The devil is the father of lies. He will say foolish things like; "God didn't say that" when you know God did because you read it in His Word. The devil will use people to apply pressure on you to conform to the devil's ways and plan to ruin you. Don't give in, respond with more scripture like Jesus Christ did, they cannot fight against God's Word. Do not use your own words but use God's Words and let them fight with God.
How many times have you been demeaned and dismissed because you quoted God when someone was attempting to convince you and others that something sinful was a good thing? One of the favored tactics of the devil is to remove all the emotional and spiritual support of others toward us to place pressure on us. He does not have to win because Christ is greater than the devil.
We now live in a world that twists everything to confuse people, enabling those who love their sin to defend it with avengeance.
We now live in a world where bad is called good and good is called bad, the biggest sign that we are living in the end times. However, even churchgoers do not recognize these tactics and become confused.
Isaiah 5:20
"20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
Do not allow the world around you, even the world in the apostate church, to intimidate you into silence so you become like them.
Galatians 4:16-17 "…16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them. "
Unbelievers will try to isolate us from our support through lies and gossip. They think if they can leave us without support they can diminish our witness for Christ and cause insecurity causing us to go silent. They do this through lies and gossip so that others are afraid to ask us to clarify the truth. You see, those who live in clusters and cliques are more afraid of the mob than they are of being deceived. They will choose the lie over the truth to maintain their core group. Deception is acceptable to them as long as they have the allegiance of the group.
We are much better off when we follow Christ alone, using His mind to make decisions rather than being controlled and manipulated by the group. God's truth is much more comforting and precious than the group-think of the mob. Mindless acquiescence to the group leaves us weak and beggarly.
Galatians 4:9-10
"9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, to which you want to be enslaved all over again? 10 You meticulously observe days and months and seasons and years."
When we are careful to observe all that the human group wants from us we become slaves to them.
Proverbs 3:3
"Do not let kindness and truth leave you;
Bind them around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart."
Luke 16:10
“He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.
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