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  BEING PROTECTED FROM DECEPTION
  by Randy Krahn
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of discerning false
prophets and staying true to God's Word in the midst of end-time
deceptions. It highlights the need to bear good fruit, be purified by
the fire of God's testing, and understand the parable of the sower and
the seed to deepen our relationship with Jesus. The message warns
against being deceived by false signs and urges believers to walk in
obedience, love, and genuine faith, not being swayed by worldly desires
or false teachings.

Duration: 36:46 Topics: "Discernment", "Faithfulness to God's Word"
Scripture References: Matthew 7:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 1 John 2:4, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 2:18, Hebrews 12:1, 1 John 3:2, Titus 1:16

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of discerning false prophets and
staying true to God's Word in the midst of end-time deceptions. It
highlights the need to bear good fruit, be purified by the fire of God's
testing, and understand the parable of the sower and the seed to deepen
our relationship with Jesus. The message warns against being deceived by
false signs and urges believers to walk in obedience, love, and genuine
faith, not being swayed by worldly desires or false teachings.

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Good morning. Lord, just pray that you would open our understanding to
the truth of your Word, that you would speak to us, that we would get
clarity on where we're at spiritually and where we are in the journey,
and whether we truly know you or we just know about you. You grant us
revelation in Jesus' name.

Amen. The scripture says in the last days that there's going to be a
great falling away from the faith. I hear a lot of different people
preaching today about this end-time revival that's going to sweep the
earth, but the scriptures say that in the last days are there few who
will be saved.

It said as the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man
be. In the days of Noah, eight were saved through the flood. It says the
flood came and took them all away, but Noah and his family were
preserved in an ark.

That's a picture of God's Word. That's a picture of being in Christ, and
it says that the world is now reserved for fire, and the fire is going
to test everyone's work, and those of us that are not purified by fire
will be destroyed by fire. I want to read from Matthew chapter 7 and
verse 15.

Matthew chapter 7 verse 15 says, Beware of false prophets who come to
you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves, and you
will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes
or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a
bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a
bad tree bear good fruit.

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the
fire. Therefore, you shall know them by their fruits. A lot of times we
are not, we're ignorant to what the devil's schemes are, because we'll
quote something like he was defeated at the cross, which there's a truth
in it, but yet on our part he seems to be gaining some victories and
winning some ground, and some of us have perished because we've not
taken heed to the things that we've heard, we've drifted away, and the
scripture says in the parable of the sower and the seed, and you can
study that on your own time, that there's four types of soil, and the
seed is the good word of God, and it talks about how the seed can be
received on thorny ground or on rocky soil or on a hard path or on a
good and obedient heart, and if we don't understand this parable, the
scripture says, how will we understand all the other parables? So my
encouragement for you is to go and ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten you
on the parable of the sower and the seed, so that you can understand
what Jesus is saying to us, otherwise we're never going to understand
all the other parables.

It is a key that opens up a way to understand the parables of God, and
so when we hear about in the last days that perilous times will come,
men will be lovers of themselves, it says in 2nd Timothy 3, lovers of
money, boastful, arrogant, haughty, unthankful, unholy, unloving, many
other things, traitors, headstrong, haughty, right, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, having an
appearance of being a Christian, looking like a lamb, but denying the
power thereof, in other words, the power of the Holy Spirit is not
manifested in their life, because the fruit that is manifested is all of
these things, and so if we take reflection on our character, and we
measure our character with the word of God, we can begin to see by the
fruit that is coming from our hearts, where we are in our relationship
with Jesus Christ, you will know them by their fruits, and people who
have bad fruits love to listen to false prophets who have bad fruits,
and the false prophets will tickle their ears, and tell them things that
the flesh wants to hear, because the flesh is fascinated with all the
things that are in the world, but everything that glitters is not gold,
there's fool's gold in the preachers, the false preachers will preach of
this fool's gold, and this is what they will come, they'll look like
lambs, as it says in the last days in Revelation 13, that the little
horn will make great boasts, right, this false prophet who looks like a
