The Psychology of Deception (9am) - 11.17.2024 (Elder John Swain Jr.)

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Amen. Amen.

Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

If y'all know my brand, right? I'm going to be on brand, OK?

She doesn't decree God. We thank you for your

faithfulness. You've just sung about God.

I believe you've been faithful to me, to generations before me

and after me. And then we come out of that

with her. Let your clap.

Declare your faithfulness. Don't just use your words.

Let your clap declare your faithfulness.

Let your clap declare your trust in God's faithfulness.

I'm telling you it makes a difference.

There's a clap that shakes a city.

There's a clap that shakes a country.

There's a clap that shakes a state.

I'm telling you, be consistent. Don't make false steps.

Hey, man, you can have a seat. You know, let's let's not just

pump you up cheerleading. There was a football team and

they Seattle Seahawks, y'all may know them.

And it was a run called the beast quake.

I don't know if you remember all that from what the years ago,

but the beast mode, right? But he had this run and the

people in that stadium were cheering so loud OK that it

literally registered as seismic activity in a lab miles away.

Their applause literally shook the earth.

Their applause literally shook the atmosphere where the systems

around them had to respond. When you get seismic activity,

what happens is the people at the seismic place, that's the

official name. People at the seismic place,

they say get first responders ready.

Because we don't know whether this is just something that's

small, something that's going to build, right.

I'm telling you, your Thanksgiving, your gratitude,

your applause can shake. Nations can change atmospheres.

Don't sell yourself short, right?

And then you're not doing God any favors with a little tepid

tappity. Tap, tap, tap.

God secured who he is. You don't have to check

Instagram to find out of his likes.

He like yourself. Hey, man, hey, man, what am I

doing right now? I'm really trying to get your

atmosphere engaged and encourage you as we talk about the remnant

and talk about giving, because giving is another way in which

you engage that very kind of faithfulness of God.

Amen. How many of you all are

currently tithing? Amen How many of you all are

either tithing or committed to tithing?

Amen, Let's finish strong for the to the end of the year.

If you are already tithing or committed to tithing, make sure

you finish strong to the end of the year.

Do yourself a favor and finish it out.

God says this, prove me, test me in this thing and see if I will

not open up the windows of heaven.

God says this is your distance from me.

God how is distance from you? How do we draw near to you?

He says this in tithes and offerings.

You forsaking me get back, return and doing that.

The New Testament says this, you can't serve 2 masters and also

says where your treasure is. That's where your heart will be.

Your tithing consistently is the way you can anchor yourself into

the faithfulness of God. Your faithfulness and your

tithing is a way to anchor and connect yourself to the

faithfulness of God. Are you paying for God?

Are you buying God though you're not?

But what you are doing is putting your treasure in a place

where that's connecting it with God.

You're putting your treasure in an eternal place.

You're opening yourself to generosity in ways that allow

God to flow through you in greater measure.

So make sure that through the end of this year, you'll be

diligent to that and it consistent with that.

Also too, we're doing a remnant project.

Ask God, pray, see God. God, how can I participate at

the end of the year in a different sort of way?

How can I give an extra cheer? How can I give an extra gift?

How can I give something extra generous?

As we move forward to the remnant project as the end of

the year, we got about 350,000. We're trying to raise in this

phase what we're doing right now.

Next quarter, we have about maybe another half a million to

go to through furnaces and things like that.

But our focus right now is about 350,000 or so.

And so let's finish strong. Let's finish strong.

Let the world know that we believe in the God we serve.

Let the world know that our gods were sacrificing for.

Let the world know that we willing to put our all into what

God is doing for us because God's putting all into us.

Amen. It's an opportunity that we

have, believe me. I want to tell you, one of the

things big investors look at is how much you've put in yourself.

How much skin do you have in the game?

Because why should I bet on you? Why should I invest with you

when you're not going to invest in yourself?

And it's not about getting other people, but it's about saying,

God, I'm investing in what you're doing.

We're doing it ourselves, God, we're counting together in

ourselves. And as you do, God sees how much

we're investing in what he's doing.

And that releases some other things in his life.

Amen. Amen, Amen.

So you have some different ways to give and there's some up here

you can you can do we we're going to change this.

We're going to put generous in front of everyone.

