Avoid being a victim of deception

Avoid being a Victim of Deception?

 

Jesus Christ the greatest Prophet and Teacher of all times issued a stern warning to His disciples saying; “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.” What will attribute to this global deception according to Jesus, it is because, “You (believers) will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:9-13).

 But the irony of truth is, there are some basic things if we as believers would know, understand, believe and practice that will protect us from being a victim of deception and these basic things are:

 1.  We are responsible for our own actions

The greatest power we as human beings have is the power of choice, not even God the Almighty will force anyone to do what he/she doesn’t want to do. Parents are responsible for the upbringing of the children until they reach adulthood and so the admonish to all parents is to; “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” and to the children; “Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord” (Proverbs 22:6; Ephesians 6:1; Colossians 3:20).

But as soon as one reaches the age of adulthood everyone is responsible for his/her own actions and this is what we all have been duly admonished saying; “Take heed that no one deceives you.” Each individual must be mindful of him/herself and not to allow anyone to deceive him/her especially when it comes to moral and spiritual values.

For example when it comes to the worship and serving the Lord the instruction is, “One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it.” Because at the end of it all, “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he/she has done, whether good or bad” (Romans 14: 5-6; Matthew 24:4;.2Corinthians 5:10).

Therefore, it is our individual adult responsibility to be diligent to present ourselves approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth because, the anointing which we have received from Him abides in us, and we do not need that anyone teach us; but as the same anointing teaches us concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught us, we will abide in Him (1John 2:20,7).

It is therefore our God given responsibility to get to know the truth and the truth shall set us free and remember, there is no partiality with God.

 To be continued

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With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph