DECEPTION UNVEILED
Six Strategies the Enemy Uses to Confuse You about God’s Law to Destroy You
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Chapter One
Rejecting God’s Wisdom
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
Religious spirits lead you down the road to destruction by seducing you to reject the right paths. Walking in God’s wisdom leads to life and prevents you
from being deceived. Many have rejected right paths to walk in their own pernicious ways because of a lack of understanding. God’s Words are His ways.
Man’s nature leads him to walk in the ways of the world. Knowing the difference between God’s wisdom and the wisdom of the world empowers you to go down
the path of life that God has ordained for you.
Rejecting God’s Word opens doors for your accuser to lead you down the road of destruction so that he can devour you. He makes exercising worldly wisdom
seem attractive to you and causes you to be puffed up with pride. You are actually rebelling against God when you refuse to obey God’s Word. You are
walking according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now work in the children of disobedience.
Don’t give place to the devil.
God’s nature is revealed unto you as you spend quality time with Him in the Word and in prayer. Knowing the Lord’s nature helps you to know His ways. God
is already doing what He requires of you. The Lord magnified His Word above His Name.
So should you. God Himself is subject to His own Word, and He uses it to instruct you in righteousness. If the Lord obeys His own Word, how much more
should you obey it?
The enemy influences you to choose only the part of God’s Word that’s appealing to you.
Selecting certain Scriptures to follow and ignoring others demonstrate self exaltation. Worldly wisdom despises God’s ways. Jesus tells us that we should
live by every Word of God.
Of the many different doctrines in the world today, how do you know which doctrine to follow? False teachings are done through false prophets and false
teachers to divide you. Christ is not divided. Some teach that certain Scriptures are only for the Jews and not for the Gentiles. Jesus died for everybody
and made us all one in Him. There is one Lord over all. You are built upon the foundation of the prophets and the apostles. Jesus is the chief Cornerstone.
Christ and his apostles were Jews. The first Christians were Jews. Gentiles learn from Jesus and the apostles, whom Jesus taught. They were Jews. If you
don’t believe God, you will be destroyed.
Observing God’s relationship with Israel reveals how He deals with you. He taught them the paths of life. Since the Gentiles were not a people of God in
the beginning, the Bible was not written unto them, but unto the Jews. The Gentiles did not know the right paths to follow. So, God sent a Jew, the apostle
Paul, to teach the Gentiles about Jesus, Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ.
How can you avoid being caught up in satan’s trap of deception? When you reverently and worshipfully fear the Lord, you are carrying out the first and most
important part of the wisdom of God. By knowing God personally, and by receiving His nature, you are empowered to escape the corruption that’s in the world
through lust.
The written Word guides you to make the right decisions. Wisdom is being able to rightly judge, as illustrated when King Solomon discerned which of the two
women was the mother of the living child, and which one was the mother of the dead child.
Wisdom is knowing how to best use the knowledge you have. There’s God’s wisdom, and there’s the world’s wisdom. You can recognize God’s wisdom by its
attributes. Worldly wisdom is evil. It has no compassion or love for others. It’s prideful and arrogant.
Distinguish Between God’s Wisdom and Worldly Wisdom
The Lord’s wisdom is pure from evil, holy, and undefiled. It’s not carnal or worldly, or devilish. It has no faults. Being able to see and understand the
ways of God is godly wisdom. It is using knowledge the right way, or choosing the best course of action to deal with a situation. It is being able to
discern. Wisdom is the reverential fear of God.
Wisdom from above is peaceable. God’s wisdom loves peace and pursues it. Ungodly wisdom carries strife. It involves confusion and every evil work. That
envy in your heart, is not of God. This wisdom is demonic in nature. It’s earthly, sensual, and devilish.
God’s wisdom is fair. It is considerate of the feelings of others, and it is kind. If the wisdom is harsh or oppressive, it’s of the devil. God’s wisdom is
gentle; it listens to reason and complies with what is right. Worldly wisdom insists on having its own way. This wisdom leads you down the wrong paths.
God’s wisdom leads to life. It does not change, and it can be easily received. God will give you wisdom if you ask Him for it.
The world teaches wisdom that leads to destruction. The wisdom from above is compassionate. It does what it can to help to alleviate the sufferings of
others when it feels its pain. Worldly wisdom will pretend not to know about it or look the other way when it sees someone suffering. God’s wisdom forgives
and understands. It’s full of love.
If Jesus abides in you, and you abide in Him, you will bring forth much, good fruit because you glorify God. Worldly wisdom causes you to show favoritism
when performing good deeds. Those good deeds are vain. God has no respect of persons, but accepts everyone who fears Him and who works righteousness. God’s
wisdom is without partiality. He loves the stranger in giving him food and clothes. Do likewise.
Examples of partiality and impartiality are shown in Luke where a priest and a Levite, who were Jews, passed by a man from Jerusalem, who was in need of
help. That man was robbed and left half dead in Jericho, but those religious leaders looked at the wounded man and left him there. They exalted worldly
wisdom over God’s wisdom. They thought only of themselves and their well being.
A Samaritan saw the victim and showed compassion, and he stopped to help the man, even though Samaritans were looked down upon by some. He also saw that
the traveller was
treated and that his needs were met. The Samaritan, who showed no favoritism but a heart of love, exercised God’s wisdom.
James also teaches against having respect of persons. He says to them they have become partial in themselves and are judges of evil thoughts, if they
offered the man, that’s well dressed, a good seat and offered the poorly dressed person to sit under their footstool or to stand. That wisdom is not from
God. The wisdom of God is without hypocrisy.
Either, you are what you proclaim to be, or you’re not; you have what you say you have, or you don’t. Jesus is made unto you righteousness and wisdom.
Since you’ve been redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned
love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the
Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.”
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English
Publication Date :
2/16/2015
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6x9
Page Count :
150
ISBN :
9781490859422
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About the Book
Six Strategies the Enemy Uses to Confuse You about God’s Law to Destroy You is about a man who worked for the King until he decided to promote himself. He thought that he would one day rule that Kingdom but was cast out. So he became the King’s enemy.
Instead of giving the King’s message to the people, he gives them his own message. The adversary rebels against the King’s commands and tries to discredit the King’s words. He twists them to deceive the people into following him instead of following the King.
He secretly plans to lead recruits down unrighteous paths by lies and flatteries to destroy them. His followers are taught to duplicate him. Since this enemy cannot create, he erroneously teaches the laws of his former King to confuse the people. He tricks people into his kingdom with false doctrines.
Those who know the truth defeat him and destroy his works.
With powerful truths from the Scriptures, Louvenia reveals how you can:
• know what is right
• discern the enemy’s intent to deceive you
• be established in the truth
• know what’s done away with and what’s not
• destroy the enemy’s lies and
• be established in the faith
Do Old Testament laws still apply today? Find out the truth about God’s law and the law of Moses, and how confusion of the laws leads Christians into following ungodly doctrines that lead to eternal damnation.
About the Author
Louvenia Athalone Pickett, a retired classroom teacher of thirty years, has a BS degree in English and a master’s degree in elementary education. She has written poems and speeches for different occasions. She and her husband have three children and live in Pascagoula, Mississippi.