Last Days Deception

Speaker: Pastor Lee Cummings
Date: October 23/24, 2021

Are we living in the end times? Last Days Bootcamp will teach us how to prepare our hearts and lives to thrive in these last days.

In Week Two of our Last Days Bootcamp series, Pastor Lee speaks on deception and how we can guard our hearts from it.

SERMON HIGHLIGHTS

Matthew 24:10-13 (ESV)
“And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.”

1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2 (ESV)
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron..”

2 TIMOTHY 3:15 (ESV)
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.”

• JESUS AND THE APOSTLES WERE CLEAR: ONE OF THE TACTICS OF THE ENEMY IN THE LAST DAYS WOULD BE WIDESPREAD DECEPTION

• DECEPTION IS THE FRUIT OF CORRUPTED LOVE

• SAINT AUGUSTINE DEFINED SIN AS DISORDERED LOVE: GIVING ONE’S HEART TOO MUCH TO THINGS WHICH ARE NOT WORTHY OF IT, AND TOO LITTLE TO THAT WHICH IS

• HOW DO WE GUARD OUR HEARTS FROM DECEPTION?

• WE KEEP OURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD BY KEEPING OUR LIVES UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF GOD

• WE KEEP OURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD BY TAKING HEED, WATCHING, AND PRAYING