Fighting the Four Evils

Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding (Proverbs 3:13). The conventional view of a blessed life is one that is full of earthly temporal gifts, such as a well-respected profession, marriage and family. While such things may be gifts, they are merely temporal. What good are they if they do not make one to be rich in Christ, by making one serve Christ more faithfully, adding to one's heavenly riches? True riches, the only true riches, are heavenly riches which come only by serving Christ and loving Christ. The Bible says that the blessed life is one that is wise. Only by wisdom does one knows what direction one should live to please God to live a righteous life. To be blessed to be favoured by God because of living righteously before Him. Righteousness gives true joy and peace. The wise life is the blessed life. It is one characterised by constant learning, and understanding, leading to greater understanding and wisdom day by day. Having all the thing...

Many in the modern western Church think that usury is not an evil to be fought against because it is an individual sin, rather than one done to others, and so usury is not something to seek to abolished. On the other hand, the unsaved think that usury is to be fought against because of the 'harm' that usury causes to others, rather than because it offends God. However, both ideas are selfish, that of the unsaved being, of course, even more selfish than those in the modern western Church.  Usury is not a "personal sin". It is a sin which is spiritually akin to sexual immorality, yes sexual immorality. The issues of money, sex, and of course, power are often interlinked as we can observe around us. Indeed, the Bible warns " Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman " (Proverbs 20:16), which refers to taking a pledge for a friend who has been seduced by a harlot, because of his bondage to her, not only sexual...

  All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return (Ecclesiastes 3:20). "Vanities of vanity", says the Preacher, "All is vanity". This is the phrase that is repeated throughout the book of Ecclesiastes. The book of Ecclesiastes opens with this phrase, and ends with this phrase before concluding at Ecclesiastes 12:13-14:  Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.   For God shall bring every work into judgment , with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil . Ecclesiastes is a book that has the effect of making one wiser and sharper by just reading it. The book of Ecclesiastes make it very clear at as long as the purpose of what one does is not to draw closer to God, it is vanity. Vanities of vanities. For all will die one day and be returned to dust, before one knows it. Many will die much sooner than they thought they would. Most people wi...

The Bible has much to say about harlotry. The spirit of harlotry is: Unsubmissive (Proverbs 7:11) Rebellious (Proverbs 7:11) Deceitful (Proverbs 7:5) Pure in her own eyes (Proverbs 30:20). Lustful The world thinks being able to live by these things is to be wise. Such wisdom thrives on bitter envying and strife, as opposed to meekness. 13  Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16  For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (James 3:13-16)

Many in the modern church think that whenever one sins, it is because of the human heart. That is true.    For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies (Matthew 15:19). However, what verse these people ignore, while yet accusing me of mishandling the Bible is 1 Corinthians 10:18-22: Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?    What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?  But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils .    Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.   Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? There are many things to be understand...

Usury. It is a much forgotten theme, dismissed as a product of the 16th century. Many people believe that there is a difference between usury and interest on a loan. However, nothing is further from the truth. Usury is interest on a loan. It is interest itself. The term 'usury' has been changed to 'interest' to distinguish between what was deemed legal, versus, illegal interest. The meaning of usury was then changed to mean to lend money at excessively high rates, rather than the lending of money at a rate per se . Many theologians have been responsible for this false distinction, through twisting the Bible is permit usury on certain conditions and circumstances. John Calvin, in particular, is the main culprit for generally accepted permissiveness towards usury.  Proverbs 28:8 makes it clear that usury is unjust gain:  He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. Usury originated from the Latin term...

Many Christians think that attacking capitalism is to be anti-wealth. In a sense, this is true, but it is not entirely true. They argue that wealth can be God-given. Wealth can indeed be God-given wealth. Such wealth is that which is given by God according to His timing, His conditions and His willing alone . It is not deserved because everything that humans have is from God, whether they acknowledge it or not.  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made (John 1:3). Each breath we take is only by the grace of God. None of us humans deserve life, let alone anything else including our basic meals, or riches. God's providence, whether in wealth or poverty is by grace alone - it is undeserved and given entirely on His terms alone. There is a time  for everything,   and a season for every activity under the heavens (Ecclesiastes 3:1). However, this does not in any way mean that we humans have any "right" to choose what we want. Rath...

Many Christians fail to see how covetousness which stems from idolatry puffs up human pride. They dismiss it as just another sin like any other. However, the idolatry, from which covetousness grows is placed in the same categories of sins as sexual sin which is lust of the flesh.   Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters , nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind (1 Corinthians 6:9).  The sins of idolatry and sexual immorality are both those who crave to the carnal flesh. Although all sin is against, sexual immorality is literally the indicator that a person is hostile against God. Apostle Paul told the believers of Thessalonia in 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8:    It is God’s will  that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;   that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honora...

The secularist anti-human trafficking forces represent "human trafficking", which they do not call prostitution, but claim is merely a product or result of human trafficking is the "victimisation" of women. These women who are being "trafficked" choose to be harlots ultimately by participating in the act of adultery. The Bible clearly warns people to avoid the adulterous woman because her bed is a den where no man comes out alive. This is not "misogynistic", this is absolutely true. Proverbs 7 21-23:  With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk. 22  All at once he followed her      like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer stepping into a noose 23       till an arrow pierces  his liver, like a bird darting into a snare,      little knowing it will cost him his life. This is my warning to anyone tempted by an evil Hell-bound, Hell-deserving harlot. Do not see...

This is a response to critic of this blog. The criticism is in purple text. Anti Mammon Conqueror's response is in black. While I appreciate that this blog is trying to warn people from love of money and wealth and seeking after things that aren’t the righteousness of God, it seems that it loses focus of what is really the heart of the issue.   The love of money and wealth itself is unrighteous. When it comes to ‘mammon’,   Jesus never actually mentions a ‘spirit’ of mammon. The word is only ever in one passage, the context being the parable of the dishonest manager (luke 16), and it is quoted from here in Mat 6. The idea that ‘mammon’ was a false god or demon, came about much later than Jesus’ time, and is often thought to be people linking it with a god of Greek mythology called ‘Plutus’. So the idea that there is a ‘spirit of mammon’ or a god with which we do battle is something that people have added to the scripture that does not necessarily come from it. ...

Postmodernism attempts to deconstruct every text, image, architecture or event in adherence to the mission to destroy absolute truth. A person once asked leading Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias to see a postmodern building to which he asked "What is a postmodern building?". The person replied, "A building that has no meaning," because life is meaningless. Isn't it ironic that in saying a building has no meaning, it is to claim that it has a meaning: to portray life as meaningless is meaning in itself. However, the postmodernist would argue that the meaning is intrinsic in life itself and it is up to to people to interpret how they choose to live their own lives. To choose how to live one's life is to choose what one believes because each individual lives according to a set of standards.  Postmodernism, in effect, is free thinking. It promises to offer freedom from the "old dinosaur" of morality and truth. However, in offering such freedom, it ...

A secular study has shown that a stressful marriage is more likely to kill men than women. The results are plausible and that is why it says in Proverbs, " b etter to live in a desert than with a contemptuous wife ". The modern courts, because they bow to the iniquity of the feminists, most of whom are probably  daughters of perdition , that is, in state of eternal damnation, HELL, because they are workers of iniquity themselves.  However, given that it is a secular study, the people interpreting the results are terrified of death because unsaved people are terrified of death and think that death is bad, and try so hard to extend life. They are pagans who worry about tomorrow (Matthew). These people do not realise that  death is in the   hands of God ​.  Christians KNOW that  God's control is sovereign above all . God is the one who determines birth and life, not doctors, scientists, psychologists or any other person.   The poin...