lamb, but speaks the fruit of his mouth, he speaks like a dragon, it
says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, it's not by
the gifts, that we can identify who is of the Holy Spirit, and who is
not of the Holy Spirit, just because you have power, it doesn't
necessarily mean that power comes from above, Simon the sorcerer, he had
some kind of power, the people who were working with the magicians
there, before Pharaoh, they had also some kind of power they were
working with, and so that is not a gauge, it says in 2nd Thessalonians
that the Antichrist is going to manifest with all kinds of false signs
and lying wonders, and he's even going to be able to call fire down from
heaven, well Elijah called fire down from heaven, and so there is an
appearance that this is going to be a true prophet, this is going to be
a true move of God, but it's just going to come with all lawlessness,
with all ungodly deception, and God's going to allow it to come to
deceive the whole world, and even people who are so-called believers,
who have not a love of the truth so as to be saved, and it says in 2nd
Thessalonians in chapter 2 from 9 to 11, in that passage God will give
the people a strong delusion, a blindness, a fog over their eyes,
something like cataracts, that they should believe lies, that they all
may be condemned who did not receive a love for the truth so as to be
saved, brothers and sisters, it's the truth that's going to set us free,
Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the
father but by me, and when he speaks that we can see the person of
Christ, but we also see the word of God, because the word of God and
Jesus Christ are synonymous one with another, Jesus only spoke the words
the father gave him, and so we want to come to understand this passage
of these false prophets, he says you will know them by their fruits, now
the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
gentleness, faithfulness, self-control, of these things it says there is
no law, but the gifts of the spirit are also important, but when we have
the gifts of the spirit we have to be manifesting the fruit of the
spirit, otherwise the faith that we possess is not genuine saving faith,
and we're working from pride, we're working from selfish ambition, we're
working from evil desires, and as brother Dan shared, the scriptures
clearly say that we have to crucify this flesh, we have to pick up our
cross, follow after the word of God, in denying ourselves the passions
and the fleshly lusts of our flesh, and crucify desires that are strong
in our in our members, so that we put on the new man in Christ Jesus,
that we walk worthy of the calling of God, this false prophet he comes
in sheep's clothing, he looks like a lamb, but he's speaking lies, he
speaks like a dragon, this serpent he lied to Eve in the garden, and he
told Eve a deception, and this is where we get light on this parable of
the sower and the seed, that we can believe deception, but we need to
understand the truth, you surely shall not die, you can rebel against
the truth, you can lie and and be deceived, and you can just claim that
you believe in Jesus, and you're going to be okay, you can continue to
swear and live like the world, and you can continue to eat and drink
with the drunkards, and you don't need to be faithful to what God has
called you to, and appointed you to, and you're going to be okay, this
is a deception, it's an end-time deception, in the last days men will be
lovers of themselves, recently had a revelation of antichrist in the
temple, and the Lord gave me a revelation of his name, it's spelled s-e-
l-f, it's the man who will not die on the cross, it's the woman who will
not pick up her cross and follow after the Lord Jesus, and be buried
with him in baptism unto death, it's she might receive or he might
receive a deadly wound from the sword which is the word of God, but they
live miraculously, they can be lukewarm Christians, and they can look
like lambs and speak like dragons, and they can love money, and they can
love Jesus too, and they can have it all, may it not be for us brothers
and sisters, in the last days men will be lovers of self, you know
wherever God's glory is, wherever Jesus wants to take a seat, that's
where satan wants to have his throne, the mystery of godliness is Christ
in you, as brother Dan shared, the hope of glory, that we would be
conformed into the image of Jesus, step by step from glory to glory, as
stars differ in their brightness, but the mystery of lawlessness is
already at work, this is antichrist, desiring to have his seat in the
temple of God, exalting self as being God, and we're waiting for some
guy to sit in Jerusalem, and we're waiting for someone to build some
temple over there, when the word of God clearly states, no longer will
you worship me in temples made with hands, do you not know that you
under the new covenant are the temple of the living God, as God has
said, I will dwell in them, I'll walk among them, yet we somehow hold to
the traditions of our forefathers, who are waiting for something to
happen in Jerusalem, and while the temple's not being built, we can live
like devils, we can live for the world, we can indulge in the lust of
the flesh, and there's many years yet, well the scripture says in Luke
chapter 12, he said, who is that faithful and wise steward, whom his
master will make ruler over all that he has, he said, if I come in the
first watch, or the third watcher, maybe the sixth watch, will that
