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Introduction: This morning, we continue in 1 Corinthians 12.  We are going to see how Satan, the father of lies, tries to keep the Church from being what Christ intended it to be with two lies.  Paul uses a great analogy for us.  So, before I review previous weeks and we get into these lies, we are going to read together as one voice the first few verses of the passage for today.  So, that we are all using the same translation, I have the words up on the screen.  Please read with me 1 Corinthians 12:12-13. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. Review : Varieties of gifts, service, activities but same Spirit, Lord, and God who EMPOWERS them all in EVERYONE. Manifestation gifts are for common good.    ...

Introduction: What is deception?   The fact or state of being causing a person to believe what is not true; misled, ensnared, tricked.  I want you think about a time when you were deceived.   What attracted you? What lie did you believe? Why did you keep believing?   What changed? Deceived in Deeds (3-5) ·          Vs. 3-Hint of sexual immorality (fornication, unchaste) or impurity (unclean)   or greed o    Vs. 1-2-Imitators of God, dearly loved children, live a life of love, Christ loved us and gave himself up for us o    any sexual indulgence outside of marriage [1] o    Paul turns from ‘self-sacrifice … to its very opposite, self-indulgence’, from genuine ‘love’ to that perversion of it called ‘lust’. [2] o    James Bryan Smith describes how God’s good gifts can be used in the wrong way. “Desire becomes sin when it moves from being something we enjoy ...