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Declaration of War
Against the
Forces of Darkness
AUDIO
VERSION (1.6 megs, 4 minutes)
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here for printable PDF version)
Now, before you
start thinking we're talking about YOU, this is about EVIL - not
people. Sure, some people are stinkers, but we're to love
people and we're to hate evil. The darkness from our sinful
nature is in all of us. We're not any better, it's just Christ in us
that helps us be redeemed. Anyway, this is about the
BIG picture, not any specific person, organization, leader, etc. |
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No more. It ends now.
For too long we've
ignored what was going on in the church. For too long we've sat out
or even denied there was a war. We've been infiltrated. We've been
co-opted. We've been dumbed down. We’ve had our greatest weapons
ridiculed and demeaned until nobody wants them anymore. This is
no kind of way to fight a war.
We've allowed
ourselves to be fattened up and we've planted roots. We've been
herded together in big groups like cattle and we bump around against
each other making useless noises. Wolves have come in and we’ve
welcomed them. We've accepted aid from the enemies of God. We've
taken the enemy's advice about how to make war. We’ve hired
consultants to show us how to be more like the world.
We've ignored our
own King's plan. We've sent a pitiful few skirmishing parties out to
do the work of missions for us and patronized them when they come
home wounded and hungry. We've given all the ammunition to the supply
clerks back home and deprived the infantry of what they needed to
push back the darkness. Everything about what we’re doing is
upside down.
No more will we
take on the names and philosophies of men to define and identify us.
No more will we allow factions over secondary issues to divide us. We
are to be OF Jesus and Him alone. Only He gets to put His brand on
us. Only He gets to direct us. Only He is truth. This is war! Nothing
else can be trusted. His is the unbreakable cypher. Pure, full, uncut
Truth cannot be spoken by the enemy. Truth and Love are our uniform,
our code, our defining characteristic. Only Truth and Love will
suffice for battle against principalities and forces of darkness.
No more will we
waste time on our own vain pleasures and indulgences. No more will we
allow the egos and prides and traditions and philosophies of Man to
divide us. We will love Truth and settle for nothing less. We will
learn to sniff out and purge compromise and half-truths. We will
force out of us every bad dark thing by being completely filled with
the Bread of Life. We will be nourished by Truth. We will be armored
by Truth. We will swing the Sword of Truth in big wide circles and
pierce the hearts of anyone near. We will fight and not grow weary.
We will charge forward and never retreat. Should one slip, others
will lift him up. Should one fall, others will take his place.
No more. It ends
now. There are those that are already equipped to fight and we will
enlist them, organize them and send them back out to recruit more.
We'll fight with love to awaken our brethren who are asleep and get
them in fighting form. We will push back the darkness by speaking
nothing but TRUTH. It is rare and precious - and only Jesus is the
source. Every man-made thing will burn off in the fire. Only Jesus
can be trusted.
As Gideon, we will
lovingly restore our own altars first while the people are sleeping.
Then we can rally a restored, awakened people to fight the forces of
darkness. Those on the front lines that have proven themselves good
and faithful servants and stewards of their talents will be
provisioned with a hundred times their own needs so that they can
feed the hungry and give drink to the thirsty as they see any need.
We will pray and encourage and support them and recruit more. We will
always strive to continue growing up into Jesus, who is the Head.
In view of the
great mercy shown us by Jesus Christ, we will offer our bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. We will stop conforming
to the pattern of this world. We will be transformed by the renewing
of our minds so that we will be able to test and approve what is
God’s good, pleasing and perfect will. Then we’ll go and do it.
I Corinthians 14:8
"Again, if the trumpet make an uncertain sound, who will prepare
for battle?"
No more. It ends
now. As clear as we can say it, this is war.
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