The Psychology of Deception (1130am) - 11.17.2024 (Elder John Swain Jr.)

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It's go time. Let's get into it.

Amen. Amen.

Amen. Keep your hand clap going for

the Lord. Thank you very much.

You know, when I grew up, when I grew up, when I grew up, I'm not

grown when I grew up, when I grew up, when I grew up, I was

in school, right? And so I'm in school, right?

And so I would do math, OK, And the teachers would always, even

have a seat. Teachers always say this, I want

to check your work. I want to check your work.

It wasn't enough to have the right answer.

I want to check your work. You got it.

So I want to check your work. OK, I want to check your work.

So if you have a everlasting supply of Donuts.

OK, what do you do when an everlasting supply of Donuts?

Do you give something to people? Do you share them?

Are you concerned about not having them?

Let me ask you this. When you have an everlasting

supply of Donuts, do you think you try to, like, try to test

it? I'm going to give 100 million

Donuts away. I still got more Donuts.

OK? I'm going to give 200 billion

Donuts away. I still got more Donuts, right?

You almost try to test to see if everlasting is really going to

be everlasting, don't you? OK, That's what you try to do.

So God's the same way. If you got an everlasting God,

then one of the ways you can demonstrate you have everlasting

God is by being faithful and giving.

You got it? If he had everlasting God, he

got an everlasting bag. Now I'm going to really flip the

script on you. God don't have an everlasting

bag. God is an everlasting bag.

You hear what I'm saying? I like that.

He was a little dip on that, right?

What does that mean for you? That means if God has

everlasting supply, you're giving demonstrates that.

I believe that I could continue to be generous this week, next

week, every week. Why?

Because my God got an everlasting supply.

OK, matter of fact, my giving demonstrates my faith in that

right? By dimming my giving

demonstrates that I will remain. My consistency in giving

demonstrates what? What's the other part of the

song? I'm doing a song, if you haven't

noticed. I will remain confident in this.

How do you remain confident? Remain is a present tense word.

I will be confident. I'm confident this week because

I gave this week. I'm confident next week.

Watch, Watch me give next week because the same God who's

everlasting from before is everlasting now.

This is really important to understand because when we say

we have an everlasting God and we are slow to give generously

into what God is doing, what we're saying is you're an

everlasting God. But I got to make sure I got

mine and I'm retaining mine. There's a verse that says

there's one who retains all and has little and one who gives

much and he hasn't and they have much.

Amen. So in that light, I also want to

encourage you as we finished up the rest of the year, how many

of you all are tithing? OK, how many of you all are

either tithing or committed to tithing?

Amen. Be faithful to that commitment.

Let's finish the year strong in terms of that and let God change

your life because in that consistency and that giving,

you're declaring the consistency of God's everlasting

faithfulness. You're literally speaking to the

attribute of God that people can see, right?

And everlasting is you're giving them a tangible way of viewing

that. And if you haven't committed to

tithing the rest of the year, I challenge you, make a decision,

investigate the process. Remember, I like I told you,

like if you have everlasting supply of Donuts, you try to

test it. I'm going to give you 100

billion Donuts and let's see if you run out.

Oh, there's more Donuts there, right?

In the same way God says prove me in this, see if I'm not as

everlasting, see if I don't have your back, see if I don't have

more than enough to care for you and love you and watch over you

right And watch also whether and see whether you're giving

connects your heart to me more. God doesn't need to do anything

to connect. His heart to you more than he

already has. He doesn't have to do anything.

It's fully connected in this earth because we have a battle

of masters of Mammon and of God. He understands one of the ways

we overcome Mammon or stuff trying to master us is to take

our stuff and put it in God's camp, right.

We hide. We hide the the Mammon in in the

Kingdom so that way the Kingdom can protect us from Mammon

coming after us. Amen.

So I encourage you to commit to to tie the rest of the year.

We're also finishing our in their campaign.

Everyone get big hand clap for the Remnant campaign.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So we finished up the year strong.

We encourage you to be generous in the Remnant campaign as well,

right? Remember, you got to everlasting

God. You don't have to necessarily

pick or choose. If you have to choose.

Be faithful to tithing so you transform your way of living, of

generosity, and then as special needs come up, you'll be able to

give more generously into those. Before our Remnant campaign,

we're trying to finish up doing $350,000 for this next phase, if

you will, of our project. Make sure you go next door to

the building and see the progress.

Make sure you check it out and see that with that what God is

doing and you're a part of that. Touch the wood, you're part of

that. Your praise is apart, your

prayers are apart. Your giving is a part of that.

Make sure you go and do that. Hey, man, and let's finish this

work and finish this strong to be a witness, the sign of

wonder, the people when people ask you, how did you and Wally

finish that project? How did you and Wally do all

that kind of stuff? We had given up on Wally.

We didn't think Wally was everlasting, but we got served

an everlasting God to remember why he made Wally, and he's

faithful to the cause of why he made Wally.

He's putting the purpose in here for why he made Wally, so the

people can see that God is a God of Wally and they can look up on

what's happening and do it. Amen.

I'll close with this in terms of my remnant compel for you is

this. There'll be some generous ways

to give listed up there. So what is what's Paris known

for? What's New York known for?

Architecturalism. See, I did that.

They connected OK. There's a there is a a what,

what? What's Rome known for

architecturally? Coliseum.

There is a way where you can take a building and put

something on people's minds for generations to come.

You can identify a city with a structure so much so that the

structure begins to tell the people who the city is.

That makes sense. That's why it's important to

finish the remnant project. So that way when they get to

Wally, there'll be a picture of love Quest International worship

Center up there and say, Oh yeah, that's Wally.

Because that's the picture like Eiffel Tower Paris and and, and

and like that's your liberty is New York and like London Bridge

is London. They'll say, oh, love question,

that's Wally. And you notice people come from

all the way around to see those things because they identify

with them in Jesus name, Amen. Generous square giving,

generous, tightly giving, generous E transferring,

generous check, check checking, generous cash giving, Amen.