You can generously square, you can generously tightly, you can

generously E transfer, you can generously check and you can

generously give cash as well. Hey, man, And what, what if

you're one of those people that have said, hey, I haven't made

that commitment? It's never too late to make it.

It's never too late to make it. And I'm telling you, if you have

to make a choice, make a commitment to tithe even from

remnant, because tithing is going to create a lifestyle of

generosity. And before long you'll build a

wave after wave after wave of generosity and press special

giving opportunities like the remnant will follow soon

thereafter. Amen.

Amen. That was the place for a good

hand clap. That was a good preaching like

that. Ready.

We're going to check you give me a hand clap that measures what

responsible. I'm going to say we're giving

all of you checks for $50,000 today.

Pick them up at the at the at the back over there.

Like, give me a clap for that. Right.

Ready. Right.

You all have. You are going to give the church

check for $50,000 a day. Everyone of you leave it at the

back kiosk. There, now there you go.

Now there you go. There you go.

Yeah. Don't let the shout of the check

you get and outweigh the shout of the check you going to give.

Amen. Y'all, y'all, y'all picking up

what I'm putting down today. Let's just jump right into this,

right into this word. Today we have an opportunity to

share the Word of God. And I always thank the pastors

for opportunity to share the Word of God.

And I thank you for the way that they continue to increase the

degree of difficulty in sharing the Word of God with you all.

Y'all don't blame them kinda. But you know, it's one thing

usually when we get up here and I get up to share a word, y'all

don't know what I'm saying. Y'all ain't got no idea where

I'm coming from. So you have no idea where I'm

going and really just have expectations to receive, right.

But when the pastors say, yeah, Elder John, you're going to be

talking about the psychology of deception, I'm like, man, why

are you going to tell all them that?

You could have just told me, right?

So it's so it's a different lift and everybody know what's

supposed to be coming. Does that make sense even though

y'all don't know? No, I jokingly say that, but I

do appreciate our pastors putting trust in US.

And the, and the thing I'm I'm really appreciating this moment

is how he's trusting us to continue to move things forward,

right? They're saying we need you to

continue the work and move it forward, not just keep it where

it was to protect what was done. And so we appreciate these

times, pastors, we thank you, appreciate you.

Our blessings and our prayers are with them.

Can we just pray with them? Very quickly, they have an

opportunity to present the vision for our church and our

community and with a group of people who said we want to

support, we want to step up, we want to give in to what you're

doing. And so they're going to be doing

that later today. But I want to take a moment to

pray for that in this moment. It's connected with our

offering, not giving. Father, we thank you for your

favor. We thank you for your grace.

We hope, God, that the biggest thing that comes across is the

joy, the biggest thing that comes across, the joy of

serving, the joy of giving, the joy of building, the joy of the

Lord. Then we're a House of praise and

a House of celebration. Father, we thank you God, them

as they speak, men's hearts and women's hearts are open and

inclined done to them. God, we think that the heavens

are ready to respond, the angels are ready to respond, the earth

is ready to respond, and the atmosphere is ready to respond

in that space. And even more God than speaking

and sharing, in order for us to receive, let them release the

word that changes the lives of everyone there.

Let them release the word that amplifies the passion, the

purpose, the call and the generosity of the hero is God.

Let them speak a word, then fuels and fires the leaders as

to what God can do and to what's possible.

God let them transform the lives of the people and the leaders

that are there. Let them walk away more

encouraged even then they generously support what is that

we're doing? Father, we thank you in Jesus

name, Amen, Amen. Testimonies, testimonies,

testimonies. So let's let's jump right into

this. The psychology of deception, the

psychology of deception, the psychology of deception.

First of all, the nature of the deception reveals the psychology

of the deception, the nature of the deception.

So what does that mean? That means you got to see what

kind of deception you're talking about.

If I can see what you're trying to do in deceiving, that gives

me a better sense of the psychology that goes behind it.

Does that make sense? OK, so the nature of the

deception reveals the psychology of the deception.

So when we talk about the psychology of deception, we have

to look at the nature of the deception.

So 2nd Corinthians 11 pass is going to develop this more when

he comes back. But I want to just touch base on

this a little bit as to some of the kinds of things and some of

the aspects of deception that we see 2nd Corinthians 11.

I know it's a small print, but sometimes I like to get things

on just on one screen so you can see it all together rather than

switch to to different sides, right?

