to God versus people who

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go to church every Sunday with you, sit right next to you.

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And when a bad day hits them or when their tire blows out or when their kids got cancer,

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they say, that's it.

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I'm out here.

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This God is a flake.

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I don't want anything to do with them.

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And they leave.

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That doesn't shock God and it shouldn't shock any of us.

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We're living in a time of purification right now.

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We've been in it for a few years, but it's heating up.

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So the Spirit, express you says that in the latter time, some will depart from the faith.

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There it is, giving heat to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.

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That's what you and I are living through right now.

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These are the days of deception, deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, deceiving

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spirits refers to demonic, satanic, fallen angels and or demons.

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Yes, there's a difference between the two, but they are grouped together under their leader,

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master Lucifer Satan to perpetrate deception.

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That's the goal.

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That's the plan to get you deceived.

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And if they were able to deceive, Satan was able to deceive so many for the last 2,000

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years, very subtly.

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Remember what Satan said?

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It might be the only true thing Satan has ever said that's recorded in the Bible.

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He says, skin for skin, man will do anything to save his own skin.

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And that's a fact, Satan said that to God regarding Job, man will do anything to save

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his own skin unless there's a greater love that lives inside that man.

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And that greater love has got to be the dwelling of God in your life.

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Only then will you lay down your life for others.

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And Satan knows this pretty well.

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And he knows that we are susceptible to deception.

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And the more blatantly bold the deception, the less effective it is.

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The more subtle, silent, veiled, the more dressed up in morality, goodness, religion, faith,

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Christianity, the more dangerous it is.

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And so Jesus is warning us.

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And here we are in the last days.

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And that is not my opinion.

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Jesus said, John said, and first and second John, it's the last days.

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These are the last days.

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What does that mean?

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That means regarding the church, it's quite possible that the church's lifespan from

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Pentecost to the raptures, maybe 2,000 years old, where at the end of all this, the culmination

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of the age regarding the church is clearly evident to all who will see.

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Look around the world.

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The church is all but irrelevant.

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Look around the world.

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The church is all but silent.

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Look around the world.

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The church is all but effective.

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Look around the world.

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The church is all but a little bit maybe Philadelphia and somewhere.

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It's predominantly a laodicean church.

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It's a laodicean church world.

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Glory to be to God.

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If you stay in the Word and you are committed to Him and to the proclamation of the gospel

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and you do not deny His Word or His name, then it's going to end well with you.

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But we must stay clear of deception.

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And so when Paul says to Timothy, these very specific attacks are going to come by the

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doctrines of demons.

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The word doctrine is simply teachings.

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We could say in a business sense the protocols, the procedures.

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Well, in a spiritual sense, there's going to be teachings.

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Now listen everyone, there's going to be teachings that you and I are going to hear

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by someone that looks just like us, but they are being operated by demonic doctrines.

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Do they know it?

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They may or may not know it.

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But they have gotten off of the orthodoxy of Scripture and they're teaching things that

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might be listened, that might be a new revelation from God.

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I just got it last night when I was praying and God told me this, you won't find it in

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the Bible, per se, but this is the Word of the Lord to you.

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And boom, they say something and think about it.

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If you ever hear such a thing and you don't get up and walk out, then you're sitting in

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a pool, a cesspool of people that are deceived.

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If they can hear stuff like that and chuckle, oh, wow, listen, he's going to tell us something

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that's not in the Bible, what could that be?

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This is going to be great.

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You're deceived.

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You're in the state of being deceived if you're not already deceived.

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Paul said in Acts 17-11, search the scriptures regarding every single thing I say, judge it

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against the Bible.

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Man, church is ought to be doing that.

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Why?

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Because doctrines of demons today are prevailing.

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Big names, friends, big names.

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You have some of their books on your shelf and they have drifted.

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You may or may not know them yet as having drifted, but there are famous household best-selling

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names of authors and Christian leaders, pastors, and they have departed from orthodoxy,

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but they're living off the fame of their name.

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And no one dare mention their names because they are household religious icons because

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people like the Corinthians fell for the line of deception and embraced personality cults.

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Oh, he makes me laugh.

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Oh, he's such a beautiful author.

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This person can write these stories.

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He's such a great storyteller.

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I've got all of his books or all of her books and don't you dare say anything bad about them.

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You're stuck in a personality cult and many of them have departed from the faith,

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but the news or the, I guess you'll see it this way, the news hasn't hit the fan.

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But when it does, it might be too late for you if you're swallowing what they are selling.

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So be very, very careful about that.

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And so it's not only doctrines of demons, but it's deceiving spirits themselves, doctrines

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of demons and deceiving spirits. The spirit in this portion of scripture would be functioning

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this way. The spirit is saying, you know, I think God just wants you sincere about whatever

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it is you believe in. He knows your heart. You're basically a very good person.

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In fact, look around. Do you know anybody else that is quite like you?

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Yeah, I know those other people they need to read their Bibles or they need to go to church

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because you see they're weak, but not you. You're different. You're very special.

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And so you see this kind of, it's Satan coming along and didn't he say pst to Eve?

