The Bible repeatedly warns believers to be aware of those who seek to deceive us spiritually.

In Matthew 7:15, Jesus said,“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” 
In 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, the Apostle Paul said,“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness.” 

So, while Satan has legions of demons in the world luring us away from the truth, he also has ministers of deception preaching in churches and teaching in seminaries. More often than not, these deceivers appear to be very religious, winsome, sincere, and devoted to God.

In 1 Timothy 4:1-2, the Apostle Paul said, “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron.”This departure from the faith is called apostasy—the deliberate rejection of the truth of God’s Word and the full acceptance of Satan’s lie–a position from which there is no return.

These warnings were not written for unbelievers, but for believers, to warn us how easy it is to fall for the less-convicting, easy-believism lies of the evil one. His goal is to deflect us from the daily disciplines of discipleship to prevent progress toward spiritual maturity. The deceitful spirits attract us with a unique religious fad, a different gospel message, or even a new messenger, and one level of deception leads to another until we are captured in Satan’s web of deceit. This, if left unchecked, leads to apostasy, and then into strong delusion.

How can a strong, unsuspecting Christian allow Satan to deceive their heart so deeply that they abandon their faith?

Refuse to learn the truth.
Avoid reading The Word. 
Stay away from church. 
Reject the whole truth. 
Justify your sinful habits. 

If you weren’t aware of the danger before, you are now: spiritual deception is around every corner. How serious are you about protecting yourself and your family from deception? It can’t wait. If you don’t take it seriously right now, then it’s too late. Know the Truth of God’s Word or fall victim to the king of lies. Our only protection against spiritual deception is constant prayer and a commitment to the truth of God’s Holy Word. Heed His warnings. It is possible to resist the deceiver and to live real in this age of deception.

In our second sermon in the series, “The Church Triumphant,” we will look at the subject of “Strong Delusion” – that deluding influence God will send upon those who refuse to receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.

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I believe in the second coming of Christ. According to the Scriptures, His return will be personal, visible, and glorious.

I also believe in the imminent rapture of the Church. On that day, those who died believing in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord will be raised from their graves and united with those Christians who are alive, to meet the Lord in the air and live with Him forever. No man knows the day or the hour when this will take place, but true Christians will live in imminent expectancy of receiving the call to “come up hither!”

Then, at the end of the Tribulation, Jesus will return with the Church to establish His Kingdom on this earth for a thousand years. The Antichrist will be cast into the Lake of Fire, and Satan will be bound for a thousand years. Israel will be restored to all the land God promised them, and Jesus Christ will rule the world with truth and grace. With the curse God placed on the earth removed, His kingdom will be marked by material and spiritual blessings such as the world has never seen before.

While the Messianic Kingdom will close with apostasy and rebellion, God will crush this final uprising of the ages, and Satan will be thrown into the lake of fire. All those who rejected the Word of God will be resurrected to stand before the Great White Throne Judgment and then cast into the lake of fire, where they will suffer forever. Then, there will be a new heaven and earth where righteousness will rule, and believers will enjoy God’s presence forever!

Our final sermon in the series, The Whole Christmas Story, is “The Soon Coming King.”   

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According to the New Testament, Jesus really was a man, born into the human race, yet He was also fully God. John 1:1 states that the Word is God and then in verse 14 we see that the Word John is speaking of is Jesus who took on human flesh and “tabernacled” among us. Matthew and Luke both tell of Jesus’ birth of the Virgin Mary and give His human lineage. It is difficult to understand and explain, but that is what the New Testament teaches. Jesus is God who entered the human race as a man.

Our next sermon in the series, The Whole Christmas Story is “The Son of Mary – The Son of God.”  

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The “virgin birth” – i.e., the “immaculate conception” was universally accepted in the Christian church until the “Age of Enlightenment” – when man’s interpretation and understanding of the Bible became more authoritative than the actual divinely inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word of God. Instead of man going to the Bible in search of God’s truth, wisdom, and understanding, man began viewing the Bible through his intellect and comprehension.

The Age of Enlightenment was the first step down the road to the liberal theology undermining the truth of God’s Word today, which is why only 37% of today’s pastors have a Biblical worldview. To deny the immaculate conception of Jesus is to deny the key component of the gospel, that God came to this earth in the form of a human being to redeem mankind from the penalty of sin. Therefore, to deny the incarnation of Jesus is to deny the authority of the Scriptures, which puts every doctrine of the Christian faith in question.

