Never Consent to Evil

There will be a name change of the channel within a week, Lord willing. I feel I am overlooked simply by name though its meaning holds significance. I believe "Truth'sUnderFire" would be much more suitable. Hopefully, this won't affect those searching by the old name. I will give it time so maybe this post will be seen. I will be stepping away for the weekend from being online. I have some studies in the works and quite the post that will bring it all together but I need some time alone with God for it to spark. Lord willing. Take care and God bless!

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Never Consent to Evil

Most don’t get it. They never will. Not until the veil is torn from their eyes and correction comes on white horses. And by then, its not gonna be pretty.

The world operates in deception. Every system, every ideology, every seemingly "neutral" influence - it’s all driven by something deeper, something most refuse to acknowledge: spiritual warfare. People, even self-proclaimed "believers," unknowingly (or worse, knowingly) align themselves with powers they don’t understand. And in doing so, they become the warfare itself.

It doesn’t matter if they mean to or not. Ignorance isn’t necessarily innocence. Rebellion is rebellion, whether dressed in religiosity or secular pride. However. The spirits driving them don’t care about intent - only allegiance. Demons, principalities, rulers of darkness - they puppet the world. That’s why deception is in everything. Every institution. Every trend. Every "truth" paraded as absolute.

You’ll hear it called paranoia. Cynicism. Delusion. But if you’ve seen the unseen, if the Spirit has ripped the blindfold off your eyes, you know. This isn’t theory. It’s not metaphor. It’s the raw, unflinching reality of a fallen world at war with its Creator.

And believe me - you don’t want this knowledge. It’s a burden. A great and mighty travail. Dare I say, a curse of clarity in a world drunk on lies. But once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

So what do we do? We hold fast. We fix our eyes on the promise of God and nothing else. You trust Him and the PROMISE TO COME when the flesh screams otherwise. You stand when everything in you wants to fold. And if all you can do today is show up - then show up. Come what may.

This fight isn’t against people. It never was. It’s against the forces behind them. And victory was promised long before the battle began.

Keep the faith. No matter what. Thats Key, and every door in unlocked. It's a power the world cannot receive untill every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Christ is LORD!

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Never Consent to Evil

Beloved, the Word tells us in Romans 8:37 that we are "more than conquerors through Him who loved us." Conquerors don’t simply endure - they DOMINATE! The enemy may whisper defeat, sickness may weigh on the body, and circumstances may scream despair, but faith in God shifts reality. Hebrews 11:1 reminds us that faith is the substance of things hoped for - the very foundation of victory before it manifests.

Think of Job - stripped of everything, sitting in ashes, yet he declared: "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" (Job 13:15). His faith wasn’t rooted in his pain but in the sovereignty of God. And what happened? Double restoration! (Job 42:10).

David, surrounded by enemies, facing betrayal and wars, still wrote: "I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth" (Psalm 34:1). Not after the battle - in the midst of it. Why? Because faith understands that God’s power is activated in praise (2 Chronicles 20:22).

And don’t forget Paul and Silas - beaten, chained, yet at midnight (the darkest hour) they sang - and the prison doors swung open (Acts 16:25-26). Your faith-fueled worship is a weapon that shakes the foundations of hell!

So yes, the pain is real. The struggle is real. But greater is He that is in you than any force against you (1 John 4:4). Faith doesn’t ignore the battle - it engages it with the assurance that God cannot fail. Stand firm. Declare His Word. Praise Him! Your breakthrough isn’t coming - it’s already here in the spirit. To be revealed from heaven! (1 Peter 1:4-5)

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Never Consent to Evil

Heads bowed, hearts heavy. We read the command: “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11). And we feel the weight of impossible perfection. We try, we fail, we confess, and we feel the chasm between our desire and our reality. But beloved, what if we’ve misunderstood the battlefield?

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit! Ephesians 4:30

When Jesus spoke those words to the woman caught in adultery, He was not issuing a behavioral modification program. He was unveiling a cosmological reality. He was pointing her - and us - to the source of the problem: the flesh.

The Apostle Paul, by the Spirit, tears back the curtain on this: “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells” (Romans 7:18). Did you catch that? In my flesh, nothing good dwells. The flesh is not just the body; it is the entire Adamic nature - the self-centered, self-glorifying, God-rejecting operating system we inherited from the Fall.

It is intrinsically sinful. It cannot be reformed, only crucified.

This is the pivotal divide: The Spirit does not sin; the flesh IS sin.