servant be watching, one night this week, our alarm went on our door,
and there was motion there, and it went two times, at 4 30 in the
morning, and this scripture came to mind, and I awoke, I heard it going,
and I awoke, and I was looking on the cameras, and I was watching, I
said, Lord I don't want my house to be broke into, if there's no chance
for your house to be broke into, then you'll just be at ease in Zion, a
little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
while an enemy comes and robs your wife from you, robs your children
from you, you're paying child support, and you you want to blame
everybody, rather than look in the mirror, and say you know what the
problem is, it was antichrist was sitting in the temple, it's s-e-l-f, I
began to eat and drink with drunkards, and I just took my ease in Zion,
brother, sister, we need to make sure that our house is guarded, and you
need to have a stone hedge around of protection, God said he'll be a
fire around us, and the glory in our midst, we don't have to fear the
enemy, we need to fear God, and when you lose the fear of God, then you
need to be afraid, don't fear him who can kill body, but he said fear
him who has power after body's been killed to cast soul into hell, this
is for believers, this is for us, we don't need to have a false sense of
security, while we're listening to false silver-tongued false prophets
telling us lies, scripture says in 1 John chapter 2, I don't know the
exact verse, but it's around 20, who is a liar, the one who denies that
Jesus is a Christ, you know who he is, he's an antichrist, he denies the
father and the son, we can look at those verses, because I think it's
important, because Satan lied to Eve in the garden, he deceived Eve
through lies, and in the same way that Eve was deceived through lies, we
can be deceived by lies, it says in 1 John 2 verse 20, but you have an
anointing from the Holy One, we need to have the Holy Spirit in us,
brothers, sisters, that's when we're going to know all things, in other
words, in terms of discerning the truth, I have not written to you
because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and no lie
is of the truth, who is a liar, it is he who denies that Jesus is the
Christ, when we receive lies, we deny the truth, this is called buying
and selling in the temple, Jesus got angry when they were buying and
selling in the temple, they were buying sacrifices and selling and
making merchandise in the temple, when the house should be called a
house of prayer, and you want to know, it says in Revelation 13, it
says, no one, he causes all, small, great, rich, poor, free, slave, to
receive a mark on their foreheads or on their right hands, and no one
can buy and sell except those who have the mark, but it says in Proverbs
23, verse 23, buy the truth and sell it not, and it's also written,
Deuteronomy 6, it talks about teaching the commandments of the Lord to
your children and your children's children, and it says, bind them on
your hand and place them on the front lips of your eyes, we want to have
the mind of Christ, and we want to be doers of that word, not hearers
only, deluding ourselves, not like the foolish virgins who never counted
the cost, and didn't have the extra oil in their vessels, when do we
sell the truth, when you buy a lie, we all see in part, brothers, but
when truth comes, we have to reject lies and embrace truth, Jesus is the
truth, his word is truth, we don't want to become harlots, where we look
like lambs and speak like dragons, the scripture says, don't love the
world or the things in the world, the harlot that rides the beach, she
loves the world, she's fascinated with the world, we've all done these
things in times past, but we want to turn from them, we want to love the
Lord, all that's in the world, the lust of the flesh, we want to be
guarded against it, the lust of the eyes, we have to be careful with our
eyes, if our eye causes us to sin, we need to gouge it out, if our hand
causes us to sin, we need to cut it off, and the world is passing away
the pride of life, wanting to make a name for ourselves, like brother
Dan said, whether it be a great preacher, or whether it be a great
businessman, whether it be a great sports athlete, or whether it be a
great musician, whatever our greatness, our aspiration is, it has to
come under the headship of Jesus Christ, otherwise we'll have another
head, S-E-L-F, you'll be worshiping your Lord, yourself, God has given
us a will, and that will has to be surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus
Christ, if we don't surrender our will, then we'll deceive ourselves,
we'll have all of our dreams and hopes and plans, and we'll want the
Lord to come along with them, like we shared last week, rather than
being yielded to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of God, who is a
liar, the one that denies that Jesus is a Christ, he is antichrist,
let's look at chapter 2 and verse 4 of 1st John, he who says I know him,
but he doesn't obey God's word, this one is a liar, and the truth is not
in him, but whoever keeps God's word, truly the love of God, and the
fruit of the Spirit is perfected in him, by this we know that we are in
him, he who says he abides in Christ, verse 6, ought himself also to
walk just as Jesus walked, when we're not obedient to God's word, and we
have another way worked out, then we're not going to be walking in the
Spirit, and we're not going to be possessing the fruit of the Spirit,
