The Main Evil Spirit

Against Churches In Boise

QUESTION: What is the main evil spirit seeking control of Jesus’ churches in Boise, Idaho?

ANSWER: Haughty Spirit (Proud and Haughty Spirit)

Proverbs 21:24, 16:18, 18:12, 6:17, 2 Timothy 6:3-5, Isaiah 3:16, Titus 3:8-9

Every city in America has its own specialized assignment of devils from Satan. Every country has them, too. However, only God judges the hearts of the people and decides whether He will use a city or nation for Jesus’ kingdom.

This evil Haughty spirit against mankind has a purpose to persuade Christians to take lightly or rebel against obedience to Jesus’ way of living while “simultaneously” pursuing study of the Holy Bible and dedication to scholarship of the Bible. In puffed up arrogance about Bible knowledge, the spirit “blinds” preachers and others from seeing what really matters to the Lord even while reading and studying about Him.

Signs of a proud and haughty Spirit

Instead of cheerful and trembling obedience (Isaiah 66:1-2), a proud and haughty spirit dissects the Bible to invent one’s own ideas about righteousness.

The Haughty Spirit — expresses himself (or herself) with either scorning others, intentional humiliating others, gainsaying, debating about intelligence, or arguing over dots, i’s, syllables, and etymologies of the Holy Scriptures.

What follows is the effect that Satan wants on the surrounding community and an effect that Jesus warned against in His New Testament. Our motives begin to blend with sinners’ desire for acceptance by the churches and sinners blend with us as being acceptable in their sin condition because all focus is upon studying the Bible like it’s a college textbook. That makes us proud and haughty about our behavior of Bible Study while, often, offending the Lord during worship, praise and church events.

While we continue to tell people that they need to come to Christ, Jesus is being reduced to mere scholarly subject matter and even sinners are welcome to offer authoritative rebuttal on Bible passages!

Satan’s work of getting Christians to focus on dissecting the words of God as an academic textbook has been a very successful work. For so much of the current church world, Satan has revived the spiritual environment that Jesus was born into. One aspect of that world was a religious elite ruling their brethren by their self-approved “higher educated knowledge of the religious laws” — the scriptures. Today, we have reinvented the same elitist class of religious scholars that Jesus came to undo!

The Scriptures say that Jesus was born as a root out of a dry ground (Isaiah 53). The spiritual atmosphere He was born into was dry — no “life” of God and no life with God was produced by those in charge of instructing how to worship God. They could not produce life because they were focusing on academics of the Jewish Scriptures — knowing the book.

They were so proud and haughty in spirit that they, angrily, blurted out concerning Jesus (God in flesh) — how does this man know these things since he has not studied letters? John 7:15

John 7:14-16

14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

Common man’s talk would be — Jesus hasn’t been to divinity college (acquiring letters like M.Div, D.Th.) and received a formal degree conferred by us as having proper knowledge and interpretaion of the Scriptures to be authorized to speak to the people on them.

The religious leaders around Jesus were more interested in Jesus’ knowledge than in His godly way of living and His teaching us how to live godly. They were preoccupied with book-learning and scholarship and not with humble pursuit of knowing JESUS and what He was saying to them about their own lives so they could change!

Contrastingly, when Jesus chose His disciples, He chose the opposite — men and women who were NOT taught to dissect the holy Scriptures as if they were common textbooks for scholarship. In our day this dissecting is termed theological and biblical hermeneutics, eschatology, and theology.

Those who were used by Jesus to save our souls from Satan’s power and eternal damnation were ignorant men — unlearned –not formally trained in the dots, and i’s of the current languages and texts. They were just people — people humbly admitting their need to know right from wrong in pleasing God.

They were just people wanting to get right with God — and that is who Jesus always comes to. That is “always” the focus Jesus is speaking from.

Whenever we Christians (or Non-Christians) find ourselves reading Scripture to dissect it historically or on its face words instead of reading to learn “what is Jesus pointing out to me about myself for me to get right with Him”, we have become just what the Scriptures say — “knowledge puffeth up” — which means we have become of a Haughty Spirit.

