Watchman Nee & T. Austin Sparks

“Direct Inspiration of Satan”

“Wherever the power of natural man dominates, there you have an element in that system which is under the direct inspiration of Satan.”

Watchman Nee

Most serious Christians that I know periodically try to do spiritual conflict with Satan. Life becomes difficult, circumstances go south, and Satan gets blamed. But opening ourselves to trouble and control from Satan can be our own doing.

Rebuke Satan all you want, quote memorized, out of context, verses against the devil all you want. There is something else opening the door to Satan in our lives and that is a thing that is called self-life. The natural man, if I live my life based on my natural man which has some good and some bad attributes then I am opening my life to Satan. The line is not between good and bad, the line is not to be between what I am gifted at and what I am no good at. The line is between my life and the life of Jesus Christ. Apply that to the church and you get an enlightening realization.

The Natural Man Should Never Run a Church

The natural man should never run a church, even if we call him pastor or bishop or father, and pay him a salary to do so. If the church or if Christian groups organize in such a way that the natural man dominates, or must dominate then in a sense, they are asking for Satan’s leadership. The natural man of some gifted person with good motives. Unfortunately Satan can still easily control through one person or groups of persons (and he will if he can). These churches or Christian fellowships make themselves very vulnerable. Even calling it ‘church’ is questionable.

Historically Satan has been able to control denominations and churches that are dominated by one or a few persons. That is a self evident fact for anyone willing to look back into church history. A congregation addicted to clergy hierarchy and one-man authoritative sermons is a congregation that is vulnerable to Satan’s influence. They can quote scripture, rebuke and insult the devil all they want but, how they have organized and refuse to do anything different has already opened the door to Satan at some level.

Christian groups that yield one to another, men and women one by one, That can lay down titles and egos (rather than promote them to dominate everything) and can challenge one another, groups that can and readily engage in conflict, with love and forgiveness.

Groups that can reason through the scriptures together. Who can talk openly together about Jesus and doctrine. A people who can pray together, who can share their lives, share their belongings (and not just pews). Groups where one or a few men don’t get to decide what is true, who is approved or disapproved. But everyone has an open say in those matters.

These types of groups which have been discipled, are taught how to be dominated by the spirit of Jesus Christ. And how to put off the natural man and how not to become dominated by Satan are Jesus’ plan for his church.

Don’t let Satan dominate you or your group through good people with good motives but who are still living by their natural man. Put off the old man, put off worldly ways of organizing, with titles and money and power trips. Instead let the Spirit of Christ rule you and your groups.

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Making Sense of Things on Earth

Making sense of things…

Who is in charge of the earth spiritually and if it’s God why all the bad news, deception, misfortune, pain, and suffering? It just doesn’t add up.

Answer: the situation of Jesus Christ explains reality on planet earth. Jesus the resurrected God-man is seated high above all spiritual power and authority. He has a direct tie to the earth through his followers.

But ONLY through his followers.

There is also an entire fake Christian movement that is just another man-made religion that is not loyal to the kingship of Jesus, (he is only the mascot). This religion spans both Catholicism and Protestantism, it is everywhere and it is anti-Christ at its core.

Anti-Christ and pro religion.

Cooperating with Satan’s Hierarchy of Lies and Violence

Under Jesus Christ is a layer of rebellious spiritual rulers, violent, hostile, deceptive and disconnected from him. These rulers have direct ties to the earth through human government, possessing and controlling king’s and other rulers who cooperate with his hierarchy of lies and violence.

The closest similarity in ancient history that displays what it’s like between Jesus and the earth today is a Roman emperor with his own army going against a violent and illegitimate Roman general with his own loyal army who wants to rule. There is a massive disconnect. Whatever towns the rebellious Roman general rules or terrorizes does not reflect on the real emperor.

Satan has controlled large portions of the earth since Adam & Eve. Primarily through human governments and religions.

But he is losing grip, Jesus is increasing, and using even his rebellious fallen creation for his purpose.

The eclessia of Jesus Christ is the one and only place ON EARTH where Jesus Christ is king and Lord.

“ON EARTH as it is in heaven.”

Christian Lessons From WW1

Been studying WW1 history. What a nightmare, a four-year horror show which changed the world.

The worst war that this world has ever seen, as far as large scale human suffering is concerned was this war. And if you think about it, it was mostly waged by Christians against other Christians. All competing for land, money and “glory”. There are remarkable lessons there for us all.

What particularly interests me about this war was that most of the major actors, and particularly the ones that played a major role we’re supposed Christian nations. So called Christendom was at war with itself.

Most of Europe were Christians. Protestants in Germany, Catholics in France and Italy, Orthodox Christians in Russia, and Church of England in England.

In WW2 unlike WW1 everyone was fighting blatant evil in Hitler and the cult in the Japanese government.

But in WW1 it was primarily Christian dominated governments fighting for money, land, and power.

At the start of WW1 most people were excited to get into it for “glory”. It was almost like a sport for many involved.

But how quickly their thinking changed after 1914.

I believe God allowed that war to break something in his people. An evil stronghold needed to be broken in them, it was a twisted love of the world. A lust for human government, for wealth, and for power. It was a Christian cooperation with the principalities and powers in the kingdom of darkness and it resulted in unspeakable suffering, 22 million deaths, and widespread famine. In a part of the world that was normally quite prosperous.

That is what Christians do when we go after government, to supply us power and money, we join Satan’s kingdom of darkness. We cooperate with and we submit to him. Even to the point killing our brethren for an deceptively evil idea of personal ‘glory’.

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