Do your soul a favor and be generous, Amen.

Amen. So I want to get get right into

this. We got a long day today.

Long on blessing, long on grace. Not long since.

Arduous, but there's a lot God wants to do.

Right. And what we're doing here in

this message is connecting directly to what we're going to

do in that water later on, OK? Because when people are getting

baptized, what they're saying is I'm not deceived anymore.

That's what they're saying. I once was deceived, but now I'm

not. I once was blind, but now I see

it's connected. OK, There there was a way of

thinking about life I used to live in, but I met Jesus and

Jesus transforming from the inside out.

And now I have a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking, a

new way of believing. So the message directly

connected to the activation of the message of the response in

terms of the water. Amen.

Amen. So I want to just jump right in

again. I want to thank our pastors for

the opportunity and the trust to share such weighty material in

this time. I'm always.

I was telling my son Adam earlier that, you know, I get

nervous doing this. You know, I do because it's

like, OK, Lord, it's not that God won't.

It's that God, I'm trying to do the best I can.

And when A and when a man is responsible for people's souls,

and he taps me on the shoulder and says John I.

Believe in you, but no God got a call on your life and they do

the Kingdom you've got to. That you've got to grow so go

for it. It, it just, it just the just

the, the privilege of that fills you with gratitude and awe and.

Repentance and responsibility and so many things that you

couldn't get any other way, but it gives it to you with your

head looking up now with your head looking down, which is

amazing. Amen.

So, pastors, thank you so very much.

In terms of what's? Going on, what's doing?

Our pastors are in the process of casting the vision.

For our church. A group of people who said we

want to support what you're doing.

There's a group of people back someplace across the border who

said come, we want to support what you're doing.

And so we so Amen. Amen.

It's something to be worthy. Praise, praise God for.

And let me tell you how powerful your giving has already been.

What he's showing them is a picture of what you've already

done. He's showing that our people

have already been investing. We're not asking you to invest.

We ask you to Co invest. Invest alongside of.

That's what your. Faithfulness has done and not

only that, but I believe more than receiving something from

people, they're being sent to give something to people.

To give hope that you can plant a church when people say you

can't. To give hope that where you can

plant it in the most broken down place people are ascribed to and

God can build and do something glorious.

The hope that if you follow and let the Spirit as a son, God

will bring people alongside of you to encourage you and to lift

up your arms. The hope you ready.

You know the biggest hope y'all had Y'all give people look

around it. Just turn your head and look

around at each other. What you see here, you don't see

no place else. Now what do you see here?

You don't see any place else the Bible says before the throne of

God in Revelation. There will be every trong, every

tribe, every generation, every age.

You all are the hope of what God's promised in in his word.

You're being here. So when he goes back and shows a

picture of y'all that's part of the church we are, it gives

those folks a hope that the promise God has can be realized.

We may have to stretch, we may have to grow, we may have to

love, we may have to be accountable.

But God can do it. Father, we thank you for your

favor and your grace upon our pastors that are there.

They speak words of wisdom and words of life.

Your anointing God, demonstrate that you are with them.

Demonstrate by your presence, demonstrate by your grace,

demonstrate by your power and their words by the love in their

eyes. Demonstrate God that you are

with them in that space and give them words to edify the leaders.

Give them words to uplift the people that are there.

Give them words that minister hope.

God, the river is flowing and let life flow from the river and

all the people that gathering around today.

In Jesus name, Amen. Amen.

Amen. Amen.

Amen, Amen. Amen.

Pastors, you know we love you and that's important because I

was using some of my preaching time for that.

Amen. The psychology of deception.

I'm going to. Review a little bit and get back

to the new news, right? It's kind of like TV.

We left here at a cliffhanger at 9:30 and you come back to the

next episode. They do a little review what

happened last episode, then get right into it.

Right. So I'm going to review by going

over the topical statements #1 the nature of deception reveals

the psychology of deception. So we talked about the ways

enemies trying to deceive give you another Jesus, another

spirit, another gospel, trying to trying to get you not to love

people because God is love. And when you grow cold in love,

you're going cold in God. When you become distant in love

to becoming distant in God try to deceive you about the Holy

Spirit. Why?

Because the Holy Spirit is the one who comes to live in our

hearts to put the love of God in our hearts.

So if you would like this with the Holy Spirit, tell it to my

hand. What you're doing is telling

stop. I don't want the love of God in

my heart. I don't want you in my heart

depositing the love of God in that way.

And when the Holy Spirit puts the love of God in your heart,

you also bring sonship and adoption in your heart.

It's knowing that you love. Perhaps you better see how God

values you as a child. So the deception is to get you

to deny the love of God so you can deny who you are as a son

and not even know God as a father.

That's all part of the deception.

If I know what you're trying to do, then I have a better sense

of your mindset and trying to get me to fall for it.

If I see it coming, then I got a sense of the mindset.

I need to avoid it and walk away from it right then.

Then we also said if the separate can separate you from

love, it can separate you from God because God is love.

I did summarize that deception separates you from love by

separating you from the Holy Spirit, because your love comes

by the Holy Spirit. Psychology now psychology of

deception. That's my charge.

But psychology is the meeting of mindsets.

It's when 2 mindsets meet together.

You can never have psychology on your own because you're not

autonomous. What does that mean You never

come up with nothing original. OK people were designed to be

dumb terminals. OK what's a dumb terminal?

Anyone know technology here? Computers.

A dumb terminal is a a box that only has no real intelligence.

They really be are just vehicles for what the mainframe is

telling them. I'm not running my own program.

I'm just letting the mainframe communicate to be the program to

run. We were always designed to be

LED. We was always designed to have

someone inside of us living to help lead us and guide us where

we need to go. OK, right.

