I want for us to peel back the layers and get to the core of what I believe is a wholesale ignorance

that's fueled by a satanic deception and it's coupled with God sending a strong delusion.

It is my personal belief that said deception and delusion is the greatest threat that we face from within as a nation and perhaps more importantly

as a church as well.

I want to draw your attention to the Apostle Paul's second letter to the church in Thessalonica chapter

two. I want to read verses 9 through 12. He says, the coming of the lawless one, lawless

one, very interesting, is according to the working of Satan with all power, signs, and lying wonders wonders and with all unrighteous deception among

those who perish. And here's why. Because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this reason, God will send them

strong delusion that they should believe the lie, that they may all be condemned who did not

believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

On Thursday, as I was watching the news coverage of this Islamic attack,

and that's why I, you understand, I'll never call it radical Islam.

That's a redundancy.

Islam is radical.

Well, I don't know.

That's another topic for another time.

It hit me, as I'm watching this, that there was no mention of Islam whatsoever.

Certainly not initially.

Then, when ISIS claimed responsibility eventually, it was downplayed at best and dismissed at worst. I'm all four acronyms, but when it comes to the ISIS acronym, which stands for

the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, you also, particularly with our previous president, who I believe deliberately,

referred to them always and only as ISIL, which is the acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq

and the Levant. And you know what the Levant is? It's the

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