Today I began my Bible Study Class by passing out Hostess cup cakes. I asked my class "remember those?" I really didn't have to say a thing. Many of them had comments about the cup cakes as we remembered how we use to eat them.
My favorite way to eat a Hostess cupcake [since I don't like chocolate cake] was to "roll" the frosting off, peel the chocolate cake part and head straight to the cream filling. Others had their own stories of how they ate them.
The issue was not how you eat it, the issue was the Hostess cup cake. You see, one of the most recognized aspects of that particular cup cake was the squiggly white line on top of the frosting. The cup cake looked real, it looked genuine, it looked like the real thing....but it wasn't!
Since last week when Hostess announced that they were filing for bankrupcy, there was a mad rush to purchase their twinkies, cup cakes, ding dongs and other favorites. I could not find twinkies or cup cakes anywhere so I opted for a "counterfiet" a "fake" and tried to pass it off as a Hostees. The most recognizable aspect of the cup cake was there...the squiggly line. My presentation of the cup cake made it believeable.
The group liked what they saw, the presentation was right and I [the teacher] sold it. How could that be wrong? Too many get wrapped up in the packaging and presentation instead of opening the Word of God. Truth is not found in a celebrity selling their belief. It seems that the higher profile the individual, the more believeable he or she is to people.
Today, there are many claims of who the "true God" is. I have the answer. It is in God's Word. There is only one true God and only He is real. He is a loving, living, God and Salvation only comes through Him. Don't be fooled by someone trying to "sell" you anything else.
Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God... 1 John 4:1-2
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