With that being said, a psychology then is a meeting of

mindsets. The mindset of what's in you and

the mindset of what someone's coming at you with.

OK, so it's a meeting of mindsets.

Psychology is also a system that reinforces mindsets through

agency, truths, processes, and outcomes.

We we said particularly agency means.

What's the big fancy word for you?

Participate in it. Psychology requires you to

participate. You don't come up with stuff on

your own. You have to be involved with

someone giving it to you or someone bringing it to you.

And psychology is a system that reinforces mindsets through

agents of your participation, truths and quotes.

Why? Because it's the truth to you,

whether it's the truth or not, through processes and outcomes.

Now, when you see all of this, what it suggests to you is that

that psychology of any kind in particular takes time to build,

takes time to deepen, takes time for it to really take effect.

So the psychology of deception is when the mindset of the

deceiver and mindset of the deceived come into agreement,

the mindset of the deceiver and the mindset of the deceived come

into agreement. So the person who's deceived is

not a victim. The person who's deceived comes

into agreement with this active agreement or passive agreement.

They come into agreement with Deceiver.

OK man, what you doing? That little fat finger thing

happened. Fat finger.

My finger did two things at once.

That's what I meant. I heard.

I need to explain that I guess. OK.

And it's, and, and it's reinforced.

So psychology of deception is when the mindset of the deceiver

and the mindset of the deceived come into agreement and it's

reinforced through active participation, truth processes

and outcomes. Just a summarizing of all of

those things. Mindset is key.

Why? Because if I can get your

mindset, I can get everything you got.

I get your bloodline, I get your future, I get your past, I get

your present. I get, I get you everywhere you

go because wherever you go, your mindset goes with you.

If I can get you to hate yourself in 2 minutes, I don't

have to stand around hating you because you carry the hate for

yourself wherever you go, OK? So mindset is important.

Your mindset is your life, your bloodline, your eternity.

The deception or the deceiver does not 'cause the deception,

it merely explodes, it merely exposes it.

OK, what does that mean? Is deception already in you?

When deception comes, it really exposes the deception that's

already in you. That's important to know because

that again means that you have agency.

You participate in being deceived.

You've already deceived yourself on some levels, and that creates

the space within you to be deceived.

OK, got it. The deception or the deceiver

does not 'cause the deception, it merely exposes it.

It was already there. I want to go to James 113 and it

says this. Let no one say when he is

tempted. I am tempted from God, for God

is incapable of being tempted by what is evil, and he himself

tempts no one. Verse 14 But every person is

tempted when he's drawn away, enticed and baited by his own

evil desires. It's already in you.

You've already meditated on something you've already said.

Man, I'd like to get that. Here's an example of evil

desires and action from the scripture.

There was two sons. One son said, I want my money.

I want to go do what I want to do.

OK. Father said, fine, I give you

your money. Give the other son the money.

The one son took the money. He went out and he spit it on

righteous living. I'm not going to say partying

because partying belongs to God. Stop giving partying a bad name.

Let's reclaim that. He went out drinking and

drugging. He went out sleeping and

slumbering. He went out all of that doing

OK. We ran out of all that.

He came back home. Father saw him put a ring, put a

put a robe on him, put shoes on him, had a party and the other

son said this what's going on? You mean this guy went out and

used all of the here and that's how you receive him.

But he's just telling you, it was like man going through the

same thing, but I thought I would lose my inheritance and my

favorite with you, it seemed like they didn't lose it the

whole time. I already, the other son already

had the thoughts of the same thing in him.

It just had not produced the same way it had produced

separation from his father because his father said, don't

you even know me? It may not have produced

separation in terms of certain behaviors, but the same

separation that the one son had in leaving the other son hadn't

stayed because of the mindset that was inside of them.

OK, so deception works. The deceived participates from

something that they're already deceived by.

They've already yielded to deception.

They've already participated in building it on the inside that

deception is not an error, it's not a mistake.

It's not being tricked or being lost.

Well then, what is deception? We're going to get to that.

An error suggests a factual incorrectness.

You got a fact wrong. Your intention is right, but

your facts are just off. That's an error, OK.

You made the right judgment based on the facts.

It's that the reason the outcome is is inadequate because your

fact was wrong. Based on the facts I had, I made

the right judgment. So it's not an issue of error

judgment. It's an issue of error and

facts. That's what the error is, a

factual incorrectness. A mistake suggests judgment,

incorrectness. I got my facts clear, but how I

interpreted how they should be applied, I made a mistake.

Here's an example. You look at that street, got to

cross the street. Fact is, that car hit me.

It's going to be a whole lot of hurt.

I see how fast it's going. I know how fast I am.

I think I got this. You got it.

Then you cross the street. Well, in the story that I don't

like to eat, kill people, my examples.

OK, but the idea. But if something were to happen

in that point, it's not a error. It's a mistake.

My judgment was applied improperly.

I had all the facts correct. I knew my speed.

I could see the car. I judged that I would be able to

get through when I couldn't. OK, so a mistake is not

deception. Error is not deception.

Being tricked is not deception. Being tricked is the temporary

mistake in judgment based on partial truths that's connected

to the actions of others. You don't really trick yourself.

You need someone else to help trick you.

There's a partial truth they have.

They add it with a little something else and bring it to

the party. And what?

It's a temporary mistake in judgment.

OK, magicians doing something. So where is it?

It's in your hand. No, it's in my pocket.

Oh, I made a mistake in what I thought was happening there.

How I judge things were moving. OK, Partial truth connected.

Amen. But the intention of being

tricked is not to be tricked. It's to be truthful.

That's those what separates those elements.

No one says trick me trick me, trick me please trick.

Me. Trick me.

No one says that. That's the guys in the subway

who lose all their money to the three car money anyway.

