Deceptive messages may sound harmless at first, but if we're in the habit of listening to lies, it will have serious consequences.

Welcome to revive our hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Thursday, October 25th.

Thank you. Do you recognize lies when you hear them? We hear messages all day long. Most sound good on the surface, but are we really hearing the truth?

Today, we're going to join Nancy Lee DeMoss as she teaches in front of a small group of women about the way to distinguish truth from error.

Here's Nancy.

Most of us don't wake up in the morning and say, I think I'm going to end up in bondage today.

And we don't wake up and say, I think I'm going to believe a lie today.

These things happen much more subtly and much more gradually in most cases than just something that dramatic. When we end up in bondage, it's usually because we've been following a progression. It didn't start out as a bondage when we have a food

addiction or a moral issue that we struggle with or a temper problem, as one woman shared with

recently who's really battling

with anger issues. It may be a matter of worry or fear or anxiety or overspending.

Any of these areas of bondage, we didn't start out in those areas of bondage. It didn't happen

overnight. It happened as a result of bondage. It didn't happen overnight.

It happened as a result of a progression.

We're considering how the truth can set us free

and how Satan uses deception to put us in bondage.

And I want us today to consider the progression,

the steps that lead us into bondage. It starts so

simply. And I want to suggest that the beginning place that ends us up in bondage is when we

start by listening to a lie. Eve's first mistake was not eating the fruit. Her first mistake was listening to the

serpent, listening to someone who was giving her advice that was contrary to the word of God.

And that's where we make our first mistake, isn't it? We listen to, we receive input and counsel into our lives that is not true.

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