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“Lies The Devil Tells (#1)”
Categories: Daily Living, Lies/Lying, SatanLies The Devil Tells
Jarrod Jacobs
Satan is subtle. Peter says he goes about “as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (I Pet. 5:8). Satan wants our souls. In order to lure away precious souls from God, he will do anything, including lying to us! One thing that works in our favor is that Satan tells the same lies over and over again. Therefore, if we can figure out his lies, we can be prepared for the next time he lies to us. Let us consider a lie that the Devil tells us.
Satan lies by saying, “One time won’t hurt.” How many times have we been caught by this lie? When people first engage in sin, it is generally justified by saying, “It is just this once.” How many times has “just this once” turned into two or three times, and ultimately a lifetime of practicing what we said we would do only “this one time”?
If any are so foolish as to think that “one time won’t hurt,” ask David if his “one time” of fornication with Bathsheba was worth the loss of his sons, the rebellion of his children, and running from his enemies (I Samuel 11-12). Ask Eve what she thinks of the lie, “one time won’t hurt” (Gen. 3)! Ask people today whose lives have been ruined because of a “one time” sin if it was worth it, and if that “one time” sin did not hurt!! Friends, this lie has been told over and over, and people continue to fall for it. Don’t you do it!
