Discussion on Christianity and Spiritual Warfare

Why is Christianity the one religion that is totally acceptable to disparage?

Yeah, that is every cross-reference in the Bible where the Bible references other parts of the Bible.

If you were to see that and one person wrote a book that did that,

that many cross-references and dovetails into other parts of the Word,

you would look at that person and you would think

that is the greatest author who has ever lived, like Goethe.

But that book was not written by one man.

It was written by over 40 men across 1,500 years,

across three continents, Asia, Europe, and Africa, in three different languages,

Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic.

It has one unified story. It has zero contradictions

because there is only one way to explain. that.

And it's that that book over there, it was written down by men,

but it was authored by the Word of God, by God Himself.

A lot of the book of Revelation isn't revelation about what's gonna happen in the future.

It's revelation about what's been going on behind the scenes in the spiritual realm throughout all of human history.

If you get to Revelation chapter 12, you get this little vision of a dragon that represents Satan.

And what it says that he does is he wages war upon the woman,

which most Bible scholars go, man, that's the church, the bride of Christ, and her offspring.

So man, if you're going,

why is Christianity the one thing that you can disparage?

It's because the Bible says the whole world lies under the power of the evil one.

The Bible actually calls Satan the little g god of this world.

In the temptation of Jesus,

Satan does this saying where he comes to Jesus and he goes, hey, I'm gonna show you all the kingdoms of the world.

And he tells him, he's like, hey man,

if you'll bow down and worship me, I'll give you all of these kingdoms.

Now what's really interesting is Jesus doesn't say, they're not yours to give.

There's like this tacit assumption throughout the entire Bible,

that Satan is really over all of the world systems.

And that's why everything in the world aligns against one thing in particular,

and it's Christianity, Christ, and Christians. That's the baseline.

In the era leading up to where we're at now, the obviousness of darkness became so smack you in the face

that people,

they awakened to the reality that there was a non-ignorable dark force in the world.

And then dude, I think what a lot of people do, especially young men, right now,

is they're gone mad.

If there's a darkness, there must be a light.

I'm a pastor.

What my heart beats for more than anything else is for everybody everywhere to know Jesus Christ.

I love every person that calls himself a Muslim,

and I hate Islam because it destroys people and eternities.

And I can do both of those things.

I can love a person, and I can hate what I believe is a demonic ideology.

What a lot of Muslims do is they trace their spiritual lineage to Ishmael.

So in the Old Covenant, God makes his covenant with Abram, who becomes Abraham.

In Galatians 1.8, Paul says this.

He says, but even if we, or an angel from heaven, should appear to you and preach to you another gospel.

let him be accursed that what Satan does is he quote masquerades as an angel of light

what Muhammad says happens as he wanders in a cave I was in there and this angel of light

pastors don't have to try to be controversial they just got to read Bible verses

and he said he was the way the truth and the life and nobody comes the father father except through him

what he didn't say is I am a way a truth and a life and some people come to the father except through me or also through me

if heaven is the place where everybody's forgiven

And hell is the place where nobody's forgiven.

When we forgive,

we pull heaven down into our lives.

And when we choose not to forgive, we pull hell up into our lives.

What I want to point out is there's this really weird connection in the Bible between satanic and demonic activity and unforgiveness.

Jesus calls Satan Beelzebub.

What that literally means, it literally translates to Lord of the Flies.

And the implication is, if you get a deep wound, like a flesh wound,

what flies do is they get in there and they infest the wound.

And then something that hurt you, well now all of a sudden it becomes fatal

because they get up there and they infest the wound.

And so when Jesus calls Satan Beelzebub, what he's saying is, hey man, every wound you got, if you don't, by the power of Jesus Christ, his blood and forgiveness, close that wound.

Yeah, that is a wide open pathway for Satan's work in your life.

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