Being lost is a recognition of an extended error, mistake based

on partial truths. I mean, in order to be lost, you

have to already know the truth. If someone's driving to Chicago

and they're heading north, but they don't know that Chicago's

not N they're not lost. They think they're right.

It's not that someone tells you, bro.

Chicago the other way. Oh, because of the truth.

I see now that I'm lost, OK, And I've been on this extended

journey of this for a long time. Does that make sense?

Lost means I've been on an extended journey, if you will,

of error or mistake, but I've come to recognize it based on a

confrontation with full truth or revelation.

That's what being lost is, being lost, not being deceived.

So what's deception? Welcome to today's episode.

Deception is a mindset and practice allegiance to a lie and

the partial truth is based on. OK Deception is a mindset and

practice allegiance. Remember, mindset and system

practice allegiance to a lie and the partial truth.

You're not trying to get the whole truth because the partial

truth serves you and living your life.

I have an allegiance to the lie and the partial truth is based

on got it. It refutes account, refuses

accountability. Full truth of revelation.

Deception is saying I don't want to be corrected.

I ain't trying to be corrected. The lie and the partial truth is

serving me. Deception responds to truth this

way. I don't think you have it right

because my truth says this deception is like pride.

It can't even, I won't say it can't see.

And put it this way, pride can't see itself in a different way.

Pride is more about how I think I how I think I can do stuff.

Attributes deception is we're going to get to this war with

identity. Both of them.

The very nature of them make it difficult for you to discover

them. That's why you need intervention

from God to deal with them. Amen.

Deception is a mindset and practice allegiance to a lie.

Being tricked or loss is based on error or mistake about what

you think God has done. Being tricked is about what God

has done. Being lost is about what God has

done. The I want to flip something

real quick, but deception is different.

Put that next slide up. Deception.

No, not that one, the one before that.

OK, you didn't get the download on the new one.

Let me Here we go. Again, being tricked to loss is

based on error, mistake about what you think God has done.

But being deceived is based on a continual allegiance to a lie

about who God is. Deception is based on a

continual allegiance to a lie. And the partial truth is based

on about who God is. Deception is coming after

identity, not outcome. If I can deceive you about who

God is, I don't have to deceive you about the outcomes that God

produces. Deception is coming after

identity, not outcomes. OK, the Bible says this.

We're going to talk about this, the story of Adam and Eve in the

garden. Bible says that the woman was

deceived, but the man was not. The woman was deceived, but the

man was not. So in essence, what it says is

the woman was deceived, but Adam rebelled, Adam 1 deceived, Adam

just rebelled, Adam just and what you going to do about it?

OK. That's why sin injured because

of Adam, not Eve. Death injured because of Adam,

not Eve. Death reigned because of Adam,

not Eve, because the woman was deceived.

And being deceived doesn't mean you die, OK?

It does mean you have to get some things corrected in order

to live, but it was Adam that wasn't deceived.

Want to go to Genesis 3 verse 3. So we're going to break this

Genesis 3:3

down as Adam and Eve thing. It's not a serpent that was more

subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field

which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, can it

really be that God has said you should not eat from every tree

of the garden? Can it really be that God has

said, now this is really interesting to me.

Who did God give instructions to about what to eat in the garden?

How does how does the Satan, the serpent know that even the

conversation was had? It's the way you think.

The serpent was no Marco Polo. That means you're not there yet.

You just like you. Pull up Marco Pulley, who's Come

find me. Come closer.

Not just in the garden. It was present at the

conversation, right? Present either, at the

conversation, original, at the conversation, repeated.

When Adam repeated it. The serpent was there.

Adam understood the serpent was there.

Adam understood the context of the serpent.

The woman wasn't there yet because he hadn't taken them out

of the sides. She was there, spirit, but she

wasn't there physical yet. Adam was there.

He knew the serpent. He knew.

He knew like man. OK, OK.

Adam had to name all the things, didn't he?

Bible says God passed all the animals and things before Adam

right now. Adam named them this.

He said y'all tigers, male and female.

Y'all goats, male and female, right?

Adam named everything, right? God told him you have control of

all the plants and everything, right?

So presumptively Adam had to knew this alpha tree, OK, right.

So when the serpent shows up, either he goes this what is

this? I ain't named it and God ain't

told me what it was or I know who you are, you got it.

So either he knew or he should have known because he hadn't

named it and God, he told him about it.

OK, so in that moment at the serpent deceived and either he

knew what was happening with Eve was like, you know, or he didn't

know and should have known. But he's like.

I think I got this one. I don't need God help with this.

Either way, he's I'm doing my own thing.

OK, so Adam rebelled so that serpent said this can't really

be that God has said you should not eat from every tree of the

garden. Now, now don't be caught up in

it being a snake. Sometimes the word serpent can

mean used to describe the attribute of the entity.

OK, you got it. If I saw somebody that said man,

you a snake didn't really hit the ground, start doing like

this. Stop all y'all delivers people.

Stop. OK.

But what I'm saying is, no, it's an attribute.

And he says, what more subtle, beguiling.

That's a Serpentine attribute. OK, So it may have been the

figure of an Angel that that the Angel body.

I don't know. Don't I don't get caught up

whether it was a snake or not. OK, He says, can it really be

the God that said you should not eat from every tree?

The woman said to the serpent, we may eat the fruit of the

trees of the garden, except the fruit of the tree which is in

the middle of the garden. God has said you should not eat

of it, neither shall you touch it lest you die.

She's just giving her understanding of the what's

being described, right? OK, Now the Bible also says that

after they ate, she turned and gave to Adam.

Adam is there. The whole conversation.

She just said like, I got to go run and get my husband some Adam

right there. She turned.

Dee Corona, come up here real quick now.

She's not, you know, she she has a petite form.

Come up on the side. She's not easy.

She's not easy. She's not easy.

Dee Corona. Dee Corona.

Dee Corona. This is my ACT.

This is my ACT, OK? This is my ACT.

