ZAT YOU SATAN?

2 Corinthians 11: 3 – 4, 12 – 15



Deception occurs everyday. If we were to go to a magic show, we would be amazed at the tricks and illusions the magician performs. He is able to performs such stunts by using misdirection. While we watch where he wants us too, we don't see what is really happening right before our eyes.

3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

Just like the magician, Satan uses misdirection.
Why?
Because if he came at us straight up, we would be able to see the lies almost before he tells them.
So he sends his minions to blaze a trail and he comes in looking for all the world like some western hero riding at the head of a column of the Calvary.

12 And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

Be on guard my friends. Watch out for the false teachers.
Watch the left hand when the magician is showing you his right.
You'll see the trick every time.