It says this. So Paul's talking to some people

who are questioning Paul's credentials.

OK, this is the Second Corinthians.

It's already a first Corinthians.

The first Corinthians. Paul wrote to them and said,

listen, y'all doing these mighty acts of power, signs, wonders

and miracles, but your lives are tore up, Your love walk is tore

up, your relationship to each other's tore up.

OK, you're not trying to strengthen yourselves and walk

in the way God needs you to walk.

There's confusion in your ministry, confusion when you

gather together because everyone's trying to show the

kind of gift they have. That was the first letter, this

second letter to Corinthians. So by that from that time to

this, apparently someone's come down and said, man, Paul don't

know what he's talking about, right?

Paul's talking, trying to manipulate you, trying to use

you, trying to draw you to himself.

He's not trying to follow what God is doing.

It's a nice writing to these people.

And he said, listen, I wish you would bear with me a while.

I indulge a little foolishness, so bear with me, he says.

I'm zealous for you with the godly eagerness and a divine

jealousy, for I've betrothed you to one husband to present you as

a chaste version to Christ. But I'm fearful lest that even

as the serpent beguiled Eve, everyone say Eve by his cunning.

So your minds may be corrupted and seduced from wholehearted

and sincere pure devotion to Christ.

So he's saying, listen, I've preached to Christ to you, I've

shared Jesus with you in a way that allows you to be wed to

him, for you to know who you are in him and who he is in you,

God's purpose for you. I've created an atmosphere for

you to know God, his Father, and even more to know his that he's,

that Jesus considers you his bride.

He's willing to give his life for you that way.

I've done that. I'm concerned, though, that

there's some corruption that's happening.

Having done that. OK, And why do I know there's

some corruption happening because of this?

Because you seem ready to endure it.

If someone comes and preaches another Jesus, you're

disqualifying me. But if someone come preaches an

easier Jesus, you're saying Amen, Amen.

If someone's preaching a softer Jesus, you're saying Amen, Amen.

If someone's coming to preach to you a Jesus, that's not

requiring you to love your enemies and just focus on loving

the people that love you. He's saying Amen, Amen to that.

He said, listen, I'm concerned because it seems like you're

very willing to listen to another person extol a different

apostle, a different sent one. If they going to preach another

Jesus to you, the one that we preach, or if you receive a

different spirit or if you receive a different gospel, you

going to tolerate all of that well enough.

So what he's saying here is this, there can be a deception

about another Jesus, another gospel.

Remember to understand the psychology of deception, you

have to understand kind of what the deception is, what's what

they're trying to deceive you from.

Sometimes it's not trying to deny Jesus.

Sometimes the deception is another Jesus.

Right, Yes, Jesus is love, but love wouldn't hold you

accountable like that. Love would stroke you and pat

you. Love wouldn't confront you with

a statement that says you brood, you brood Vipers.

Love would always be like, it's going to be OK, it's going to be

OK. See, that's another Jesus,

right? Jesus is love.

That means he's going to always encourage you and comfort you.

The Jesus that comes and turns over tables, that's a different

Jesus, right, Right. Jesus will come and turn over

tables as much as he would sometimes come in and, and, and

stroke you and pat you and all those different kind of things.

What Jesus are you preaching? What Jesus are you listening to?

Sometimes the deception is not in not Jesus at all, but another

Jesus or another spirit or another gospel.

What's another gospel? Hey, I know you think the way to

get to God is through Jesus and through the Father and and like

that, and I know you say God, I receive that by faith.

But then after you receive it by faith, you got to make sure you

serve. You see what I just said?

Now you've just received it by faith, so it can be by grace,

and now you're adding something else to it to qualify it.

I know you've received Jesus, but after you receive Jesus,

then you've got to serve. Now, do we preach serving right

here? Yeah.

We don't preach it as a means of salvation.

We say it's the place where you get to understand who you are.

And this discipleship that happens, it's not because of

what's required for you to receive Christ.

Does that make sense? OK, another Jesus.

So that's that's part of 11 type of this session.

Today we're going to go over 2 sessions.

So I'm really taking my time to set a foundation here, right?

So for those that are here getting the foundation, come

back and get the fullness of the picture.

For those that are here getting the foundation, when people come

who weren't here this morning, pray for them that they get up

to speed because I'm not going to actually do this kind of

foundation in the next next time.

