How To See Past Satan's Deceptions, Facades and Illusions this year! | Jonathan Cahn Sermon

look to the long term whenever you're being tempted look to the end how am I going to feel the next day how am I going to feel after I do it how am I going to feel 10 years from now when I keep doing this faithful are the wounds of a friend but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy this tells you right there you cannot always judge the way something is what it is by the way it looks or feels evil can appear good and nice and pleasant good can appear hard harsh and wrong people with selfish motives can appear to be nice and pleasant A salesperson is going to be nice because they want something from you I mean not all but that's General someone may flatter you a flatter they want something from you so they flatter you someone tries to pick up some a a someone in a bar is going to be nice because they want something it's all disguised there's a guy who came here years ago to Beth Israel years ago he wanted a position wanted the spotlight and he would speak so well of me he would tell me how much I was like Jesus and all these things then when we said no to certain things that he wanted he started speaking against me and the others and eventually he went somewhere else to I got a call from the pastor ask me about him because he caused a disaster there it was all just kisses of nothing be careful and that's what it's saying here in Proverbs is about wisdom be careful because we tend to hear what we want to hear and we tend to see what we want to see and we tend to not see what's there but we don't want to see it or not hear what's there because we don't want to hear it and we fool ourselves into thinking something is there that's not or thinking something's not there that is many optical illusions are based on this principle because your mind fills fills in the gaps like it fills in by what it's expecting to see so there are optical illusions based on the fact that your mind is going to fool you by filling in things that are not there because it expects it to be there and so in your life this is a something to be aware of your past experiences color your present reality if you've been betrayed you couldn't trust well that often is going to carry on how you are with people if you were rejected or wounded that's going to very likely again God's power overcomes that but it in the flesh it carries on you'll see rejection when there's no rejection or you'll see things based on the way you saw them or what happened or or you could be going through your life repeating and repeating the same pattern because of the way you saw it the way what happened to you early on someone was once here who who uh if you ever ever said no to them or didn't agree or the slightest little thing the the the man would literally win like he was being struck in the face and and and he had problems with authority and then we found out later that sure enough his father used to beat him like that and that he was still reliving it we had a sister had a lot of problems in her past and she was at us one service so beautiful the spirit there celebration Freedom praise she walks away and she says I all upset and she said why because she send demons all over it wasn't all over that's what she was dealing with we have to be careful in the opposite direction in the Bible we are told to be careful of hearing what we want because back in Israel Israel had turned away from God and judgment was coming and you had the true prophets of God who told them what they didn't want to hear at the same time at the same time you have the false prophets who told them what they did want to hear and everything's going to be great everything's going to be great you know comes against Jeremiah Jeremiah saying judgment's coming this Prophet prophesies against Jeremiah it's all it's all fake what happened is they listen to the false prophets not the true prophets they heard what they wanted to hear and refused to hear what they didn't want to hear even though it was true and then judgment came and they were destroyed there are people in the Lord now who just say what people want to hear they tell them what they want to hear they everything's going to be great this is this God's going to do this this this nothing about repentance nothing about God's will just except that it's that and it's not God why is it that when you look in a mirror you can see yourself all the time and say hey that looks pretty good and then all a sudden you see a photograph of yourself and you say who is that overgrown you who do well why because in the mirror even though sometimes the mirror also can do it but the mirror you're more prepared you're prepared for what you're seeing you're used to it but a photograph comes out of the blue and it's you and you don't have the filters up we fool ourselves without even realizing it people see things through filters and lenses is the Communists then and now see everything through the lens of Marist Marxist Dogma everything is exploitation everything is class Warfare everything is the capitalists the radical left saw innocent mothers children being murdered two weeks ago and tortured and they said it was justified because it was colonialism the filter is so great that they sto Being Human those who ran concentration camp put up their filters and so they were fine with it because they had the filter that they were doing right radical feminists for them everything is male oppression everything for conspiracy theorists everything's a conspiracy and if you don't agree with a conspiracy it's only because you've been brainwashed by the conspiracy which only further proves the conspiracy is real be careful be careful of your own fooling of yourself when I was in college I took a course I was coming coming to