Col 2:4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile <3884> you with enticing words.
Jas 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving <3884> your own selves.
The word # 3884 is "paralogizomai" in the Greek.
Logimai # 3049, "logizomai" which I have listed in the verses below, is one of the most critical words in the NT Testament. It is the process of reckoning, counting, crediting, inheriting, or depositing something to ourselves. If we have $ 20.00 and we logizomai $20.00 more, we now have $40.00.
The process of logizomai, is the sole course which God uses with people to deposit, credit, or inherit His treasures from His invisible kingdom, into our visible life.
The formula of logizomai with God is faith which comes by the rhema word.
Because faith is a universal law, it always functions. The human being is always logizomai, whether he know it or not. If he has a negative faith and reckons negative things, he will credit or inherit negative consequences.
Any time that we disobey God’s laws, we logizomai something that will result in an injurious outcome.
The Bible is our instruction manual that teaches us how, and what to logizomai, that will benefit us in this life and in the one to come.
When a nation denigrates the Word of God and finds it of little value, it becomes blind as to what to logizomai. It logizomai, some good with the bad. It ends up sowing to the wind and reaping from the whirlwind. This is what we see occurring now in the USA.
To beguile or to deceive # 3844, found at the beginning of this blog entry, is the word paralogizomai or to “reckon to the side” or miss the mark of what we reckon. In other words, to beguile or to deceive, is to cause someone to inherit, deposit, or credit what is wrong. Can you imagine that?
As long as we as people and as a nation continue to put little worth on the Word of God we will inherit to the side, or miss our inheritance, and reap harmful and wicked things.
Don’t be beguiled and deceived.
Here are some instances of # 3049, “ logizomai.”
Ro 4:4 Now to him that worketh is <3049> the reward not reckoned <3049> of grace, but of debt.
Ro 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted <3049> for righteousness.
Ro 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth <3049> righteousness without works,
Ro 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will <3049> not impute <3049> sin.
Ro 4:9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned <3049> to Abraham for righteousness.
Ro 4:10 How was it <3049> then reckoned <3049>? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Ro 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed <3049> unto them also:
