Pray for Discernment: Fight The Confusion Capt. Kelly Durant
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. 1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
2. How many of you have ever been confused? Your driving around and you miss the expressway exit and get off late ending up in a neighbor where gangs of people on the street corners staring at you as you drive by? You don’t dare ask directions! You then go in circles 30 minutes until you finally find your way out of that hood! Has it ever happened to you?
I think all of us at some time or another have been confused, confused by unclear directions, confused by algebra in school, or confused by people we have met who claim to live by a certain beliefs which proclaim friendship or peace yet their actions indicate that they do not practice these in real life. Today the biggest double standard confusing scenario is this: A person loving and defending certain groups of people (who may have a horrendous record) who demand that no discrimination be taken against them while at the same time labeling others who disagree with them as persons to hate and attack! Hypocrites today are getting away with coning the average person because of the confusion of what is good and what is evil! What’s not helping is that most current civil laws are man’s laws, and are not God’s laws, and this contradiction is what is provoking a massive great confusion. Out of this confusion arises frustration and aggression causing insecurity, self-righteousness, hypocrisy and pride. Consequently, evil invites its own self-destruction when exposed how hypocritical it is!
Confusion of logical thought, of values, of correct or faulty science is dominating the entire world today! Also to some degree there is some possible confusion in your own mind on a few subject matters as well! It is like that quote that says, ‘Most people are like cement, all mixed up and permanently set.’ It sometimes takes years for you and others to sort out truth and fact from deception and lies and all of us will only be able to if we know God’s Word, live in holiness and obedience, and having the Holy Spirit active daily. Considering we are intelligent people using the brain God gave us, we should be obsessed with discerning what is the absolute truths of God filtered through our purified and transformed mind shunning the fallacies of the world’s current indoctrinations.
3. Hypocritical double standard Satanic people have always been the accusers of the saints and the haters of God and His people because they practice sin and they can only view everything upside down through a cloudy biased filter. These people always find fault and harassingly accuse the sincere righteous people of God in order to draw the attention away from their own filthy selves.
Because they will not accept truth or facts unless they repent, with these types of confused sinners you will never win in an argument. Because black is white to them, you end up ‘damned if you do, or damned if you don’t’ concerning any discussion on any subject matter. They want to be the ones on top by aggression, by emotion, and by contradiction instead of being open to logic, righteousness, and God’s statutes to rule.
These precocious followers of trends, created by evil social engineers, persecute God’s people as they always have because they war against the truth and against the exposure of the consequences of their evils! God is holy, which is synonymous to righteous, integral, and truthful, and before Him, no liar, hypocrite, or deceiver will stand: He is a “consuming fire”. Pray to spot these types immediately!
4. People with holy, God-like characteristics will always be hated by contaminated people who do not make the grade and they always want to destroy the righteous one(s). This battle started from the beginning when jealous Cain killed Abel over the fact that he was sincere and righteous while Cain was a worship-less, heartless, hater of God. With God there are no alternatives to being in His light, truth, and obedience; you must choose in this life to love Him and do His will, or by default as a fallen creature you will hate Him.
Why do I bring this up at this time? Because we just survived a horrendous propaganda year (2016) of being exposed to repeated lies, deception, and sabotage by the formerly somewhat trusted news outlets, government sources, and misinformed friends. So now we can expect that this relentless lying propaganda machine will continue on with even more hatred and fury as this is described as one of the end-time occurrences.
Revelation 12:15
‘And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood’.
Water we know as the Word, Jesus is the water of life (John 4) but this flood of water is symbolic of words from Satan’s mouth, which are deceitful lies, designed to destroy the Christian church (the woman). But notice it is the world that swallows the lies, not those of the true church of God!
5. The misinformation outlets proven to be paid for by mega billionaires or government sources are the current day ‘rulers of darkness’ (Eph. 6) and they are not letting up in their barrage of attacks on good Christian values. I am referring to attacks not just in this nation but in all nations! (Psalms 2)
It seems we are pressured daily to choose if we are on God’s side of truth or you are not! People attending churches should be able to discern God’s right from Satan’s wrong but that’s not always the case. People who support anti-Biblical values are either uninformed, misinformed, or intentionally rebellious to God’s statues in His Word!
