Last week, in the first part of this message we learned from the Holy Scriptures that - Christ Jesus is the fullness that fills our emptiness. An experiential, personal bond to Him is the foundation of the Christian life.
Scam artists make great and wonderful promises but their delivery is non-existent.
Scams are not limited to financial dealings, purchases, and the like. Even more seriously, people are deceived constantly by charlatans, quacks, and self-proclaimed prophets into believing lies about God, about eternity, and about the way to eternal and abundant life. Some fraudulent religionists are easy for most of us to spot. Several dozen people followed a strange man into a suicide pact in the vain hope that they would be swept away by a space ship that was traveling behind the comet which passed near the earth. It was hard to understand how people could be taken in by such a looney cult, but a few were.