CONVOLUTED:
The Way of Deception part 1.
By Trevor Davis
2-2-2021

I have been pondering a word over the last few days.  "CONVOLUTED”.

This word comes to me as I process various voices out there...
Most of the time you can hear something true but in the mix of falsehoods to one degree or another.

I thought to myself, it means, to 'within fold', to create a mixture.

When you experience someone presenting dialogue and it comes across to you as convoluted, it means it is not clear but muddy.  It has the sense of confusion and creates questions. The diatribe has things true, not true, and nay have a mixture of the two.

The truth of God is simple.  It is pure, easy and without hypocrisy.  A child can get it.  We know we are commanded of Jesus to be as children so we may enter the Kingdom of God.
God is either revealing or concealing.  He reveals to the babes and conceals from the wise and prudent.

Jesus Himself declared that He came to bring judgment and that those who see may be made blind.  Those blind He would grant sight.  This is hard for most to fathom.  But, it is the truth and what He says, said and continues to say.

Truth is the issue.
In the land of Israel, religious corrupt idolatrous Israel, the truth had perished from the land, Jeremiah cried.
What is any different today among the religious Christ professing rejecting world?

Lies of every kind are mislabeled as truth.  But the discerning ones of Jesus can see the difference.  They spit out the vile falsehood.  The ones who are drunk on the elixir of the world drink it down anyway.  Chug chug chug.  They are like drunken sailors on leave.  They slur their song, "How dry I am..."  . And it is true.  They are dry as a bone burned in the scorching sun of the desert.  Without God, without living Water, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, without any fruit.

In recent times, I have spoken of the parallel of that which becomes petrified.  As a tree that absorbs minerals from earth and becomes harder than a rock, though it still looks like a tree.  There are so many today that are petrified "Christians".  They look and may sound like a believer in Jesus, but they are dead, dumb, and without the Spirit.  They have no clue what the Lord is speaking or even care to.  That is why they became dead as a door nail.

I wish to elaborate on the process of deception that goes on all the time.  It is important.  Jesus warned of it.  The sent ones known as apostles wrote of it by the Spirit of God.   "Watch out!"  Beware.  Take heed!  Of what?  Murderers, scammers, bank robbers, or the like?  No.  What did Jesus tell us to beware of?  Wolves in sheep's clothing. The many false prophets!

Paul spent three years night and day weeping and warning of this fact.  Wolves are coming into the flock and will not spare the sheep.  Others will come in and lead would-be disciples into leaving Jesus in order to follow them. That goes on all time on every corner, every church, every religious broadcasting system to this day.  It's true.

Convoluted.  The Kingdom of God is likened to leaven Jesus said.  It is like leaven, that a "WOMAN" took, and HID into three measures of meal until the whole thing was leavened.  There you go.  That is convoluted.

Another thing that I was urged to ponder today was the idea of " past feeling”. This is a quote from Paul speaking of those who are darkened and alienated from God, and have a hard heart—calloused beyond any sense of right and wrong. The warning here is deep and vast. It entails the idea of those who convolute the truth. They twist the truth, roll aspects of truth with falsehood. They are synthesizers. Mixing up principles and doctrines both of God and Satan. Yet, as Peter warned, many people forsake the truth for promoters of all kinds of falsehood having itching ears. They actually collect teachers as some collect stamps or other “collectibles”.

If you are one who insists on the truth, then none other than Jesus Christ as the teacher will do. He commands, “Come to Me. Learn from Me. Follow Me”. But do people? That is the question. If you are young in Jesus and are sincere to follow Him, you realize quickly that there is a lot of mixture out there. A lot of convoluted religion. It's a mixed bag of sorts.

And here we are at the last days. The greatest time of deception unfolding. The set up of the one world government and religion. The blind guides leading the gullible and spiritually blind right into the snare which Jesus warns. They pay these masqueraders. They give them praise and set them up on the stage at a podium for crying out loud.

This is the reality right here and now.

So, as the Spirit of God leads me today, I am doing the study of texts which address this process.

Ephesians 4:14, 19 and 6:11.

Paul urged in this letter to saints 'not to be as children-- tossed to and fro'; 'or, 'carried about by every wind of doctrine'...

NOTE THE NEXT FOUR WORDS DESCRIBING THE DECEPTIVE MODE OF CONVOLUTION!

Trickery--'kubos' as in cube/dice;
Craftiness--'panourgia'
Deceitful--'plane'
Schemings--'methodia'; translated WILES in Ephesians 6:11.
The wiles—schemes, trickery, plot of the devil.

The ones that teach in this way are either never tasted of the gospel and became converted. Or, they are ones that had once tasted of the goodness of God only to leave , depart, cease from abiding. To leave, depart or not abide, are all the same thing. See John 15 about the difference between abiding or leaving Jesus. One who abides bears the fruit of Jesus. The ones departing wither, become broken off, thrown down, and later to be burned in unquenchable fire.

To play the part of loving God when you truly do not, is one of the highest crimes against God which He hates. He hates lip service. He despises insinerity play acting of anykind. Do not do it! EVER.

And, I dare say, there are ones today that are acting the part as Christians---in true art of the hypocrite, deceiving and being deceived those who they can encumber. And how do they do it? By convoluting the truth. Mixing God's Word with their own. Blending and synthesizing truth with falsehood. Using buzzwords, jargon, cliches, and religious platitudes, they lead the multitudes astray from the truth that is in Jesus. This is plainly expressed in Ephesians 4. Speak the truth. Be renewed in the mind. Be pure and humble loving one another. Follow Jesus and forsake the masters of religion of every kind.

Read this in Ephesians 4. Jesus is the light of the world. Following Him means you will not walk in darkness and falsehood. He is the way, the truth, and the life. To follow Jesus and have the Holy Spirit as your one and only teacher, is to learn from Jesus. As Paul urged...

In putting away the corruption, put on the new man, being renewed...

You have not so learned Christ, if so be that you have heard Him, been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus.

But woe woe woe unto those following others other than Jesus Christ. They have followed the antichrists right into the ditch of darkness.
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(edited 2-2-2021)
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Trevor Davis