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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