Standing Against the Enemy

I feel for the Preachers/Pastors/Teachers who spend so much of their time standing against the Enemy. Unfortunately, the Enemy has a lot of help–and it’s hard to know which “helpers” are the greatest problem.

There are those “helpers” who deny the Gospel, promote a Godless, immoral lifestyle, and trap so many folks in unbelief. Life is focused on the here and now, the pleasures of sin, and the certainty that nothing exists beyond this life.

Then there are those “helpers” who talk a lot about the “gospel,” but it is a gospel of man-centered self-help that provides prosperity, health, happiness and the utilization of God as a cosmic buddy who supplies when we have desires. It is a message focused on the here and now, the pleasures of this world, and the certainty that God will never condemn men who are disobedient to His revealed Truth, but in mercy and grace will “take care” of the future.

I’m not sure which group is attracting more people into an eternity separated from God.