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 Love and Courage go Hand in Hand

Date: 2026-09-17

For people to understand Christian evangelicals for why they do what they do I write this for especially non-Christians to understand. Because in many cases some crowds are very hostile towards people who evangelize. And really it is because the crowd doesn't understand what really is going on. So let me explain.

No evangelical can make you believe

All an evangelical is meant to do is relay God's message to people, to tell them the good news. The good news is that there is hope for redemption of all what you did wrong for all of your life. So that is what it is about. And the context of the good news, is what we call the Gospel. 

But like the prophets in the old days, nobody has the power to make you believe in God because it is a condition of the heart, not the mind. Many people don't want to know about God and those people mostly do not stop and listen what an evangelical has to say. Others for some reason get mad or even hostile to the evangelical which is really unjustified if you read on.

But no matter what is being said there are only few that hear the calling, and the rest does not believe and has no interest. Because a hardened heart does not want to know the Gospel. 

Learned to Love

So, Christians are commanded by our Lord to love their neighbors like they love themselves. Because He has made all there is, and He made it for all of which some are good and most are evil in His eyes. But loving they neighbor is a very difficult command, but we are to love you. And there more reason for this. Every soul is born into this world with a biological mother and father, but with a spiritual father as well. He is called Satan. The Gospel is there to have a person reborn of the spiritual father called God the Father. 

God the Father gave all free will to choose who'm spiritual father you shall be. But of course that has consequences. If you are of your father the devil, you'll end up in hell. And if you are spiritually reborn, because you repented, belonging to God the Father, you'll end up in heaven.

So, an evangelical like any other (real) Christian see where you end up. It is very simple, those who deny Jesus Christ will not end up good. And because the powers of darkness and the temptations of the world have clouded you and hardened your heart to some degree, there is a whole spiritual fortress of walls surrounding you, to not hear, or not want to hear the Truth. 

That is what a Christian sees, and it is a painful site, looking at someone and knowing what will be of him. That is also our love, that we want to tell you the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The only Gospel. And if you don't hear or don't want to hear, because we know it is confronting sometimes, then show a little love back to the evangelical because he knows what people think about Jesus, about Christianity. He could be shout at, ridiculed, humiliated and in some cases even attacked. Yet he stands there for you, to save you. Because he himself has nothing to gain in this world by doing that. He stands there because he was commanded by God to do so and show love for those who do not love God.

The Bible says that spreading the Word is like a farmer throwing seed on the ground. He waters it a little and then goes to bed. There is nothing he can do. But if ground is good, a miracle happens, the seed grows into a plant. That is what the evangelical does. In this analogy the ground is the heart. And the one who hears the Word with a good heart the Wonder of Grace may fall upon that person. Because just like the seed growing, that is God's work. You did control your own biological birth, neither do you control your spiritual rebirth.

The evangelical

My point in all this is, because it is confronting to most people; in essence Christians are saying, watch out for yourselves, your path leads to hell. And that is right in a sensitive spot with most people because they find themselves really good. That is why some are getting angry and say all sort of nasty things to evangelicals. Kind of confirms the path, but they don't see that. But it takes real courage, because I haven't done any of this evangelical stuff, and love for people to stand out there and preach the Gospel. So next if you see an evangelical preaching, be nice....

Jesus did not come to bring peace to this world

The world is in the hands of the dark powers and we get from birth only set of moral values that are prone to be eliminated (hardened hearts) - making a person more evil. There is war going on in your head if you try to do good. But there is no war when doing bad stuff but excitement. So that is how you start-moral set will be destroyed. That is why good parenting is so essential. And to know what is good, you need an all knowing righteous and loving God, and He shows it in the Bible.

Many young believers are in war with themselves. Much more then ever. This is the work of the Holy Spirit that is makes attentive to the will of God. The balance of the constant war in your head will be much more won by God the Father versus the Devil, because heart will be changed.

The world will never, never be at peace, but Christians receive the un-explainable inner peace of Christ. That is why we stay happy in the Lord even when hell breaks loose here on earth. Amen.

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The answer to Evil in the World

Updated: 2026-09-13

Whenever you talk about only true living God who is holy and loving with non-believers, most of them determine that God does not exist because of all the evil there is in the world. Because if He would exists, He would intervene. Most even forget how evil they are themselves in the Eyes of God, but non-believers mostly don't see that because they consider themselves to be good. Me and my wife were once on holiday in France in the beautiful beach town of Noir Moutier and we met an older couple, and the lady of this couple has once been an army nurse, while the husband was a retired commander of a British aircraft carrier. 

