Text: Genesis 3:13
TO TRICK IS NOT TO TREAT. A trick is a thing done or said to deceive or cheat, a mannerism, a habit, feat or skill which is deceitful. To trick is to make someone be in a position contrary to that held by majority and thus bring one into conflict.
A TRICK HAS BEEN DONE. We call this in our language as GIILAD. Remember Eve when she was tricked by the snake? She took it for a good one but it proved a bad one, with lying words and deceitful language imposed upon her she thought was very useful to improve her knowledge but instead caused her to err from the truth, and to believe a lie. And like her husband, she attempted to swing the blame from herself, and lay it on the serpent. (Genesis 3:13). Another Cebuano term is LANSISI. This time let us read over the story involving Delilah (Judges 16:5) where each of the Philistines promised her an unusual sum of money--a considerable bribe--and very tempting to a person of such a character, and which she readily embraced, as appears by what follows in the story. You get something after you trick someone or even then the trickster annoys you with pleadings.
A TRICK HAS BEEN DONE ON YOU. Are you what we call as NALINGLA? Of course, what a fool you are for having been hoodwinked by people you are familiar with. So you get furious and vengeful. Let’s take a look at Herod (Matthew 2:16) he killed all the male children, not only in Bethlehem, but in all the villages of that city. Such unrestrained wrath, armed with an unlawful power, often carries men to absurd cruelties. “It was no unrighteous thing with God to permit this; every life is forfeited to his justice as soon as it begins. The diseases and deaths of little children are proofs of original sin. But the murder of these infants was their martyrdom. Herod now thought that he had baffled the Old Testament prophecies, and the efforts of the wise men in finding Christ; but whatever crafty, cruel devices are in men's hearts, the counsel of the Lord shall stand,” says the Matthew Henry Commentary. Herod killed the babies because of the trick made on him. The second one is PAGBITIK—and knowing it on hand-- will make you stand against it and do the right thing. Lets read what was Jesus reply when tricked by being asked on the payment of taxes (Mark 12:15). The Lord knows from the very beginning their flattering titles and characters of him, and which lay hid in their secret designs against him. “Nothing is more likely to ensnare the followers of Christ, than bringing them to meddle with disputes about worldly politics. Jesus avoided the snare, by referring to the submission they had already made as a nation; and all that heard him, marveled at the great wisdom of his answer. Many will praise the words of a sermon, who will not be commanded by the doctrines of it,” another commentary from Matthew Henry. We may learn to put in mind as good and as Christian duties by the smallest things that are in common use among us. A single coin may remind us of God’s goodness and bounty towards us, in affording us such precious metals for our use and trading one with another. The malignity of a trickster’s heart took the form of craft, pretending what they did not feel—an anxious desire to be guided aright in a matter which to a scrupulous few might seem a question of some difficulty. Christians, like Jesus, should see perfectly through this.
REVIEW. (Ephesians 6:11) Isul-ob ang tanang kahimanan sa gubat nga gihatag sa Dios kaninyo aron makasukol kamo batok sa mga pagpanlimbong sa yawa. “Be strong in the Lord — Since every relation in life brings along with it corresponding duties, and requires vigor and resolution in the discharge of them, whatever therefore the circumstance or situation may be which you are in, see that you do not rely on your own strength, but apply to the Lord, for his strength, and arm yourselves with the power of his might” (BENSON COMMENTARY)
TO TRICK IS NOT TO TREAT. A trick is a thing done or said to deceive or cheat, a mannerism, a habit, feat or skill which is deceitful. To trick is to make someone be in a position contrary to that held by majority and thus bring one into conflict.
A TRICK HAS BEEN DONE. We call this in our language as GIILAD. Remember Eve when she was tricked by the snake? She took it for a good one but it proved a bad one, with lying words and deceitful language imposed upon her she thought was very useful to improve her knowledge but instead caused her to err from the truth, and to believe a lie. And like her husband, she attempted to swing the blame from herself, and lay it on the serpent. (Genesis 3:13). Another Cebuano term is LANSISI. This time let us read over the story involving Delilah (Judges 16:5) where each of the Philistines promised her an unusual sum of money--a considerable bribe--and very tempting to a person of such a character, and which she readily embraced, as appears by what follows in the story. You get something after you trick someone or even then the trickster annoys you with pleadings.
A TRICK HAS BEEN DONE ON YOU. Are you what we call as NALINGLA? Of course, what a fool you are for having been hoodwinked by people you are familiar with. So you get furious and vengeful. Let’s take a look at Herod (Matthew 2:16) he killed all the male children, not only in Bethlehem, but in all the villages of that city. Such unrestrained wrath, armed with an unlawful power, often carries men to absurd cruelties. “It was no unrighteous thing with God to permit this; every life is forfeited to his justice as soon as it begins. The diseases and deaths of little children are proofs of original sin. But the murder of these infants was their martyrdom. Herod now thought that he had baffled the Old Testament prophecies, and the efforts of the wise men in finding Christ; but whatever crafty, cruel devices are in men's hearts, the counsel of the Lord shall stand,” says the Matthew Henry Commentary. Herod killed the babies because of the trick made on him. The second one is PAGBITIK—and knowing it on hand-- will make you stand against it and do the right thing. Lets read what was Jesus reply when tricked by being asked on the payment of taxes (Mark 12:15). The Lord knows from the very beginning their flattering titles and characters of him, and which lay hid in their secret designs against him. “Nothing is more likely to ensnare the followers of Christ, than bringing them to meddle with disputes about worldly politics. Jesus avoided the snare, by referring to the submission they had already made as a nation; and all that heard him, marveled at the great wisdom of his answer. Many will praise the words of a sermon, who will not be commanded by the doctrines of it,” another commentary from Matthew Henry. We may learn to put in mind as good and as Christian duties by the smallest things that are in common use among us. A single coin may remind us of God’s goodness and bounty towards us, in affording us such precious metals for our use and trading one with another. The malignity of a trickster’s heart took the form of craft, pretending what they did not feel—an anxious desire to be guided aright in a matter which to a scrupulous few might seem a question of some difficulty. Christians, like Jesus, should see perfectly through this.
REVIEW. (Ephesians 6:11) Isul-ob ang tanang kahimanan sa gubat nga gihatag sa Dios kaninyo aron makasukol kamo batok sa mga pagpanlimbong sa yawa. “Be strong in the Lord — Since every relation in life brings along with it corresponding duties, and requires vigor and resolution in the discharge of them, whatever therefore the circumstance or situation may be which you are in, see that you do not rely on your own strength, but apply to the Lord, for his strength, and arm yourselves with the power of his might” (BENSON COMMENTARY)
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