the reality is we are what we repeatedly do this is the slippery slope of self-deception and if we don’t know what we repeatedly do then we can’t repent heal grow and ultimately get better when we know better we do better and that’s why self-awareness is so crucial the enemy of self-awareness is self-deception I’m excited about today’s episode episode three of this season on on self-awareness Joel I know you have a lot to say about this yeah I sure do um I think that idea of self-deception um is so challenging because self-deception
shows up in different ways for each of us there is an overt aspect of self-deception that we can easily point out in other people you know we can be like o you have been deceiving yourself in all these different ways but there’s a covert nature of self-deception and so I’m really excited to share and talk about both of those but before we get there I’m going to turn Lisa to your favorite place in all scripture and where might that be Genesis that’s right we’re going to go to Genesis but our path to Genesis is actually going to be
a passage that you shared in the previous episode James chapter 1 um and let’s start here James chapter 1 in verse 14 each person is tempted notice the language each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire then after desire has conceived it gives birth to sin and When sin is fully grown it gives birth to death what I actually think James is doing is he’s actually giving us a commentary on the opening pages of Genesis cuz what does the enemy Lucifer Satan do in the Garden of Eden well first he um he
himself has a desire to be like God so he himself is actually self deceived he’s dealing with deception in all kinds of ways and the natural tendency of a person who is self- deceived and is is deceptive in their own nature is to be deceptive with others so then catch this that the enemy himself is self- deceived and then he goes into Eden and he actually tempts through deception Adam and Eve in order to hey you probably want to eat this fruit because you want to be like God and then Adam and Eve are self- deceived and in their own
