OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL.
DATE: FRIDAY 19TH FEBRUARY 2016.
THEME: BEWARE OF DECEIVERS (1).
MEMORISE:
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness - 2nd Timothy
3:16.
READ: 2nd Timothy 3:1-8
1. This know also, that in the last days perilous
times shall come.
2. For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3. Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those
that are good,
4. Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God;
5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof: from such turn away.
6. For of this sort are they which creep into
houses, and lead captive silly women laden with
sins, led away with divers lusts,
7. Ever learning, and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth.
8. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,
so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt
minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
MESSAGE:
A deceiver is someone who practices deceit as
means of seducing, misleading, or giving false
impressions to people. A deceiver would try to
impose a false idea that causes bewilderment,
helplessness, or confusion in people’s mind.
Every act of deception is a direct attack against
the truth for the purpose of distorting the original
creative order and position of things by the
Almighty God.
Deception is therefore the devil’s invention which
has been carefully designed to create doubts and
questions about the credibility of God in the
hearts of men. This is the reason why deceit is
condemned by God as an attempt to deny His
sovereignty and the revelation of Himself.
After the devil’s successful attack on Adam and
Eve in Genesis 3:1-7, God repeatedly warned
humanity about the subtlety of Satan and his
false prophets. Matthew 24:11 says “And many
false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive
many.”
The whole of the Bible from Genesis to
Revelation is full of similar warnings about the
deliberate plot of devil to send his evil agents of
deception in form of false prophets and heretic
teachers into the world, in order to deceive and
mislead many. These deadly agents of deception
have perfected the means of attacking
unsuspecting individuals from two seemingly
harmless fronts.
One of their tactics is to preach the gospel of
the alternative. They claim to be serving the
same God through another saviour, and therefore
present their religion as a better alternative to
Christianity that only has the appearance of the
Christian religion on the surface, but is full of
heresy, ungodliness, and immorality in actual
practice.
To this end 1st Timothy 4:1-2 says “Now the
Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter time
some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their
conscience seared with a hot iron;”
In the above passage, the Word of God is making
it very clear to us that the activities of these
agents of darkness will become very
concentrated and effective in the latter days,
such that it will cause some believers to depart
from the faith.
This will happen because those affected would
commit the error of giving heed to seducing
spirits. They would be seduced through the
preaching of other gospels, the gospel of
relativism, modernism and post-modernism, and
through attractive motivational messages.
To counter the evil, we must turn to 2nd Timothy
3:16. God has given us all scripture by His
inspiration, to be profitable for doctrine, reproof,
correction, and instruction in righteousness.
Dangerous heretic teachings are in the air, but
anyone that abides in the Word of God, can
never be deceived. Be warned.
PRAYER POINT:
Father, please don’t let me ever give heed to
seducing spirits in Jesus’ name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Luke 9:21-10:42 and Job
24:9-20.
AUTHOR: Pst E. A ADEBOYE