The ones confused in what is right or wrong are in effect Satanic because he is the ‘author of confusion’. 1Corinthians 14:33
‘For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.’
Too many confused people today belligerently push their ungodly convictions with passion and vigor. Certain stances are never justified with God and they do not stand when debated as logical arguments either as history proves healthy long lasting societies always maintain high standards of respect for all, especially for the weak. Hitler, Stalin, and all despots always killed the defenseless weak ones of society (Darwinism). Today people will insist on arguing apples to oranges with you and never apples to apples so in effect they justify the practice of evil!
6. The confusion of what is right or wrong we are experiencing today is nothing new but an old trick of Satan himself. It reveals how Biblically illiterate and disconnected from God’s holiness our society has become. When Jesus addressed those who were propagators of destructive enslaving religious and political lies, He attacked them and exposed them for what they were, hypocrites, murderers, and liars! And they had a hand in getting Him killed!
Take note that the false religious leaders were more obsessed with getting rid of Jesus than the despotic governors of Rome. Government dictators just want to have power so they subdue subjects defenseless into poverty reaping tax collections, to support their luxurious lifestyle; while religious radicals feverously lust for absolute power exploiting loyalty to the point of total heart and mind control! Lying envious, power hungry hypocrites have been around since the first lessons in Genesis. Jesus confronted these types of manipulative, lying cruel people as in:
John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
7. We are starting a new year and maybe it will be a last opportunity to set things right in our own hearts with God. Let’s start off afresh how Jesus did it with this in mind, Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, (release from the dark manipulations that lies create)
2: to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
There are many evil things happening and Christians should stop being silent when facing those who propagate lies, false narratives, confusion, and evil! Why? Because Jesus confronted them! He came to free those captive by lies and evil manipulations!
We must speak the truth in love because the voices of evil have been taking over and confusing mega millions of people for the several decades! The youth, in particular, are being subjected to liars, hypocrites, and evil through our corrupted colleges, liberal internet sites, and evil governing systems.
8. The misinformation of fake news in the media and on the internet, is spinning out of control as never seen before. The false narratives, bias, hypocrisy, and subliminal selection of what’s good and what’s bad is blatantly misleading, false and deceptive and needs to get exposed. It is backfiring as according to several polls up to 70%-90% of Americans do not trust major news sources anymore!
Satan’s exposure as a liar means he is hanging himself by his own rope but he doesn’t even care as long as he gets that average of 33% to follow Him and not God. Satan is at war with God to deceive and steal souls. Revelation 12:4
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
And aren’t you amazed at how seemingly intelligent people swallow all the lies! Too many influential people today are promoting evil as good and good as evil with a brain-washed bigoted brain that prejudicially, selectively judges by their own ignorant ideas of what is right or wrong.
9. It’s the “don’t judge me”, (but I can condemn you!) cheap defense these deceivers argue never allowing Biblical values on the table! It’s so crassly ironic that these people accuse others of being bigots! How have we remained so silent to allow such conditioning so that these perverse minds, judging by personal convenience, justify their own sins? And that disregarding the consequences of the damage inflicted on others? Fallacy from evil sources must be countered.
And in all churches there are always a few confused members who insist on these worldly dichotomies taking precedence because they live preprogramed and propagandized conformed to the world. Those holding worldly values are not fully converted Christians; they deceive their own selves. If this is due to ignorance we can deal with it, but belligerence and rebellion is unacceptable in any fellowship! Tragically some entire denominations have compromised Biblical convictions!
Jude 1:4 For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about[b] long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. The Word of God identifies some people as blatant hypocrites having no shame who are un-discerning and un-reasonable. They are as fools blindly following the blind and numb to the ways of God. Satan laughs at his own dubbed followers! But God and His people are perpetually angry at the hypocrisy, injustice, and lies of the evil people because their oppression provokes great suffering.
10. Satan and his demons in people’s heads have always confused people getting them to accuse one another in support of ideals and self-interests that lead up to division, hate, violence. These lies even often lead to up to war and mass murdering! The demonizing of another group has always been his pattern for destruction through deceivers such as in the case of Hitler, Lenin, and Mao and countless others. Religious radicals are a favorite tool of Satan as well.
