The Answer is Yes. It is often both a truth and a trick. Our enemy the devil, loves to take a truth and then twist it so that we fall for it. This is a trick. This becomes a snare for us when we believe it and act on it. The very first Truth and trick happened in the Garden of Eden. We are given the story in Gen.3 .. We are all familiar with the story. What we tend to forget is that that same scenario is being played out over and over in our times and in each of our lives.
I will highlight some of these tricks as they have appeared and continue to appear in my life. Satan is the master deceiver. His delight is in deceiving and then permanently enslaving those he has tricked. Deceit has an element of truth in it and scripture is often quoted. However it is not the Whole truth and nothing but the truth. This truth is usually brought through someone or a source we have some confidence in. Sometimes I twist the truth myself in order to justify my actions.
And how does the enslavement happen.? Sometimes it is physical through drugs, addictions, culture, pride, trauma, law, guilt, or perhaps I have built my whole life style around the trick …. Satan will pretty much use anything that he knows I am susceptible to and that he can use as a trap for me.
In Trick or Truth 2 we look at the following statement: “Since it is legal (in our Christian nation), then it is approved and acceptable to and by God. Because we are told in scripture to obey the laws of our land.”
Now, this statement is primarily false. Even so, this belief is a huge stumbling block for many in our nation. After all, everybody is doing it. To make it worse, we as a nation promote our version of corrupt christianity, and what it is to be a true Christian to the rest of the world. The one bit of truth in this statement is that we are told to “obey the laws of our land.” This is an age old trick of Satan. It is found all through the Bible and even in Jesus day. I call this one of the “justification for what I do or who I am” statements that many of us use to try to soothe our conscience and attempt to argue with the Lord about it. In looking at it, I realize how ridiculous it is.
Here is the Truth: Law never saves me nor makes it right in the spirit realm. God is never subject to man’s laws. This trick of Satan falls under the scripture: “There is a way that seems right to man, but the end thereof is death.” Pr.14:12 Acts5:29 tells us:”We must obey God rather than men.”
In thinking back over the very confusing times we have recently been living in, it helps shed light on that which has really been going on. The enslavement and confusion even among believers. Some have even built a life around one of the lies that has been propagated and forced upon our society. The only answer to all of this is to come back to the Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth! I choose to build my life on the TRUTH !!! I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life! John14:6