the Lord I took a course on biblical archaeology it was a secular school but it was biblical archaeology and the guy who taught it was an Orthodox Jewish guy and the guy next to me was a guy totally into UFOs all the time UFOs non-stop every archaeological site for him he knew that it was built by the aliens the pyramids aliens the Sphinx aliens the Coliseum aliens the Brenan burn arena in New Jersey aliens and he'd always be challenging the Orthodox Jewish teacher as if the Orthodox Jewish teacher was part of the conspiracy was holding out and not revealing that God the Orthodox je didn't know what to do with him and he kept talking about the UFOs and the spaceships and getting beamed up and one day he just disappeared that was it I mean he was gone and we figured he just got beamed up by the aliens because they were embarrassed by him but but it's not just those people who do it it's also believers who do it with the Bible they read the Bible they hear the word through the glass and the filter they see in the Bible what they want to see and they block out what they don't want to see hyper Calvinists will block out all the scriptures about Free Will Grace Ministries block out the scriptures all about warning of the consequences of sin and judgment Prosperity Ministries will block out the scriptures that say you may not necessarily get rich you may actually be persec you may actually end up like Paul in a you might but God's still going to be with you and he's going to bless you but that part doesn't go one of the greatest indictments of the Bible it says they they have ears but they can't hear they have eyes but they cannot see you may be doing it yourself with your own reading of the Bible you may be glossing over scriptures that you don't want to hear that you don't want to that don't that challenge you that convict you or that don't give you that that thing so there have been people I mean when before I was married you know when you're a single pastor this is just part of it you know there are women who hear from the Lord that they are supposed to marry you and there's more than one of them and they only see what they want to see and every sign you know and you have to be careful yes say let's say you want to be married be careful because it's very easy for you to fool yourself and take anything as it's the Lord so there was a woman who came up to me and just said they would say come out just say it admit it I said what do you mean you know you want to marry me I said I don't know that I want to marry you why are you denying it why are you fighting the lord well the Lord never told me yes he did how do you know that because he told me he told you well he didn't tell me that he told you that he told me there are those who heard me teaching on the radio and were convinced real thing that I was sending secret messages in the the teaching about to them I mean to them in a romantic way you know one woman once say pretty much word for word said you you mean you don't are you saying you don't have any romantic feelings for me I said that's right I don't you're kidding no I'm really not kidding if you tell me you tell me straight out you don't have you never had feelings I'll accept it that'll be it okay listen close I don't have never had for you what are you trying to say to me when you're in love you're especially vulnerable to fool yourself cuz you believe what you want to believe and it's shocking but the person's not going to be perfect even though when you're in love you're thinking they are well okay we know that part but in some cases this this function of fooling yourself can lead you into disaster I cannot tell you how many Believers I've known have fooled themselves in the area of romance because it's so strong into doing what was either foolish dangerous ignoring every red flag or going against the word of God something that they knew wasn't the word of God beforehand but once they had the emotions and the vested interest they went against it they grasped at anything to believe that it was God telling them and that's true in everything listen you want God's will in your life that's the best thing you could ever have God's will but if you want God's will in your life you have to divest yourself from any vested interest in the answer in other words you have to say Lord I'm okay if you say yes I'm okay if you say no that's the only way you're going to be open I'm okay if you say yes or or Isaac has to be offered and be careful because the one who's deceiving you may be yourself and the enemy uses that be careful faithful are the wounds of a friend and deceitful are the kisses of an enemy and here's another secret you are if you are born again you're a child of the Kingdom you're a citizen of Israel and you are a child of Jerusalem the Bible says in Jerusalem for those who have never gone there are Gates and in the gates you have a gate like the Damascus gate the Jaffa gate why is the Damascus gate called the Damascus gate when it has it's nowhere near the city of Damascus or Syria why is the other one called the Jaffa gate that's by the Mediterranean why because the gate is called not by What It Is by by what it leads to the gate if you go through the Jaffa gate and you keep following you'll end up in Jaffa if you go through the damasus gate and you keep walking that direction eventually you'll end up in Damascus so what does that tell you you cannot judge any situation by the way it looks feels or seems you judge any direction any situation any road any Gateway any door by where it's bringing you where it it's bringing you you may be on a hard road but it's bringing you to something beautiful it's a beautiful Road you may be at a very an ugly gate but it's leading to something beautiful it's a beautiful gate so what does that tell you about this