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Living in a world that rejects scriptural values presents the believer with many spiritual pitfalls. What are they? How can we avoid them?

• Beware of False Prophets
  

  When Christ instructed his disciples in his Sermon on the Mount he gave them a warning. This warning was a reiteration of a warning given by Moses and repeated by many of the apostles. What was the warning? Beware of False Prophets even ones who do miracles! Jeff Patton examines the scriptures to get a complete picture of the danger posed by these wolves who masquerade in sheep’s clothing. Can you spot one? Do you know what their defining characteristic is?

• Beware the Devil’s Devices
  

  We first meet the Devil’s devices in the garden of Eden. There he sowed doubt in the minds of Adam and Eve with his crafty insinuation. “Is it true that God has said…” He first undermined their trust in God as a God of truth. Then, he appealed to their desire to be wise and live forever, with the infamous, “You shall not surely die!” As the Father of lies he obscured the truth that only God could give eternal life as a gift. And though it was ‘true’ that the tree of knowledge would ‘open their eyes’ and give them knowledge, he used this to deceive.

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• Beware — Balaam and the Church

  Balaam and the church, what are the lessons for us today? The world is full of irony, like the former KGB head, Vladimir Putin, championing moral conservatism, or the Catholic church espousing religious freedom. Jeff recounts this very old story of double-mindedness, as seen in the biblical account of Balaam.

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• Beware Discouragement — Don’t Give Up

  In a world that is contrary to biblical values we are warned of the reality of the adverse environment and its effect of “wearing out the saints,” and thus discouraging, undermining, and frustrating our efforts to serve God wholeheartedly. Are we aware of this danger in our lives and are we prepared to face and overcome the challenge of being “worn out” by the daily difficulties.
  

Will You Enter the Promised Land?

• Fuzzy Theology:Do You Know the Scriptures?
• In the World but not of the World
• Content or Contentious?
• Beware of Presumptuous Sins
• Sunday and Easter, Presumptuous Sins?
• Presumptuous Sins: Sectarian Dangers
• Life & Death: WHO Decides?
• Do the Ends Justify the Means
• Spiritual Warfare: Living in Satan’s World
• Don’t Rationalize a False Faith
• Divided Loyalties
• Jesus and the Pharisees
• Religious Hypocrisy or Unfeigned Faith
• Stress Survivor
• Disconnected
• Finding Refuge
• Divided Loyalty
• Truth and Consequences
• Living with Difficult People
• Do Not Stumble
• A Sound Mind
• The “New Normal”
• Worship in Truth
• Wearing Out the Saints: Don’t Give Up!
• True Worship:Will God hear your prayers?
• Mystery of Lawlessness: Understanding Colossians
• The Colossians Heresy, Today
• Festivals of Light
• Gospel of Lawlessness