Notes of Faith June 19, 2025
Deepfakes
As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him
1 John 2:27, NIV
Nearly everything we buy and use can be counterfeited. Designer handbags. Cosmetics. Drugs and medications. Dollar bills. Websites. Sporting and theater tickets. Jewelry. And deepfake videos.
It’s all from Satan. In Revelation, we see him attempting to counterfeit what the Lord has done. He tries to create a false trinity with himself, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet (Revelation 12–13). He promotes idolatry and offers counterfeit gods. But while Satan can copy, his creations are only designed to trick us.
The Holy Spirit lives within us, and we are anointed with Him. One of His assignments is to guide us into all truth (John 16:13). It’s important to walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16) and to be filled “with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives” (Colossians 1:9, NIV).
Ask God right now to keep you filled with His Spirit of wisdom and discernment.
A counterfeit god is anything so central and essential to your life that, should you lose it, your life would feel hardly worth living.
Timothy Keller
Col 1:9-14
9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.
13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
I pray for people that might read the thoughts and Scripture I post, that they might believe and stand firm in the faith, believing the Lord God and not the deceit, deception of Satan and the things of the world. You are loved by God and I as a disciple of Jesus desire to express His love for you. May you be blessed with truth and understanding as you walk through this day and every day!
Pastor Dale