OK, But she's telling you who she is right now.

She's a fairly petite woman. Look at the length of her arm.

OK, so she got the fruit. Amen.

If she got the fruit and turned and gave it to Adam, he's at

least this close. He's at least.

I'm just trying to show you Adam's proximity.

OK. Anybody push up on my wife as a

husband? I'm like, yo, bro.

OK. All right.

Exactly. Thank you.

Go ahead. Thank you, Deacon.

I'm trying to give you the proximity.

He was there. OK, now it says this can it?

This is what the serpent said. Can it really be that God has

said question? You should not eat from every

tree of the garden. What's the phrase You shall not

eat from every tree? Go to Genesis chapter 2, verse

Genesis 2:16

16. You may freely eat of every

tree. One word flipped is part of the

deception. Remember a lie based on a

partial truth. The serpent said.

Did he say you shall not eat from every tree?

God said You may freely eat of every tree.

I mean, you got permission to do what you want.

Where'd the shell come in? But you shall not eat of this

one, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and

blessingly calamity. He told them what the

consequence was. You shall not eat, for in the

day of it you should surely die. What he's saying is there is.

I'm not telling you you can't eat from it.

I'm telling you that if you eat of it, you're surely going to

die. Bro, it's up to you.

How do you know that? Because it says May in the first

line. May is permissive.

You can eat from whatever you want.

You can eat from the death tree, the life tree.

It's your choice, right? But I'm telling you, if you eat

from that one, you should surely die.

So I'm telling you you shouldn't eat from that one because you're

going to wind up dying. It's going to do these things,

but they're going to lead to death.

That's what God said. So you see how the deceiver took

a partial truth and put a lie on it?

You shall not eat from every tree when God says you may

freely eat from every tree. This is critical.

God said I'm giving you everything the enemy posted as

He's keeping it from you. You shall not versus you may

freely. How do you see the direction of

God? You shall not, or you may freely

God, you shall not fornicate outside your marriage or even

even marriage. Before marriage you should not

have a you have adultery. You keeping all the pleasure

from me or are you? Keeping something for me.

How do you perceive the command and direction of what God is

saying? Ready.

Deception goes to identity. If I believe you keeping from

me, then I believe you're not for me.

And if you're not for me, you don't love me.

I can't trust you, and therefore I got to make up my own way.

I'll live that way because I believe you can't trust me.

I can't trust you, and I believe you don't love me, OK?

And getting the corrupt God's love for you is more important

than what God does for you. If a loving father does

something corrupt for their child, the child can say that

action was corrupt. He gave me vanilla ice cream

when I like chocolate. But I know my father loves me

and I know he knows what my favorite flavor is because I

know he loves me. I know he loves me and act that

I may think is corrupt, get swept to the side and properly

contact it because I know he loves me.

But if I get corrupted in that, he don't love you.

Yeah. And that's why you gave me

vanilla, because you don't love me.

And that's why you're not for me, because you don't love me.

Now, if I can corrupt the love, it corrupts everything that

flows from the love without you having to go and deal with every

individual instance. It caused you to question the

doubts when he walks through the door and says I got something

for you. I know you don't love me, so

must be a curse is coming right? So the Eden is trying to corrupt

that love of God in terms of that and it says this Genesis 3,

but the serpent said to the woman you should not surely die

for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be

open. He already told him that he's

not giving the information, but you see because it's postured

after a question. He suggests.

I know stuff that you don't see. God ain't trying to tell you

this. I'm letting you know what's

going to happen. God's keeping information from

you. You got it.

So again, Eve wouldn't have been around for the direction.

So the question is, did Adam tell Eve?

Adam must've she? Eve must have known, found out

about somehow, because she wasn't physically there at the

time, right? So you must have said something

to her. Did He say it right?

She said right, that they repeat the prophetic word without

adding any color to it. So they got it straight.

Did they begin to add color to it when they heard it the first

time? If you know, you know, and you

will be like God. Here's part of the deception.

He says if you do that, you will be like God.

Now remember when God talked about not eating, eating that

fruit? He didn't say you're going to be

like me. He didn't add that part to it.

Everything else the enemy put here, God told her already and

you're going to be like God, right?

Genesis 326 God said let us Father, Son and Holy Spirit make

mankind in our image after our likeness.

So God created man in his own image, in the image and likeness

of God. He created him.

Well, he was still inside of Adam.

Come on now. Male and female, He created

them. Though she was not physically

apart from him at that. In the reference to that time he

already had told her. You and my image and likeness as

well. The enemy trying to convince Eve

of something she already got. She don't.

God trying to withhold identity from you.

He's trying to deny you who you are.

He don't want you to really understand who he is.

He's trying to keep stuff from you.

You can't trust him. Who told you you'd be like God

now? You got it.

And then based on those deceptions and tricks and those

kind of things, Genesis 3C36 says this.

And when the women thought that the tree was good for food and

it was delightful to look at, she knew that already.

God already told them you may eat of it, which means this or

eat the food tree. She knew it.

You know God don't do JT's work, right?

She knew the tree looked good. That's why I got to be aware of

deception because it just Jezebel got dressed in the

finest for a reason because Jehu knew God don't make some janky

stuff a tree to be desired in order to make one wise.

Where did that come from? You can be like God.

You see how the deception is now?

There's wisdom I don't have, the stuff I don't have.

God didn't give me everything to be like him.

There's a wisdom I need that He didn't give me.

So now she's adding something to it.

Partial truth lie based on partial truth and she took of

his fruit and ate and she gave some also to her husband and he

ate. That's called allegiance.

Now I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try to get everyone

else I know to do the same. She don't turn to say Adam man,

is that true what he said because she said I got this.

I don't need your invention, Adam, I got this.

I'm going to do my own thing, separation from God, that God

loves you. All those kind of things come

into play. Trick or lost, people are

willing to change, deceive people or not.

