“They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” (1 John 4:5-6).
The other day while listening to my intro feed on the radio broadcast, I was hearing another show host talking about what the bad guys were doing to the country. He was conveying to the American people the wicked deeds that are being committed against them by less than 1.7 percent of the population. He called them the “elites,” which he said, “ruled the world.”
Remember, the only people that can rule you are those to whom you submit yourself. Furthermore, nobody rules this world but the Living God (Isaiah 40:22; Jeremiah 32:27).
He was promoting their lawless deeds by highlighting their crimes, which is the fear of man that brings a snare (Proverbs 29:25). He wasn’t teaching the Scriptures where they teach us to to “Keep His commandments and live” (Proverbs 7:2). He wasn’t teaching from the Scriptures that we are “well able to overcome” (Numbers 13:30). Yet, he was professing to be a Christian when he is clearly not (Matthew 23:3).
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