Deception

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Deception

• A seemingly benign or alluring scenario presented
  to obscure the truth.

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Sources of Deceit

• The devil
• Genesis 313
• John 844
• 1 Timothy 41
• Revelation 129
• Revelation 201-3 7-10

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Sources of Deceit

• The heart
• Jeremiah 179
• Mark 720-23
• Jeremiah 1414 2326-27

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Incoming Expressions of Deceit

• False Teaching
• Matthew 244-28
• Vs 4, 11, 23-24
• Jeremiah 298-9

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Incoming Expressions of Deceit

• Pride
• Jeremiah 4915-16
• Obadiah 12-4

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Incoming Expressions of Deceit

• Sin
• Romans 711
• Hebrews 313

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Expressions of Deceit

• Hypocrisy
• Malachi 114

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Expressions of Deceit

• Lying
• Psalm 1092 1202
• Isaiah 327
• Proverbs 1217

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Expressions of Deceit

• Offering false hope
• Jeremiah 613-14
• Zechariah 102

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Expressions of Deceit

• Religiosity
• Colossians 218-23

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Expressions of Deceit

• Mishandling the Word of God
• Luke 49-11
• 2 Corinthians 42

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Victory Over Deceit

• Truth
• Psalm 334 119160
• John 114 1717
• 2 Corinthians 42
• 2 Timothy 215

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Victory Over Deceit

• Ongoing discipleship in the context of a body of
  believers.
• Ephesians 411-16

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Jeremiah 175-10

• 5Thus says the Lord
• Cursed is the man who trusts in man
• And makes flesh his strength,
• Whose heart departs from the Lord.
• 6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,
• And shall not see when good comes,
• But shall inhabit the parched places in the
  wilderness,
• In a salt land which is not inhabited.

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Jeremiah 175-10

• 7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
• And whose hope is the Lord.
• 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the
  waters,
• Which spreads out its roots by the river,
• And will not fear when heat comes
• But its leaf will be green,
• And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
• Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

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Jeremiah 175-10

• 9 The heart is deceitful above all things,
• And desperately wicked
• Who can know it?
• 10 I, the Lord, search the heart,
• I test the mind,
• Even to give every man according to his ways,
• According to the fruit of his doings.