It's called the love, humility and accountability factor.

What keeps you from being deceived?

Love, humility and accountability.

So the psychology of deception is to keep you from a place of

having love, humility, accountability.

The psychology of deception says you can do it on your own, man.

Are you good as anybody else? Who was you?

I know they, the pastor, you can preach.

Good as them, where they come from.

How do you know what makes them so much better than you?

You got the Holy Ghost too. You got everything too.

You don't need nobody else, man. They don't even understand what

your gifts are. You got it.

Trying to separate you from accountability and humility.

That's the first thing. I'm going to do that before I

drop a deception on you. So I give you the deception.

It's like giving you the stink bomb before I had your nose to

climatize the bad smells. If I'm going to drop a stink

bomb in your life, I'll walk you past garbage yards and junk

yards for a while first, OK? I take you to eat blue cheese.

They got that little smell to it.

I take you to eat black mushroom fungus.

Shout out to my family because they got that little smell to

it. Salty fish because they got a

smell to it. Now you're used to kind of

pungent smells. When I drop a stink garbage bomb

in your life, you receive it better.

OK. I don't lead with the deception.

I lead with the changing of your willingness, the accountability.

I start to make you look less accountable first.

Then I'm going to drop deception in on you, right?

And you don't want the accountability.

It feels good to not have that accountability, to be free.

So you participate in it. That's why the deception takes.

Man, you know, there's a freedom in the word.

You know, why would this is free, don't you?

Yeah. The question what he's saying is

because you know you're not as free as you want to be here.

You're right, man, you're right. You see me, you see me.

I'm glad someone sees me. Deception.

So the deceiver, there's steps, Deceivers and the deceiver have

deceiver. Step one, deceiver.

Step one is to meet you where you are, to come to you.

The serpent came to Eve. You will never willingly go

someplace to get deceived. Deception got to come to your

door. Which means what?

You leave doors open, You leave windows open, You leave

invitations open, You let people stay too long.

Deception always comes to you. And if it's coming to you, it's

going to come. How?

Not as a stranger, because a stranger, you know, to be aware

of it comes with it comes to do something for you that you want

to have done. It comes in a place of utility

or or mammon of some sort. Why do you get in a Uber?

Because it's giving you a ride, not because it's a stranger

picking you up. It does.

It's doing something for me. OK, so so when it comes, that's

how that's how it comes. Step one.

Meet you where you are. Come to you.

How does that? How does that play out?

I'm your friend. I understand you folk at this

other trip, they don't understand you.

I get you. You know, I feel sometimes that

I feel agitated. What are you?

I feel agitated like you. I'm coming to you, OK?

Step one. Step 2.

Deceiver is to separate you from others.

While we go, have coffee, just you and me.

While we go out, just you and me.

OK, well, why don't we go ask the person who just knew in

church to go with us, not the elder who'd been here a long

time. They can tell us the truth.

Now you're with someone else, but you're effectively just you

and me. OK, separate you from others.

If the serpent is here, it's Bible says that Eve turned and

gave to her husband. So there's a there's a

suggestion that she's this way. Does that make sense?

OK, because he turned and gave the enemy speaking this way,

separating contact and intimacy with her husband.

I just want to talk to you on this side over here.

Can you come talk to me over here real quick?

You know, some people talk to you when you're like, your

spouse ain't around all the time.

You know, some people wait until accountability.

People ain't around to come talk to you, separate you from

others. Deceiver.

Step 3. The deceiver must show

themselves to be trustworthy from another context.

My first thing in deception is to show you I'm trustworthy, not

to deceive you. How did the serpent do that in

the Adam and Eve story? Has God said so?

What does that tell her? Oh, you know who?

God. Is so God ain't a stranger to

you? So if you know who God is and I

know who God is, I guess I can trust you because you say God

trust them who God is. You know, because God said I

know God talk. I know God made all the trees

trust me. I, I, I met on the end with you.

You trust me. So they try to get trust to

themselves from another context. That's why you got to be aware

of familiar spirits. You come to a church and someone

trying to say, Hey, you like snowboarding like I do.

I pick snowboard because that's my son, not here to see, but

it's safe. I don't want to get anyone upset

and leave the church on my example.

So I said, baby, you like snowboarding.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, man, I know a lot

about snowboarding. You know the truth about

snowboarding. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, the pastors, they're trying to control you.

Well, you've been truthful about snowboarding.

I guess you're telling me the truth about this too, because I

know you'd be trustworthy in a different context.

And the familiar context, whether it's the church hurt

context, step #4 present truth in part.

The sea was lead with truth, man.

You know you're born to be great.

Yeah, because that's the truth. God made you to be great.

Man, that's psycho Babble. That's that kind of thing.

Go to the Bible, get Jesus. The Father says I shall make

your name great. I shall make you famous.

It was God's idea to put you, to make you go viral, not the

devil's idea anyway. Present truth in part.

What does that mean? Withholding information,

creating false. This is psychology and

deceiving, right? These steps are like, how am I

trying to get your mindset ready to be impregnated with deception

so that way it corrupts your thinking so you carry it with

you, perpetuating it as you go. Where does the allegiance to the

lie come from? Not from the data of deception

from the person who gave it to you.

This is my friend, this is my friend.

My allegiance to the lie comes to my allegiance to the person.

This is my friend. They know me, they get me.

They brought me here. When no one else answers my

call, they do allegiance to the person.

So you withhold information, you create a false impression in

what the what the serpent said. All of the data in there was the

data that was in what God said. But they tweaked this and

tweaked that to give a false impression about who God was and

what His intent was. You ready for this?

I'm not saying they trying to control people.

That's not what I'm saying, but that did tell you exactly what

they're saying. Misleading, create a fault.

I'm not trying to say they're trying to control people, but

you know, I mean, they do things that's different.

You know, some people might call it control.