we're going to be walking in the flesh, and we're going to be deceiving
ourselves, and you know what, you keep walking in the flesh and
deceiving yourself, pretty soon truth becomes blurry, pretty soon the
thief can come into your house, and you're okay, pretty soon the thief
can come and rob you blind, and you're okay with it, because you're a
blind man, and pretty soon you're a deaf man, and pretty soon you have
no idea what the enemy is doing in your house, and pretty soon the enemy
has your house, and he's guarding your house, and we need one stronger
to come and plunder his house again, and deliver you from the power of
darkness, some of us have come under the sway of the evil one, but you
know what, the righteous man keeps himself, in other words we're careful
to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, we need the fear of
God, or if you have a different version, it's God keeps him safe, for
it's God who works in you both to will and to do, for his good pleasure,
and the wicked one can't touch him, there's these doctrines that you can
have evil spirits in your body, but you can have the Holy Spirit and be
born again, and you make excuses for living like a devil, this is
deception, what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness, what
communion is like with darkness, what agreement has the temple of God
with idols, so we have to get truth in our inward parts, to love the
word of God, to love Jesus, as brother Dan shared, more than all the
things that are in the world, more than the gifts that he gives, when
auntie Betty comes and brings us some gifts, some gum, she might be the
most wicked lady who's living in adultery, she's had her fourth
marriage, and the man she's living with is not her husband, but the
children all love her, because she brings gum and gummies and treats,
brothers, sisters, is that the fruit that we're looking for, the gifts,
the scripture goes on from here in Matthew chapter 7 verse 21, not
everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of my father in heaven, what is the will of
God, let's break it down, your sanctification, this says this in 1
Thessalonians, this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you
would be set apart from your old life, having been born again in 1
Peter, in chapter 1 or chapter 2, I believe somewhere there, not of
corruptible seed, but incorruptible seed through the word of God, this
is how we purify our souls, through obeying the truth, through abiding
in the word, through practicing what we hear, putting into practice what
we hear, practical saving faith, some would say, oh your preach works,
works, show me your faith without works and I'll show you faith by our
works, our works prove genuine saving faith, just as Eve's works proved
that she believed the serpent, because the serpent said you surely shall
not die, and she took the fruit and she ate, she believed the lie, and
this is how you receive the spirit of Antichrist, you prophesied in my
name, you cast out devils in my name, you did many wonders in my name,
yes you did, but I don't know you, you did it in my name, but you did it
for your God, you practice lawlessness, I never knew you, God knows
everyone, but if you're not, your name's not written in his book, he
doesn't know you, we want to be written in the Lamb's book of life, not
only eating from the tree of life, but written in the Lamb's book of
life, everyone not found written in the book, in the last, at the end,
was cast into the lake of fire, may the Lord help us and give us
understanding on these things, after we read from 1 John chapter 2, 15
to 17 about not loving the world and the things in the world, this is
how Eve was tempted, through the lust of the flesh, that's what Jesus
was tempted, in the wilderness, if you're the son of God, turn the stone
to bread, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, he would show him
all the kingdoms of the world, if you'll just bow down and worship me,
the woman saw that the food was good to eat, she saw it to the eyes, it
looked good to eat, but Jesus, he battled against these temptations with
the word of God, brothers, sisters, hide the word of God in your hearts,
so you don't sin against God, that's why it's important to study, to
show yourself approved unto God, a workman, who need not be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth, the boastful pride of life, throw
yourself down from the temple, for he will give his angels charge over
you, and everyone will see that you're the Christ, if you are the
Christ, but Jesus said, it is written, man shall not put the Lord thy
God to the test, and Eve also, you will be like God, knowing both good
and evil, the boastful pride of life, one gave in to the temptation,
Jesus Christ stood fast, and he resisted the temptation that the enemy
brought, we all are tempted at different times and seasons in our life,
the scripture says, Jesus taught us how to pray, lead us not into
temptation, each man's tempted when he's drawn away by his own desires
and enticed, Jesus was made in his likeness of sinful flesh, but he was
not sinful flesh, but he was tempted in all points as we are, yet
without sin, and we have a pattern, he cried out to his father with loud
cries and tears, because his father could save him from death, and we
can cry out to our father in Jesus' name, we can cry out to Jesus to
help us, and he can sympathize with us in our weaknesses to help us to
overcome, and we can come to the throne room of grace boldly in time of
