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Here's 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 want to talk about the reality of 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 twelve disciples.

Right alongside 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 Yuan Galizzo and Greek which means to preach the gospel.

So supposedly gospel believers.

And I read that the majority of gospel believers believe that Jesus was created by God the Father, the majority of evangelicals believe that God accepts any religion and lets people into His heaven.

That's contemporary evangelicalism.

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