Deceived and Loving It


Selected highlights from this sermon.
The mind is powerful. It can be our enemy if we use it to justify the desires of the heart. When we do this, guilt is repressed, and excuses are made and believed. Then we begin to deceive others, and eventually ourselves, and if we could, we’d deceive God.

Today’s world believes that this type of behavior is due to an evil society, not people individually. Yes, society and culture do influence our behavior, but the fact is, if we look at our hearts, our desires aren’t as pure as we think they are.

Eve’s mistake of believing the serpent over the command of God triggered a series of events that are felt even today. She thought only of the momentary pleasure, but the consequences changed the course of history forever.

Note to reader. I feel this sermon unfairly focus on Eve, and Adam seems to be an afterthought. I want to say that had not Adam listened to his wife, and taken a bite of the fruit, man would not have fallen. Sin entered into the world through him.

Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned--

Romans 5:14
Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.

Romans 5:15
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.