DAY 784 - Don't Be Deceived (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: 2 John 1:7-13

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Bible Study

     To conclude this short letter, John gives a serious warning to those Christians who received his letter. A warning that they had to be very careful so as not to be deceived. He told them what the Deceiver was going to do is to destroy all those they had been building up for their church. Destroying rather than building up is the Deceiver's main job.  

Let's take a look at what Bishop N.T. Wright says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :

     Don't be taken in by the Deceiver, the Antimessiah!  Don't be hoodwinked by those who follow him!  Watch out for yourselves too; if you're not careful, all the work of building up the church might go to waste. 

N.T. Wright. The Early Christian Letters for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.178.

      Do you know how to discern what is the work of the Deceiver now? 

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Don't be deceived

    The message I got from Jesus today is a warning to all of us that we as human beings are so easily deceived. Yesterday we talked about the two signs to proof whether we are spiritually alive: 
1. Whether we know Jesus
2. Whether we are walking with Jesus

    Today, we have only one thing to go with yesterday's catch. When the Deceiver comes, he will torn down everything we know about Jesus and break the relationship that we cannot walk with Jesus and cannot walk with each others. He will torn love apart and replace love with hatred, lying, doubt, everything that can cause a church to separate and everything we have done wasted.

    So, do you know how to discern the Deceiver's work now? John says, "do not take him into your house or welcome him. Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work".  Don't be deceived!

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be able to discern the difference between Your work and the Deceiver's work so that we would not fall into the trap that all the work of building up our church might go to waste.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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