Spiritual Warfare

The root of most of the problems people have is their lack of forgiveness toward others. The root of unhappiness, as well as mental illness and addictions, is usually found in the bitterness of the soul because of some offense or trauma caused by some other person. Forgiveness is the ONLY way to escape the torture of the mind and heart, and the eventual destruction of the soul. Jesus died to make...

Jesus teaches us here in Matthew 24:12 that the lack of true and godly love will be a sign of the last days. Love will have a different meaning in the last days than what the Bible teaches it to be, and what men have generally understood it to mean through the ages. Think about it! Isn't it obvious that in this generation people do not love one another deeply, fervently, and faithfully? This is tr...

To be faithful with what God has given us is the most important thing. In our dying moment, it is all that will matter to us. All God requires, and all of God's promises of reward are based upon faithfulness - not performance, and not great accomplishments. What God gives a person, as far as knowledge and understanding of the Scriptures, and the truths of the Word of God that make up God's ways, h...

Knowing truth is not the end goal of sanctification – holiness is. "Sanctify them through thy truth, they word is truth." John 17:17 Lack of knowledge is not the problem - lack of wisdom is the problem. Truth revealed by the Holy Spirit of God will cause a person to grow in grace and holiness. Truth in the hands of the devil turns people into arrogant bullies who stay focused on one or a few truth...

In all our conversations and encounters with other people we are touching them and they are touching us, even if we do not physically touch them. It is felt in both parties, and many times by those who are not in the conversation, but only looking on and listening. We touch one another with our words, our facial expressions, and our spirit. We always walk away from someone thinking about how they...

Feelings are not something that we cannot control. We can control our feelings, if we can control our mind. Yet, most people are controlled by their feelings most of the time. Feelings are a result of what we think about, and we are more prone to let our minds be obsessed with our feelings than anything else. Consider Webster's definition of the word "obsession." "OBSESS'ION, n. The act of besiegi...

The Scripture here speaks of two spiritual influences at work in this world: the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. One is of God and the other is of the devil and reasons with you with the wisdom of this world, which is earthy, sensual, and devilish. One will lead you to God and eternal life – the other will lead you to the world, which ends in sin and death, and eternal punishment and sepa...

There is a difference between being deceived in our mind and in our heart. Feelings accompany a deceived heart, while confusion and instability are more likely to accompany a deceived mind. The mind can be changed by hearing and believing the truth– the heart, not so easily, because the feelings of the heart override truth and reason. So the most important thing is to keep your heart from being de...

It seems that one of the hardest things for us to learn is that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, and the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. We hear it, we believe it, and then we just immediately go back to our same old methods and habits of dealing with evil. Most professing Christians are not even engaged in the battle, but are "as one that beateth the air." Flesh is not the sou...

God created man in his own image and likeness. The things that all men know about God is that He is love, He is kind, He is merciful, and full of compassion. Jesus, the Son of God, came and showed us in the flesh what God is like. The Scripture says Jesus is not an high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities." God made us to feel deeply about other people, and even other...

Feelings are how people naturally discern things. The first mention of feelings in the Bible is when Isaac discerned between his sons Jacob and Esau by feeling of Jacob's hands and neck. Isaac trusted in what he felt more than what he heard, and was deceived. The worldly advice to "follow your heart" is the road to hell for almost all of the human race. To overcome our feelings and not allow them...

Feelings are the language of the soul, but there are some people who appear to have no feelings. Modern terminology describes these people as sociopaths, or psychopaths. Their identifying characteristic is their lack of feeling for others, and their lack of regard for the feelings of others. This is exactly the kind of people the Bible refers to in Ephesians 4:17-19. These people have serious spir...

From God's perspective there are two groups of people in the world. There are the children of men and the children of God. There are the sons of men and the sons of God. It has been this way since sin entered into this world, with the sons of men always outnumbering the sons of God. These children we just dedicated to the Lord will either be the children of men or they will be the children of God....

No true spiritual awakening ever begins with murmuring, complaining, blaming, accusing, realizing you are a victim, or in any other way dishonoring other people, especially those who came before us. No real turning to God ever begins with contempt for other people. It is an evil spirit that is working in this generation, not only in the churches, but in the whole population. Being a "victim" is ev...

This is the day after the election. Trump won, now what? Here are just a few sober thoughts about what has just happened and what our situation is now. Many people are living in some kind of fantasy or delusion about what all this means. We still live in a pagan country and world, and our family members and neighbors are still lost. The whole world is still full of war and violence and misery. Ass...

Do you keep God's commandments? Better not answer that question too quickly with the "no" that you have heard so much from preachers and half-hearted professors of religion. Keeping God's commandments is connected with every blessing promised in the Word of God, and the Bible makes it very clear that it is the mark of a true born-again believer. It is not sinless perfection, or strictly obeying a...

In these past several weeks we have tried to show and establish the fact that paganism is fast becoming the prevailing spiritual influence in the world and in our nation. We are moving in leaps and bounds back toward the darkness and violence that ruled the world until Jesus came 2000 years ago. Christians are about to lose their long-held protections that were purchased for us by our ancestors wi...

When it comes to witnessing to the lost the situation has changed drastically in the past few decades. The prevailing concept concerning sin, salvation, and God seems to be that everyone is going to heaven no matter what they do with God or how they live their life here on earth. Sinners seem to be confident in the fact that God is a loving and forgiving God, but they know nothing about what the W...

The first two men who came to God to make an offering and worship are examples of the two ways that men have always came to God. Abel 's offering was accepted and Cain's was rejected. Most worship is of the kind that Cain offered and it is no more acceptable to God now than it was then. Abel worshipped the LORD God that created the heavens. Cain's idea of God was much lower. Evidently, his concept...

That God created man male and female is the most important foundational thing to the divine order of Creation. This fact is repeated in the story of Creation and in the New Testament by Jesus himself. In order to destroy man Satan always begins by breaking down this pillar of the divine order and thereby destroying the image of God in which man was created. Both male and female have their strength...

The slide into paganism, which is the total abandonment of the LORD God and the embracing of false gods, is much more than throwing out the moral law of God. The strategy of Satan is to change what we believe, and at the same time to change the very way we reason and think. The heart must be corrupted, and the mind must be corrupted, also. Good becomes evil and evil becomes good, but then rational...

It seems our perception of the great falling away before Jesus comes has always been far too shallow. For whatever reason, most who should have had enough knowledge of history, Scripture, and human nature to have seen this "woke" generation coming, did not see it coming at all. We are farther into the darkness than we realize, and the hour is late. This message contains a lot of statistics and inf...

There is a delusion among many people that the world will soon be completely secular, and religion will be a thing of the past. The plan is to simply erase God from every aspect of life and then they think man will be free to do as he pleases without any condemnation or opposition. But they are in for a great disappointment because men simply cannot, and will not, continue to live as if there is n...

How does the human race change its collective mind altogether? It happens very slowly as those who are called by God's name compromise little by little and give up ground to the devil. Evil gains control of the microphone and then it isn't long before the moral and intellectual changes begin to manifest themselves in the collapse of that civilization . It has happened in this country and our world...

This modern generation that is wise in its own eyes would never admit it, but their views and ways of thinking are strikingly similar to the ancient pagans. Their eyes are on the skies as they look for their "gods" to come anytime now. They are not looking for Jesus, but for aliens from outer space. All humans of all ages that have rejected God and clung to their evil ways have done exactly the sa...