"Fear God, Love God, Serve God": "True Deception"

"True Deception"

"Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee." (Genesis 12:13) This is a perfect example of a half-truth, and a "slight pun." Abram knew that his wife was "fair to look upon," so he told her to tell the Egyptians that she was his sister; Abram believed that if they knew she was his wife, they would kill him to take her. In fact, Sarai "was" his wife "and" his half-sister! It was a "partial truth," and that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is "True Deception!"

The rest of the story is that the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, and Pharaoh asked Abram, "What is this that thou hast done unto me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?" Pharaoh then told Abram to take her and GO!

"A half truth is a whole lie."

Yiddish Proverb

Herein is where we address the Holy Bible. If one is told to "only believe and he will be saved;" is that wrong? Is it wrong when people take "parts" of scripture and build doctrines around them? Is it wrong to pick and choose what we "prefer" to believe in the Bible? Will we be held accountable for only obeying part of the scriptures, if we truly didn't know? If we have heard and read some scriptures, but we weren't raised to believe that way; can we be responsible for not obeying them? The answer is emphatically Yes, Yes, and Yes! (Philippians 2:12) Salvation is not inherited; "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." That means that we must not only know where to look in the Bible for what we want to know, but we must study it and hide it in our hearts so that we will not sin against God. (Psalm 119:11)

Theologians agree the Church began in the Book of Acts, so we are living in the Church Age; we must go to the Book of Acts to find out how we should be saved. Believing in Jesus Christ our Lord is the first step; then, we must go on to perfection and obey Acts 2:38. You say, "I believe and I have received the Spirit, but I have not spoken in tongues." There is more for you! I don't know about you, but I want "everything" the Bible says I can have in God! I don't want "part" of it; I want all of it! Why? We must have on the full armour of God to withstand the wiles of the devil; that means we must be fully equipped in Word, Spirit, power, walk, and warfare ... to "endure" to the end! Not only that, but our God has given us Gifts of the Spirit to operate in, once we receive the Holy Ghost. He has empowered us for "purpose!"

"And the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the

fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree

which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall

not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the

serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die ..."

(Genesis 3:2-4)

Deception "always" twists, defies, contorts, denies, confuses, disclaims, and masks the TRUTH! My first question to Eve is, "Why would you believe what anyone says over God?" But, that's for another day. The defeated one, satan, always endeavors to make SIN look good. And, deception "always" uses a "part" of the truth as a convincing measure. The serpent told her the tree "was" a tree of good and evil, but that if she ate of it, she would "know" good and evil; he made it sound as if she was doing herself a disservice by not eating of it. It was "part" true, and total utter "deception!"

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

(Author Unknown)

We are admonished at the very end of the Holy Bible that we must not add or take away from its contents: "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, "God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." (Revelation 22:18:19)

"TRUTH"

"THE RISEN CHRIST"

The TRUTH: Jesus Christ our Lord, hung on the cross, died and rose again to save all mankind. He is coming again; first in the Rapture to remove, and make a way of escape for, the obedient, faithful and true to His Word, before the great tribulation period; then, He will come back to earth, set His feet on the Mount of Olives and reclaim His world! Maranatha, Lord Jesus!

Anything that "waters down" the Gospel: the virgin birth, the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; that waters down Acts 2:38: repentance, baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and infilling of the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues; that waters down holiness, purity in mind, soul, body and spirit; and that waters down prayer, fasting, and holy consecration to God and His Word can be referred to as "True Deception." It is a "part" of the truth, presented as the whole truth, and it is a form of deception.

The enemy knows the Bible well; that's how he is able to deceive, confuse, and beguile the people of God, and people who don't know God ... Why? Because those people of God and others, who are deceived by him, "do not know the Bible!" Remember, when Jesus was tempted by satan after having fasted 40 days, He told satan each of the times he was tempted, "It is written." We must "know" what is written in the Bible, and we must know when the Word is being twisted, added to, or taken away from ... we MUST know! Why is this important? We are living in a time when people will believe a lie and be damned! "That they all might be damned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thessalonians 2:12) The truth is the delight of the soul, the thrill of the spirit, the awakening of the mind, and purity for the body! The soul who believes, obeys, trusts in, and loves the Holy Bible will not be enticed by "True Deception."

The Truth will set you free!