BEWARE OF FLATTERING.

Flattering is to praise someone in order to make them feel attractive or important, in a way that is not sincere:

The bible has a lot to say about flattering and flatterers.

Prov 29:5 says that a man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. We may take lightly the matter of flattering because we have become used to, but we ought to be aware that it is a net being spread for your feet. Beware lest you become trapped and become like a trapped animal and you lose the freedom that God gave you.

When talking about the antichrist, in Daniel 11:32, it says that he will win many who compromise through flatteries but it is those who know God that who will be able to resist him. The masterpiece of the devil in these last days is deception and many people will be misled by being flattered. Be very careful of preachers who comfort you when you are living in sin…remember he is spreading a net in your feet to trap you and you may end up not fulfilling the purpose to which you are called.

Psal 78:35, 36 talks about the children of Israel remembering how God was their rock and redeemer but they flattered God and spoke lies to Him. This still happens today, many believers when they hear a sermon or a testimony  or go somewhere for prayers and fasting and make many promises to God telling Him what they would do if he gave or did something for them. God is faithful and does many things that were asked but His children forget all the promises they made and go on with life as if everything is well. We need to repent of the many times we have flattered God and do the things we promise to do.

The psalmist is crying for God to help because the godly are fast disappearing in the land and the faithful men are decreasing rapidly. The reason he says is because men are flattering with their lips. Psalm12:1,2. We therefore see that a godly man and a faithful man in Gods eyes have one character among many of cleansing himself from all flattery.

Job says in job 32:21-22 that I will not be partial to anyone, nor will I flatter any man.  For if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away.  This is the reason many believers have died spiritually and become fruitless and barren. God has destroyed them for exercising their tongues to speak flattery. May God save us from falling in this fate.

Solomon warns his son about falling in sexual immorality. He warns about the immoral women who trap undiscerning men through flattery, her beauty, her seductive dress and her eyelids. Immorality destroys a precious life and makes it to the level of a piece of bread. Prov 2:16, 6:24-26, 7:5-21

Let is beware of flattering and flatterers.

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