Welcome to Nancy Wilson's Femina Podcast.

This audio is brought to the Femina Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson and thank you so much for joining me today.

Today I thought I'd like to talk about deceit and deception because

unfortunately as Jeremiah 179 says the heart is deceitful above all things. So our heart can all by itself generate all kinds of

lies and deceit. And so we cannot trust our hearts. Our hearts are not trustworthy.

Trusting our own hearts can easily lead to self-deception,

but deception can also, of course, come from other sources on the outside.

So we have to be alert for internal deception,

listening to lies our own hearts are telling us, and alert to deception coming

from outside from people, from advertising, from things we're reading,

listening to, etc.

So just to start, being deceived as a sin. We can't say that, well it's not my fault. No, I mean being

deceived as a sin, it is not something that is morally neutral, like being born blind. It's not your fault. And so we can't say it isn't our own fault that we were deceived.

Eve was deceived and she ate the fruit and there were heavy consequences and God

held her accountable and he didn't say well it wasn't your fault because that

serpent lied to you. because that's the first thing we have to realize that this is a sin

against God is not morally neutral being deceived is a sin.

Deception is often accompanied by flattery.

And flattery is the bait that gets us to listen to the lie in the first place. There's something in the lie itself that we want,

or we want to believe.

And I think the best way to prepare

to identify deception is by being a woman who loves the truth.

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