QT 6/18/2025 2 Cor 11:1–6, There is so much deception out there today

2 Corinthians 11:1–6 (ESV) —

1 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! 2 For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 3 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 4 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. 5 Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. 6 Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.

 

NOTE: The first attack of Satan in human history was questioning the word of God -- what God said, whether he said it, and what he meant by it. His second attack was to place human wisdom and desires ahead of God's plan or better than God's plan, in essence, to make man his own god.

 

There is so much of this happening in our world today. It is very sad. People are following individuals who are deceived themselves. They are not finding what they are looking for, just band aids for hurts. The answers are found in Jesus and in his word. If we do not go to scripture for the answers to life, we are going to the wrong place and will only add misery to our search.

 

The problem is not the church. It is churches that have abandoned the teaching of God's word, substituting man's wisdom (which is really Satan's deception). When we abandon parts of God's word, we are fashioning God in an image that we want to believe in -- we are creating an idol, because that is what idol makers of old did -- they fashioned God into an image that the idol worshipper wanted.

 

What is the answer? We must go to God's word for truth about life, no matter how much it disagrees with culture, God's word is always true.

 

PONDER:

1. Do I ignore part of God's word because it is not fashionable in today's culture?
2. Do I read into God's word to make it what I want it to be? (Thereby creating an idol in the image I believe God is, rather than who God really is, as told in his word)

 

PRAYER: Father, I pray for protection from Satan's schemes. The world is being taught lies daily by our media and our so-called elites. They are working against you and we are blind to their schemes and lies. Show us truth. Help us to see truth. Protect us from Satan's evil schemes.