Christians don’t notice becoming of the same spirit that the religious leaders who crucified Jesus were of. Their attitude was …

We refuse to follow your commands Jesus because our interpretation of Scripture is superior to yours and, therefore, contradicts much that you infer. Yes, they thought Jesus was merely inferring things from scripture — having His own interpretation as equal as theirs. They rejected Him as THE authority on Scripture — by being God in flesh — Jesus IS the Holy Scriptures.

It’s difficult to believe we are like that. However, a Haughty Spirit seeks to control all Jesus’ churches with that same heart. It works for Satan to persuade us to exalt knowledge about the Bible instead of living the Bible Jesus who is the Bible.

2 Timothy 6:3-5, Isaiah 3:16

Christian hearts can be moved in Boise by Satan’s proud and haughty spirit. This is observed by God’s dealings through Timothy and Titus. Christ commanded them to shut down haughty Christians in their practice of debate over the Scriptures.

The practice of debate was an effort to avoid obeying Timothy’s authority from the Lord to teach them how to live pleasing to the Lord. It is the same motive in many Christians today. Rather than submit to preachers proclaiming godliness, many Christians in Boise, the Treasure Valley, and throughout America will try to debate against godly preachers with gainsaying over Bible topics and their own dissecting of its words. This is because much attention and time is spent on studying the Bible to become “skilled in the Bible”. Satan knows the Bible and is masterfully skilled in dissecting it against the life of Jesus Christ.

Both Timothy and Titus rebuked those Christians  — to focus them upon learning to live pleasing to God instead of boasting and debating over their knowledge of the Scriptures. They were to keep their minds on things that reflect Jesus’ heart as revealed in His Gospels and the preaching-letters from His apostles. Many ideas that Christians were beginning to talk about came from their own pride and haughtiness in studying the Scriptures. That is the same today. Doctrines from the Devil are invented by nit-picking on our favorited topics, dissecting the words of the Bible, and having no respect for those actually sent by Jesus to warn and correct you — 1 Timothy 6:3-5.

1 Timothy 6:3-5

³ If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

⁴ He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

⁵ Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

Proof that we have come to elevate scholarly research of Bible words over simple godly living through Jesus Christ will happen if you read the above statement from Timothy or the below statement from Titus and immediately start disecting it! Example:

“That’s out of context. He isn’t speaking about godly living. He’s speaking specifically about how to treat an employer OR he isn’t speaking about godly living, he’s speaking specifically about discussing Jewish laws”.

A person who is still as humble as when he or she first escaped the wrath of God that was hanging on their life will instantly think when they read any Scripture — “what is Jesus saying to me about MYSELF and how to please Him?”

That thought was the only motive, originally, in your heart every time you read or studied your Bible. What happened? Jesus calls it “you have lost your first love” (the original humble love you had for Him) — Revelation 2:4.

Satan is after you to destroy that original, humble motive from your heart when you read or study the Bible. He replaces that heart with haughty debate over knowledge about the Bible in Boise, Idaho. It is sin (intellectual sin) to treat the Bible as a subject of intellectual debate.

Titus 3:8-9

⁸ This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

⁹ But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Final Perspective for October

Why is the Haughty Spirit the main evil spirit Satan uses to gain power over Jesus’ churches in Boise?

Answer:

When time is being occupied with admiration of ourselves debating or dissecting the Bible, Satan distracts us from being occupied with fearing to obey Christ’s royal law and His kingdom ways of living, so we fail to be lighting up only JESUS in the way we live in Boise. Thus, we focus on dead doctrines and Satan wins souls to destroy them … even while they are in church.

Most of you got the answer right for the October Poll Question. Fifty percent clicked “Haughty Spirit”. The remaining votes were divided  25% and 25% for the Spirit of Bondage that stops Christians from preaching Jesus’ ways with meekness and wisdom, the or Spirit of Infirmity that causes rampant sickness and diseases among those who follow Jesus Christ. Those evil spirits are certainly here in Boise, but realize that having a haughty spirit will bring all the others and their troubles with them into your life. A spirit of whoredom longs to do things disloyal to God, yet wants to make you attractive, wanted and approved (fit in) by the sinners in our communities, subdivisions, and neighborhoods throughout Boise and  the Treasure Valley. That course, naturally, starts from a haughty spirit.

This is why the Haughty Spirit is the main evil spirit seeking control of all Jesus’ churches in Boise/Treasure Valley.

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