
Life Capsule for Today 26th June, 2024
Theme: Overcoming Deception (4)
Memory Verse: Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Topic: Dangers of Deception (B)
Today’s Reading:.
Joh 8:43-44 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Words of the Ministry:
Yesterday we saw how the devil steals the seed of truth planted in many. We did say the word is the goal of the devil’s theft as God would do nothing without his word, so in some cases he outrightly steals the word while in some other cases he gives a counterfeit in place of the truth so the individual believes all is well because of some experiences and religious activities. Today we want to look at the second step of the devil, the act of killing. The bible said the devil has always killed from the beginning he is a murderer, in Genesis, he saw to the death of the first couple spiritually and later ensured Cain also killed his brother Abel physically. His act of killing has indeed heightened as we see that while he was a serpent Genesis, in Revelation he has become a dragon because he has fed on many saints over the years.
In the gospels we see how the devil severally tried to kill Jesus who is the word personified through his sons Herod, this persisted until the appointed time came for Christ to be the eternal sacrifice for man. So yesterday we said after stealing the word, he then goes to the next phase which is spiritual and physical death. What makes us Christians is our believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior and his redemptive work. Immediately after the devil succeeds at stealing the fundamental truth or atleast pollute it with some false believes, he then goes to kill, he makes us disbelieve what makes us Christians, the foundation of our faith. By disbelief I don’t only mean we saying Jesus is not the only way but also hiding under religious tolerance, we also doing things regardless of our coincidences, the conscience becomes seared with hot iron, we now are the Lord of our lives, we become self-deluded and full of erroneous knowledge like Adam.
Dear saints, the bible prophesied that the love of many shall wax cold, men would prefer iniquity to righteousness. The desire of many would be worldly gains and riches, even when they go to Church, the goal is worldly gain, these and many more are the symptoms of death, they begin to preach another gospel, their hearts are not convicted by the truth, they have been inoculated against light, they have their own form of Godliness denying the Holy Spirit that powers it. They live for now. Like Saul they say they are still kings but they are dead. They may claim to be part of the Church but they are as dead as the Church at Sardis “Rev 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.” May the Lord grant us light.
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