Does that make sense? Why are you doing that?

Because you have to understand we're not just preaching to

people. We're preaching to atmospheres.

We're preaching to moments. OK, so the so the demons and the

enemies of God, that's going to be here for the next message.

They are here already, not people.

I'm talking about atmospheres. So we're setting a course for

all those that would listen to try to oppose the work of God.

Here is our foundation on which we stand.

Come fight that, right? And so we need to do this work

of setting this foundation. That's really important.

We're talking about deception. You need to have a solid

foundation if you're going to deal with deception in your

life. Amen.

Amen. So what is deception about

Jesus? A different spirit, a different

gospel. Matthew 24 says this.

And because of iniquity shall bound the love of many, shall

wax cold. Part of the deception of dealing

with this Jesus and this gospel and this Spirit is to create a

space where your love begins to grow cold.

Your love begins to grow cold. Matthew 2424 says this.

For there are false Christs and false prophets will arise and

they will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive and

lead astray, if possible, even the elect of God.

But can you go back to the the previous screen, previous verse.

That's Matthew 24. Go back to the next slide.

No, the one, the one after the the one.

Yeah, that's Matthew 24 St. chapter.

OK, go back to the previous one, Matthew.

Yeah. 12 it says the love of many shall wax cold.

Notice how cold love walk precedes false prophets

deceiving. OK, He's saying because of the

iniquity that's in the earth, because of what you see, because

it seems like it's not getting better, you ready?

Because it seems like the wicked never get punished.

Part of what's happening in that love of God growing cold, part

of what happens in that is you're saying this.

What matters is what makes difference is to serve God.

I see people who deny him being exalted and somehow having

success in the earth. I look at the character of

people who we esteem and who we profile.

And no one is dealing with the character issues.

No one's even speaking to the character issues as long as they

get what they want. That can make you get a little

jaded and cause your love to grow cold.

But notice it's the growing of cold in the love of God that

precedes the next slide, Matthew 24, 24 False prophets in Christ

will arise. So what they're trying to tell

you is the deception is trying to deceive you to not walk in

the love of God. It's trying to deceive you and

part away from the love of God. Because if I can deceive you

from the love, I can deceive you into the false prophets.

Because false prophets will do signs and wonders as well.

What's the difference between a false prophet sign and a true

prophet sign? The motivation, the love that

motivates it, That's the difference between the two,

right? It's going to be so close you

won't be able to tell based on what's happening.

The way you're going to tell is by the motivation, the source of

where it's coming from. So one of the deceptions is to

get you deceived out of the love of God.

Amen. Second Timothy 3 and this is how

deep the deception from love will be.

This is how deep man, why do you love people?

Why you forgive? Why don't you focus on you?

This, this know also that in the last days now we in the last

days now because Jesus said we was in the last days, He's on

the earth. So we know we in the last days

now, OK, for men shall be lovers of their own selves.

So they're going to transfer their love for God to loving

themselves. It's all about me.

It doesn't mean you're not supposed to love yourself

because the scripture says what's the two commandments?

Love God, love God. Somebody got to know it in the

room because you got folks here that know it.

Love God, love your heart, soul, mind and strength and then love

your neighbors. You love yourself, right?

So you do have to love yourself. So what's the difference between

that and this? OK, the difference is the focus

here is loving yourself. The focus there is loving God.

And loving God you come to love yourself.

And now that I know who I am and who how God, maybe I'm able to

love other people that way. The focus is not loving yourself

in the initial case, loving God with all your heart, soul, mind

and strength. Here's all about me, all about

how I look. Men shall be lovers of their own

selves, covetous boasters, proud blasphemers.

Disobedient to parents. Disobedient to parents.

Disobedient to parents. Disobedient to parents,

disobedient to parents. It don't say teenagers

disobedient to parents, it just says disobedient to parents.

My parents are dead. They're gone, but you know I can

still be disobedient dishonoring 2 of them even though they're

not here. It don't say parents that are

alive keep preaching John, keep moving unthankful.

What's unthankful great is your faithfulness.

You faithful forever God. Thank you for your faithfuls.

God be faithful and then I clap as this.

Are you really thankful? Unthankful.

Notice how unthankful perceives unholy.

Notice how disobedient the parents perceives unthankful.

