Many people think Satan traps Christians mainly through sexual immorality but there is another trap which is on Satan's top 10 traps to bring Christians down to hell.
If we are to escape from being victims of this trap,we must be equipped with knowledge about what this is.
That trap is simply this, LYING.
You may have done something wrong and end up in an embarrassing situation where people's perception of you changes and in order not to want to look that bad,you resort to fabricating lies about another individual so that it looks like you are not the only one who is bad. You resort to lying thinking, I can always ask God for forgiveness and everything will be just fine.
You can also be in a situation where you are in a fix and don't know how to get out and you resort to lying thinking, I can always repent later and God will forgive me.
However, there is more to it than asking God for forgiveness.
People take it for granted that I can apologise to God for this lie but they will be in for a great shock when He tells them they also have to apologise to the person they wronged by fabricating lies about them or to reverse the lie they said by telling the people they lied to that what they said is a lie.
The bible clearly tells us in James 5:16 to confess our trespasses to one another.
The reason God does this is not because he wants to embarrass you. He does this so that you should learn not to play around with sin.
If He just tells you, "I forgive you and that's it," you'll start playing around with sin and lie anytime about anything,everything and everyone thinking, I'll ask God for forgiveness and He'll forgive me.
However if you know that if I say this lie about someone or about a situation then I'll have to apologise to the person I have fabricated lies about or tell the person I lied to about something just in order to get out of a fix that what I said was a lie, you'll be terrified of lying.
You'll start thinking twice before doing it. The whole aim is that God wants our souls saved. He doesn't want us to think of sin as a trivial thing which can be done casually. He wants us to live Holy lives and to stop playing with sin so that we can always be ready for death or the rapture.
However, Satan knows that Christians will find it EXTREMELY hard to tell someone that, "Im sorry that I said this and this about you which was not true" or "I lied about this and that just in order to get out of that fix " because he knows that Christians like to uphold a good image before people and so he'll trap them in lies especially in desperate times. In desperate times,many people resort to lying as the easiest way out.
Satan knows that due to their desire to uphold a 'holy' image,they may actually NEVER apologise due to embarrassment and he would have trapped them to hell.
However, no amount of pride is worth going to hell for. Hell is the most horrible and unimaginable place in all existence. Friends, know today that even if we have said such a lie that it requires you to apologise even on Television,doing so is the wisest thing. People will just remember your apology for a while and then even forget all about it. However, failing to undo what you have done has consequences of eternal damnation in the fires of hell.
God will still use you and you can lead many people to Christ and but then get condemned yourself in the end.
The bible tells us that, "Be sure that your sins will find you out," Numbers 32:23. You will find it on that day when you leave this world behind and step into the realm of eternity.
This message shows the love of God who has granted us grace to know such things while we are still alive that we may correct our wrongs and avoid doing the same in the future.
"For whom the Lord loves, He chastens," Hebrews 12:6.
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Aghogho Irukeh
January 8, 2019 at 1:25 pm
Very True
Okoye Bright Daniel
January 8, 2019 at 2:06 pm
May God help us all.
Kyagulanyi Alex
January 8, 2019 at 2:10 pm
what must a man do to be saved?..
Isn’t Jesus Christ’s blood and his power strong enough to cleanse and win Satan?
Is salvation found in what we do or by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ?
Adazion Adaeze
January 8, 2019 at 2:26 pm
Lord help me
Daniel Mwakerah
January 8, 2019 at 3:14 pm
Im always best at it lying.I always took it casualy…God forgive me
Douglas Kiboi
January 8, 2019 at 3:42 pm
Path is very narrow and demanding deep soul searching
Madumane Dumi Ngwane
January 8, 2019 at 3:54 pm
“Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips
And a deceitful tongue.
[Psalm 120:2]
Kemi Bucham
January 8, 2019 at 6:07 pm
Thank you
Jennifer Bryan
January 8, 2019 at 7:00 pm
What is the rapture?
When Jesus comes to meet us in the air?
Joshua Chekani Malinga
January 8, 2019 at 7:05 pm
May Lord deriver me from this sins of lying.
Phennie Tema
January 8, 2019 at 11:10 pm
Very True!!
Davidson Tembo
January 9, 2019 at 4:50 am
Amen
Sekani Nkwabi
January 9, 2019 at 1:40 pm
Have mercy on me oh LORD JESUS.
Sekani Nkwabi
January 9, 2019 at 1:41 pm
Jully Stanley
Zainab Iruobe
January 9, 2019 at 2:28 pm
God have mercy
Nabosa Flavi
January 9, 2019 at 2:54 pm
Help me Jesus
Nabosa Flavi
January 9, 2019 at 2:56 pm
How about if I slander some one in my mind must I go back to apolozise to the person?
Nabosa Flavi
January 9, 2019 at 3:17 pm
Or if the devil puts sexual impure thoughts in your mind about some one must I go and put right with that person?
Nabosa Flavi
January 9, 2019 at 3:17 pm
Please reply I need to know so I can put right
Zipporah Mushala
January 9, 2019 at 4:48 pm
Nabosa Flavi The post specifies that God will tell you. The Holy Spirit will convict you. The Holy Spirit will convict you to apologise for something. In particular, the post above addresses lies where another person is involved and your lies did the other person harm.
Darryl Mitchell
January 9, 2019 at 7:36 pm
Please forgive me. Amen.
Mtoto Wa Kifalme Prosper
January 10, 2019 at 3:45 am
God bless you servant of Jesus…thats good messege.
Henry Kabeshi
January 10, 2019 at 3:25 pm
Very good message indeed for all of us
Faulo Mukoma
January 10, 2019 at 7:36 pm
SISTER ZIPPORAH MANY CHRISTIANS ARE HIDING IN THE SINS OF ADULTERY THINKING THEY WILL ASK GOD TO FORGIVE THEM WITHOUT ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS FORM THE PERSON THEY WRONGED ,AND I HAVE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE THAT GOD CAN NOT FORGIVE THEM ALONE UNLESS THEY MAKE RESTITUTION BY TELLING THE PERSON THEY HAVE WRONGED IN THIS WAY A I RIGHT BY TELLING PEOPLE THIS?
Qùëëñ Sithole
January 11, 2019 at 8:21 pm
I need delivarence
Michelle Formaran Hutalla Ty
January 14, 2019 at 12:19 am
Lyndon Ty
Jane Eaton
January 22, 2019 at 9:03 am
Have just had a man who proudly displayed his tattoo of a cross to say he a Christian lie to me big time
Jane Eaton
January 22, 2019 at 9:05 am
satan is a liar and the father of lies..and God says that liars will not enter the kingdom of God for all those that think that they can get away with lies that I detest
David Peters
January 23, 2019 at 7:04 pm
Thanks for the message
Benis Eni
February 7, 2019 at 9:47 am
That’s true
Amen Oghide
February 7, 2019 at 4:40 pm
Amen thanks for this message more grace Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Justice Okpolua
March 4, 2019 at 2:30 am
thank you for that correction holy spirit
Mærtïñ Pûzœ
March 19, 2019 at 8:36 pm
God PLEASE come into my LIFE
Rose Reno
May 1, 2019 at 5:18 am
Thank you for this message
Charles Gusho
February 4, 2020 at 7:17 am
AMEN