I am convinced that devils are influencing those who have no defense against them. He does it in two ways, he possesses them at times, but most of what we see is "oppression", which is a devil placing thoughts into the minds of people to make them think a certain way.
I believe this because when Christ turned to Peter and said; "get thee behind me satan", he was responding to Peter but addressing the devil who was using Peter's thoughts and mouth.
I do not believe in "a bad seed", because all people are bad seeds before they become born again. People who are not born again are often used by the devil to harm others, even when they believe they are doing good they might be doing harm.
Those who are not born again think in fleshly and worldly ways, they are easily manipulated to think the way the culture thinks rather than how God thinks.
Unsaved people can be kind and friendly people but will become angry when confronted about their sin. Sometimes unsaved people will tolerate us, but avoid us when possible.
The WAY we think is based on the condition of our heart, whether we are saved or not saved, we will respond either through the Holy Spirit or through our own flesh that is easily manipulated by devils.
Growing up I used to hear adults saying things like; "that person is a really nice person." What they meant was that they had a friendly superficial conversation over something not so important.
We never know how "nice" a person is until we have disagreed with them or exposed sin in their life. This is when the real them emerge.
We could have many friends wherever we go as long as we never mention sin or Christ. We must always be kind when we do, however, even if we are kind we can expect most people to become agitated at best and sometimes rage at worst.
We are even accused of things we didn't do no matter what our delivery. You might ask; "what is your proof", that's easy, look what they did to Christ, the most perfect kind, and loving person who ever walked the earth. He made them mad by exposing their sin and by claiming to be God. People become angry when we claim Christ lives in us and we want them to have that same blessing.
If you do not believe people become angry at the message of the cross, just expose the false doctrine with Christians in the church and watch their reaction. The church has become more of the world than of the Bible. When someone fights against the truth of the Bible while embracing false teaching they will be resistant even angry when told they must pray for truth and reject the lies.
We live in a world that has basically rejected Christ, even those in church gatherings. They reject Christ by rejecting His Word the Bible. The Bible is the Word of Christ, it is the very essence of His being. To reject what He says is to reject Him.
1 Samuel 15:23
“For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He has also rejected you from being king.”
Isaiah 5:24
"Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 30:12-14
12 Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says:
“Since you have rejected this word
And have put your trust in oppression and crookedness, and have relied on them,
13 Therefore this wrongdoing will be to you
Like a breach about to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,
14 Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,
So ruthlessly shattered
That a shard will not be found among its pieces
To take fire from a hearth
Or to scoop water from a cistern.”
Mark 7:6-7 "6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
“‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
7 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’"
The devils are busy convincing people not to believe God and to malign, mock and reject Christians. Get used to it, it has always been this way and will until Christ makes things right at the end of it all.
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