Daily Devotional, Year 3 – October 7 (A Form of Godliness, Part 5: “3-dollar-bill Love!”)
By admin On February 16th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 3 – October 7
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A Form of Godliness,
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Part 5:
“3-dollar-bill Love!”
To read Part 1, click here…SEPTEMBER 20 (A Form of Godliness, Part 1: “Humanitarianism”)
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THREE DOLLAR BILL – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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UNSAVED MANKIND:
“For he flattereth himself in his own eyes,
until his iniquity be found to be hateful.”
Psalm 36:1, 2
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Oh yes, it’s an evil world! Nobody is disputing that fact!
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And Christians are taught that the Devil, Lucifer, is “the god of this world”. 2nd Corinthians 4:4.
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Well, hopefully they’re still teaching that!
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Satan presiding at the Infernal Council – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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“THEY BLESS WITH THEIR MOUTH, BUT THEY CURSE INWARDLY!”
Psalm 62:4
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So why then, does there seem to be so many acts of charity, so many humanitarian programs, and so much comradery in this fallen world.
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After all, if this world is truly Satan’s kingdom of sin, you would think that everyone would be a murderer, or a rapist, or a bank-robber, or a…whatever other crime one wishes to name!
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But it’s not!
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Food Relief – cropped image – Wikimedia – US Federal Govt. Public Domain
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“HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS”
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Oh yes, there is no shortage of murderers, rapists, bank-robbers, etc…
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But there are many others who are well-behaved, upstanding, hard-working, tax-paying, and moral people!
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But what so many fail to consider is that the Bible refers to this world as “having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof”! 2nd Timothy 3:5
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Yes, the god of this world has given his kingdom a thin veneer of goodness as the means of masking the true nature of evil.
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Shoppers in Toronto – cropped image – Wikimedia – share-alike license
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“NONE THAT DOETH GOOD, NO NOT ONE!”
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And so, Paul understood that the whole world was held in bondage to sin and Satan…
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way,
they are together become unprofitable;
there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Their throat is an open sepulchre;
with their tongues they have used deceit;
the poison of asps is under their lips:
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
And the way of peace have they not known:
There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:10-18
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“THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS!”
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Now listen to this next verse from Jeremiah 17:9…“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
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So here we have it! The human heart is “desperately wicked”, and yet is, “deceitful above all things: who can know it?”
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Thus, we have the answer to our perplexing question: the love and humanitarian goodness of this world is, for the most part, the product of Satan’s deceptive spirit, “that spirit which now works in the children of disobedience” Ephesians 2:2
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Mark of the beast – pub. dom. – Wikipedia
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“SATAN…DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD”
Revelation 12:9
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And so, Satan deceives the world into believing that they do not need God because they already have, “a form of godliness”.
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In other words, society has a crude saying, “It’s as phony as a 3-dollar bill!”
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“What!?”, most people will exclaim, “Are you trying to tell me that all the love and humanitarian goodness in society is the product of Satan!?”
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Well, that’s what the Bible says…“And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.” 1st John 5:19
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Yes, the WHOLE world lieth in wickedness, not just some!
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THREE DOLLAR BILL – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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“A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.” Proverbs 12:10
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Just consider the utter hypocrisy so often witnessed in today’s politics, as the leaders of the land attempt to show much mercy to one group, while at the same time, trampling on the rights and livelihood of another group, all in the name of so-called, “Political Correctness” or “equity”!
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For example, just look at all today’s handwringing over some endangered species, or of some group of oppressed children, while at the same time cheering on the wholesale slaughter of millions of innocent children-in-the-womb, calling them “just a hunk of flesh”!
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All such pretentious “tender mercies” are condemned by God, as He warns us against these erring, “do-gooders”…“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2nd Timothy 3:5
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Aborted baby – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
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GOOD NEWS! TRUE LOVE STILL AVAILABLE!
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Well, in spite of this very bad news, there is some really Good News!
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Yes, there is a way of escape from this totally evil condition in this entirely wicked world we live in!
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Yes, the One who was slaughtered by all of us so-called “do-gooder” humans, has allowed His own sacrifice on that cruel Cross of Calvary, to become the payment for our sins and deliverance from our hypocrisies!
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And He has opened up a fountain of grace, in which, if a man, woman, or child drinks freely from, that soul can become filled with true love and true goodness!
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And God is the only source of true love!
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TO READ PART 6, CLICK HERE…
February 18 (A Form of Godliness, Part 6: “3-dollar-bill Love!” CONTINUED)
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to be wise as a serpent regarding this very deceptive world. Let me not be ignorant of Satan’s devices, nor of his power over this world…
Prayer – Anna Blunden – For Only One Short Hour – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… September 11 (Come Out From Among Them, Part 4: “The Powerful Influence of Daily Associations”)”, or you can also read this next article…May 11 (Seared As With A Hot Iron!), and also…April 17 (Television and The Image That Speaks, Part 2: “The Iron Furnace of Hate Television”)
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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7 HEADS, 10 HORNS, & 7 CROWNS OF THE DRAGON
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“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.” Revelation 12:3
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In Revelation, the Dragon of Revelation 12 is described as having seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns. However, the Dragon Constellation up in the night sky does not.
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But God has faithfully created the wave of water, in such a way, as to illustrate this same concept of the seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns. Because this wave of water is basically composed of ten stars.
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The main body of the wave has seven stars (#‘s, 1 thru 7). And the tip of the crest of the wave has the other three stars (#’s, 8, 9 & 10). So we have this 7 and 10 numbering. And this gives us a great clue, as to where in the Bible we should look, to find out the riddle as to just what or who do these 7 heads, 10 crowns, and 7 horns represent. Because, the Bible speaks very much about floods and waters as being associated with Satan (the Dragon).
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… Flood Waters of Satan-Introduction
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TOMORROW…
October 8 (Devil Made Me Do It! Part 17: “As The World Politics Turns”)
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The Open Forum Talk Show with Harold Camping
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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS 90-MINUTE TALK SHOW – – The Open Forum Harold Camping September 16, 2002 (youtube.com)
Harold-Camping – courtesy Family Radio
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