Exactly the same response came from her on the account that God cannot exist because there is so much evil in the world, and that she had seen of a lot of suffering as a nurse because of it. 

Nevertheless, the God of the Bible is viewed by non-believers as such or as a God to be portrayed as evil, which is actually to the God of the Bible blasphemy. Seculars, liberals, non-believers do not expect an answer back to the question of "God and evil in the world"  because it is also a challenge to most Christians who do not know what to say about this subject. But reading the Bible you already should come up with some answers. 

I could also narrow it down with this video of John MacArthur at 2007 Ligonier Conference pastoring the sermon: The Problem of Evil. It is a little more than an hour. John does a very good job here in explaining why there is evil. I think rather there is not "The Problem of Evil" - but as there is a good answer to it, how we going to explain this in short? This might be the real problem as most walk away from lengthy explanations. As Christians we are in the prime directive of saving people who actually want to hear, so I will make an effort, at the end to write the answer in short. 

What I will not do is going through John's different theodicies that are also in the video, I'll keep it as general as I can without digging too deep. Otherwise if you are interested, follow the video link above. 

The central question will be: How can God be loving and allow massive evil to dominate the world?

John MacArthur used what he called a flow to what is known to the Christian and what is reality:

  1. Evil exists.
  2. God Exists.
  3. God allowed evil to exist.
1. Evil exists

Evil exists, this is a mere fact. But there are few things to understand first about God and the origin of evil:

  • The Bible, in which God reveals Himself for His Glory, is not the author of evil neither the approver of evil. God is Holy and Good. He is the only Sovereign, He is in full of control of everything and God is omnipresent and righteous among other of His Holy character properties.
  • Evil originated from heaven, as God created the Angels, and some of them began to rebel against God. Pride was the first sin of Lucifer because he was proud of all his accomplishments and self-pride does not give God glory, but yourself. And God created Lucifer, back then also nicknamed the morning star, so God should get the Glory for everything. And self-pride also invoked jealousy, Lucifer became jealous of God and God's glory. Lucifer wanted the glory for himself.

See how much pride there is in society today. The fallen are even parading their shame and showing self-pride. The beginning of self-pride was the root evil. And see what you get from it. All of which show's no pride to God. And God is the only One to be proud of because God is good. Understand that God made you and everything around you what you can see, and what you cannot see. Nothing, but nothing you have is earned. All what you see, feel, have eat, hear etc... all of it was given by God, the Word and the Holy Spirit - all of Whom are God. So God is the only One is to be praised for anything and everything, for nothing is or exists without Him. And God owns all that exists and is Sovereign over all that exists.

So, proud of yourself? Really! 

John MacArthur gave a list of several kinds of evil:

  1. Natural evil
  2. Moral evil
  3. Supernatural evil
  4. Eternal evil

Natural evil is all the evil that comes with the fall, every thing is breaking down, there are dangerous bacteria and viruses, really bad weather, droughts, famines etc. The increasing frequency of natural disasters we experience nowadays was already predicted in Matthew 24 on the big sermon of the mount. Lots of earthquakes, disasters etc in the end-time. According to what we know and of the passing of years the signs the end-time is now in full progress. Important of this sermon is that everything bad will increase in frequency - and will get worse and worse.

Moral evil is something the devil does not need to exploit because that is sin of the flesh, man is quite capable to sin morally which involves transgressions, wickedness of all sorts and sin. And God has seen that not one human is good, not one, see Romans 3:12. 

Supernatural evil is the devil's work and his demons. This works in a way of we cannot see but only notice. The devil can put ideas in your head and then you have to choose. If you choose the devil idea's you will be sinning. Then there are events that are described in the book of Job. Here you see that God allowed Satan to go after Job's family to show that Job will not turn his back on God when misfortune hits him. God ordained it, but Satan was not allowed to decide what to do for himself. In the end Job never knew why it all happened (, see Job 38-42,) and he did not question the Creator. 

And there is eternal evil which is in one word hell. In Hell there is no presence of God but only those who were judged for their sins and they are punished for it. The punishment is eternal because condemned will continue sinning in hell blaspheming God. Therefore, the punishment stretches indefinitely. 
 
Blame
So who is to blame for evil? The difficulty of this all is, if God decided that you have free will and have the choice between good and evil then ultimately you'd have to blame God for the existence of evil even though He is not the author of evil. So, God is responsible for the existence of evil but He does not approve of it. 
 
The Flood
To portrait an example: the great flood was instigated by God because all the hearts of all beings on earth were nothing but evil - except for eight people, Noah and his family He spared. The Potter can make or destroy any pot He makes. And even then He does it in full righteousness. God destroyed not only people but also the Nephilim and perhaps other unearthly creatures - the sons of God that mixed with the humans. So God did a reset. And now all the Nephilim are gone, at least the mixed breeds are gone.
 
Sodom and Gomorrah
Another example is the total destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in which moral evil was at a peak-point and God no longer tolerated it. But He did gave time for them to stop what they were doing because God is long suffering.
 
In reflection of these two events we should not forget more of God's character:
God takes no pleasure in destroying the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11), and God is long suffering as well, giving the wicked ample opportunity to redeem themselves. As the Creator, He is sovereign and entitled to judge and do with His creations what He pleases. And in God being long suffering righteous and merciful for those who repent, He does not destroy without good reason. In both cases, the flood and Sodom and Gomorrah, the human heart was all evil in God's eyes.
 
Many Christians can't bare that God is ultimately responsible for evil
To say that God is (ultimately) responsible for the existence of evil is for many Christian-like religions unbearable. John MacArthur says those religions want to get God of the Bible of the hook for evil. And what they actually doing is creating a new god and not the God. And that is the sin of idolatry which in turn does not get you into heaven. Rather the opposite place. 
 
Some examples of false statements about God:
  • God was surprised when evil came into play
  • God has no power over evil or He choose not to interfere with evil
  • God has limited power
  • God has limited knowledge
  • God is a learning God, He does not know what happens next, He learns more as time progresses... 

All of this is mumbo-jumbo. If these so-called evangelicals would care to read the Bible - then they'd know they all of these are countered by the Word. 

God saw the beginning and the end of creation, read Isaiah 46:8-11. What does that mean exactly? That means in my humble interpretation that He Who Is and always was and Who is forever, all powerful and timeless, could see the beginning and the end of creation before creation itself. The Bible says that God knew you before you were (Jeremiah 1:5, Psalm 139:13-16,  Ephesians 1:1-6). That should give you a big hint. So, God has already been through everything seen everything, knows every outcome, knows what we are going to do and knows before hand what He is going to do. But we are still experiencing everything in this thing He created for us: space-time. Strange huh? And in the Ephesians reference above you'll see a doctrine that is because of this reason not well understood: the Doctrine of Election. If God says Himself that He know you before you were, and saw the end of the beginning, that means to me that He knows everything before it happens. That is why God knows before hand who He will accept to His Kingdom and who will not be accepted. So, can He say He elected people from the foundation of the world before they were? Yes of course! It is that simple, but yet hard to grasp for us that God is way ahead while we are in the middle of it.

Make no mistake, just because God has seen every outcome and does His will in the mean time, does not mean that you are not responsible for your actions. Because those are the choices you made, or about to make. God just has seen it already, but your actions, your thoughts, the choices are still yours. 

Related Verses
Isaiah 46:10: "I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come" (read the full chapter passage at Bible Gateway).
Revelation 1:8: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all things" (see the verse context on Bible Gateway).
Revelation 22:13: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end".
 

So what shall we say about evil? God is not the author of evil. The human heart is. And before creation, Satan was (then Lucifer). Through Lucifer and Adam and Eve death came into existence knowing good and evil. But death was not the end of creation. It was the merely curse of sin. Because the wages of sin is death. And God foresaw all of this. But God saw also the beginning and the end knowing not all will perish, and therefore God setup a redemption plan where He Himself will bring salvation to the world for whomever believes in Him. And He came as the Messiah, as Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, the Word, He Who has spoken everything into existence. Without the Word, Jesus Christ, nothing is made.

The highest gift of all for all is free will. And, boy, do we mostly choose for other things then for God. And that is why there is so much evil in the world. Because people are evil by birth and we are of the devil - as the Bible says. Only when you repent, when you choose God to be your Father, only then you will see how evil you were yourself and how evil the world is. For real Christians it is a struggle every day as we are confronted by the Father and Jesus through the Holy Spirit. 

2 God Exists
If you have read the article on this website "The Chance of Life?" you'd understand why I would not be taking long paragraphs to explain why God exists. With the science we know today with we can prove that God exists, how could people believe in the Bible in ancient times who had not have the knowlegde we have now? They watched everything around them, the abundance of everything there is as in space, stars, life on earth, in the waters and in the sea. They understood the wonder of being, thinking, force, touch, hunger, thirst, taste, smell, sound and light. The harmony of your bodily functions. That none of these came to be from a pool of dirt. Yes, they understand these things, maybe better than us as today's man needs much more proof before looking for God. Yes these things, have not changed since the beginning of creation. Yet it portraits God's infinite power and glory. But we, we today look for more proof or come up with really stupid theories about creation.
 
To me God is a fact of life, of existence. There is no "if", there is only; Who is He, what does He want, and what is my purpose.
 
3 God willed evil to exist
So, we come to the conclusion already that for free will, the existence of evil is necessary. And if you read 1st John 5:19, you'll see that the evil one has dominion over the world. So, God gave that power to the evil one and you are born with a moral set of values written in the heart and you are vulnerable to the attacks of evil that could mess up your mind - making you more and more evil. That is why the Bible says that from birth you are of your father the devil. And through the Gospel you may learn that through repentance God will then be your Father; He assures your heart to be changed and through prayer you'll get protection from God against the evil one. And most importantly, the evil one is incapable of snatching you out of the Father's hand. 
 
So, the world lies in the lap of the evil one, but those who have repented, are not of this world. And despite that the evil one controls the wicked, which is most people, all will go according to God's plan, He is just working in the background, under cover.
 
1 Chronicles 29:10-14 David's Prayer:

10 David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, Lord, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
11 Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.
12 Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.
13 Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.

God is absolutely sovereign over everything. It is repeated several times in Scripture (Psalm 1, Daniel 4:34-35 Nebuchadnezzar, Deuteronomy 32:36-39, ). And God does also cause calamity, Jesus said so. But if you not have repented you will perish. What Jesus is saying is, calamity can happen to the repented and the wicked. But the wicked will perish. But check Psalm 105:16 for the famine, 2 Kings 17:15 for the lions, Lamentations 3:37-38. And what about the plagues in Egypt? God was there, right in middle of it, planning it and executing it. 
 
If you have read these Scripture passages mentioned above, and hopefully more, you will probably see that God is sovereign and He is responsible for what we call natural evil. But in many cases He also used evil kings to punish His own people the Jews for going astray. And God does not hide these things from us, He says it loud and clear. A good reason to be on very good terms with God.
 
The problem with the world is, they do not fear the real living God. That, while Scripture tells us that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. And really, you should fear the Holy One - because He is Holy, Righteous, Truthful and Good - and you are certainly none of these. And because all your sins cannot be re-payed by the sinner, you can only be let off the hook by One Who is no sinner.  And this is Jesus. Because if you do not repent, you will not be bought free by the blood of Christ. Instead, you will be judged by your deeds, all your sins will be accumulated to suit a punishment in hell. And nothing good you ever did will put to the balance for lesser punishment. If you ask for mercy then at judgement day, you won't get it. 
 
Just think Who (hint) placed courts here on earth in the first place and how they work. You wont be let off for thievery for helping an old lady cross the street. You'll be judged and you'll receive your punishment. But you can be bought free, and in God's Court that'd be through Jesus Christ, He is the advocate for the repented, those who are adopted by the Father, they receive mercy and will not be judged for condemnation.
 
And that is why you should fear God, especially if you not have repented. You just don't know when your last hour is going to be. And you could be one of those that has been caught in one God's calamities. And snap, your in Hades for starters. God's advice is, don't wait, flee to Jesus Christ as fast as you can and repent.
 
The Short Answer
God allowed evil into the world because without evil there would be no free will, which is the greatest gift but also the denominator for whom you follow. Do you want to follow God. That is, you want to follow Jesus Christ and thrive for goodness, truth and righteousness, then repent. If you don't, you'll stay wicked. The great attributes of God's character like His grace and mercy over those who repent is almost unlimited, because no matter what you did, a heart that really repents God will not refuse. 
 
