Fighting the Four Evils

Many in the modern Church think that God blesses people with material things. This is a false teaching. It is precisely this teaching that is the seed of the prosperity "gospel". Many pastors who are true converts, often fall into praising the earthly, empty, temporal success of a Christian who they know, whenever talking about such a person with a good intention. In doing so, they claim that God has blessed them materially, which is itself to imply that the material things he or she has received are the blessings from God. This is a very subtle lie, a very deceptive lie that mixes truth with error.  What is a blessing? A blessing from God is God's favour upon a person He gives on the condition that he pleases God. It is grace, however, of a different type from salvation which is by grace alone through faith. It is not common grace, which God gives to both the wicked and the righteous:  " That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he make...

Debt is not merely an obligation to repay money. No, it is more than that. It is bondage, the power of mammon over the debtor. It is enslavement itself to mammon through money and other material things. Anyone who is a debtor is under the spirit of mammon, unless, and only unless, if he completely trusts in God to repay all his debts.  Its bondage comes from the moral obligation to repay debt, whether unsaved or saved. The spirit of mammon is he who works through debt to enslave people to him, whether unsaved or saved. As long as one is anxious even in the slightest to repay his debts, he is under the spirit of mammon, controlled by him. As long as one has such anxiety, one cannot serve God and be righteous, for one's heart is seeking to slave to mammon to obtain one's earthly temporal needs. As Jesus said: " No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God an...

We as Christians are all shocked at sexual immorality, hatred and murder. Rightly so. They are vile sins. What about envy, covetousness, pride and unforgiveness? Are they not vile sins? Humans in general tend to think that hatred, murder and adultery are vile, but yet not envy and unforgiveness. Why? Selfishness. Plain and simple. You don't want people hating you, killing you or stealing your spouse. That is why most of you out there single out only these sins are vile, or tolerate those who do so.  However, when it comes to sins that do not negatively affect one personally, or ones of which the consequence can be circumvented, such as unforgiveness, usury and homosexuality, most people turn a blind eye. Most people, including the vast majority of professing Christians, are hostile or disdainful against those who speak out against usury. They are hostile for not wanting to be associated with such people, thinking they are very gracious and kind, as opposed to anti-usury warriors ...

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye (Colossians 3:13). The human heart is one that is "desperately wicked and deceitful above all things" (Jeremiah 17:9). One of the wicked fruits of the human heart is unforgiveness. The Bible has much to say about unforgiveness. Unforgiveness is a sin that we as humans tend to find more forgiveable (what irony!). However, unforgiveness is a serious sin that God hates as much as he hates any other sin of the flesh, as much as he hates pride and covetousness. It is as vile as pride and covetousness, whether for the unsaved or saved.  The only difference in the way God treats the unsaved and saved with respect to unforgiveness is that He expects the saved to forgive and that the unsaved will not nor cannot, unless by God gives them the grace to do so. God, indeed does use the unsaved for good, and to doing so, He can do anything, including enabl...

The modern world is an unforgiving one, full of hatred and unforgiveness, thinking that anything that personally offends oneself is itself evil. The typical modern person thinks that what he or she thinks determines what is true and right. Such thinking has influenced even the modern Church. The heart of such thinking is not only self-centred and foolish. It is evil vile thinking that feeds on unforgiveness. Many Australian Christians such as modern evangelicals think that whenever a person offends him personally, say, by the use of certain non-profane words, which he just thinks is "offensive" to him personally, it is a sin. Such is the self-indulgent narcissism of many in the modern Church. Such is the spirit of unforgiveness, seeking to twist the Bible verses which speak being in a gentle spirit of manner to justify one's feeling of being personally offended out of one's own narcissism. I have met such people before who I believe are true converts, who are a snar...

Many in the modern western Church think that the doctrine of "rights" is a legitimate one. One of the most common responses they make in response to the claim that there is not such thing as a right is that rights are needed to claim justice. Rights, they argue are a means of protecting people against oppression. This seems like a very convincing, wholesome statement. However, it is not.  In fact, it is an extremely selfish statement. Instead of giving up one's self as Jesus has called His followers (Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 14:27), it seeks to attach the self to seeking justice for oneself, under the pretext of seeking to seek justice for others. Even if one did not seek to attach self to seeking justice for others under such a devious, cunning pretext, it is not that any oppressed person has any rights at all, whatsoever. While the follower of Christ has an obligation to plead the cause of the needy and oppressed (Psalm 82:3; Isaiah 1:17; Proverbs 31:9) , it is ...

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Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.   But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth . This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace (James 3:13-18). The very doctrine of "rights" itself, and believing in it, whether for oneself or others, is worldly wisdom. It feeds on the lust of the flesh and pride of life, and thus, the spirit of mammon works through those who believe in "rights".  It is the opposite of what godly wisdom is. Godly wisdom is humble, submissive and mercifu...

Want to know why the west has so many family problems? - Lack of disciplining children - Single mothers - Men going homosexual - Fornicative relationships from which children are born - Career women who hate children, and let their children do anything they want - Divorce Read Proverbs and you will know:   Proverbs 21:9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. Proverbs 27:15 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; Proverbs 21:19 It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman. Proverbs 25:24 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. Proverbs 27:15-16 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are...

  Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:   For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof (1 Corinthians 10:24-26). The doctrine of "rights" is against this command by God to seek not your one's own good, or of those who love oneself. Even sinners can love those who love them. Why do people never seek the "rights" to those dislike them or those who are not "their" own, such as those in one's ethnic group or those of the same gender? Because the nature of "rights" is self-seeking.  The doctrine of "rights" has no place in Christendom. It is a self-seeking doctrine, a doctrine of demons which the flesh loves. It panders to the carnal flesh. Flush out the idea that there is a such thing as a "right" from your system.

Many in the modern western Church think that the idea of "rights" is compatible with Christianity. This merely just testifies the the self-entitlement many in the modern western Church have. They think that their "rights" are God-given. No! God gives grace, not "rights". It is because all good things that God gives grace, that there is no such thing as a "right".  A "right" is a claim to be legitimately entitled to something. None of us humans are entitled to anything in the true, spiritual sense. We may have legal "rights", however, such legal rights are a mere illusion for the law of a nation is not the Truth, but Christ is. Thus, forget about your 'legal rights' for they are a mere illusion, fleeting and worthless in Eternity.  'Legal rights' are merely a social construct. Nevertheless, it must be made clear that it is not that they are social construct that is the issue, but that they are only what huma...