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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Y2K" data-source="post: 10302374" data-attributes="member: 35049">With this in mind, let us consider "Reaping What We Sow." First of all let us consider (I) The Deception and Mocking. Secondly, (II) The Flesh and Corruption, and finally (III) The Spirit and Life Everlasting.The apostle begins this text with the warning: "Be not deceived." This word "deceived" literally means "to be led astray," to be led astray either by yourself or by someone else. The world is filled with people who have been deceived, people who think that the lie is the truth and the truth is the lie. That is why so few people care anything about the Gospel of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. They have been deceived into thinking that the Gospel is the lie. They follow the Devil instead of the truth, because he has deceived them into thinking that his word, rather than God's Word is the truth. We read of the Devil and his deception in Revelation Chapter 12 verse 9: "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:" The Devil is right now deceiving the whole world. It began way back at the beginning of history with our mother, Eve. When he first came into the garden he tricked our mother. He deceived her so that she thought that his word was the truth, rather than the Word of God. And the Devil has been doing that ever since and will continue to do that until the end of the age. And in that he is not alone. He has raised up many false prophets and false teachers who follow him in leading people astray. Jesus speaks of this in Matthew Chapter 24, verses 4 and 5: "And Jesus answered and said unto them, 'Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.'" We see that all about us right now. Many people, hundreds and thousands and millions of people, have been deceived into following false christs, rather than the true Christ. This is also why there is so much sin and wickedness in the world today. There is a relationship between the truth and holiness and the lie and sin. The truth leads to Godly living. The lie leads to wicked living. If a man does not have the truth, he can do nothing but sin. If a man is to live a Godly life he must know and love the truth. That is why it is so important for us to have a knowledge of the truth. You cannot even think of being Godly, of doing good, of living a pious life, if you do not know the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The whole of our Christian life rests upon the truth. No wonder the apostle gives us this warning, "Be not deceived." If we are deceived with respect to the truth, it will be a very destructive thing in our lives. Watch yourselves, careful that you are not deceived ¾ that you are not deceived by yourself and your own humanistic thinking, that you are not deceived by the false teachers and false prophets out there in the world. The apostle, however, is not talking about deception in general here. He is talking about a very specific deception. Notice the rest of verse 7: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." One of the greatest joys of the Devil and of false teachers is to deceive you into thinking that you can sow and not reap what you sow. The Devil and false teachers would like us to think that we can do certain things and not reap the consequences of those things that we do. The Devil would like us to think that we can do evil, that we can sin, that we can live a wicked life, and still reap good instead of evil. We can break God's commandments and still be blessed by Him. We can live like the Devil, do all kinds of wickedness, and when we die we still go to heaven and receive all the joys that God has given. That is the deception which the apostle talks about here. </blockquote>

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