Fighting the Four Evils

And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men (1 Samuel 22:2). Debt has a power behind it. Apart from creating an illusion that money and possessions will make one happy, it works through increasing the appetite of the flesh, making it one that is less and less satisfied. As it grows in greed,  envy and covetousness, one is seeks debt more, thinking more is legitimate. When one seeks more debt, one becomes less contented with what one has. This leads to depression.  The spirit behind depression from not being satisfied with what one has is the spirit of mammon. He seeks to increase the appetites of the flesh, leading to more discontentment and depression. He seeks to murder by depression. He loves death as the wicked do.

The wicked borrow and do not repay (Psalm 37:21). This is what many Christians accept to be true. What about borrowing outside of one's means?  Many in the modern Church, that is, the body of Christ of today, are in debt which are beyond their means. They borrow money for which they do not have the money to repay it when they borrow.  By borrowing money outside of one's means, one is borrowing money that one cannot repay. This is no different from borrowing money and not repaying. One might argue that simply because one borrows more money than can be repaid at the time of borrowing does not mean that one is borrowing outside of one's means. One can repay it later, such persons would add with sophistry, as is the way the typical western Christian of the 21st century speaks. The typical western Christian of the 21st century adds all kinds of stupid, foolish and just outright dumb qualifications, limitations and contextualisations to that in the Bible which is already ver...