Be Not Deceived the Harvest Will Come!

Galatians 6:7–8 (ESV) ⁷Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. ⁸For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

In a world full of deceit and lies many people are taken captive by Satan and come to believe that their happiness is the most important aspect of life.

Three areas of deception individuals may succumb to.

1.     The deception of Satan - 2 Corinthians 4:3–4 (ESV) ³And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. ⁴In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

a.   Satan works to deceive so that people never trust Christ as Savior

2.   The deception of Society - Colossians 2:8 (ESV) ⁸See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

a.   People around us want us to compromise and not live as we should.  Have I been taken captive?

3.   The deception of Self – Often individuals get the idea that they are o.k. because they compare themselves with others and not with the righteousness of God.  This area is the personal outworking of the previous two.  It gives evidence that we need a change in our thinking and our relationship with God.

The Apostle Paul ministered the word of God to bring the thinking of individuals back to what is pleasing to God.  2 Corinthians 10:5 (ESV) ⁵We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Though we may put on a good front and we may be accepted in society, “God is not mocked.”  He knows our hearts and our minds and we will give account to Him.  The harvest will come and what we have sown in our lives because of deception we will face the consequences of it.