Fighting the Four Evils

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:3-8). We live in a world full of competition and the desire to be independent, especially the western world. Competition in and of itself is a manifestation of independence, wanting to get what one wants in one's own way as opposed to following the ways of God, which is in and of itself a sin. Those who are full of the spirit of independence love competition. Competition is not something that they feel ...

We live in an age which is hyper-sensitive to violence and cruelty. Even the vile, wicked, evil worldly unsaved people in the decadent west are sensitive to violence and cruelty, especially when it is committed against so-called victim groups such as women and children. They have a special hatred for violence against women, instead of hating violence itself irrespective of who is committing it, or who is the (alleged) victim, out of its bias towards women. Violence is undoubtedly a vile, wicked evil sin. God destroyed the world during the time of Noah because of their wickedness, one of which was violence: And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth (Genesis 6:13). The modern western world which is vile, evil, wicked, disgusting and full of abominations, and which is yet so (supposedly) concerned about violence, out of its selfishness, people think that only vi...

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him (Proverbs 24:17-18). God hates those who rejoice in the calamity of others. Rejoicing in the calamity of others is a vile, wicked evil sin. It is all too easy that think of oneself as one who does not rejoice in the calamity of others because one does not mock, or scoff one's enemies who fall into calamity. However, rejoicing in the calamity of others is very subtle, like all other sins. It is especially subtle because of how easy it is to mix truths, and half-truths, and to use truths and pervert them to justifying one's rejoicing in the calamity of others.  Those who rejoice in the calamity of others are not only proud, vile, arrogant, wicked. They are full of self-righteousness, manifesting in the belief that one is justified to laugh at the calamity,  in not only thinking oneself to be righteous in th...

Many in the modern Church in the west think that giving money is an act of generosity. The truth is, that giving money is almost always a means to control people. It is usually a means of tempting or seducing people into doing what one wants another to do. Money works that way because most people, including many in the modern western Church are serving or so tempted by mammon that they are controlled by him. This is exactly why so many think that giving money is necessarily an act of generosity while not giving money is not. It is precisely because they themselves desire for more money. They love money. You may think that that cannot be you because you are a true follower of Christ. As long as you think that money is that which you 'need' and you are anxious for it to provide you with your needs, including your legitimate needs, you have fallen into the love of money. You love money more than God. You need to repent. If you do not repent, many sorrows will come for you will b...

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God .  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.   Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:1-7). We live in a world which loves competition for others, but not for itself and which thrives on division, conflict and fighting. The world makes earthly gain of such things, and loves it ...

Many in the modern western Church think that finance and the Bible is separate. They think that finance is secular and the Bible is sacred, drawing the secular versus sacred divide between them.  The division between sacred and secular is a false one, based on false doctrine that the Christian must compartmentalise his life. The classic, not certainly not the sole example of this thinking is that one worships God at church, a sacred place on Sunday, and then does earthly things for the rest of his week which has nothing to do with worshiping God. Such is the false doctrine of compartmentalisation.  For here is what Scriptures says: Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled (Titus 1:15). To the true follower of Christ, all things are pure, that is all things are sacred. For all things which one does to live for the glory of God are pure, for one lives to seek God and His rig...

The west loves to talk about 'empowerment'. Such a doctrine is of the spirit of rebellion, which is as the sin of witchcraft (1 Samuel 15:23). Whether it be 'female empowerment', 'youth empowerment' or 'children's empowerment', or whoever it may concern, it is of the spirit of rebellion.  Empowerment is to seek for oneself power to do what one wants. To even think about doing what one wants is itself sin because it is to be independent of God. It is itself the vile, rejection of God and His ways, seeking power instead of seeking to serve others, and seeking one's own way instead of seeking to serve God. That is how 'empowerment' is rebellion, which is as the sin of witchcraft.  'Empowerment' is a doctrine of demons! It is of the spirit of witchcraft. Cut yourself off from such doctrine of demons by flushing it out of your system, your mind, your heart, your spirit and strength and acknowledge that you nor anyone else at all,...

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The modern Western Church, including the modern Australian Church is apathetic. She is apathetic about fighting evil, and when she does, she uses all manner of fleshy means to fight evil. This is the case with the culture wars in America waged by American conservative Christians who use the arms of the flesh in fighting the evils of our age, whether it be by the use of earthly humanistic arguments to prove how evil such evils are, or by relying on earthly policy and law to fight evil. Such is the fleshliness of the modern western Church.  The Australian Church is no different. She is full of nothing but apathy. She is full of the fear of people. She is hostile towards all hard Biblical rebuke of wickedness of the unsaved. Instead of supporting and encouraging preachers who preach hard, unadulterated and pure Biblical truth,  and who rebuke sinners with such truth, she opposes such preachers. How? She feels uncomfortable and upset about it, not because of its 'lack' of mercy ...

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword.   Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there (1 Kings 19:1-3). The vile, abominable, disgusting, evil, wicked, Hell-deserving harlot witch of a Queen, Jezebel may be dead. This glorious, wonderful, beautiful truth that Jezebel died in a gruesome way can be found in 2 Kings 9:33-37: So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her underfoot. And when he had gone in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “Go now, see to this accursed woman, and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and...