Our call, therefore, is not to white-knuckle our way into sinless perfection (a task of the flesh, for the flesh!), but to actively, daily, choose which nature we will empower and live from. Will we walk according to the Spirit, or according to the flesh? (Galatians 5:16).

This begins with what Proverbs 8:13 declares: “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil.” True knowledge, the beginning of wisdom, is not just intellectual assent to theology; it is a holy revulsion for the evil that dwells within our own members. It is to hate the sin that so easily entangles us because it is of the flesh and opposes the Spirit of God within us.

So, do we hate our flesh? Do we crucify it?
Paul leaves no room for ambiguity: “Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires” (Galatians 5:24). This is not a one-time event at conversion, but a continual, present-tense reality. We nail it to the cross every day. We put to death the deeds of the body by the Spirit (Romans 8:13). We starve it of its cravings - the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16).

The great danger, the lukewarm state that makes the Lord spit us out of His mouth (Revelation 3:16), is the attempt to live in both kingdoms. It is to claim the Spirit on Sunday while feeding the flesh from Monday to Saturday.

Matthew 6:24 - No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

This lukewarm state is to take the glory that belongs to God alone - His victory, His righteousness, His transformative power - and attribute it to our own fleshly efforts. “Look at my morality! Look at my discipline!” This is taking God’s glory and clothing our flesh in it. This is iniquity - a perversion of truth, a life built on a distorted foundation.

This is the self righteous pharisee...

But be encouraged! This is not a call to despair, but to liberation. The command to “sin no more” is an invitation to finally stop trying to fix the unfixable (the flesh) and to start living from the new, perfect, and eternal life within you - the Spirit of Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

This is to sin no more, repentance from unbelief to belief in Christ dying for us!

You are not a sinner trying to become a saint. In Christ, you are a saint (a holy one) who sometimes sins, but who is being led by the Spirit out of the old realm of death and into the newness of life.

Today, acknowledge the flesh for what it is: a dead man walking. Agree with God that it is wretched (Romans 7:24). And then, by faith, put it back on the cross. Turn your focus away from managing sin and toward walking in the Spirit. He will lead you. He will produce in you what you cannot produce in yourself: love, joy, peace, patience… against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22-23).

You are free to live from the Vine. Abide in Him.

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Never Consent to Evil

This is for those who suffer. Your soul a canyon of ache. Perhaps you're tired of this world, this life and your circumstances.

Battling demons of despair, anxiety, chronic illness, or grief so profound it feels like a betrayal to even try to be "joyful" at times. Its understandable, this world... Is a pit of darkness so far spread its unavoidable.

Maybe you have tried a church, talking it out and laying it all down but if you're anything like me, I'd say that didn't go well?

In today's world, anymore the church is a cherry picked marshmallow doctrine of "live your best life", "be happy", "everything will be okay" .... A false hope, a false image of life.

The world, and sadly, much of the modern church that has conformed to it, preaches a gospel of prosperity. And if not that, a condemning wolf doctrine of "do better".

A gospel of smiling faces, proud looks, triumphant declarations, and a push for a happiness that is as thin as paper. It has no vocabulary for the language of lament.

It has no room for the limping, the wounded, the ones who, like Jacob, walk with a permanent injury from a long night of wrestling with God.

But listen closely, dear outcast. The Kingdom of God was built for you.

Jesus didn't say, "Come to me, all you who have it all together." He said, "Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28) His inner circle wasn't the religious elite with their pristine robes; it was fishermen, tax collectors (the traitors of their day), zealots, and a woman with a history of five broken marriages.

He was "a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem." (Isaiah 53:3)

The world throws stones. It places burdens too heavy to carry. And when a church becomes worldly, it does the same. It trades the costly grace of the cross for the cheap currency of cliches. It forgets the core command: "Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ." (Galatians 6:2)

The law of Christ is not a law of performative happiness; it is the law of sacrificial love. To the church that has forgotten: We have sanitized the gospel. We have created a culture where authenticity is a liability. We have welcomed the "presentable" and shunned the "messy," forgetting that we are all beggars who have simply found bread.

The true body of Christ is not a museum for saints; it is a hospital for sinners. And in a hospital, you don't hide your wound. You show them to the physician and to those He has appointed as nurses.

To my fellow wounded warriors: Your deep struggle does not mean you lack faith. It means your faith is being refined in the fire. You are in the company of the Psalmists who screamed, "How long, O Lord?"

You walk with Jeremiah, the "weeping prophet." You share in the fellowship of Christ's sufferings (Philippians 3:10), and that is a sacred, if painful, place to be.