What does that mean? Your parents may not have been

great parents, but are you thankful for the right they did

do? Are you thankful for the fact

they didn't abort you? Are you thankful for the fact

that they gave you the best? You don't know their story.

Maybe they was broken and they felt that they weren't able to

be parents to you. Are you grateful for, if not

your parents, the fact that God put you in that family?

Why? Because God has gifts in that

bloodline He's trying to get to you.

Are you thankful for what comes to the bloodline of your

parents? Are you parents?

Thankfulness unholy, without natural effects and shoes

Breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce despises of

those that are good? What's despises of those that

are good? Man?

Why y'all do all that celebration man?

Now just the club. Why you despise those that are

celebrating, those that are joyful, those that are that

acknowledging the goodness of God, traitors, heady, high

minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a

form of godliness but denying the power thereof is a power.

Ephesians says you need the power of God to understand the

love of God. Amen.

St. Corinthians 2 Timothy 4 says

this for the time is coming when people will not tolerate sound

and wholesome instructions, but having ears itchy for something

pleasing and gratifying. Why?

Because if the love of God won't satisfy you, nothing will.

You're looking for love in all the other places, all the wrong

places. You're trying to manufacture a

love that satisfies you, rather than introduce to the love that

God is. When I tolerate sound and

wholesome instructions, but having the ears itchy for

something pleasing, gratifying they would gather to themselves

1 teacher after another, to considerable number chosen to

satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold.

You are literally picking people to help you stay stupid.

You are picking people to help you stay stuck.

And how they amplifying your stuckness is the measure on

which you pick them. Now they don't say it that way.

How's it said? They understand me.

Their gifts speak to my gifts. So I'm only going to lift the

people who speak to my gifts rather than challenge me and

hold me accountable for my character.

Y'all got it? Let me do something really quick

here. So what's the point of going

through all of those scriptures is to set a scriptural

foundation for understanding the kinds and areas of deception is

trying to be perpetrated. Another Jesus, another gospel,

another Spirit, not the fullness of who he is, not the fullness

of the Spirit, not the fullness of the good news.

That is by faith and by grace stuff you got to add to it and

do to it the denominational. Oh, I'm sorry, I said the wrong

word. I think I did, didn't I?

Whatever my extra rules, I'm putting on it based on the group

I believe with. OK, that's one area of

deception. Then there's the deception of

the love of God that gets you to go cold in your love, walk with

people because now you're not looking.

You're looking for something that's going to entertain you or

something that's going to going to manufacture something inside

of you so you're willing to listen to false things and be

deceived more easily. You're looking for doctrine

that's going to fit what you already believe and what you

already want to do, not what God is saying, what God is telling.

These are some areas of deception, OK?

You need to understand it for the psychology, right?

Because if I'm trying to deceive you to do something, I got to

understand what actions I need you to take to enter into the

deception because. And that tells me how I need to

think, how I need to act, how I need to try to set you up,

right? So be so we're going to get more

into this, but we have to set up a little bit about the kind of

deception that we're going to see this happening.

Romans 5 says this. I'm going to back up.

If deception can separate you from love, it can also separate

you from God because God is love.

So I'm just giving you a capstone statement that talks

about what we read, the love of God, loving men growing cold,

right? Lovers of themselves and not

rather than lovers of God. If deception can separate you

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

Romans 57 says this. Let us love one another, for

love is from God, and he who loves his fellow man is begotten

of God and is coming progressively to know and

understand God, to perceive and recognize and get a better and

clearer knowledge of him. You want to know God better?

Love better. You want to know God better?

Forgive more so you can love better.

You want to know God better? Challenge yourself to love those

that don't love you. Challenge yourself to love those

that despitefully use you. Challenge yourself to love you

in the unlovable places of your own soul.

Love the way your nose looks rather than criticize how wide

it is. Love the way your curves work

rather than criticize how you don't fit this fashion or that

fashion. Love the fact that God called

you to do something that's not what not not a bro code or a bro

job. A finance job.

I've loved the fact God made you as a gift to do something

different. You want to grow in God, grow in

love. When you get to know Him better,

grow in love. He who does not love has not

become acquainted with God and does not and never did know Him.

For God is love. So the deception is trying to

separate you from love. Why?

It's separating you from love. I'm separating you from who?

So the temptation to not love is the temptation to separate you

from God. Understand the deception because

then you can understand the mindset.

