Fighting the Four Evils

Many people in the modern Church have the mindset that a blessed life is one which receives whatever one wants or desires. That is an extremely dangerous false teaching which has ensnared many in seeking to get what they want, leading them to do move ahead of God, or resort to illicit ways of getting what they want. It has caused many to loose faith in God in waiting on God, resulting in much frustration, leading to bitterness, which leads to unbelief. To be blessed by God is to be favoured by God. What makes a person favoured by God is whether he or she walks righteously in the sight of God. He or she does not trust in himself or herself, but acknowledges God in all his or her ways. Proverbs 3:5-6 gives great wisdom: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.   In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. The Bible specifically exhorts us to trust in the Lord with all one's heart and not lean on one's own u...

It has been rightly said that gossip is a form of murder. Gossip is a form of hate, and hate is murder according to the Word of God (Matthew 5:21; 1 John 3:15).  Likewise, usury is a form of hate, and is therefore a form of murder.  Murder need not involve blood shed (Matthew 5:21), although the shedding of innocent blood most definitely is murder (Proverbs 6:16-17). How does satan murder people? He murders people by his lies (John 8:44). He murdered Adam and Eve by convincing them to eat the fruit on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which God prohibited them to eat (See Genesis 3). He said to Eve when she hesitated to eat the fruit, "you shall not surely die" (Genesis 3:4), when they would most definitely die (Genesis 2:16-17), for their relationship with God was cut off (Genesis 3:22-23; Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:21).  Just the mere means of deceiving people into thinking that they need not serve God, and live for God, but live their own way, is itself murd...

Money and murder go together.  Most crime in the world is committed with the motive to gain money, or to avenge for threats to one's finances or possession, either directly or indirectly. Much violence is motivated by the desire for money, or in response to one's financial security. There is a very strong connection between money and murder. All those social, or cultural movements which seek to 'advance' the interests of certain groups who take advantage of all social tumult are seek equality, liberty, freedom and rights such as the black liberationists and the feminists. They hate those who are skeptical of them, or resist them. They love the material things such as equality, rights or freedom, which ultimate come from money which enables people to buy absolutely anything that is earthly. Such people are murderers in the heart. The spirit of mammon is the demon behind many murders in the world, both murders of others and murders of self, that is, suicide. Suicide i...