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." (Psalm 34:18)

He is not distant from your pain; He is near to it. His power is "made perfect in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9) Your feeling of being an outcast from a comfortable, worldly system may just be the greatest evidence that you are, in fact, not of it.

You are a citizen of a different Kingdom - one that recognizes the crown of thorns before the crown of glory.

You are not alone. You are not a project. You are a person, deeply loved by a God who entered into the deepest pain to bring the deepest healing. Hold on. There are still corners of His body where the wounded are welcomed. Seek them out. Be one for someone else. And may we all learn to weep with those who weep.

And if you do not know Christ, may you come to Him in repentance - from unbelief to belief and may He comfort your soul.

I was going to end this here with an amen, but I believe there is more to say:

So if you’re reading this, and you’re hurting - you are not disqualified.

If you’re different - you are not disposable.

If the world judges you, and even the church avoids you - Christ runs toward you.

The religious leaders of Jesus’ day were obsessed with appearances. Clean hands, long prayers, public piety. But Jesus called them “whitewashed tombs” - beautiful on the outside through worldly deception but full of death within. (Matthew 23:27)

Worldly Christianity - flashy, feel-good, performance-based - has nothing to do with Christ.

Real Christianity is costly. It’s cross-shaped. It’s marked by tears, sacrifice, and deep dependence on grace.

So to the hurting, the weary, the misunderstood - you are seen.

You are not alone.

You are the ones Jesus was sent to heal.
And one day - one glorious day - He will wipe every tear from your eyes. (Revelation 21:4)

This is the real - true hope...

Until then, know this:
The true Church isn’t a building, a program, or a perfect image.

It’s you - the broken, the beloved, the called-out ones - living stones in His eternal Kingdom.

Grace, peace and mercy to you, my friend. Hold on to God, for He will never leave nor forsake you.

Amen.

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A biblical response to the common interpretation of Luke 17:34 ("Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left."). I challenge the popular "rapture" theory but present a deep biblical perspective on sanctification and the old vs. new man. This post goes with many, I urge you, if led to search the matter out.

Many assume this verse refers to the rapture, which it does, however. Its also something far richer - this is about the two natures in one man!

1. The Carnal Man vs. The Spiritual Man

Scripture repeatedly speaks of two men within a believer: the old man (fallen flesh) and the new man (born of the Spirit). Romans 7:21-23 says, ‘I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.’ Paul isn’t talking about two physical men but two natures at war in one person!

2. The ‘One Taken, One Left’ Principle

In Matthew 24:40-41, Jesus reiterates this: one taken, one left. The Greek word for ‘taken’ (paralambanō) means ‘received to oneself’ - like Enoch, who was taken by God (Genesis 5:24). The one left? The old nature, which must be put off (Ephesians 4:22).

3. ‘One Bed’ – Intimacy of the Struggle

Why ‘one bed’? Because this is not about two separate people! A bed symbolizes rest, intimacy, and inward struggle. The carnality in us ‘sleeps’ (1 Thessalonians 5:6), but the spiritual man awakens (Romans 13:11-14). The ‘taken’ man is the renewed spirit, caught up into Christ (Colossians 3:1-3); the ‘left’ is the flesh, judged (Galatians 5:24).

4. Biblical Precedent

Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25:23): One chosen, one rejected—in the same womb!

Saul and David (1 Samuel 16:14): The Spirit departed Saul (left), but anointed David (taken).

Romans 8:13: ‘If you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.’

This isn’t just about escaping tribulation, expecially not pre man of sin.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 - Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

---- it’s also about daily crucifixion (Luke 9:23)

5. The Final Proof: The Upper Room

Jesus washed His disciples’ feet (John 13:10): ‘You are clean, but not all.’ Judas was in the room but not of the Spirit - just like the ‘old man’ can dwell in a believer yet be left when Christ takes the new creation.

So then perhaps - God is taking (sanctifying) the spiritual man now and leaving (judging) the carnal nature. ‘Awake to righteousness, and sin not!’ (1 Corinthians 15:34).

1 John 2:1 - My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Romans 3:21-24 - But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus

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The secret place - it’s not the same for everyone. Some find it in prayer, others in service, some in silence. However. Mark this - pray for these artists of faith, these performers of devotion. Many are tested, and too often, deception lurks unseen. Not always by malice, but by the frailty of human hearts.

The secret place is the Revelation 12 escape. Through the great tribulation that has been since the beginning. That... is quite the statement in today's world. Unheard of. Almost.