And this is why you should understand God, you'd be better off being a murderer who repented, that a victim of the murderer that did not. One gains life in heaven, and the other goes to hell. So before you start yelling unfair, you are not the Sovereign One. 
 
Also God's great character attributes and His power are magnified because there is evil.
Chew on that reading: Romans 5, Romans 9.
 
For closure A Prayer
Dear Lord Almighty, One Who is Merciful for all who want to know you and follow you,
 
I do hereby pray to You for those that do not know You that there is hope in forever life in harmony, happiness and peace through the offering of Jesus Christ. Jesus, Who offered Himself on the cross being pure, sinless and innocent gave His life so He could be the Perfect substitute for all sins of all people, and Who conquered death, being risen on the third day - and Who triumphantly ascended on high - to take the Throne in Heaven that was reserved for Him.
 
You, God the Father, have set Your Son as the condition for all who want to enter your Kingdom that whomever believes and accepts the Son, also accepts and believes the Father. But those who deny the Son also deny the Father.
 
Dear Lord, open their eyes, and let them repent, because the time is near that Jesus returns.
 
In name of Jesus Christ and in presence of the Holy Spirit, I pray for them, Amen.
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SHORTS: Forrest Gump - Satan is as Satan does

Date: 2026-08-09

Forrest Gump

In 1994 the movie Forrest Gump was released and I watched it back then I thought it was a beautiful movie. It kind a hurt to see if Forrest was called stupid in that movie. But then he'd say: Stupid is as stupid does. And that cought me. Because here we talk personality. Not a flattering one but personalities are formed from the heart, I think. The Bible says of what the heart is full of the mouth speaks. And also people's deeds are conforming to what the heart is like.

Like a greedy heart, tries to buy all kinds of stuff, or steals. 

So in the light of religion, we have the evil one, who is all evil. And Satan and his demons puts evil ideas in the minds of everyone to keep them from getting saved. If a secular gets killed he cannot be saved anymore. Then the score, as it were, is for Satan. So he's a murderer, a liar, an adolitrer, a thief, a deceiver... all the evil you can think of is of him. He puts the ideas in the minds of people.

While in fact the Bible clearly says the Law of God, which is good, knowing also good and evil, is written in the hearts of men. That means that everyone knows good and evil for a fair extend. We have free will but the devil tempts you in doing the things that are his. He cannot make you do things that are his. He tempts you in all kinds of ways.

I think that no one can deny that good and evil is rooted in the hearts of all of mankind. But that is just a sense of the first kind. The better sense is having the Holy Spirit to indwell you because He will battle Satan for you if you choose the path of Jesus in every decision you make. Call upon the Name of the Lord and all demons will flee from you. There is a Spiritual battle going on and people have no idea, because you can't see it, hear it or smell it. But it is in your thoughts, your mind. That is being battled over almost constantly. Because if the mind is turned often enough the heart follows.

Evil of the flesh

There is evil and evil. There is some evil that Satan does not really have to battle over, and that is evil of the flesh. We are made of flesh and we can sin from the flesh. Like eating and drinking too much is a sin, it is gluttony. Then there are sexual sins etc.

That is why all of man is in emnity with God, because we were built this way and we have Satan and his demons indwelling everyone to do sin. No one can say, I have never sinned or never done any evil. Therefore we are doomed from the start. The Bible says if you have not repented, read also "have the Holy Spirit indwell you", you are of your father the devil. The point here is, you cannot change to a good person according to God without Godly help. As God is the opposite of the world. So any good you think you did or how good you think you are because of your works means nothing to God - because you are not familiar of what is Godly-good.

The curse of the law is, if you do not repent you will be judged by the law. And all your sins will accumulate to an everlasting punishment. So if you want to be adopted by The Father who made you. You have to choose Him. And by rebirth you'll be forgiven by the Grace of God and renewed over time and then The Father is your Father. 

Evil is as evil does

So if we come to the equation Satan is as Satan does - and Satan == evil, then evil is as evil does. 

And that totally personifies Satan. Then how is it even possible to say that in some religions, and we know which, you can lie, rape, be a child molester, abuse women and murder etc in the name of your god - and call it "good". It goes even against the simplest rules of the Law written in the hearts of men.

This is blasphemic to the real Living God, because you are not good and your father is still Satan. And Satan knows his verdict already, but the same is for all his followers. I would recommend to take a good look at good and evil before you go on believing what you are believing. 

