The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Deception is Satan's stock and trade.

And he is the God of this world and he uses deception every possible way he can.

This morning I just, I want to talk about the reality of a deception from a very clear

narrative in Scripture.

And I want you to turn to Matthew chapter 26. Now you're going to have to have

your Bible handy because we're going to do something like we've been doing and cover large portions

of Scripture together.

Just to remind you of the fact that Satan is a deceiver, he planted a deceiver among the 12 disciples, right alongside the faithful.

The faithful.

This has always been his ploy.

I've been reading some surveys this last week or so in which quote unquote evangelicals

have been surveyed.

Evangelical is a term that comes from Ewangalizzo in Greek, which means to preach the gospel.

So supposedly gospel believers. And I read that the majority of gospel

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