By Paul Godfrey

Audio: False Sanctification

The scripture declares that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it. Are you deceived? Do we know that our hearts are deceitful above all things? We acknowledge that many people in this world are deceitful. Do we acknowledge that our own hearts are deceitful above all else? There are many conspiracy theories going around today. We don’t trust people. Someone may knock at our door and we look at them sideways. We may get an email from someone we don’t know and we are afraid of picking up a virus and we don’t trust people. We think we might be deceived by everything that comes to us. Yet we trust ourselves so much. Everything else comes secondary to the deceit that lies in our own heads. An atheist was telling me that we cannot trust anything, not even our senses or perceptions. He said you sitting next to me might not really be there and my mind may be playing tricks on me. He believed that nothing was absolute, even gravity. He said we just perceive that it is. He saw that the mind was so deceitful to the extent that his own heart was deceiving him that nothing was true. Our perceptions are not reliable. There needs to be something outside our perceptions that gives a benchmark, a truth to things that are not generated from our own head or someone else’s head. This perception is what Satan has worked upon to create so much confusion in the world. This was done through a serpent. Read the rest of this entry →