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1 | RAVENING WOLVES OF DECEPTION | Matt 7:15 | teragram123 | 62568 | ||
RAVENING WOLVES OF DECEPTION Wolves will be among the flock... Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. RAVENOUS - extremely hungry; famished; starved, searching greedily for prey WOLF - a predatory or greedy person. PREDATORY - living on the flesh of other animals The enemy feeds on the flesh of man... his fate is to eat dust... man is made of the dust. Walking in the flesh thus feeds satan and strengthens his hold on the Christian. Christ warned of deception... Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. There would be many... Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. They will have the power to convince... Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. elect - eklektos, select; by implication favorite, chosen, elect. Heresies come by them... 2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who private shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. heresies - hairesis, properly a choice, i.e. (special) a party or (abstract) disunion - heresy [which is the Greek word itself], sect. We are warned to not to assume anything... 1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. assume - 1. to suppose (something) to be true without evidence; take for granted: 2. to take something as a matter of fact without proof. The Bereans were commended for being cautious... Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Discernment is not assumption... Discernment - diakrisis, judicial estimation - discern (-ing), disputation. Judicial - proceeding from a court of justice We are told to “mark” the deceivers... Romans 16:17-18 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. [18] For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. Wrong thinking corrupts the whole... 1 Cor. 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. corrupt - phtheiro(to pine or waste); properly to shrivel or wither, i.e. to spoil (by any process) or (genitive) to ruin (especially figurative by moral influences, to deprave) - corrupt (self), defile, destroy. Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. conversation - generally the going out and in of social intercourse (Eph. 2:3; Eph. 4:22; R.V., “manner of life”); one's deportment or course of life. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of verbal communication from one to another satan has a planned strategy to capture by it... Eph. 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; The wrath of God comes upon those who are led astray by it... Eph. 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. |
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2 | RAVENING WOLVES OF DECEPTION | Matt 7:15 | teragram123 | 62569 | ||
Eph. 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. vain words - kenos, empty (literal or figurative) - empty, (in) vain. 1. not leading to a desirable or lasting effect; futile; fruitless We are warned that things will get worse with time... 2 Tim. 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. These deceivers are not outside the Church!... Titus 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Christ Himself will reward the watchful believers... Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. Steadfast continuance is required .... Eph. 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; watching - agrupneo, 1 (a) (as negative particle) and Greek 5258 (hupnos); to be sleepless, i.e. keep awake - watch. The enemy makes use of our idleness... Matthew 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 222 references to truth Those who know God personally are open to the gospel... 1 John 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. Those who desire to live un-righteously are deceiving themselves... 2 Thes. 2:7-12 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. [8] And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: [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. NIV - 2 Thes. 2:10-12 and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. [11] For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie [12] and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness. apate, delusion - deceit (-ful, -fulness), deceivableness (-ving). 2 Thes. 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: delusion - plane, (as abstract); object fraudulence; subject a straying from orthodoxy or piety :- deceit, to deceive, delusion, error. Unbelief will damn the soul... 2 Thes. 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Faith will be greatly challenged in the last days... 1 Tim. 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Christ spoke of lack of faith on the earth... Luke 18:8 Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? |
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