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March 21 - Truth Over Tricks · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible chat where? We have devotional
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  conversations. Rooted in.
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  Scripture and relevant for. Today.
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  March 21st. Truth over tricks It is amazing
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  how easy it can be to. Justify a small lie.
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  Sometimes it feels harmless, sometimes it feels necessary.
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  Sometimes it even feels smart. A shortcut in a conversation.
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  A hidden. Detail and.
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  Exaggerated Story A. Version of events that makes us
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  look. Better or keeps us out of
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  trouble. In the moment, tricks can seem
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  easier than truth. But what?
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  Feels easy for a moment. Can create.
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  Trouble that. Lasts much longer.
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  Proverbs chapter 12 verses. 21 to 22 says no harm befalls.
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  The righteous but the wicked are filled with trouble.
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  Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.
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  But those who act faithfully are his delight.
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  That is strong language, and it reminds us how.
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  Deeply God cares about truth. Truth.
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  Matters to Him because he is truthful.
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  Faithfulness matters to Him because he is faithful.
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  When we choose honesty, we are not just following a rule.
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  We are reflecting the character of God.
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  Then Judges chapter 2 verse. 11 says and the.
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  People of Israel did. What was evil in the sight of
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  the? Lord.
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  And served the Bales and the Ashtaroth.
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  That verse shows how. Quickly, hearts can drift when
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  people stop staying faithful. To God.
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  The people did not fall apart all at once.
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  It happened through choices, compromise and repeated
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  disobedience. One wrong turn led to another,
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  and soon they were trapped in cycles of regret and trouble.
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  That still happens today. One dishonest choice can lead to
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  another. 1 hidden thing can become a pattern.
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  One compromise can turn into a cycle.
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  That feels hard to break, but the opposite is true.
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  Too 1 truthful choice can begin healing.
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  One honest confession can restore peace.
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  One act of faithfulness can rebuild.
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  Trust God. Is not asking you to.
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  Be clever. He is asking you to be true.
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  Even when honesty cost you something, it protects something
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  deeper in you. It protects your heart.
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  It keeps your conscience tender. It helps you walk in peace.
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  The world may reward tricks for a moment.
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  But God. Delights in faithfulness and his
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  way leads to. Stability.
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  So today, choose truth. Over image choose honesty.
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  Over escape. Choose faithfulness over
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  shortcuts. The path may feel.
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  Harder for a moment, but it leads somewhere better.
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  Let's pray, Heavenly Father. Thank you for being true and
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  faithful in every way. Help me resist the.
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  Temptation to. Lie.
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  Hide. Or take dishonest shortcuts.
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  Give me courage to choose truth. Even when it.
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  Feels difficult. Keep my heart close to you.
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  And protect me from patterns of compromise that lead to.
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  Trouble. Let my life be marked by
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  faithfulness that delights you in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Proverbs, chapter 12. Verses 21 to 22.
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  World English Bible. No mischief shall happen.
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  To the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
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  Lying lips are an abomination to.
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  Yahweh but those who do the truth are his delight.
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  Judges chapter 2 World English Bible.
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  Yahweh. 'S Angel came up from Gilgal to
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  Botcham. He said I brought you out of.
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  Egypt and have brought you to the land which I swore.
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  To give your father's, I said. I will never break my covenant
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  with you. You shall make no covenant with
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  the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their
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  altars, but you have not listened to my voice.
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  Why have you done this? Therefore I also said.
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  I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be in
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  your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you when Yahweh's
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  angels. Spoke these words to.
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  All the children of Israel. The people lifted up their.
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  Voice and wept. They called the name of that
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  place Bochum, and they sacrificed.
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  There to Yahweh. Now, when Joshua had sent the.
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  People away. The children of Israel each went
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  to his inheritance to possess the land.
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  The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua.
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  And all. The days of the elders who
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  outlived Joshua Who? Had seen all the.
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  Great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
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  Joshua, the son of Nun. The servant of Yahweh died.
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  Being 110 years. Old they.
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  Buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath.
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  Here's in the Hill Country of Ephraim, on the north of the
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  mountain of Gosh. After all.
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  That generation. Were gathered to their.
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  Fathers. Another generation arose after
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  them who didn't know Yahweh. Nor the.
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  Work which he had done for Israel, the children of Israel.
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  Did that. Which was evil in Yahweh's sight
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  and served the. Bales they abandoned Yahweh, the
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  God of their fathers. Who brought them out of the land
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  of Egypt and followed other? Gods of the Gods of the.
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  Peoples who were around them and bowed themselves down to them
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  and they provoked Yahweh to anger they.
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  Abandoned Yahweh. And served Baal and the
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  Ashtaroth. Yahweh's anger burned against
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  Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of Raiders who
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  plundered them. He sold them into the hands of
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  their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand
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  before their enemies. Wherever they went out, Yahweh's
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  hand was against them for. Evil as Yahweh had.
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  Spoken and as Yahweh had sworn to them, and they were very.
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  Distressed, Yahweh raised up judges.
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  Who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them, Yet
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  they didn't listen to their judges.
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  For they prostituted themselves to other.
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  Gods and bowed themselves down to them.
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  They quickly turned away from the way in which.
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  Their fathers walked. Obeying Yahweh's commandments.
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  They didn't do so. When Yahweh raised up judges for
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  them. Then Yahweh was with the.
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  Judge and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all.
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  The days of the judge for it grieved Yahweh because.
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  Of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and
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  troubled them but when the. Judge was dead.
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  They turned back and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in
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  following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them.
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  They didn't cease what? They were doing or give up their
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  stubborn ways. Yahweh's anger burned against
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  Israel, and he said, because this nation transgressed my
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  covenant, which I commanded their fathers, and has not
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  listened to my voice, I also will no longer drive out any of
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  the. Nations that Joshua left.
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  When he died from before them, that by them I may.
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  Test Israel to see if they will keep Yahweh's way to.
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  Walk therein. As their fathers.
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  Kept it or not? So Yahweh left those.
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  Nations without driving them out hastily, he didn't deliver them
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