Satan has a firm grip, and his slave won’t listen to God. This cycle repeats unless God breaks it. However, we must cooperate with God.
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Satan has a firm grip, and his slave won’t listen to God. This cycle repeats unless God breaks it. However, we must cooperate with God.
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Some people refuse to listen to God. They refuse to acknowledge Him, glorify Him, and thank Him for His flowing wisdom and guidance in their lives. God turns them over to their fallen minds. They didn’t want the Light, so God begins to withdraw His Light from them.
Those who refuse to listen to God descend into darkness in a downward spiral. They won’t listen to God’s leading, which makes them more faithless. With less faith, the flesh takes control and acts on whatever it wants to do. By submitting to the fleshly nature in this way, those who won’t submit to Christ’s leading are submitting to Satan instead of Christ. As they submit to Satan, Satan is sowing his seeds in their minds. Satan’s seeds are lies. These lies bring them into stronger chains of slavery to sin and the sinful nature. The sinful nature is stronger then. The lies become strongholds. The corrupt human mind is worse than before and more resistant to God’s leading.
Here’s the downward spiral. First, someone won’t listen to God. That means you have less faith. With less faith, the flesh does what it wants and obeys Satan. Satan plants his seeds, and they grow and bear evil fruit. The seeds take hold and become strongholds. The person is more in bondage and less willing to listen to God. And so, the cycle repeats. Here is the downward spiral from Scripture.
Step #1 They Won’t Listen to God
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you ~ Hosea 4:6a Berean Study Bible
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. ~ Romans 1:28 Berean Study Bible
For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. Therefore take heed how you hear. ~ Luke 8:17-18a Berean Study Bible
Step #2 They Become More Faithless
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God ~ Hebrews 3:12 New King James Version
Step #3 The Flesh Acts
And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”. ~ Mark 7:20-23 New King James Version
Step #4 They Sow Satan’s Weeds
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. ~ Galatians 6:7-9 New King James Version
Step #5 They Become More Enslaved to Sin
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery. ~ Galatians 5:1 Berean Study Bible
That’s the downward spiral. It all starts with not listening to God. Without listening to God, there is no faith. Without faith, the flesh obeys Satan, and Satan plant’s his seeds. Those seeds become strongholds that bring slavery. Satan has a firm grip, and his slave won’t listen to God. This cycle repeats unless God breaks it. However, we must cooperate with God.
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Coming soon: A series of sessions with roleplaying exercises to learn question-based conversational apologetics.
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