how do you overcome whatever you're in a situation you're being tempted to to do wrong the enemy is putting all the pleasure thing with you saying come on jump you have to look beyond that to where it's leading you look to the end of the matter if you give in because the enemy You Know The Enemy thrives in the short run not the long term the enemy he said it says he knew his time was short the enemy thrives in the in the immediate that's where his power is but not the long term long term he's finished look to the long term whenever you're being tempted look to the end how am I going to feel the next day how am I going to feel after I do it how am I going to feel take 10 years from now when I keep doing this how am I going to feel let and then use the Pleasure Principle the pain against it in other words take the pain from the fact that if I keep doing this this this is the pain I'm going to feel horrible feel the pain now and then don't do it you understand associate it with where it's going to lead you or on the other hand if I turn down this in like in the me I'm being tempted and there's a little thing of pleasure if I turn it down right now you know I I mean it may be hard to do but when I look if I turn it down think about how good I'm going to feel when I'm finished how good I'm going to feel that I turned it down how good I'm going to feel two days from now when I've turned it down again how good I'm going to feel and all the blessings that are coming my life because I took a step for God and I'm growing and now I could go I can walk into his will because I got that out think about how blessed I'm going to be feel the joy feel the pleasure feel that all and then you're going to be able to turn down the immediate thing secret very important it says look to the end look to there where is it going to be there is a road there is a there is a way that seems right to man but its end is a way of death look see the death there is a gate that is narrow but it leads to life there is that look to the end it says that's why it says in in the Bible it says it's better to be in a house of mourning than a house of partying because the morning you're looking at the end you're looking at where it goes you know you're looking and you're not looking at the immediate that's going to end there anyway how you feel the pain now feel the joy now and that will because then you'll be living in truth and you'll be living God you see you know think about you know if you spend time in God's presence today you might think oh you know it's going to take this I won't be able to be watching television well I won't be able to do this well listen you can watch television I'm not saying Listen by much of Television is garbage be careful but I'm not saying all but here's the thing spend the whole day in front of it how are you going to feel at the end you're probably not going to feel good you're going to feel like but let's say I took an hour away I didn't do that and I spent time in God's presence how are you going to feel at the end you're going to feel great feel great now and do the thing that'll give you the power to do what you have to do and not do what you have to not do rise higher in God what does it say about Messiah he endured the cross for what for the joy set before him he endured the cross for the Greater Joy he overcame the temporary pain which is gigantic for the greater Eternal Joy that's a power that you have but you got to stop when you're being tempted stop you know and even then listen replace it you're being tempted right now replace it with the thing with the joy of God listen I don't like to exercise I don't like it but I like what it does I look at my watch when I'm ex say is it over yet is it am I finished am I there yet but when I finish for the rest of the day I feel great the key is focus on the blessings that will be yours the harder it is the more you got to focus and rejoice feel it now you spend time in prayer it might be you know spend time in the word it might be hard for you right now but think about the joy that's going to be all in your life all the blessings that are going to come in here's another secret you the Pleasure Principle to your advantage God told the Israelites he took them out of Egypt and then he said every year I want you to celebrate this I want you to remember what it was like in Egypt and celebrate that I took you out why well give thanks to God never forget what he did fact the more you rejoice that God took you out of Egypt the more you're never going back to Egypt the more you remember the pain of Egypt that's part of Passover too the more you're not going back it's when people forget that they go back so so the thing is you resisted you know you know apply Joy to the things of God one is by knowing of course they produce joy and and rejoicing in it absolutely but you know what here's another thing you can do God saying to them you know have a festival you know than the things of God celebrate the things of God you turn down that sin rejoice in that celebrate that get into the joy of it reward yourself you can do it it's it's holy it's holy to encourage righteousness treat yourself to something you can go out I'm not listen I don't care how you do you can go out you can buy something I'm celebrating the fact that I did God's will today chances are you're going to do it again that's you're strengthening you're strengthening you're putting you're undoing what the eny does you're adding Joy you're putting Joy back to the things of God this is Jonathan Khan thanks for watching The Return of the Gods is available literally everywhere Amazon wherever books are sold and God bless [Music] you

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Length: 18min 23sec (1103 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 27 2024