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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 9, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 44.

A TYRANNICAL DECEIVER

By George B. Thompson

SIN is a tyrant, an awful deceiver. It haunts us on every side. We are born in sin, and "shapen in iniquity." It is like a siren that clings to us, and then plunges with us into the lake of destruction. Unless delivered from its awful power, we will be destroyed by it at last.

Judas is an example. He was once an innocent babe in his mother's arms. He played in the streets like other boys. Life had as bright a rainbow of promise for him as for others. But sin ruined him. He hugged it to his bosom, and refused to break with it. Though under the instruction of the great Teacher Himself, he kept the wicked thing in his heart. He wore a mask, and became the traitor, the betrayer of the Son of God.

But there has been a Deliverer raised up. There is a fountain opened in the house of David in which we may wash and be clean. There is One who can bind the enemy, and deliver us from his deceptions. By faith we are victors, and become righteous in Him. G. B. T.