I don't. But I'm trying to create a false

impression with you right now by dropping control five times and

truth just once, misrepresenting the past, present or the future.

Talked about this at the earlier message.

You are not a Sinner saved by grace.

You're born again, you're new, you're a son or your daughter.

You've always been a son or a daughter in God's eyes.

That's why he gave a son for a son, gave a son for a daughter.

If he always saw you, was a Sinner saved by grace you to put

you in the trash where sin belongs.

He made you this image and his likeness.

You always bore his identity. He got if you and God's image

and likeness, and you say I'm a Sinner, then you say God's image

is a Sinner because he's made in it.

That's that's not right. Deception, partial lie, but

truth. Why do you have such allegiance

to believe in? That.

You're not a Sinner saved by grace.

Because I believe me when I tell me I'm unworthy.

I got allegiance to my own doubts, my doubt talk.

Because when I was a kid growing up, my mom told me I was a

Sinner saved by grace. I got allegiance.

To my mom and to throw that out and to throw my mom out, Oh my

dad out. The allegiance to it.

So misrepresenting the past, present of the future through

the use of a question to question your identity, God's

identity, God's love or God's goodness.

Have God really said you shall not this God man.

You think you think God can really love someone who's done

something that's really horrible?

The question question bomb. Make people earn the right to

put questions in your presence. Deceive step one, that's

deceiver steps. Now we're on the deceive steps.

Now these have already occurred before the deceiver shows up

because if deceiver ain't looking for a fight, they're

looking for a mark, they're looking for a target.

I ain't looking to have to wrestle through this thing

because why? Because once we start wrestling,

you may wrestle your way to the truth.

So I don't want to wrestle with you.

I want to know you're going to take it when I get it.

So I want to see you already deceived.

How you know you already deceived by how you talk about

yourself. You know, I'm just going to say

about grace. I think we got one deceived,

bro. Yeah, I've been saved since

Also, I'm just going to say about I think we got one to

casually know what God has said or to deceive yourself.

Step one for the deceived to casually know James one do not

merely listen to the to the word and so deceive yourselves.

Do what it says you deceive yourself when you just listen to

the word and don't do it. That opens the door for you to

be deceived. The casual listen to the word

Eve's recitation of what God said was a casual response, a

casual listening. It wasn't accurate.

She didn't check it. She didn't go back to Adam O to

God as a source. She said, I think I kind of

understand what it says for myself and I I casual

relationship with the word. It is the first place because

you deceive yourself to thinking you know something that you

don't. I'm going to tell you this.

You may meet this woman, Elder Roseanne, but I know this woman.

You see the difference? Some of you may casually met her

or Noah casually from Instagram. That'll mean you know her like I

know her. Casually with the word Step 2.

For the deceived, you prioritize results over identity first.

John 2 talks about the flesh, the lust of the flesh, the lust

of the eyes, the pride of life, assurance in one's own resources

or in the stability of earthly things.

That's mammon all day. OK, folks are outcome rather

than identity. That's how you get deceived.

If I listen, I know my wife loves me and I know her.

Come up and tell me something. Come up and tell me.

Yeah, I heard your wife saying, man, you no good, brother.

Come on now. Because I know her.

Now she may say I'm no good at doing dishes.

I might argue with that, but that might be true.

But to say it. But to say that I'm no good.

I know her. I know I should talk how she say

it. She said that you are really no

good. Shouldn't talk like that if you

know I shouldn't use that sentence structure when I know

her. It's hard for you to trick me

about what's being said. When I focus on outcomes, when I

focus on what I can get, I can be tricked and deceived by an

outcome from someone that doesn't have their intent and

heart. My best my have me in the best

intent. Jesus says this John 17, that

all of them may be one father, just as you are one in me and I

am in you, that they may be one as we are one identity.

Jesus about identity. You don't put accomplishment and

stuff over identity when you elevate identity.

It's more important for me to be a son than for me to be wealthy

keeps from being deceived. It's more important for me to

have a good father, son relationship that keeps me going

to the Father and keep the Father in my life to help me and

guide me and lead me. I perceive Step 3 is to believe

you know better and you got it. Now I know better.

I got this already. We already talked about that

with Adam, but I want to give you an Eve.

Galatians 3 says this. Basically, who's this who's

who's deceived you, bewitched you.

How is it you begun your new life in the Spirit and now we're

trying to reach perfection by the flesh.

That's the God I got us from here.

You save me by grace, but I'm going to get it finished in my

works. You save my grace, but I'm going

to prosper by grind. You save me my grace, but I'm

going to make sure my salvation is secure by serving.

Who's tricked you into thinking it starts by grace but finished

with works? Who's tricked you in terms of

that? Four, Take success out of

context and have too little gratitude.

Deuteronomy 8 says this. And beware lest you say in your

mind, my power in the might of my hand have gotten me this.

Well, God's brought people into place of provision.

Be watchful of you taking credit for what I've done.

Be watchful of you not being grateful, watchful of the

success time. If I can get you off on success,

I can get you off in in in downtime.

If I can get you taking more of the credit than you deserve,

then when they don't come, then you'll take more of the blame

than you deserve the credit. Times where I get you, not the

not the downtime, it's the credit time.

We're not seeing it coming. I gas you up and get your

thinking off and your understanding off.

Not like now that you've got to leakage to my error because of

my relationship when the downtime comes and I tell you,

man, you're just no good with that.

I guess you're right. Deceive.

Step 5 is to shun accountability.

Deuteronomy 8 says not Deuteronomy.

This is this is Ephesians. Before I believe.

And his gifts were varied. He himself appointed, gave men

something to be apostles and prophets and evangelists and and

pastors and teachers. He gave these people for

accountability. Why do you give these people?

How do you know all of these offices are still in operation?

That's a bigger conversation. Go get Pastor Terrence Book

crowned. He goes through it very well.

Maybe you can get him at the back of the day.