need and find help, there's power there, we don't want to just have a
form of godliness and deny the power, we want to come boldly to the
throne of grace in time of need and find help from the Lord, as Jesus
found help, when he says everyone who desires to live godly in Christ
must also walk just as he walked, there must be provision to overcome,
to him who overcomes there are certain promises, to him who overcomes,
and the seven churches, in every one of those churches there are more or
less people, but there are some overcomers, and this makes up the true
church of Jesus Christ, the church of overcomers, you say antichrist,
he's coming, and you know he's in the European Union somewhere, or maybe
Hitler was antichrist, or maybe Trump is, or maybe Biden is, and we get
all caught up in foolishness, but let's go with what the word of God
says, little children in verse 18, 1st John 2 18, it is the last hour,
and if 2000 some years ago was the last hour, we're in the last minutes,
and as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists
have already come, two thousand years ago many had already come, and
since this time many many more have come, and in Jude you can read of
the exhortation to the brethren there, there were people who made great
boasts, who were feasting among the brothers with no fear of God, these
were antichrists, they have no problem resisting and rejecting
authority, speaking evil of dignitaries, they have no problem being
grumblers and complainers, they have no fear of God, because they're
eternally secure, these are those that are wandering stars, these are
those who are foaming up shame when they speak great words of emptiness,
the great swelling words of emptiness, flesh, many antichrists, it says
here I've come, this is how we know it's the last hour, you say well
yeah you know they're out there somewhere, no, they're in your church,
they're in your house, they're in your bible study group, it could be
you, Lord is it me, am I an antichrist, it's good to get light, what
does your fruit look like in your life, are you all about making a name
for yourself, wanting people to like you and to love you, and you do all
kinds of things to be seen by men, or do you have a genuine fruit of the
Holy Spirit, I think of the rich man, this rich man came, good teacher,
what good things should I do that I might be saved, and Jesus said keep
the commandments, and he said which ones, well Jesus could have quoted
all 10, but he quoted the five, that he was really careful about
pleasing his neighbors, shouldn't murder, you shouldn't commit adultery,
you shouldn't lie, you shouldn't steal, but he didn't quote the ones
that had to do with loving God, brothers, he said at the end, he said
you should love your neighbors yourself, he said all these things I've
done, all these things, but he had a problem with loving God, thou shalt
love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, he
had a problem with covetousness, thou shalt have no other gods before
me, he loved the world, he loved money, he loved things, and he said if
you want to be perfect, you say well perfect, that's impossible, when
the word of God says be perfect for I'm perfect, he calls us to
spiritual maturity, he says be holy for I'm holy, he said well I'll
never be as holy as God, no we won't be on this side of heaven, but our
desire, the goal is Christ, the mark is the cross, bear his cross and
follow after him, as much as depends on you, work out your salvation in
this life with fear and trembling, let God work in you both to will and
to do for his good pleasure, surrender your will to him, don't let self
be seated on the throne of your heart, don't let self be in control of
the temple, and don't exalt God with your lips while your heart is far
from him and you are full of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud,
haughty, arrogant, easily offended, may the Lord help us to get light on
ourselves, that we could be humble, humble and humble, it says humble
yourself under the mighty hand of God and Lord Jesus is going to lift us
up, if we resist the devil when it comes to these things, grumblers and
complainers, I said Lord I grumble and complain sometimes, that's what
the children of Israel did and they were destroyed after 10 times, Lord
forgive me of my grumbling complaining, we need to get light on
ourselves, these antichrists went out from us, if you have a pure group
that is walking in the Spirit and abiding in the Spirit, the Holy Spirit
is present there, you're going to find that these people begin
fellowshipping with you as they did in Jude, but their fruit will
manifest and they will leave because they hate the anointing, they try
to counterfeit the anointing, Satan has power and authority to do
certain things in this last day and people are following after the false
prophets who seemingly are calling down fire from heaven and gifts are
manifesting and all kinds of stuff is happening, but we want to follow
the fruit, they're lovers, boastful, haughty, lovers of pleasure, they
love money, we want to be careful, as brother Zach has shared, money is
a wonderful servant but a terrible master, we have to make sure that we
love the Lord not money, they went out from us but they had not been of
us for had they continued with us, but they went out that they might be
made manifest that none of them were of us but you have an anointing,
now what we're going to find in the last days as it says in Revelation