The efficacy of the gospel rests upon Jesus’s deity and humanity. Jesus had to be a human being to pay the wages of sins, but He had to be deity for His death to pay the wages for the sins of all who would believe in Him. If Jesus was born of human parents, He could not have been exempt from Adam’s sin, which means He died for His own sins, and not ours. The truth is found in John 3:16, John 1:1, John 1:14, and in Galatians 4:4.

We are in the middle of our sermon series entitled The Whole Christmas Story.

The title of this sermon is “The Sign of the Savior.”

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The commercial Christmas story is filled with fanciful myths, exaggerated legends, various cultural and geographical traditions, and a whole lot of fantasy and fiction.

While I’m not opposed to the seasonal celebrations that draw family and friends together, we need to make sure our children know the difference between a well-meaning legend about a man who brings gifts to those who have been “good” and the biblical truth about God who “so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in Him, (even if they have not been good) should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Many people consider the biblical story of a virgin girl giving birth to a son as a legend, for the ancient Mediterranean world was full of such stories of babies who were born of gods. Virgin births are also mentioned in other cultures, including ancient Greece, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

However, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, more than 300 prophecies began to be fulfilled – 48 related explicitly to the God-promised Messiah.

Micah 5:2 says, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from old, from ancient times.”
Isaiah 7:14: A virgin will conceive and give birth to a son named Immanuel, which means “God is with us.”

Last week, we began a new series of sermons entitled The Whole Christmas Story.

The title of this sermon is “The Seed of the Savior.”

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This Sunday at 6:00 PM, we will continue our study of Paul’s incredible letter to the Christians in Rome. In this sermon, we will examine Romans 6:14-23 under the heading “Behaving Like a Believer.”

Think about the glorious truth of this passage: Romans 6:17-18: “You were the servants of sin. But ye obeyed from the heart that doctrine which was delivered to you. Being then made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.”

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Today’s version of the Christmas story leaves out the very purpose of the birth of Jesus Christ. In other words, it makes the Christmas story sound like God failed in His first effort to make mankind in His own image—human beings who would love Him because of His love for them—and the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ was His “Plan B.”

Beloved, the whole Christmas story began even before Genesis. Even before He created the world, God determined to save those whom He knew would rebel against Him. In other words, the grand narrative of the Bible was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus of Nazareth—God the Father determined to reveal His love for lost mankind by sending His own Son in the form of man to redeem us from our sins through His sacrificial death. That’s the whole story of Christmas.

We must be very careful to get the whole Christmas story correct lest we get the gospel wrong, and lost people believe they are saved by their faith in Jesus Christ who died as a martyr for the Christian faith rather than the Savior of sinners that He was and is. Eternity is too long to be a little bit wrong!

With that in mind, I want to preach a new series of sermons over the next five Sundays. The series title is The Whole Christmas Story, and this first sermon is titled “The Sinfulness of Man.”

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This Sunday at 6:00 PM, we will continue our in-depth study of Paul’s letter to the Christians in Rome. In this sermon, we will examine Romans 6:1-10 under the heading “The Believer’s Position in Christ.”

Think about the glorious truth of this passage: Romans 6:11-13

“Likewise, you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.  And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

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For the first 200 years, America was the most admired and envied nation in the world because the core of Western Civilization was based upon the values and virtues of the Christian faith. However, since 1930, secular humanists have strived to remove any notion of a sovereign Lord from our heritage and to replace it with our loyalty to the global community.

While there are many reasons for this secular shift, those Holy Days and Sacred Traditions that once linked generations together, i.e., Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, have been replaced with secular holidays; they have been liberated from their original meaning and their value to transfer the truth to the next generation. The American culture that was based on the Judeo-Christian values of respect for human life and the golden rule has become an anti-God, antiChrist culture with no respect for human life and those who have the gold rules. 

Therefore, to survive as a nation, we must reaffirm the traditions of our Judeo-Christian heritage, and I pray for such a revival to begin in your house as you take the time to make sure your children know the truth about how God has blessed America.

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This Sunday at 6:00 PM, we will continue our in-depth study of Paul’s letter to the Christians in Rome. In this sermon, we will examine Romans 5:12-21 under the heading God’s Provision for Our Salvation, – “The Two Focal Points of Human History.”   

Think about the glorious truth of this passage:

“For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.”

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