The Enemy Dehumanizes

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One clear scheme of the enemy is dehumanization. This is a theme I see throughout the pro-Trump Evangelical response to impeachment: that it's the liberals, or the Democrats that are evil and doing the devil's work. 

This assertion itself IS the true devil's work!!

This is the Biblically stated scheme of the enemy, according to Matthew 24:9-14:

Matthew 24:9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
10 “And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
11 “Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
12 “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
13 “But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Satan is trying, very successfully, to get the church to war against itself and the people around it. It isn't "liberals" or "Democrats" that are working to impeach the president. It is people...that God made... Many of whom do pray... That disagree with other people, whom God made, many of whom who also pray... 

Don't be so myopic that you can't see what is actually happening. If you have the Holy Spirit in you, you are required to abide ..to find out what Jesus actually says about the president, those who influence him, and those who claim to be in spiritual fellowship with him, interceding for him, and even trying to impeach him. 

Jesus has an opinion and the Holy Spirit will tell it to you if you are willing to ask Him and have HIS opinion as your own. In my experience, what the charismatic/evangelical factions are spouting isn't what the Spirit is saying. That doesn't make the other side any more righteous, either! It doesn't have to be one or the other... What is Jesus actually saying to you when you ask Him what HE thinks?

I would highly encourage you, if you are a believer in Jesus, to get above the political fray and into the place where we see people as targets of the enemy on both sides and try to see and hear what Jesus says about this whole thing. 

The fruit of the Spirit is clearly seen and there is no law against it: 

Galatians 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

I thoroughly disagree with this article (and only share it as an example of sentiment that is rampant in the church rn) and the division and dehumanization this sort of Christian journalism evokes.

God loves the world... He isn't fighting any people. He is giving all of us every opportunity to repent, on all sides of the political spectrum. Don't give in to hate... You will find yourself fighting a God trying to save you.


https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/79199-trump-impeachment-is-clear-example-of-spiritual-warfare-mdash-what-can-christians-do?fbclid=IwAR2mHyskXnGtBfZKE0M1qeITfqPMpCbty62Sni-19pu4oTJcdLkBM3IHSKc


You are supposed to get ready to stay loyal to Jesus IN this, not avoid it. One important point:

Matthew 24:9“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.

Jesus prophesied this. Jesus approves this message. If you are going to try to avoid this using politics or human means, then you intend to fight a word Jesus already said is GOING to happen ... You will be fighting Jesus. That is antichrist. The Antichrist is an alternative to Jesus... He promises to protect you from Jesus' plans and you end up fighting Jesus.
Don't be fooled.

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