Satan always creates evil systems so that if one opposes and exposes the evil as evil, then that discerning one gets labeled as ‘evil’ themselves and the price is imprisonment or death for upholding good and Godly values of righteousness. But evil is evil, good is good, and there is no debate! The just moral laws of God from before the time of the flood of Noah have always been disrespected.
What we are experiencing today, and have always faced, are evil haters getting away with calling the good people evil and the evil people good. It is up to the people of God to remind these accusers that they will face the truth and judgement for the consequences for their horrendous evil! Do you recall John the Baptist called out Herod for stealing his brother’s wife, and his wife then asked for his head on a silver platter? People who have their evil exposed are the most vengeful that exist! Woe to their soul when they face God!
11. Evil people never have good fruit to show for their works. And they have an endless obsession to accuse the good righteous standard bearers of being despicable and deplorable for resisting their evil scheming agendas. How sad it is that we see that the uninformed or corrupted individuals just accept the words of evil ones at face value and then they believe them.
Some of the general populous deceived by the lies of the world include Christians and this is because they are living without the Holy Spirit or a connection to God! For righteous judgment, a Christian must factor in the evil that the accusers are carrying out while noticing that the ones accused are not actually proved guilty as charged. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Why are people conforming to hearing only one side of the coin? Wake up, don’t be manipulated!
Today, from institutions and governments from the top down, we the people are expected to just condemn and ostracize another whom they label as bad and accept as good evil ones they label as good. Just because a certain news agency, government source, or religion says you must think a certain way and obey them does not mean that you or I should just swallow it. This ignorance is paving the way for despotism! Remember hell is full of Satanically inspired cruel dictators!
We are the people of God and we must uphold His standards as in Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
12. Most people are not as stupid as the rulers of darkness assume to just accept their evil, yet more and more many people are being deceived as Jesus said that near the end of days that ‘evil seducers will grow worse and worse’. (Matt 24). It seems that those deceived by some belief become obsessed and possessed with a desire to reel in others to their cause condemned by God. But they are as a man stuck in quicksand grabbing onto anyone so that they don’t go down alone!
So what are we to do? Every Christian around the world should be praying for discernment from the Holy Spirit in order to survive this new deep level of information confusion! So ask yourself, how much could I be confused on matters? To know the truth and to have wisdom we must study God’s word daily and ask discerning wisdom of God. James 1:5 ‘If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.’ We must pray and mediate on all that happens in our family, church, community, and nation passing it through God’s filter of the Word in order to answer those that ask an answer from us. He reveals truth to those who seek it.
John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
13. The only real way to help yourself or another to know how to interpret the events of today is to have the Holy Spirit active daily teaching you right from wrong as you study the Holy Scriptures in the Bible. Ask yourself, what have I learned that is good or bad about myself this past year? Never praise yourself as you may think your works are good with God but it not be true. Has the Spirit revealed to you where you may have flawed in your worldly thinking and what are your bad habits? Tell me, what was the last thing you felt conviction by when you chose unwisely? I have had God correct me many times over certain wrongs I have done! I have no confusion over right and wrong, thanks to the repeated study of God’s word!
Let God correct your unrefined mind and ways so that you then enter into the light of truth changing yourself into Jesus ways, full of grace and truth! if you never change then you become a fool “ever learning and not gaining the knowledge of God’.
Ephesians 4: 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
14. The people of the world are lost in all the confusion of their own minds! Only God can transform a heart and a mind to think like His and do things as He did! If you as a Christian are not on this road, then get on it before it is too late!
Romans 1: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Ask God to remove confusion from your life! Ask Jesus to give you discernment from the Holy Spirit to decipher right from wrong when you are disturbed by the cloudiness in your own mind and heart, by some un-clarity in the church, or by in the messages coming out of the news medias concerning leaders or the nation. We are the light of the world and we must shine our light on the deceptions of Satan so that our God of righteousness wins and conquers the earth! Evil loses to Jesus in the final battle of the end so keep up the good fight of faith for the truth in Jesus! He will reign forever and ever!
