12 Jan WORD WAR III (NEVER LIVE IN A GRAY WORLD WHEN YOU HAVE A BLACK AND WHITE BIBLE!) PART 3

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Deception is one of the key signs that we are in the last days (see Matthews 24:3-4, II Timothy 3:13, II Thessalonians 2:3).  Deception is the inability to properly see yourself.  Have you ever been out to eat lunch and had a big leafy salad?  When you got home you looked in the mirror and to your chagrin, you had a big piece of green lettuce stuck to your front teeth!  Your mind then races back to your lunch when you were making jokes with your friends and smiling the entire time.  The revelation hits you…everyone saw that big piece of lettuce on your teeth.  Everyone but you!

This is a pretty good analogy of deception.  The reason deception is so deceptive…is you don’t know you are deceived!  The Bible tells us in I Timothy 4:1, “Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;”.  In this powerful verse the Greek word translated “expressly” means “clearly or vividly.”  The Greek word translated “last” is “hystemos” which means “last of the last.”  The Greek word for “depart” is “aphistemi” which means “to step away from, to resist, to desert or withdraw.”  The Greek word for “seducing” is “planos” which means to “slowly wander away.”

If you’ll give me a little liberty, this verse could easily be paraphrased from the Greek language like this:  ‘The Spirit speaks clearly or vividly in the last of the last days, that some should step away from and desert the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits (which will tempt people to slowly walk away from the Word) and doctrines of devils.’  In other words, deception will be a huge weapon of the enemy to get some to slowly walk away from the Word of God!

Here is the good news…YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A ‘SOME’!  

As you can see, the war is over the Word of the Living God!  Last month we began to share with you “Seven WORD War Wonders”:

  1. The war is over the Word (Gen. 3:1)
  2. The Word is the most powerful force in the universe (Heb. 1:3)

This month let’s continue our series:

  1. God’s blessing resides within the Word (Gen. 1:28)

Here the Bible tells us, “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply; and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” (Gen. 1:28)Notice God blessed man by saying.  Remember this:  If the devil can get you off the Word, he can get you off your blessing!

Join us next week as we continue our series…