Fighting the Four Evils

Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.    And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”   Then Jesus said to him,  “Away with you, Satan! For it is written,   ‘You shall worship the  Lord  your God, and Him only you shall serve.’   ” Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him. (Matthew 4:8-11) Satan comes in all kinds of guises, appearing with a false guise of righteousness to different groups with a face that appeals to them the most. He appeals to anti-Islamist westerners as anti-Islamist, to Islamists as Islamic, to women's liberationists are a liberator of women, black ethnonationalists as a liberator of blacks, and to religious cults as a distorted image of God, that suits their own desires, lusts and flesh.  People love to talk about which cult or evil ideological ...

All types of division between humanity, the greatest cause of division is ethnicity, bar none.  Ethnocentrism is the cause of most wars. It is also that which units a country together, and prevents it from being divided, where people choose not to be divided but united because of their ethnicity. Likewise, in the most perverted of ways, where people are of different ethnicities, and where there is political turmoil, or where a country cannot sustain itself being resource-poor, people are divided along the lines of ethnicity, and separate from each other over ethnicity. Such is perversion. It is the evil manifestation of strife, division and war. People love others, or refraining from hating others, because of their ethnicity, being the same as their "own". People hate others, full of indifference towards their suffering, hardship, and oppression, because of their ethnicity, being different from their "own". Even in our times, which is often touted as very cosm...

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 ...

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...

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). Debt is the force which has driven many wars. Wars run on debt, and those who finance the war make profits out of it. It is a business for them. These same people control all financial institutions who control the masses. They control the whole world. Debt is the cruel, heartless, cold, brutal slave driver who works on behalf of mammon, to drive the masses into debt slavery. He is like the cruel Egyptian slave driver who was severe, cruel, and heartless towards the Israelites in slavery (See Exodus 1-5) Debt is not merely a financial thing as many think it is, including many Christians. It is a spiritual thing. As such, the Christian must educate himself or herself on the issue of debt. Debt wages a spiritual war against all people, both the unsaved and saved. Debt is that cruel sla...

We live in a world which thinks that everything it has is theirs. The world loves those who give them things, and are unthankful for those who give them things as they think it is warranted that they expect others to give to them. The world hates those who do not give them anything that they want, and hate such people because it thinks that it is justified in expecting others to give it what it wants. This is why the world thinks that the poor are a scourge of the earth, useless, good-for-nothing and not even worthy of considering.  The true Church, however, is to be diametrically opposed to the world's ways and thinking because it is in Christ. It is and should be hated by the world. Jesus made this clear: " If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you " (John 15:19). It is not a matter of whether the Church is hated by the world. It is and must be, o...

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 (James 4:2). The spirit behind debt who is the spirit of mammon stirs up wars, conflicts, divisions, fighting and hatred. He feeds on the unforgiveness of the flesh, and its pride that manifests in demanding that what it wants is what others owe it. Through such unforgiveness and pride, he puffs up the flesh which cannot be satisfied.  The flesh, in seeking to satisfy not only its desire to be given what one wants, but to satisfy its unforgivness and pride. This blinds such persons who live by the flesh, or who succumb to it, in the case of the true Christian, into thinking that it is perfectly legitimate to expect from others what one wants. Such a person thinks he is entitled to demand a return for that what he gives to other because he thinks he has been generous in lending what he has.  It is because many Christians have such thinking that they...

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words , even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;   He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth , supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain (1 Timothy 6:3-6). Many in the modern Church of the west think that where they gain more material things, it is godliness unto them. They think that they live comfortable lives, in the earthly sense, and enjoy many (earthly and worldly) freedoms that the vast majority in the world do not, because of their godliness.  The most obvious evidence of such thinking in the typical modern western Christian is that the west is "blessed" with democracy, which really should be called demoncracy, and capital...

Many in the modern Church think that war is Biblical. Nothing could be more deceptive than that. War is a manifestation of the falleness of humanity. It is an indictment against proud, self-righteous humanity, which thinks itself entitled to murder people who do not make provision for its pursuits of its self-interests. War waged by humans, (not by God) is not holy in the eyes of God, for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God (James 1:20): But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight (1 Chronicles 22:8). But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood (1 Chronicles 28:3). My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war (Psalm 120:6-7). 

Many in the modern western Church think that the doctrine of "rights" is a legitimate one. One of the most common responses they make in response to the claim that there is not such thing as a right is that rights are needed to claim justice. Rights, they argue are a means of protecting people against oppression. This seems like a very convincing, wholesome statement. However, it is not.  In fact, it is an extremely selfish statement. Instead of giving up one's self as Jesus has called His followers (Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 14:27), it seeks to attach the self to seeking justice for oneself, under the pretext of seeking to seek justice for others. Even if one did not seek to attach self to seeking justice for others under such a devious, cunning pretext, it is not that any oppressed person has any rights at all, whatsoever. While the follower of Christ has an obligation to plead the cause of the needy and oppressed (Psalm 82:3; Isaiah 1:17; Proverbs 31:9) , it is ...

Peace is a paradoxical concept. At one hand, Jesus said to His disciples that He gives peace as the world does not give (John 14:27). Yet, He said " Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10:34).  These two verses do not contradict. Not at all. The peace that Jesus gives is peace with God, which comes from being reconciled to Him, and no longer being hostile against God. Once a person is in Christ, he or she is united with God: Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.   What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.    But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:15-17). He is who is hostile against God has no peace. The opposite of peace is hostility. Hostility places a division between people from which no pe...

The world thinks that the equity it gives us one that will give peace. However, yet, it can see the fruits of such worldly equity. It knows that its equity is one that thrives on division, conflict, hatred and war, but believes it is justifiable, because it is blinded into thinking it is seeking "justice".  With the wisdom of God comes peace: " A sound heart  is  the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones " (Proverbs 14:30). Such sound heart is one that comes from walking in the wisdom of God, which gives life to the flesh, from which true peace comes. The opposite of the wisdom of God results in envy, as indicated by the word 'but' in the second phrase of Proverbs 14:30. Such envy is that which worldly wisdom feeds on. Envy is what all worldly philosophies are based on.  Cruelty is the manifestation of envy, for cruelty is self-centred, self-seeking wrath against another for having what another does not have, or does have. Cruelty is ne...