Preparing for the Rapture (Part 6) More on the Devil's tactics
What I am saying is no doubt some cause for controversy but I consider it very important. What I mean is that Satan tempts us and we yield to it and indeed do sin at times but the deception for a true believer is that we can go back to our old familiar ways of the old nature and we soon find out that there is no more pleasure to the sin as it used to be. At that point the accuser torments our minds with fear; and then many it seems are subject to the false doctrine of losing salvation. This causes utter despair and many to give up on their walk. Hence we have a number of individuals like the walking dead or zombies where they are rendered useless or close to it in propagating the Gospel and that is Satan's chief endeavor.
If he can succeed in stealing our joy then the message or "display" we show forth to the world is something not drawing men to faith. Many don't want to admit their failures unlike some who are immature in the faith and at times tell us more than we want to know; but I would say if we err to that side there is much more hope that we will continue on in the faith. PRIDE is something which was mentioned in the earlier verse; the pride of life. ( 1 John 2:16). Satan's fall was because of this and if we think we are self sufficient spiritually we are likely to become this way. Again things must be in balance; I myself am alone often and we all need to learn to feed on the Word and grow in maturity as no one can do anything for us ultimately but to help us learn the tools which we eventually put to practice; even if that is in more service to others. I won't go so far to say that national pride HAS to be wrong; but taking a look at any holiday in America the idolatry as the chief end all of the weekend involved doesn't take a rocket scientist to ascertain.
Let this be a wake up call to those not taking the times seriously or those who have allowed the enemy to sideline.
What I am saying is no doubt some cause for controversy but I consider it very important. What I mean is that Satan tempts us and we yield to it and indeed do sin at times but the deception for a true believer is that we can go back to our old familiar ways of the old nature and we soon find out that there is no more pleasure to the sin as it used to be. At that point the accuser torments our minds with fear; and then many it seems are subject to the false doctrine of losing salvation. This causes utter despair and many to give up on their walk. Hence we have a number of individuals like the walking dead or zombies where they are rendered useless or close to it in propagating the Gospel and that is Satan's chief endeavor.
If he can succeed in stealing our joy then the message or "display" we show forth to the world is something not drawing men to faith. Many don't want to admit their failures unlike some who are immature in the faith and at times tell us more than we want to know; but I would say if we err to that side there is much more hope that we will continue on in the faith. PRIDE is something which was mentioned in the earlier verse; the pride of life. ( 1 John 2:16). Satan's fall was because of this and if we think we are self sufficient spiritually we are likely to become this way. Again things must be in balance; I myself am alone often and we all need to learn to feed on the Word and grow in maturity as no one can do anything for us ultimately but to help us learn the tools which we eventually put to practice; even if that is in more service to others. I won't go so far to say that national pride HAS to be wrong; but taking a look at any holiday in America the idolatry as the chief end all of the weekend involved doesn't take a rocket scientist to ascertain.
Let this be a wake up call to those not taking the times seriously or those who have allowed the enemy to sideline.
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