Fighting the Four Evils

There are many professing followers of Christ in the professing Church today who are religious but are not truly spiritual. They attend church regularly, may be active in church, and even read Scripture regularly, pray and fast. Most who think that they are followers of Christ, or Christians, in the true sense of the term, but are not.  Being a follower of Christ is not about being religious, but about being spiritual, walking both in truth and in Spirit (John 4:24). A person may be religious and not know Christ at all, just as the Pharisees in the New Testament did not know Christ at all (Read the synoptic Gospels in the Bible, that is, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). Such people will hear Jesus say to them on the Day of Judgement: ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ (Matthew 7:23). What frightening words! Such words are truly the most frightening words one could ever hear. What could be more frightening than to hear the King of Kings and Lord ...

There are many young Christians in the modern Church today who are marrying young, just to engage in sexual intercourse. That is in an of itself problematic, and anyone who does that has something wrong with him or her in and of himself or herself. Such people need to repent of their lusts, and very desire to misuse and pervert the God-given gift of sex! Sexual desire where it is given by God is not wrong or a sin. It can indeed be good where it is desired to be used to glorify God, uncorrupted by sin. For example, it can be good where in desiring marriage and therefore family, so that one may be sanctified by God (1 Corinthians 7:12-16), live out God-given designs for man and woman (Ephesians 5:22-33), to learn to love and sacrifice one's own interests (John 13:34-35), and to learn to forgive others (Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13). To marry for the purpose of sexual pleasure is the height of all hedonism, self-centred pleasure-seeking done for oneself. As such, one might say...

The Moral Law of God stems from His very Character and His very nature. It is eternal. God gave Old Testament Israel the Mosaic Law which contains three types of laws: ceremonial laws, civil laws and moral laws. Although the ceremonial and civil laws of the Old Testament are not morally binding today, they all have a moral and spiritual significant underlying them. It is the moral and spiritual significance underlying all the ceremonial and civil laws which still apply today because the moral and spiritual lesson behind them are of the Moral Law of God.  The civil laws of Israel regulated how God's justice and law was to be administered regarding the temporal. For example, the laws regarding property were civil laws of Israel, which were based upon the Moral Law of God as all laws of God given by the Prophets are based on the Moral Law, which hinges on His Love. Jesus made this clear in Matthew 22:37-40, when asked what was the Greatest Commandment in the Law in Matthew 22:36: ...

  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.   On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets (Matthew 22:37-40). Many in the modern Church, including conservative Christian theologians think that the prohibition of usury only applies to the Old Testament Israel. They claim that it is not a Moral Law of God, but only a civil law of God, as John Calvin wrote, twisting the Scriptures, sowing the seed for the legitimisation of usury, and the widespread practice of money-lending, which means lending money at interest or usury. They argue that even if it is a Moral Law, it only applies to Israel. The Moral Law of God was, is and will forever more be the same unto Eternity for God never changes. It is ironic that of these (professing) Christians claim that the Moral Law of G...

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). We live in an age where people are so sensitive and easily offended about everything. People are hyper-sensitive about even the most trivial things, getting offended at even a use of a non-derogatory, non-profane word that one just do not personally prefer to use. As such, there are many social movements in the world which seek to supposedly fight evil, that is, supposedly. Whether it be the anti-human trafficking movement, anti-domestic violence movement or the anti-pornography movement, that these movements started by the world and embraced by the world should indicate to the Christian to be very skeptical and cautious about such movements, run by vile, evil, abominable people such as liberals and feminists. The question that must always be asked is whether God says it is evil, not what any human being thinks, whether it be a muslim, atheist, hindu, liberal, or a Ch...

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth (Psalm 37:21). The Bible makes it absolutely clear that the wicked borrow and do not repay. This is contrasted with the righteous, who show mercy and give, as indicated by the word 'but' in Psalm 37:21.  Borrowing money and no repaying is a manifestation of pride and self-seeking, using that which was given to one for one's own interests. It is to assume that what one has in one's hands belongs to oneself, such that one can do as one chooses with it. This indeed is the spirit behind the doctrine of private property, a doctrine of demons, which panders to the flesh which thinks that the good things it receives are deserved by it, rather than that it is the precise opposite of what it deserves. It is a manifestation of envy, s elfish a mbiti on and hatred of righteousness, which a re of the flesh (G alatians 5:19-21).  This is contrasted with the righteous person who shows mercy ...

The world is full of self-love. That's right. Self-love. It is all about loving oneself, and all about one's rights and liberty, in the eyes of the world. The world in being apparently 'moral', by agreeing with the Moral Law of God against murder and theft, is being 'moral', only out of its own self-love. That is exactly what there is none righteous, nor good no not one (Romans 3:10-12). Agreeing that it is wrong to murder, steal or not repay debts does not make one righteous or good at all. It is only selfless love that makes one righteous and good in the eyes of God, who alone is the standard of righteousness, for love is the fulfillment of the Law (Romans 13:10; Galatians 5:14). Those who claim that one must surely repay one's debts are right about that point. The Bible makes it clear that the wicked borrow and do not repay (Psalm 37:21). However, to merely insist that is to asset a half-truth, and a very dangerous one indeed. It is to fail to take the...

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth (Psalm 37:21). The Bible makes it clear that once a person has gotten into debt, he is obliged to pay. That a person is poor, sick, or unemployed is no excuse to not repay. It is precisely this righteous moral obligation to repay one's debts that creditors, such as banks use and twist to justify their usury. Therein lies the subtle perversion of usurers of this moral obligation, to justify their wickedness. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil (Isaiah 20:5)! This is what such people are doing, seeking to twist the truth. There are parts in the Bible where it makes a command for debt cancellation, such as Deuteronomy 15:1-2: At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord ...