Fighting the Four Evils

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 ...

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace ( Jeremiah 6:14). The world loves to talk about peace. The secular world disdains those who oppose their false, vile, and abominable ideas about peace, which are that peace comes from tolerating deviancy, which it calls "lifestyle choice", 'equality', which is really just envy, and thus, a vain concept itself and "rights" which is a manifestation of pride and self-centred. All such ideas about peace are manifestation of selfish ambition, which the world thinks gives peace, because the world thinks out of its own folly and pride that only when one's selfish ambitions can one be satisfied.  Such is the wisdom of the world, especially the secular humanist world. The fruits of such evil, vile and worldly wisdom are disorder and every evil work as James 3:16 tells us:  For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work . Th...

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work (James 3:16).   We live in a world full of conflicts, full of conflicts about absolutely everything. The mindset behind all such conflicts is the belief in one's so-called "rights", whether it be a "right" to find a satisfying relationship, a "right" to make money, or a "right" to have money one lends returned to oneself. Such indeed is the root of all conflicts. It is this very belief which is all too appealing to the flesh that even people of the true Church, that is, the true followers of Christ can fall into such a vile, abominable mindset - all without realising it. The belief in one's "rights" is a manifestation of being a respecter of persons, including being of course, a respecter of oneself. Being a respecter of person leads not to harmony and peace, as the world thinks, but yet does not experience despite all its active striving for peace. Such...