The Weapons of Our Warfare
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever!
St. Paul wrote - "For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:4-5). St. Paul also wrote: "For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 6:12).
We are involved in spiritual warfare against the demonic forces that are behind sexual promiscuity, abortion, homosexual and lesbian acts - all the behaviors that spring from the philosophy of relativism and the ideology of secularism. These are not merely systems of ideas that people have constructed rationally, they are acts motivated by evil spiritual forces.
In 2 Chronicles 36:11-16 we read -
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in the Lord his God's sight. He didn't humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the Lord's mouth. He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel. Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the Lord's house which he had made holy in Jerusalem. The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place; but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the Lord's wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy."
Notice the spiritual aspects, not simply morally-neutral human actions:
1. Zedekiah did evil.
2. He rejected God's Word spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.
3. He hardened his heart against the Lord.
4. The religious leaders trespassed against God by performing pagan abominations.
5. They polluted God's house - in Christian terms, the religious leaders compromised true, spiritual doctrine of the Church.
6. They mocked God's messengers - they ridiculed people who preached and practiced God's Word.
7. Therefore the Lord sent foreign invaders - it wasn't just a foreign military-political decision, God motivated the foreign powers to carry out His judgment.
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Secularism teaches that you are free to choose to do whatever you like, whatever turns you on, there's no good or evil. But as Christians, we must "bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ" by recognizing and rejecting this ideology, we must avoid getting sucked into the vortex of secularism, thinking that there's no right or wrong, that you can make up your own reality, your own gender simply by imagining it.
How do we reject this ideology and avoid getting trapped by the sugar-coated, neo-pagan, over-sexualized worldview? "I have made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?" (Job 31:1). Make a rule, a covenant with your eyes: do not gaze at scantily-dressed women! I have a 5-inch wide piece of heavy paper near my computer screen so that, when some pornographic image or sex-oriented "news" article photo comes up in the sidebar of an otherwise decent web-page, I tape that heavy paper over the sidebar so that I can read the article without being indoctrinated into that worldview. If a porn website comes up when you're searching for some worthy website, close that tab or window! If you're at the swimming pool and a young girl in a bikini appears, look the other way!
King Solomon wrote the book "Song of Solomon" and in chapter 3:5 it states - "I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, by the does of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until its time." Grade-school children are being indoctrinated into this over-sexualized culture of ours before their time, before they are able to fully understand and emotionally handle it. This is why leftist-secularists are against charter schools and Christian schools. BTW - the book "Song of Solomon" itself was not taught to children during Old Testament times, its love story was reserved for mature adults!
We desperately need to re-establish Christian communities where we can raise our families in a Christian atmosphere and keep them from being brainwashed by the surrounding secular culture. We need to monitor what they watch on TV and which websites they visit on the Internet. Children need to be taught what is good for them and what is evil, harmful and enslaving. Sadly, they are being taught just the opposite in many of our public schools.
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6).
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Christ is among us! He is and ever shall be!
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