"Rooting Out Deceit" -2

"He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight." (Psalms 101:7)
I know, that's not your fight, so you will not get involved. Besides, if the Lord is coming back any day, then why does it really matter what the world does? The church is not immune from this; you would think by now that we would have figured that out. Okay, so we are moving on. In the case of Adam and Eve, God had instructed Adam not to eat the fruit of a certain tree; however, Eve told the serpent, "But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." One of two things had taken place; either Eve added to what God had originally said to Adam, or Adam added to it when he had instructed Eve. Either way, there was something that had taken place in the rule that God had originally given, His word was added on to! There is the thing which we must carefully watch out for, the taking away or adding to God's word! That is exactly what the devil did to Eve, he simply added a single word to what God had said, without even giving any proof or explaining why they would not die, saying, "Ye shall not surely die," he merely affirmed it. That is how a lie takes hold; without any proof or substance, a lie is accepted merely by affirmation. In other words, it is accepted by how it makes us feel. The very last verse in the Book of Judges, says, "every man did that which was right in his own eyes." If it feels good, do it; that was pretty much the case; and it was the same point in the fall that took place in the Garden. And it only took one word to make it so, the word "not." If Adam or Eve could add to God's word and make it right, then why couldn't the devil do it also? We each are responsible for our own salvation; no one will have the excuse of saying, "I did not know," because God has made His word perfectly clear. Just because His word has been taken from or added onto by someone else, does not give us liberty to accept it as truth, no matter how good it makes us feel. It is all between you and God, no matter who else says what, it all comes down to what God has said, and whether we believe it...
""And now, Israel, listen carefully to these decrees and regulations that I am about to teach you. Obey them so that you may live, so that you may enter and occupy the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Do not add to or subtract from these commands I am giving you. Just obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you."" (Deuteronomy 4:1-2) NLT