The separate deception separates you from love by separating you

from the Holy Spirit, because your love comes by the Holy

Spirit. Romans 55 says this.

Such hope never disappoints or to lose or shames us for God's

love that's been poured out in our hearts through the Holy

Spirit. OK y'all, y'all tracking good,

good, good. Where are we going?

I don't know. I thought he was going there.

Romans 8 says this. For all who are led by the

Spirit of God are sons of God. For the Spirit which we have now

received, it's not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in

bondage to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption.

The Spirit produces sonship in the bliss of which we cry.

ABBA, Father, the deception is to deceive you away from the

work of the Holy Spirit, because it's the Holy Spirit that comes

and puts in your heart the understanding that you are loved

puts in your heart the understanding of God's love.

He brings with him the power to know and receive and walk in

God's love. He brings in him with the power

to know this love. Why?

Because it's only through this love can you really understand

God as your Father. So the deception to deceive you

away from love, to deceive you away from God.

And part of the work of doing that is deceive you away from

the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is the one that's

going to help you know this love, which means it helps you

walk in God. Amen.

So we see where the deception is coming at our love walk.

It's coming at our understanding of God as a father.

It's coming at our relationship with the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8 says this. The Spirit himself testifies

together with our own Spirit, assuring us that we are children

of God. It's the Holy Spirit that's

going to let you know that you're a child of God.

It's the Holy Spirit that's going to help you walk in the

identity of being a son or daughter of God.

And if you walk in as a son or daughter, you automatically are

connected to God's love. So the enemy's coming to deceive

you out of your sonship, coming to deceive you out of your being

a daughter of God. OK, How does he do that?

You ready? I'm just a Sinner saved by

grace. No, I'm a daughter of God.

I was. God never knew me as a Sinner,

He always knew me as a son. He said because I know you as a

son, I'm going to deal with the sin issue so we can walk

together. He never left me and saw me as a

Sinner. He always saw me as a son.

He seen me as a son is what moved him to give His greatest

sacrifice, His only begotten Son.

We are children of God, and if we are his children, then we are

heirs, also heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.

Why do I highlight that one? To show you I am a son on the

same level as Jesus. Oh, oh, it's blasphemy.

Beware of deception, trying to deny you out of your identity as

a son. I didn't say I replaced Jesus.

I didn't say I could do what he's done.

He's the one that chose to make me a son on this level.

His my father chose me to make me a son on this level.

He it was his doing. And if he was his doing, who am

I to say different Deception. It's an ears to fit your own

comfort levels to fit your own errors, he said.

Remember we read that right. Here's an error.

I don't deserve that. I don't deserve prodigal son.

I don't deserve to be called go be in my house with my father.

I'll go back and be a servant and be a slave.

I don't deserve that. God, I know I'm a son, but I

know I don't deserve to be a son.

Error. Where's the error?

If I am buying a car and I'll pay $100 million for a 1980

pacer, don't worry about what it is, it's an old car.

OK, If I pay just for you, If I pay $100,000 for a 1980 pacer,

OK right. What's the car worth?

Why? So who decided it's worth the

one who purchased it? Not the one who sold it, Not the

critics who sit on the sideline. They're going to tell me you

overpay, you a fool. It ain't worth that.

No, it's worth what I decide it's worth.

So if God's decided to make you a son, you a son and you're

worthy worth, you're worthy to be a son.

Stop talking about how you're not worthy.

Stop talking about how you somehow God, I don't deserve it.

Error. It's my son right here.

He don't have to deserve to be in his son.

He just is. If he don't feel he's worthy, he

still is. My son.

He was. It was about positional birth.

He became my son, not by any kind of worth.

He became my son. My loving him is trying to

convey to him the worst from his birth.

Not to create a worth, but he didn't have at birth be watchful

about the deceptions. I'm an air.

I want a son at the same level as Jesus.

God, don't go Jesus big son John little son.

He sees me as the son and of the same ilk, same kind, because he

sees me in him Deception. Now I'm not listen, understand,

I'm trying to give you a sense of what the deception it looks

like. So now so then we can develop

the psychology of perception, right?

Because once you understand what it looks like and where it's

trying to take you, now you have a better sense of the mindset

that's required to get you there.

And the mindset that gets into that gets activated, that causes

people to be there and stay there.

