{"id":6619,"date":"2021-02-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T16:43:24","slug":"empty-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/empty-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Deception!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Empty Deception! 2\/09\/21\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/rhdmi-fa129e?from=pb6admin&#038;download=1&#038;version=1&#038;auto=0&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;skin=1&#038;pfauth=&#038;btn-skin=107\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve all bought&nbsp;into what is called empty deception. We&#8217;ve put&nbsp;money into a vending machine and pushed a button for a bag of potato chips that, judging from the appearance of the package, looked as if it were full of chips.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When the bag comes out and we open it, it turns out to be mainly full of air and contains only a few chips. If we had examined the bag closely before making the purchase, we would have seen it as an&nbsp;<strong>empty deception<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the very Early Church the Colossians are an example of believers who were in danger of buying into an <strong>empty deception.<\/strong> The apostle Paul, using those two words, warned the people about this:\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cSee to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world, rather than on Christ.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0  Colossians 2:28.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our Visual, Audio and Social Media are working 24\/7 today to bring us tons of the empty deception St. Paul warns us about. If you find that the words don\u2019t add up from what you are hearing, it\u2019s because the truth wasn\u2019t included in what you were led to believe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Empty deception<\/strong> may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end. That bag of chips looks good when it stares at us in the vending machine. When we buy it, we discover it was mostly air.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In a time of universal empty deception, as we are going through today, even telling the truth is a revolutionary act!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YOUR GIFT TO GOD IS HONESTY!\u00a0 GIVE IT<\/strong>! <strong>GOD\u2019S GIFT TO YOU IS THE TRUTH!<\/strong>  <strong>TAKE IT!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-amazon-kindle wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"oceanwp-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe title=\"THE GATHERING: Jesus and Abortion A Story For Our Time\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1200\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_NcbEXeThvejniI&#038;asin=B08BDSDQ5L&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all bought&nbsp;into what is called empty deception. 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