Illusions

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Illusions!!!
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What is an illusion?

• Webster defines it as
• a mistaken idea
• a misleading visual image

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Samples of Illusions!

• Fire!!!
• Boy Ball / Girl Ball
• Ropes looped together
• Cutting a Rope in Half
• Counting Fs

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Count every Fs in the following text

• FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF
  SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF
  YEARS...

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Count every Fs in the following text

• FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF
  SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF
  YEARS...

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Three (3) lessons to be drawn here

• The hand can truly be quicker than the eye.
• Our eyes can move past things, faster than our
  brains will interpret the information.
• We tend to See what we WANT to see, at times
  overlooking the obvious.

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We live in a FAST PACE society!!

• Conclusion We need to SLOW DOWN and concentrate
  on what is happening around us.

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(I Peter 58)

• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary
  the devil, as
• a roaring lion, walkest about, Seeking whom he
  may devour!
• I will be showing you examples of deception, in
  one form or
• Another. Hopefully, we will have fun along the
  way.
• However, remember when Satan deceives you, hes
  playing
• for your soul. Its NOT fun, and its for keeps!

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Holy Bible Coloring Book
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• I KNOW you all like stories from the Bible, like
• - Daniel in the Lions Den
• - Noah and the Ark
• - Jesus walking on the Water
• Most of us enjoyed coloring in our favorite
  coloring book. Well, Im going to show you MY
  favorite coloring book and Ill tell you why its
  so special to me.
• One of MY favorite stories is to read about when
  the world was created.

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(Genesis 11-5)

• In the beginning God created the heaven and the
  earth.
• And the earth was without form, and void and
  darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
  Spirit of God moved upon he face of the waters.
• And God said, Let there be light and there was
  light.
• And God saw the light, that it was good and god
  divided the light from the darkness.
• And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
  called Night. And the evening and the morning
  were the first day.

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Making a Cake
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Elijah and the widow woman

• Elijah was fleeing from King Ahab and Queen
  Jezebel God pressed upon him to go to Zarephath
  and to inquire of a widow woman there.
• You know the story. He came upon the widow as
  she was gathering sticks. He ask her for a
  drink of water and then for some food. She
  replied that she had only enough for a one small
  cake that she was going to bake for herself and
  her son and then she was going to die --- as
  there was NO MORE food.
• Elijah instructed her to make a cake for him
  FIRST. She obeyed and was blessed by God for
  her faithfulness.

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(I Kings 1716)

• And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did
  the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of
  the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.

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Disappearing Water
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Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

• Jesus met the Samaritan woman at Jacobs well and
  he asked her for a drink of water She
  questioned why He, being a Jew, would speak with
  a Samaritan.
• Jesus replied
• If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is
  that saith to thee, Give me to drink thou
  wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have
  given thee living water.
• Whosoever drinkest of this water that I shall
  give him shall never thirst but the water that I
  shall give him shall be in him a well of water
  springing up into everlasting life.
• She relied
• Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not,
  neither come hither to draw.
• God, give us THIS DAY the living water!!!

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Paper Torn to Shreds
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(Luke 418,19)

• The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because he
  hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
  poor He hath sent me to heal the
  broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the
  captives, and recovering of sight to the blind,
  to set at liberty them that are bruised, to
  preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
• Dont lose hope. God is our protector and our
  defender!

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Disappearing Scarf
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The Great Commission

• Jesus stood on Mount Olivet and gave the Great
  Commission where he left instructions for His
  disciples to follow.
• He said

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• Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel
  to every creature. He that believeth, and is
  baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth
  not shall be damned.
• And these signs shall follow them that believe
  In my name shall they cast out devils they shall
  speak with new tongues They shall take up
  serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it
  shall not hurt them they shall lay hands on the
  sick, and they shall recover.

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• All power is given unto me in heaven and in
  earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
  baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of
  the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
• Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I
  have commanded you and lo, I am with you always,
  even unto the end of the world.

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• And when he had spoken these things, while they
  beheld, he was taken up and a cloud received
  him out of their sight.

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Re-Appearing Scarf
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(Acts 110,11)

• And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven
  as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in
  white apparel
• Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye
  gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is
  taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in
  like manner as he have seen him go into heaven.

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• Jesus IS coming back one day, in the twinkling of
  an eye!
• for those who are LOOKING for his appearing!

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(Romans 109)

• teaches us
• That if thou shall confess with thy mouth the
  Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
  God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
  saved!

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• EVERYONE, please bow your head and repeat this
  prayer with me.
• Dear God. I believe that Jesus Christ is your
  SON. I believe He was crucified for my sins,
  and on the third day, you raised Him up from the
  dead. I ask you now to forgive me of my sins
  and come into my heart to live forever in Jesus
  name,
• Amen.

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• Thank You !