That make sense. OK, so we're still, so we're

still on message here. So psychology is the meeting of

mindsets, psychology of deception.

Psychology is the meeting of mindsets.

It's what mindsets meet. Like dogs in the park when

mindsets meet, how you dog lovers get that.

Psychology is also a system that reinforces mindsets through

agency, truths, processes, and outcomes.

They want to put truth in code because the truth Erin quotes

because they are perceived to be truths whether they are or not.

OK, so psychology is a meeting of mindsets and it's a system

that continues to connect these mindsets.

That's any kind of psychology, not just psychology of

deception. And in order to reinforce the

mindset, you need agency, you need truth processes and

outcomes. Agency, truth processes and

outcomes. So what does that suggest to

you? Let's let's deal with the word

agency, OK? What does agency mean?

Your ability to you participate in it.

Don't be like it just happened to me, Adam said.

This woman you gave me, she deceived me.

God, no, bro, you had agency. No, you don't want.

You chose that. You didn't.

No, no, no. The woman you gave me got a show

fault. I had nothing to do with it.

No, no, no. Yes, you did, Adam.

You make the choice. That's what agency means.

I participate in it. Psychology requires you to

participate. Truth processes and outcomes.

So what does it suggest to you if I got four things is to

suggest to you that deception is a process suggestion.

Deception don't happen in 30 seconds.

Deception is something that starts here and through a long

course of events will keep you to a place means that there's a

continued giving yourself to a psychology or to deception.

Does that make sense? So you don't pop up as being

deceived one day. You've been on that road a long

time and you've been participating in the deception.

It's not Someone was just deceiving you.

It's like, I don't know what's happening.

I don't know what's happening. Then you wake up, I'm deceived.

No, no, no, no. It's like this.

People say, man, can you lose your can you lose your

salvation, Right. No, you can't.

No, it's not a question. No, you can't lose your

salvation. Here's the idea where losing

salvation is. What did I do with my salvation?

Did y'all see my salvation? It was just here.

I don't know what happened to it.

Remember, no agency. I don't know what happened to

it. I woke up.

Where did I put it? Anyone know where I left it?

You can't lose your salvation. You can turn your back on what

God has done. You can reject him for what he's

done. You can say, though, I've owed

it, I don't want it. I may be an heir to the throne,

but I renounce the throne because I want to live a common

life. You can do all of that now, but

you can't. Just like, oh man, my goodness,

I, I lost myself. It happened.

I didn't even know what happened.

Deception is a participative process that occurs over time.

Amen. Amen.

If I can get your mindset, I can get everything that flows from

it. Psychology is trying to meet

mindsets. Psychology deception, it's

trying to connect mindsets around deception.

So if I can get your mindset, I get everything that proceeds

from it. If I can get how you think, I

can get everything you think about and everything these poses

think about. If I can get your bloodline, I

can get your life. I can get your eternity.

If I can get your mindset, does that make sense?

Proverbs 23 seven says this. For as a man thinks in his

heart, so is he. It's the scripture foundation

for understanding. If I get your mindset, I get

everything. Proverbs 423 says this.

Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that

you guard, for out of it will flow the springs of life.

Life flows from your inmost being.

If I can get your heart, if I can get your mindset, if I can

get your thinking on the inside and corrupt that I don't need to

be around you all the time. The devil ain't around you.

He just got your mindset corrupted.

So now you're walking crooked because you think crooked.

You see crooked, you perceive crooked.

He ain't got to be around If I can get your mindset, got it.

So understand the psychology is about a mindset and the mindsets

are about getting everything related to your life.

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

it merely exposes it. So when someone says I was

deceived, suggesting that it was all that deceiver's fault,

that's not accurate. The only way deception works is

if I'm already deceived. Deception exposes the fact that

I'm already deceived. I come to the party already

drunk, so it's not the drink I have at the party that puts me

over the edge. OK, it's important to recognize

that because then what you understand is you get a

responsibility to see what areas in your life how have you

deceived yourself. An enemy's ability to deceive

you begins with your deceiving yourself first.

Once you give yourself, once you deceive yourself, now you've

created a place for other deception to enter in James one

says this verse 13. 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. But every person is tempted when

he's drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desires.