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Heath God said, oh, Eve, he God knows he doesn't want competition. He knows that the day that you

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eat of the fruits, you're going to be just like him. And for truth is, he doesn't want you like him.

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And he lies to her. And in her mind, remember she's perfect. You're not perfect. I'm not perfect.

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She was perfect. In her mind, she thinks, I guess God's been holding out on me because if I

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would have been God, I would have made sure that Adam and I had this fruit. And so yeah, I think

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you're right. It feels feels right to me. And so she eats of it and plunged you and I and

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everybody else into the predicament that we're in right now and how that come about deception.

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And deceiving spirits will whisper to you, demons will give you false doctrine.

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They work together. And that is a very, very important thing to remember. Listen to this in

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scripture. First Thessalonians chapter five, check this out. First Thessalonians chapter five,

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the Bible says, now concerning the times and the seasons of brethren, you have no need that I

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should write to you for you yourselves know. Wow, you yourselves know that the day of the

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Lord so comes as a thief in the night. Do you believe that? This is a trick question. Do you

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believe that the Lord so comes as a thief in the night? I believe it, but pay close attention

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to what I'm going to read you. I believe it applies to certain people. And I am not going to be

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by his grace those people. Listen carefully. Hopefully I got your attention on that.

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For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

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For when they say peace and safety then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon

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a pregnant woman and they shall not escape. That's interesting. Listen up everybody. That implies

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that there is a way of escape because those who say peace and safety, they're not reading the

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scriptures. They're not being aware. They're not in tune. They are not aware that there is a way

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of escape because the Bible here tells you they shall not. They shall not escape. The natural

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question in your Bible class would be who are they that do not escape? And what does escape mean?

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Escape from what? You have to ask these questions when you read in the Bible. And it says

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that you brethren or but you brethren are not in darkness. Notice the difference between

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they and brethren. And Paul calls the brethren you. He puts himself among the brethren.

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But you brethren are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief.

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You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

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Therefore let us not sleep. He's talking about being spiritually lazy as others do.

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But let us watch and be sober for those who sleep spiritually lazy, for those who sleep sleep

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at night and those who get drunk get drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober putting

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on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not

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appoint us to wrath. Interesting. No. The escape is the escaping of God's wrath. Did you see that?

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The Bible just answered the question that you just had about escaping.

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But to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us and whether we are awake

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or asleep living or dead we should live together with him. Therefore comfort each other and

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edify one another just as you are also doing. What an amazing, amazing promise. Don't be deceived.

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If you are being deceived it's because you've allowed yourself to be deceived.

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Wow. I got to tell you this is going to sound kind of crummy.

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There's a good chance that you're not going to believe me. I get it. I wouldn't have believed

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me either if I would have said this 10 years ago. But unless someone's dead I don't want to hear

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from them. Isn't that a terrible thing to say? You say, well if I play that to you I'm going to turn

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you off. I get it. Turn me off. I totally get it. But when I'm talking about doctrine, Bible

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teachings, sermons, reading books, unless they're dead they're not red. Because people who are alive

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they can fall into these categories of being deceived. And I can mention one book after another

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that we have had over the last several years removed from our bookstore at our church because

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these guys have fallen from Orthodox Christian character. It's pretty hard for Charles Spurgeon

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to fall from Christian character. He's dead. It's pretty tough for A.W. Tozer to mess up or A.B.

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Simpson or JC Ryle or fill in the blank. Charles Stanley dead, right? Chuck Smith dead.

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Everything they've done is out there and you approach everything that they've done by reading

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the Bible judging whatever they've said. Here's the tough part for you and I. You and I are still alive

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right now at this moment. Now God has given pastor teachers to churches. The problem's scary thing

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about that is evangelists, pastors who are teachers and teachers. You can be a pastor but you have

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to have the gift of teaching. You can be a teacher and not be a pastor. That's a gift or gifts in the

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Bible makes it clear Ephesians 4. That's another study for some other day. You can be an evangelist.

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These are verbal gifts, right? The tough thing about these things is that these are callings of

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God and they are implemented by God but it doesn't keep somebody from crashing their calling.

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There may be people in your life that have hurt you terribly that were in the ministry. They

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may be Christians and they may be going to heaven but they got sideways and all messed up and

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wound up disqualifying themselves and in the wake of their antics are a bunch of broken people

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like you. I get it. The only comfort that I have right now in even being behind this microphone

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right now is because I'm in the Word of God every single day to prevent myself from being deceived

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and so because of this I listen and spend more time in this book than any other thing. Period,

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period and I want you to start doing the same thing.

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If your Bible is not your primary diet then you're in danger in these last days. Listen friends

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big stuff going on. Crazy world. So listen as always you guys know this as always we believe that

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it's always time for us to live out our faith in Jesus Christ in a real and tangible way in a very

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very practical way. So it's always time to live out what it is that you believe in. That's what we

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believe. That's what we believe here at real life and so because of that friends judge everything

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that you hear in this program against the Bible and that goes for everybody else because what you

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get in, what you allow in even if you don't like it, it's going to be part of your DNA spiritually

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speaking. God bless you guys. Take care.

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