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Deceit  See Mark 7

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Deceit

I checked present dictionary sources first; Webster 1828 is much stronger. And I think strong is needed.

DECE’IT,
1. Literally, a catching or ensnaring. Hence, the misleading of a person; the leading of another person to believe what is false, or not to believe what is true, and thus to ensnare him; fraud; fallacy; cheat; any declaration, artifice or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit Job 27:4.
2. Stratagem; artifice; device intended to mislead.
They imagine deceits all the day long. Psalms 38:12.
3. In scripture, that which is obtained by guile, fraud or oppression.
Their houses are full of deceit Jeremiah 5:27. Zeph. I.
4. In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, shift, covin, or underhand practice, used to defraud another.  source

Seventy times the King James version of the Bible uses the word deceit or deceitfully.  Click HERE for the listing.

Genesis 34:13 is the first mention. Hebrews 3:13 is the last mention. It’s strong too.  

Hebrews 3:13 (TLV) 13 But encourage one another day by day—as long as it is called “Today”—so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. source

Lets go back to the definition above.  Catching. Ensnaring. Leading someone to believe what is false. Leading someone to disbelieve what is true. Fraud. Who would do such?!

Are you familiar with the first deception perpetrated on mankind? Do you know who the perpetrator was? He continues to be  exceedingly aggressive today.  If you are interested, check out Genesis 3. There you will find the father of deceit is Satan.

We are instructed in Hebrews 3:13 to encourage one another daily while we have the opportunity.  I hope I am doing that. It is His will for us; each of us who have received His gift of salvation to encourage others; to lead others to believe the Truth; to deceive no one.

Colossians 2:6  (AMP) 6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in [union with] Him [reflecting His character in the things you do and say—living lives that lead others away from sin],  source

While it is Today ~ ~ ~
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Wickedness
See Mark 7

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Wickedness

Isn’t all that we have listed so far wickedness? Well, yes, but there must be something more for us to see here.

I checked today’s dictionary sources and found a weaker definition of wickedness than I found at Webster’s 1828. Surprised? Me either.

Take a look: WICKEDNESS, noun Departure from the rules of the divine law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; crime; sin; sinfulness; corrupt manners wickedness generally signifies evil practices.
What wickedness is this that is done among you? Judges 20:3.
But wickedness expresses also the corrupt dispositions of the heart.
Their inward part is very wickedness Psalms 5:4.
In heart ye work wickedness Psalms 5:48.   source

Searching further my online Strong’s Interlinear Bible Search gave me a number of English words and meanings for the Greek words for our English word, wickedness. None of them made me say, hey, I want to do that!

In my summary of these transliterated words, wickedness is associated with the Evil One, doing his bidding as one’s normal practice.  One note read this way: This usually denotes a title in the Greek. Hence Christ is saying, deliver us from “The Evil”, and is probably referring to Satan.

The word wickedness is used 119 times in the King James Version; as early as Genesis 6:5.

Genesis 6:5  (KJV) 5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. source

In Genesis 39, Joseph said sexual intercourse with Pharaoh’s wife would be wickedness. He refused. You may read more of his story HERE.

If you are interested to know more about what the FATHER deems wickedness, HERE you will find the 119 aforementioned references.

Until Next Time ` ` `
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The Scratch

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At this juncture in my 67-year-old life, rights are important. One I highly treasure is LIFE. Beyond that, many of the rights I see extolled today may be best defined as social demands.

I watched a video today of homeless college students in California, actually living in their vehicles. I admire them so much! I saw them as intelligent, capable, determined, well-groomed, articulate, courteous, etc. Amazing young souls who in days or perhaps years to come will wow their worlds with their contributions!

A commentator asked if college housing should be made a right. What a tragedy that would be! Albeit, this is a phenomenal ministry opportunity for God’s people to come alongside with appropriate helps and comforts. I am convinced making it a right implemented and administered by our political system would hinder the building of grit, confidence, ingenuity, accomplishment, and more for many. Am I romanticizing what these particular young people are doing? Perhaps a tad, but would not it be grand if all our lives were lived as an earthly romance with a heavenly quest?

Can you imagine these young people when they finish this college adventure with little to no debt because of their own choices and sacrifices, how confident and strong they will be? A Psychologist told me he and his colleagues had discovered we only value those things into which we have invested ourselves (including our money) – what costs us little or nothing we deem of little or no value.

2 Samuel 24:24 New Living Translation (NLT)
24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it, for I will not present burnt offerings to the LORD my God that have cost me nothing.” So David paid him fifty pieces of silver for the threshing floor and the oxen.

Each of us has the God-given right to life. Beyond that we are owed what we earn.

Romans 13:8 New Living Translation (NLT)
8 Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 New Living Translation (NLT)
10 Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.” 

Genesis 3:17-19 New Living Translation (NLT)
17 And to the man he said,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.
19 By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”

It’s not love that motivates us (or Systems) to negate The Scratch!

Wait! A thousand times NO! This is NOT a license to neglect, abandon, abuse or in any wise cause harm to one another. GOD also tells us in

1 Timothy 5:8 King James Version (KJV)
8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 

It is not Political Systems that should feed, clothe, shelter, provide medical coverage, or educate any of us.
Political Systems enslave the ones they ‘help’.
BUT GOD! Well, The Scratch is a holy gift to each of us – young and old.
What shall we do with it?!

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Mischief

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Perhaps you don’t have brothers who threw you in a pit, then pulled you out and sold you to a passing caravan; but it is likely if you have lived long in this world, someone has done something to you that hurt like the mischief! 

Even IF they didn’t do it for mischief.
It was just unplanned neglect or possibly they were not thinking with the love of JESUS.  Be it as it may, we can apply this Scripture and depend on GOD to manifest it so!

What’s done is done; it cannot be undone BUT GOD can work miracles when we cooperate with Him. Lets do this in 2019!

Here’s a link if you’d like to read Joseph’s story.