Temptation don't happen from the outside, it capitalizes on your

corruption. On the inside, you already got

the evil desire. Temptation exposes it that it

created. You've already meditated on that

desire. You've already thought about

some things. Man, I just, man, I know I'm

saved, you know? But if I wasn't saved, you know,

whatever it is, if I wasn't saved, man, I take that job,

even though I know it's not kind of what God meant if I wasn't

saved, but I'm saved though. But you just meditated on a

desire that's apart from what God is trying to get in your

life. You got it.

It begins on the inside. It's already there, say, already

there, and that's where. And that's why deception is so

powerful. It hooks from something that's

already inside. Verse 16 says so do not be

misled, my beloved brethren. The desire on the inside

conceives and then gives birth to sin, and then sin brings

forth death, right? Deception doesn't automatically

lead to death, and that's part of the problem.

Because you haven't died, you don't think you're not.

You don't think you're deceived because you haven't paid the

ultimate price, because of God's mercy.

You don't believe you're deceived.

You believe everybody else got it wrong.

And anybody that's holding you accountable telling you that

those that that life that way, that perspective is leading to

death. You don't trust me.

You don't believe me. Why?

I've been living this way 15 years.

I ain't there yet. The mercy of God, you mistake

that and believe that there is no consequence for walking

disconnected with God. So do not be misled.

My beloved brethren, I want to, I want to get into this portion

here just a little bit because I want to tease you to come back.

I want to encourage you to come back.

Deception is not an error, mistake, being tricked, or being

lost. You have to know what deception

is. It's not an error, it's not a

mistake, it's not being tricked or it's not being lost.

OK. An error suggests a factual

incorrectness. I made.

There was an incorrect fact that I had.

That's what an error is, a factual incorrectness.

A mistake suggests a judgement incorrectness.

I had all the facts, but my judgement was off.

OK, I'm going to use athletics. I like football, so I'm a

quarterback and I'm throwing the ball.

An error is I need to throw it to the team who wears the other

color. Jersey.

That's a factual no, no, our jerseys.

OK, that's a error. A mistake is I was throwing the

ball and I thought I could throw it past that guy and I tried to

throw it. I thought I could get it in

there before he came and got it, but he was faster and I made a

mistake. In my judgement.

It wasn't. I didn't know not to throw it to

the guy in the other color jersey.

It's just that I thought I could get it past him.

That's what a mistake is. It's judgement, incorrectness.

Being tricked is a temporary mistake in judgement based on

partial truths that's connected to the actions of others.

Being tricked is a temporary mistaken judgement.

So you say I was tricked. That's not being deceived.

It's like I looked at some things and I thought the outcome

should work here. Ah, you got me.

Magician is that way. OK?

Hey, you see this in my hand and they have movement over here.

You got it. They're they're distracting you

in some ways, right, But you know that a woman can't be cut

in half and then like body spread apart and come back and

be like, see, it's like I never was cut in half.

We we know that don't happen, right.

But there's something about how it played out that caught me

that that kind of had a part truth because we didn't make a

mistake in my judgement. That's being tricked.

OK, being lost and I'm going to end here.

It's a recognition of an extended error or mistake based

on partial truths after being confronted with the full truth.

See, being lost is not a function.

The only way you know you're lost is if you really come to

understand what the truth is. If you don't know, if you don't

know that the place you're trying to get to don't exist,

you're not lost. It's only when you go, oh, I'm

trying to get there and they don't exist, I'm lost.

Lost is the recognition I've been in an extended error.

I've been driving the last 15 kilometers thinking I was going

the right direction, an extended error or mistake.

But I'm recognizing now the truth right after being

confronted with full revelation. I was supposed to be there 10

minutes ago, but I'm still not there.

Truth and revelation. That's what being lost is.

Deception is not error, mistake, not being tricked or being lost.

So what is deception? Deception is what we're going to

pick up at the next experience. OK, but what's the purpose of

all of this? The purpose of all of this is to

have you understand that deception is not something that

happens upon you. It's something that you

participate in willingly over the course of time.

And you continue to participate in it because it's serving a

selfish purpose of giving you what you want, the way you want

it, without accountability. Allowing you to walk in the way

you want to walk, please, in your own self, not having to

love others or forgive others or be accountable to anybody else.

Perception is the meal you make for yourself.

It's the bed that you make. It's not a bed someone makes for

you, put you in it. Don't happen in a moment on the

instance, it happens that you track with it.

Hey man, come back because it gets better.

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