You can at least order it. It's well worth your read and

your time. OK, but he did these for the day

because they're bringing accountability to the body.

What does accountability produce, ultimately, Verse 14,

so that you may no longer be children, tossed to and fro

between chance gust of teaching and wavering with every changing

wind of doctrine That sounds like so.

You won't be deceived when the wind is blowing.

I put these people as accountability for you, to teach

you, to train you, to help you so you can grow to a place of

maturity, so you don't be deceived.

Their goal is not to teach you how to do.

Their goal is to teach you who you are in God, who you are in

identity, because if you have your identity, you won't be

deceived. I can.

Everyone in this room could come into this woman and tell her you

are not Roseanne. You.

Ruby was not your mother. You can't.

I know who I am. It's too late.

I can come to her and tell her. You are not Roseanne John.

You're my husband. I love you, but I know who I am.

Even my closest Allegiant partner can't deceive me because

I know who I am. Ready.

I know who I was born of. I know who my father is.

Accountability has come to help strengthen you in this, and I

want to close with this. Don't think deception is just

for fools. Fools can be deceived.

But the Bible says beware the simple too.

What's the simple? I don't know, I just I'm just

not trying to know anything. I'm just trying to be basic and

simple and I don't want a complicated life and I just

want. The simple can be deceived and

devoured as much as the fool can.

And the simple is worse because it's simple.

They they've been around the block enough to know gain, so

they really believe it. They really, really believe it's

the truth. The fool go, I'm a fool, so I

know. Let me check the game out and

see if it's really good. Oh, it had to be a good

deception to get me. The simple can be deceived by

small ones, not trick deceived. Deceived into living a life with

allegiance to a lie based on a partial truth that cause you to

doubt the identity of God. How does God deceive?

We're going to pray. He closes with prayer.

'Cause God to see he causes a relative to molest you and then

say where's? God.

He don't love you. Where is it causes a parent to

die before their time. God left you abandoned.

You know, he could do something about it.

Where's it in the Bible? Lazarus sisters?

The one who you loved, you see? If you really loved him, you'd

come right now, and if you don't, clearly you don't love

him then I guess. And what you, who you've?

Been to us is a lie, and that's your fault.

Then you deceive her. In this moment, we're going to

pray for all the ways that wounds and brokenness.

The enemies use that to cause us to have allegiance to a partial

truth and a lie. The truth is, yeah, my daddy

should have molested me. The lie is that God didn't care.

I want to speak to this very quick without being too callous.

Why would God let that happen? Because God knows who you are,

He knows who He is, and He knows the redemptive power of His

identity in your life. There's no damage a man can put

on you that God's identity living it.

You can't redeem this all. Remember I said thankfulness

earlier? God, why you putting me in the

family and it abused me. That wasn't my first choice.

But you know, there's a whole bunch of other families that

didn't want you, so I couldn't get you into the womb.

As broken as this family was, at least they said yes to the

moment because I knew I could redeem the moment into something

better once I got you in. I don't want to be calloused

with that, you know what I'm saying?

So, Father, we're going to pray right now, people, if you pray,

pray for people, you can just sit in your seat.

You can bow your head. Father, we thank you and we're

and we're rebuking all the deceptionist about how you love

us, how we're your children. Let's come through brokenness

and behavior. We're not so bad that you don't

want to be a daddy to us anymore.

We're not so broken that we can't be loved.

We're not so messed up or delayed that we can't walk in

who you've called us to be. We haven't been so slow.

I've been so just deceived and so on our own that when we come

through the door. You turn your nose.

Off at us and just like. Maybe I wish they weren't here.

We thank you, God. We break those deceptions that

have come in by hurt, come in by brought misplaced influence and

misplaced allegiance to people. Follow me.

Break the power of every deception that causes us to

doubt your love for us, who you are and who we are in you.

We break the power of every deception that causes the doubt,

the life, work and ministry of the Holy Spirit who's come to

minister their love to us and to bring us into relationship with

You as a follower. We thank you Lord, that all of

those are broken. Father, we repent of how we've

given ourselves to those lies, how we've continued to choose

the lie and maintain allegiance to it even when truth was

presented. Jesus, we know that You came to

walk the earth in physical form with people where they could

talk to you and and touch you. She would feel you.

And people still chose to have allegiance to a lie, even though

love Incarnate was present because the lie gave them power.

The lie gave them position. The lie gave them control over

their life, so to speak. So Father, we thank you that we

repent. If that's you, just nod your

head. Just we repent for every way

we've agreed with deception that everywhere we've deceived

ourselves and participated in being deceived because it was

working something for us that we thought you didn't care about

and couldn't provide is working something for us that prevented

us from having to trust you and be vulnerable to you and give

our lives and yield to you. We thank you God love, cast out

all fear so you flood our hearts and our lives with love to all

the broken places, to the deceived places.

God, you open our eyes to see. Father, you said to Peter, Jesus

said, my Father has revealed this to you, not flesh and

blood. Father, Father us reveal your

love and our hearts right now in the places where deception lies.

Father, Father, us, reveal your identity and who we are on you

in the places where deception. Lies.

Father, Father us reveal who the Holy Spirit is and how You sent

Him to be with us, and we can trust them and we can walk with

Him. He wants to lead us and guard us

and guide us and laugh with us and rejoice with us.

Father, Father us and send the Holy Spirit in a special way to

those areas that we've cut off. Father, we don't know how to be

undeceived, so we put ourselves into Your care to allow Your

power, Your Spirit to do the work for us.

And then once we are free, we commit to walk with you so we

can continue to walk free of deception all the days of our

life. Because we know you love us, we

know your Father, and we know you're a children in Jesus name.

Amen. Amen.

Amen. If you've received something,

give. God, a head clap to the level.

That you receive. Give God a hand clap to the

level that you received. Give God a hand clap to the

level that your neighbor has received.

Give God a hand clap to the level.

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