18 that this world is going to be in the church, in this time in the
last hour he said that they would leave the church, that they would
leave the fellowship, that these people who had no fear of God, but he
says in Revelation 18 come out from among her and be separate, touch not
the unclean thing and I'll receive you, it says it's become a haunt of
unclean birds and filthiness, their tables are full of vomit, we have
spent enough of our past lifetime living like this, we want to find a
true fellowship in Christ where we can find two or three as brother
David Wilkerson shared, who love the Lord, who get together and they
share their faith one with another and the fear of God is among them and
the Lord hearkens into them from Malachi 3 and he hears the things that
they're saying about the Lord and they're sharing testimony and they're
sharing their weaknesses, their struggles and they're asking the Lord
for help and the Lord hearkens in and he writes their name in a book of
remembrance, them that fear the Lord who speak about him, he said they
shall be mine saith the Lord on the day that I make them my special
jewels, may the Lord give us jewels in our crown, these kind of crowns
of life full of the jewels that God values, he says the man spares his
son who serves him faithfully, Jesus said no longer do I call you
servants, I call you friends and then he wants to call us children of
God as he says here in 1 John chapter 3, he says behold what manner of
love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called the children
of God, it says it has not yet been revealed or manifested completely
what we shall be but when Jesus is manifested, when the Holy Spirit
takes over, when the Lord Jesus comes in glory, Christ in you the hope
of glory and you begin to see changes in your life, you begin to see the
love of God in your heart growing and your love for people manifesting,
then we're going to see Jesus in us, it says we shall see him as he is
in verse 3, verse 2 and everyone who has this hope in Jesus, do you have
hope in Jesus this morning or is your hope in something else, my hope is
built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness, everyone who
has this hope in him purifies himself, what does that look like, Hebrews
12 1 and 2, since we're surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses let
us run with perseverance the way the race set before us fixing our eyes
on Jesus throwing off every weight as brother Dan shared and the sin,
gifts are wonderful but you know what, when we bear fruit it says the
heavenly father is glorified, the purpose of the gifts is that it would
be for the edification of the body, for the building up of the church
that we would bear better and sweeter fruit for the glory of the father,
that Jesus would be manifested in our lives, that people would know us,
that we're Christians because the love we have one for another, the love
that we are able to have for the world as Jesus had love for the world,
the love that we will have for our enemies who spitefully use us, that
God will bring us to a place that we could have genuine love for people
who spitefully use us and persecute us, father forgive them for they
know not what they do, can we pray this way, may the Lord help us to
become the hands and feet of Jesus, may we become conformed into his
likeness as we claim to have Christ in us, the hope of glory, maybe we
see this glory as we purify our hearts through obedience to the truth,
as we walk worthy of the calling of God, Lord let your word perform its
work in us that we would be doers of this word, not hearers only
deceiving ourselves, that the word of God would be living and active in
us, sharper than a two-edged sword, that we would get conviction when we
read the word, that we are bones would tremble when we hear an anointed
word from God and that we would not just resist the Holy Spirit as the
Pharisees, they always resisted the Holy Spirit, they had a form of God
in us, outwardly they looked really good but inwardly they were dry and
they were dead man's bones, Lord revive us again by the power of thy
love, pour out your spirit upon us, cause your face to shine on us and
be gracious to us, Lord lift your countenance upon us, that we might be
the radiation and the reflection of Jesus, living letters known and read
by all men, that people would see Jesus through our testimony, that we
wouldn't deny the Lord by our actions as it says in Titus in chapter 1
and 15, they profess to know God but by their actions they deny him,
Lord that our hands and our feet would have life in them, that our faith
and our fruits would be evident before you, that you would be pleased
that we would hear those words well done good and faithful servant,
enter into the joy of the Lord, that the joy of the Lord would be our
strength, that we could become like Jesus having loved righteousness and
hated wickedness, that Jesus would make us like himself, the Spirit and
the bride say come Lord Jesus, may we pray even today, come Lord Jesus
be our guest, come among us, do a greater work among us, bring
repentance and rest to us, revive us again, make us like yourself, fill
us with the joy of the Lord, grant us the true peace, not a false peace,
but a true peace that comes from knowing you in Jesus name.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/qpVP5483Z_A.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/randy-krahn/being-protected-from-deception/
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