Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, October 22nd.

The Bible says Satan is real and a formidable adversary.

Let's pay careful attention to today's podcast as we learn how to spot

the enemy's deceptive strategy in part two of the real war.

If you and I could wrap up Satan's primary strategy in one word, here's the word.

And the word is deception.

Deception is to tell someone something that is not true in order to get them to do something

they otherwise would not do. So we tell them a falsehood in order to persuade them that something is right when it is not,

or they should do this when they should not do it.

Deception is his key.

And if you'll go back to the book of Genesis and you'll recall that this was the problem with Eve and you

know this one by heart, you don't have to turn to this one.

But in the 13th verse of Genesis chapter 3.

Then the Lord God said to the woman,

what is this you have done?

And the woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate.

Now how did he deceive her? He misled her. He gave us some false information and she

took it. He said to her, well if you eat this, you'll be like God. You'll know good and evil. Part of that was true, but she was not like God.

And he deceived her by misleading her and the devil has been using that tactic

and that form of strategy all down through the years and the truth is every single time you and I

attempted by the devil Satan is misleading us by telling us something that is not true.

Now you really need this when we don't.

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