It is the wings of the Almighty:
Search: Isaiah 40:31
Psalms 17:8 
Revelation 12:14 
Psalms 91:4 
Ruth 2:12 
Exodus 25:20 
Isaiah 6:2 
Zechariah 5:9 
Luke 13:34 
Ezekiel 10:1-22 
Ezekiel 10:21 

It is the sealing between a man’s soul and his Maker. Some enter it with trembling, others with fire - but not all who claim are true. Some are wicked, and may they repent from their unbelief.

Pray for these artists, these poets of the Spirit, these singers of sacred things - Lord, let their hearts be sincere. For the flesh is weak, and deception creeps in like a shadow, even when a man means well.

We test the spirits - not out of malice, but wisdom! ‘Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God’ (1 John 4:1). And oh, how many falter beneath that gaze? How many fine words crumble when held to the flame?

But here’s the mercy: if a heart is true - if it beats for the good of others, if Christ lives within - then the flesh may fail, but the Spirit prevails. ‘For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart’ (1 Samuel 16:7).

And don’t you dare let some self-righteous voice hiss in your ear that your sin stains deeper than theirs! All have fallen. ‘For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it’ (James 2:10).

STONES DON'T BELONG IN THE CHURCH - not in the hands of Pharisees, not hurled at the trembling sinner crawling toward grace! It doesn't belong.

So... if you believe - genuinely believe - then stand firm. Let no man condemn you where God has pardoned. For the holiest place isn’t built of spotless deeds, but of broken vessels holding sacred flame.

May your heart be true. And may His love and grace be your peace in these troubling times.

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Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there is any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

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Let this be my testimony. A piece of it anyways... For years, 15 years to be precise I was a seeker, an often times vain one but nay, not only. A seeker of secrets. Of "conspiracies" that would become fact. Mysteries revealed and to be revealed.

I chased the truth and discovered the whispers in the Scriptures.

However, wanting complete understanding was unattainable outside of Christ himself.
I wanted to chart the unseen. Map the timeline of history.

Each answer I found only ever revealed a dozen more to seek out.

I was consumed with a hunger for knowledge, lacking the wisdom needed. I wanted to understand, to uncover all things. I wanted to strive. Away from others, hidden from attention. To understand the turning of the seasons, the hearts of men, and the governance of kingdoms. To discover the end. Believing that in knowledge lay the mastery of life itself. Yet, the more I learned, the heavier grew the burden upon my spirit. I mastered not this life, I failed it. I strived to the bottom of a hole. Trapped by my own working.

I went down every rabbit hole. I could wrongly debate anything until dawn. I felt… informed. I felt like I was holding a lamp in a dark world.

But the Preacher was right. Oh, how he was right. “For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.” (Ecclesiastes 1:18)

My lamp didn't illuminate the path home; it only illuminated the vastness of the darkness. Every 'truth' I uncovered showed me a deeper layer of deceit in the world. Every complex theological system I mastered revealed the hypocrisy in those who wouldn't, or couldn't, grasp it. My heart grew heavy. A deep resentment took root. I became a cynic, sharp and brittle, looking down from my self-made tower of 'understanding'. The more I 'knew'. The less I felt His love. The sorrow was an ocean, and I was drowning in it. Still do at times.

The crash wasn't sudden. It was a slow, weary collapse under the weight of it all. I finally understand. I had been striving to take the highest seat at the banquet, to be the one who could explain the host's every intention.

But the Lord, in His mercy and grace gently guided me to the lowest seat (Luke 14:10). The one with the simplest view.

The work of my adult life, undone in a moment of surrender. All intricate webs of knowledge, let go. The Apostle Paul, said it best: “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2)

That’s it. That is the beginning and the end. The true Jesus taught within the scriptures, the one that is rarely taught. Not the Gnostic Jesus, not the political Jesus, or the worldly one. No! Not the philosophical construct formed by opinions, views and misinterpretation but Christ. The Son of God. Crucified for me. For you. For all who would BELIEVE.

My work now is simpler. To discern the moment at hand. To love the person in front of me. To tend to the small patch of garden I’ve been given. To be faithful in the little things. It is to let the past, with all its frantic seeking, be washed away.

There is an unspeakable peace in this. A rest. A quietness of the soul I never found in all my libraries of 'truth'. I don't have all the answers anymore. And for the first time in a long time, that is a profound comfort. I am simply starting over, waiting on the Lord, and trusting that the only knowledge that truly saves is the knowledge of His love, demonstrated on a rough, wooden cross.

The rest is just noise to decipher and discern in humility. Grace, peace, mercy and love to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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