Discerning Truth: Faith and Deception in the Digital Age

``Tell us of a sign of your coming and of the end of the age. So I'm gonna go a little bit Greek here. A sign, the actual word is in Greek, and a sign means a road sign conveying proximity to a location. Of your coming. Coming is the word, which means a royal visit of a king whose arrival alone has the authority to deal with the situation and put things in correct order. [00:52:28] (29 seconds)  #KingIsComing

When I was preparing for this message, I remember I woke up, and I was like, I have most times when I do a message, I I I do a deep dive, and there's a lot I have a lot of notes. You you'll see once you get this. And I said, holy spirit, can you distill this for me? And what he said was this. He said, deception is naivety to the outcomes of your decisions, believing that there will be no negative consequences for the choices that you've made. Deception is naivety to the outcomes of your decisions, believing that there will be no negative consequence for the choices that you make. [01:03:42] (39 seconds)  #ConsequencesMatter

I was with my wife and probably about six months ago, we were watching something on news update, and it was something about the war in, Ukraine. And there was, you know, some bombings and, you know, there was some some some some military action. And I said, that looks a bit shoddy. And she said, no. It was in the news. A month later, there was a retraction saying that one of the news sites in Ukraine recycled old footage from six years prior. You can't say seeing is believing anymore. You can't say that. Now with with in light of all the possibilities for deception nowadays, where's the place of truth? [00:50:03] (41 seconds)  #SeeingIsntBelieving

And the end of the age translated in Greek is, means the wrap up. So in essence, they were saying, Jesus, give us a sign or an indication, a proximity to a location when you, as a king, would show up with authority, put things in order for the current situation, and wrap things up. When are you gonna do this? [00:53:31] (25 seconds)  #EndOfAgeSign

If you think of a timeline, if you think of a a timeline here, you have there was a prophecy in the book of Joel chapter two verse 28 that God said during the end times, will pour my spirit on flesh. And so if you think about a timeline, you have thirty three AD where Jesus died. He was crucified and he resurrected. Then you have Pentecost at 9AM. The Holy Spirit hits and fulfills the prophecy of Joel two twenty eight. [00:55:41] (40 seconds)  #PentecostFulfilled

number one, how many times do we think about that, big picture wise? And as Christians, we need to think about that because the the increased activity, all those things that I listed that Jesus actually gave us, we're experiencing them. We're starting to experience them right now. Now, a lot of people, believers, even non believer friends of mine, you jump online as well, many people should sense that something's changed. Something's a bit off. They can't place it. But as believers, we should know. We should know this is all part of the wrap up, and we should have peace as we walk with God in this place. [00:58:31] (50 seconds)  #PeaceInTheWrapUp

In Proverbs chapter 22 verses three through six, also in Proverbs chapter four and Proverbs chapter one, Solomon gives us indication. There's this image of two different people. Should I say three? You have an image of a woman that represents wisdom, yelling and calling out in the streets. I wanna give you life. I wanna help you. And then it describes a person that's defined as being simple. Simple, according to the Strong's Concordance, is a characteristic of plineo. A person that wonders. The simple see danger in the forefront and they keep on walking towards it. The wise or the discerning see danger, and they guard or hide themselves. [01:01:14] (55 seconds)  #WisdomCallsOut

it's it's got to the point right now that I'm a bit of a security minded person. I've I've worked with people, in in with with counseling. I've traveled overseas. I've worked overseas. I've worked to different organizations, and I I'm aware of people I'm aware of the the challenges that deception can cause. Deception can break relationships. Deception can can sabotage organizations. But truth, though not pleasant, grants freedom and clarity and life, both individually, spiritually, but also corporately as well. [00:47:33] (38 seconds)  #TruthGrantsFreedom