Even worse are people who don't even know what they believe. They just say that they are of some religion but if you confront them with aspects of their religion they become violent or angry like they are being insulted, but you just point out to their own scriptures. But these people just don't look any further to look for the only and True Living God. Just because you are born into some religion does not make you less guilty for not questioning your belief.

Measure your belief at least to what is wrong or right. You may not know of all what is sinful, but at least you have sense of good and evil. Abusing women is wrong, and the God of Abraham says that we are to love our women, then know what kind of doctrine you are dealing with. All of which is not of God is of demons, so its a devine doctrine or a doctrine of demons.

 

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SHORTS: Who Is My Neighbor?

Update: 2026-08-25

Background

This question arises often on how Christians are to handle others like Muslims or Buddhists and seculars. This is a learning point for Christians because we know how evil some of these are. But also for the Jewish religious establishment back in the day of Jesus Christ. Because this question was answered by Jesus by telling the story of the good Samaritan to a Jewish Lawyer or someone who knew the Law very well. See Luke 10:25-37. Here you read that the Lawyer knew the law because Jesus asked what the law said. 

But as Jews despised Samaritans because the Jews were convinced they were better, the Lawyer asked the question: "Who is my neighbor?". 

And the man answered right in verse 27: 

27 The man said, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart. You must love Him with all your soul. You must love Him with all your strength. You must love Him with all your mind. You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

But Jesus knew the hearts of men, because this man did not consider a Samaritan as his neighbor. And that is why, right on the spot, Jesus attacked his heart's condition by giving an example of the Law. The story of the good Samaritan. You have to take in mind that in that story, you'll see a Pharesee and a Levite passing the beat up man left for dead. And the thing is that these Jews rather not touch this man because of their cleansing rituals to become clean again. Also they had a strong belief that if you were not righteous, these things would happen to you. I wonder why these Jews did not consider the story of Job. 

Jesus attacked this behavior too, while putting the Law above all other things.

Who is my Neighbor?

To come back to the question of who is my Neighbor. The answer is everyone is. Because everyone needs to be saved. Everyone needs to be loved like you love yourself. That is the love of the real living God. No other religion on this planet supports this. Rather in other religions they murder, rape, steal and lie in the name of their belief - and they indeed say that they are righteous and good, while they know at some point in their life that it was not so, because the Law of the real living God is written in their hearts. But when later on the heart is hardened they no longer are alerted or have any compassion.

The highest Law of the one and true living God is the most difficult for any man or woman to follow, how to love people who are evil to the core and rather say nothing then to save them because hell awaits them for sure, which is part your revenge. Even when God does His revenge on the un-repented, He may still be telling you that you did nothing to save those that needed to hear His Word.

Who is my Brother or Sister?

Here is it were you need to be very picky because everyone maybe your neighbor but only few are your brother or sister. And in todays developments of religion Satan is very busy right from the beginning to contaminate the Christian churches with doctrines of demons. The question is how can you really see that you are dealing with a false church or a person of a false church?

The first direction to look at is yourself. If you are convinced that you are indwelled with the Holy Spirit you have the signs that show that you are saved. Check out this article God of Hearts, the list in the rebirth section.

Let's just say you are a saved Christian, if you are dealing with unsaved people, these could be pretending Christians as well, they will draw you to the things that are not of God. And herein lies sometime the trouble in discerning the things of God and the things of this world. And for anyone that is different on how far you matured in the faith since your rebirth. But no matter, when you have doubts you can always consult the Bible on how to deal with certain aspects.

So what you'd been looking for is that will draw you into the arms of demons:

  • They want me to go to concert with them but they sing things that are evil.
  • A person who says he's a Christian says I am saved if I only pray as certain prayer. 
  • A person who says he's a Christian says if I send him money I will prosper, and get even more in return.
  • A person who says he's a Christian says that God talked to him in a bilateral sense...
  • A person who says he's a Christian preacher but never reads from the Bible in church gatherings sessions.
  • A secular person wants to spend time with me doing a workshop but the work bears no fruit. 

In short: 

A person who confesses Christ as our Lord and Savior and follows Him in words and deeds, living by Scripture and obeying the commands of God. He or she is your brother or sister. This how you test spirits, angels and persons. 

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