SPIRITUAL WARFARE (11) - STAND STRONG - 15 November 2017
The age old serpent (and his hordes of helpers) are up to today still using the SENSES of MAN to TEMPT and to DECEIVE - in a relentless onslaught to KILL - STEAL AND DESTROY.
Our five senses TASTE - TOUCH - SMELL - HEARING AND SEEING ALL REPORT to the CARNAL MIND of MAN and the CARNAL MIND is the ENEMY of YHWH GOD (Rom. 8:6-8).
The ENEMY'S WAYS:
Satan and his hordes are using the LUST of the FLESH (inclusive of HEARING - SEEING - DOING) and PRIDE to TEMPT and OVERPOWER US. The GREATEST BATTLE WE ALL FACE IN LIFE - is the BATTLE WITHIN - the BATTLE BETWEEN the FLESH AND THE SPIRIT and on this FACT the ENEMY is a master on.
Rom. 8:6-8 "For to be CARNALLY MINDED (minding the things of the flesh) is death; but to be SPIRITUALLY MINDES is LIFE AND PEACE. Because the mind (minding the things of the flesh) is enmity against YHWH God; for it is not subject to the law of YHWH; neither indeed can be. So then - they that are in the flesh - CANNOT PLEASE YHWH ..."
TODAY as in the TIMES OF LOT:
Moments ago I received a news-message on my mobile phone regarding the same-sex marriage vote - saying that 61.6 per cent of the Australian nation voted YES to LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGES. The message said that 7.8 million Australians responded in support of the same-sex marriage and 4.9 million against - the final number of responses was 12,720,920 people representing 79 percent of eligible Australians. The SLIME of EVILNESS that have already COVERED the world has swarmed into our society as well.
WHAT A SAD SAD DAY for this country! JUST AS IN THE DAYS of SODOM and GOMORRAH we are living in an immoral sexual perverted society. A society under the control of the enemy and his hordes of LUST and PERVERSITY - IMMORALITY, SELF-PLEASURE and SELF-SATISFICATION.
With this YES-vote - the destruction of families and family-life is in mind. We need to FIGHT for TRUTH. The TRUTH of the WORD OF YHWH.
Jude wrote: Jude 1:8 "Nevertheless in like manner, these DREAMERS also CORRUPT the BODY (in immorality and sexual defilement and perversion) SCORN (disrespect, ridicule, mock, revile, despise, belittle) and REJECT (spiritual) AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT, and REVILE (insult, condemn, despise, hate, loathe, look down at) and LIBEL (smear, slander, defamation, character assassination) AND SCOFF (sneer, mock, ridicule, make fun of, laugh at, poke fun of) AT [HEAVENLY - (divine, lovely, holy, saintly, blessed, spiritual]) GLORIES (wonders, grandeurs, praises, admirations, tributes, worships, honors, devotions)
:10 But these men REVILE (SCOFF AND SNEER AT) ANYTHING THEY DO NOT HAPPEN TO BE ACQUAINTED WITH and DO NOT UNDERSTAND; and whatever they do understand physically [that which they know by MERE INSTICT], LIKE IRRATIONAL (illogical, unreasonable, foolish, crazy, absurd, senseless) BEASTS - by THESE CORRUPT THEMSELVES (in immorality and sexual defilement and perversion) and ARE DESTROYED [PERISH (eternally)].
For the BELIEVERS in MESSIAH - the path is going to be difficult - Jude wrote further, saying:
(Jude 1:17) "But beloved, REMEMBER the words which were spoken before of the apostles of the Master Yahshua Messiah.
:18 How they told you there would be MOCKERS (ridiculers, scorners, scoffers) in the LAST TIME, who should WALK AFTER their OWN UNGODLY LUSTS."
From verse 19 Jude said that these people are merely SENSUAL (fleshly, animal-like, sexual, erotic, voluptuous, carnal) CREATURES, CARNALLY (fleshly) MINDED and EMPTY (DEVOID) of the HOLY SPIRIT - DISPOSSESSED of any higher SPIRITUAL LIFE.
Jude told us to "GUARD OURSELVES in the LOVE OF YHWH - STRIVING to SAVE OTHERS SNATCHING THEM OUT OF THE FIRE - out of the HANDS of the ENEMY.
On others he said - HAVE MERCY - but - with reverential fear - LOATHING (with dislike - hatred and disgust) EVEN the GARMENT SPOTTED (blemished) by their FLESHLY SEXUAL DESIRES and POLLUTED (contaminated, infested, polluted) BY THEIR SENSUALITY.
SIGNS OF DEMON ACTIVITY:
1. SEXUAL PERVERSION and IMMORALITY (pedophilia - homosexuality - lesbianism - molestation - rape - incest - adultery - etc.)
2. SEEKING of SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE (spiritism - fortune-telling - horoscopes - yoga - TM [Transcendental Meditation] - humanism - Eastern religions and other counterfeit religious groups etc.)
3. OCCULT INVOLVEMENT (Satanism - witchcraft - fortune-telling - spiritism and spirit-"guides" - magic etc.)
4. ABUSE OF BODY and ADDICTIONS (alcohol - drugs - gluttony - abuse or misuse of other substances - etc.)
5. CAUSING PAIN to BODY (cutting self etc.)
6. ABUSE of PEOPLE or ANIMALS
7. MENTAL DISTRESS and/or OPPRESION (fear - anger - anxiety - disorientation etc.)
8. PSYCOLOGICAL DISORDERS (paranoia - split and multiple personalities etc.)
9. PHYSICAL ILLNESSES and AILMENTS MAY BE DEMON CAUSED (Matt. 9:23, 33)
10. LACK OF JOY or FREEDOM in MESSIAH YAHSHUA (spiritual bondage)
11. CONSTANT REFUSAL to REPENT of SIN, though you KNOW that YOU ARE SINNING (REBELLION).
12. REFUSAL to REPENT of GENERATIONAL SIN.
OTHER DEMONIC MANIFESTATIONS:
PRIDE - ANGER - DECEPTION - VIOLENCE - LACK of SELF-CONTROL - EATING DISORDERS - JEALOUSY - HATRED - BITTERNESS - SELF-PITY - SELF GLORIFICATION - DEPRESSION - OPPRESSION - CONDEMNATION - JUDGEMENTALNESS - HAUGHTINESS - SELFISHNESS (NARCISM) - GOSSIP - ACCUSATION - SLANDER - FAULTFINDING - INTIMIDATION - CONTROL - SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS - SELFISH AMBITION - DESENSITIZED etc.
Abba - thank You that we can cast all our burdens on You - all our anxieties, all our worries, all our concerns - once and for all - for You CARE for us affectionately and CARES about us watchfully (1 Peter 5:7) no matter what goes on around us. Thank You Yahshua for giving us Your Spirit so that we can be well balanced, temperate and sober of mind, vigilant and cautious at all times for our enemy, the devil, roams around like a lion roaring in fierce hunger, seeking someone to seize upon and devour (1 Peter 5:8). Thank You that IN YOUR NAME - we can WITHSTAND the enemy - STAND FIRM in our FAITH against his onset - rooted and established, strong, immovable and determined, knowing that the same identical sufferings are appointed to the whole body of believers throughout the world (1 Peter 5:9). IN YOU - our GLORIOUS KING - we are STANDING STRONG. Amen.