After Adam and Eve willingly ate the forbidden fruit, they covered themselves with fig leaves and then tried to hide themselves from God's awesome presence. Why did they do this? They tried to cover up their sins by the works of their own hands. Sin will always make someone hide from God. In Romans chapter one it says that men will "hold the truth in unrighteousness". This is when a person willingly rejects the truth that God has made known to him or her.

This truth-rejecting person will allow the doorway to open for the devil to blind his mind and plunge him into even more spiritual darkness. People have hidden their sins by suppressing them to the point that they no longer have any conscience of wrong doing. There is no longer any fear of God before their eyes.

After this goes on for a while, God will give them over and they will be overtaken even more by this strong delusion. They will believe every lie that Satan casts their way. God is merciful, but one day His wonderful "age of grace" is coming to an end and every mouth will be stopped to the true justice of God.

Ask yourself: have you been deceived by any of these lies? Maybe you heard a minister teach that we cannot trust the Bible as a whole, or maybe you have believed in a god or goddesses within yourself to give you direction, or maybe you have been misled to believe that you are not a sinner in need of God's grace, and can get to God by any path that you choose?

It is not too late to repent and call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. God is pleading with you to repent and not be led astray by Satan, the father of lies. Turn to the only true God that has given His pure word and is the only one who can take away your sins and give the wonderful gift of eternal life to all who will humbly call upon His name (Romans 10:13)

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).

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