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There Are No Shades of Grey

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In our lives it may not be any of these three. It may be lies about who we are in Christ. It might be about our past. It might be a lie about our state of mental health you are depressed you are anxious. The enemy will use our own feelings against us. He will ask you to believe your feelings over your beliefs. Maybe it is a secret sin. Lust, pride, anger, bitterness. The enemy will use anything to engage you in a conversation as he seeks to establish a foothold in your thinking. Eve dismissed what she had been told by God directly. Achan also dismissed the commands of God. Ananias and Sapphira dismissed the Holy Spirit within them! All for lies.

 

Because in the end, that is all the enemy has lies. All he can do is present us with something to consider. It will always be in direct opposition to what we already know from the direct Word of God the Bible. We still have the free will to choose which we will believe. When discussing spiritual warfare Paul outlined for us this battle:

 

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2Corinthians 10: 4-5

 

Eve, Achan and Ananias and Sapphira all tried to fight off the enemy with the weapons of this world. They tried to rationalize with him conversate with him. When the devil told Eve that she would not die if she ate the fruit that was an argument set up against the knowledge of God. When the enemy whispered to Achan how beautiful the Babylonian robe was and how no one would miss it; that was a pretension set up against the knowledge of God. When the enemy whispered into Ananias and Sapphira's ears to lie to the Apostles, those were pretensions set up against the knowledge of God. They all made the same mistakes. First they engaged in a conversation with the enemy. Secondly, they considered the argument whispered into their ears instead of making them obedient to Christ by wielding the truth against the lies. Lastly, with the lies posing as truth in their lives and footholds firmly established in their thinking, they each fell. Eve's sin led to the fall of man. Achan's led to a humiliating defeat for Israel and eventually the death of Achan to correct the sin. Ananias and Sapphira were both struck dead by the power of God. The enemy did not kill them any more than he caused the fall of man. These were direct results of choices made. That is what life comes down to. Our lives are a conglomeration of choices we make every day. What to do, what to say, what to believe. All the enemy can do is present us with a choice, an argument. It is always a lie and we have the absolute truth in our possession to refute it. Take those pretensions into captivity, do not consider the lie, do not even engage in the conversation.

 

Reverend Anthony Wade April 8, 2010

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