Watch out!!! Don’t be Deceived

Satan will lull you into a false sense of security that everything is going ok even though you have left off reading and praying. However,  you are getting weaker and weaker and when something hits, you are too weak to overcome it. Then their is a rush to prepare, or go to counseling, and all of it could have been avoided if we wouldn't have been relaxed into laziness.

As darkness increases, the less of the dirt that sin is creating and depositing in our lives will we be able to see. If I live in a room without little to no light, I will not see the dirt accumulating and pay no attention to it. When someone walks in and turns the light on I will be shocked at what I have been living in. I simply didn’t know up to the point of the light being turned on – in other words I was ignorant of it. The whole world lives in filth and the depravity of sin but they don’t realize it because they live in darkness – ignorance.

Ephesians 4:17-18 (KJV)
¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
¹⁸ Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Knowledge of truth is equated with light in the bible while the absence of it is synonymous with darkness. Notice the following:

John 1:4-5 (KJV)
⁴ In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

The threat of deception is ever present everyday of our lives. It’s the only weapon Satan has to defeat a Christian. Knowledge coupled with acting upon what is known will set people free from all bondage perpetrated by darkness or ignorance.

Hosea 4:6 (KJV)
⁶  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Notice the rest of the verse deals with a people who possessed knowledge but rejected it. They turned the light switch off and yielded to darkness. This brings me to the next point: People can choose to believe a lie... i can shine the light but they have to accept that which makes free. I can’t force people to change, nor can I simply rebuke the devil out of their lives and command them to live spiritually. They must want to change and by achieving it they must first accept the the truth.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 (KJV)
⁹ Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
¹⁰ And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
¹² That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

God has the light turned on but many people like their darkness better than light. When we witness to our family members, friends, and co-workers, the fact that must be remembered is that just because you spoke the light into their lives doesn’t mean they will automatically be saved. Some of them unfortunately has chosen to re,main alienated from God by rejecting the truth. Do not take it personally, its not you they hate – its God.

John 7:7 (KJV)
⁷ The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

What we can do is pray against the spiritual forces that harass them and maintain a bondage in their life. We also can live a righteous life before them which means we are glowing with the light of truth every time we get  around them.