Ibilisi ndiye Mungu wa ulimwengu na ameidanganya ulimwengu wote na uwongo wake. Ni wale tu ambao, who by faith in Jesus Christ and the truth of God are born again in Christ and transferred from the darkness into the light, shall not believe and fall for his lies. Angalau, Ndivyo inavyopaswa kuwa. Hata hivyo, the devil remains a deceiver and in every age he opens his bag full of tricks and with a little tweaking succeeds in deceiving Christians with his lies. He has many ways, but three of them are the most successful. Nini 3 ways does the devil use to deceive Christians and make them bow to sin?
The devil leads Christians from the Spirit to the flesh
The devil has one goal and that’s to bring Christians from the Spirit to the flesh.
As long as Christians, who are a uumbaji mpya katika Kristo, obey the words of God they walk by faith.
Hata hivyo, as soon as they leave and disobey the words of God and rely on their flesh (hisia zao, own insight, maarifa, Uelewa, uzoefu, and worldly wisdom) they no longer walk by faith but by sight and left the faith.
They no longer act by faith from the Spirit according to what God said and is written in the Bible.
But they act in unbelief from the flesh according to what the world and the human intellect say, and what they see, Kusikia, and feel.
As soon as people act from the flesh and walk after the flesh, watadanganyika. They shall succumb and give into sin and tolerate and accept sin, na kwa hivyo, bow to sin
The devil uses family ties
As written in a previous blog, ‘Kwa njia ya lango gani adui huingia katika nyumba ya Mungu?‘ the devil uses family members to put Christians under pressure and cause them to leave the words and commandments of God and disobey God and bow to sin.
Christians can oppose lying, kuiba, ibada ya sanamu, uzinzi, uasherati, talaka, kuishi pamoja bila kuoana, ushoga, utoaji mimba, na kadhalika. but when their father, mama, Dada, Ndugu, (Grand)son or (Grand)daughter commits these things, will they still stick to their conviction?
The devil highlights sin from another angle
Another tactic that the devil uses to justify sin and cause Christians to bow to sin, is to highlight sin from another angle. This tactic of the devil worked with Eve to tempt her and Adam to sin. And this tactic still works.
God forbade man to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. When the devil approached man, he already knew what God said to man, Hata hivyo, he still asked a question wherein he twisted the words of God.
Eve listened to the voice of the serpent and started talking with the serpent.
Eva told the serpent what God said.
She highlighted the commandment regarding the prohibition of eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil from God and His word and viewpoint.
The devil highlighted the reason for the commandment from another viewpoint; his viewpoint. Alisema, that God didn’t want them to eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, because they would be like God, which was only partially true.
Who did Eve believe? From God’s viewpoint eating the fruit was wrong and led to death, Hata hivyo, from the devil’s viewpoint eating the fruit was not wrong and didn’t lead to death as God said, but led to becoming as God, Kujua mema na mabaya.
God said that man would die, but the devil said that man would be as God
God said that they would die, but the devil said, that they would not die, but be as God.
Mara ya kwanza, Eve considered the fruit as evil and forbidden. She obeyed God’s commandment and stayed away from the fruit until the serpent approached her and highlighted the forbidden fruit from a different angle.
Ghafla, the fruit didn’t look so evil anymore. Through the deceptive words of the devil the fruit looked desirable and good to eat.
Man knew that the death abode in the fruit and that eating of the fruit led to death, but man believed the deceptive lying words of the devil and picked the fruit from the tree and ate of the forbidden fruit.
Man believed the lie of the devil and bowed to sin with all its consequences
The devil convinced man with his words. Man believed the lie of the devil and obeyed his words and bowed to sin, whereby they indeed became as God in the sense of knowing good and evil. Hata hivyo, the price they paid was high.
Because man had not become what man thought he would become. Eating the forbidden fruit was maybe a temporary pleasure, but the consequences were catastrophic and didn’t deliver the expected result.
The temporary pleasure soon changed into shame, hofu, uchafu, separation from God and the realization of losing eternal life.
By faith in the lie of the devil and the disobedience to the words of God, and enjoying the forbidden fruit, the connection with God broke, man fell from his position and lost his dominion, kifo kiliingia, whereby the spirit of man died and came under the authority of death and at the appointed time the death would get man and bring man to his kingdom; the kingdom of the dead.
The seed of man was no longer holy but corrupt, whereby the fruit of man carried the death.
To restore this misstep and act of disobedience, ya Seed of the woman, Yesu, came and defeated the devil, dhambi, na kifo, and restored the fallen state, and changed the corruption of man to a complete perfect man through the birth of the new man in Him.
The Word and the Holy Spirit highlight the truth from God and testify of sin, Haki, na hukumu
The Word and the Holy Spirit, Who abides in the new creation, highlights the words and commandments from God, Muumbaji wa mbingu na dunia na yote yaliyo ndani, and testify of God’s holiness and reprove the world of sin, righteousness and of judgment.
They testify with the resurrected spirit of the born again believer of God’s truth, na kwamba kufanya mapenzi ya Mungu, and obeying His words lead to eternal life, but that disobedience to God and His Word and doing the works of the flesh are evil and lead to death.
Hata hivyo, the devil is the adversy of God and he highlights the words and commandments of God from his viewpoint, maarifa na hekima (the wisdom and knowledge of the world and the carnal man), and from the carnal mind, the senses and feelings, whereby people look at God’s words and commandments from a carnal viewpoint (a worldly viewpoint) and as a result don’t believe but reject God’s words and commandments and believe the lies of the devil instead and accept and tolerate sin.
This highlighting is done by the devil in many ways: through people, Akili, knowledge and wisdom of the world, (kijamii)vyombo vya habari, and other channels of the world.
Ibilisi huja kama malaika wa nuru
The devil also comes as an angel of light, and through the false teachings of his servants or through a word (unabii), dream or vision, tries to seduce Christians to view sin from a different angle (from man’s point of view and the flesh instead of God and the Spirit) and cause them to justify sin and consider sin as normal, while thinking it’s from God. (Oh. 2 Wakorintho 11:13-15; 1 Yohana 3:7-10; 2 Yohana 1:7-11)
God never opposes His Word
But God shall never oppose His Word. Words coming from ‘the Spirit’ that contradict the Bible should not be believed, lakini kukataliwa. Baada ya yote, Jesus says that the Word He spoke shall judge everyone.
The Word is the truth and stands forever. Therefore the Bible is trustworthy and should be believed above the words, unabii, Maono, mafunuo, and dreams that oppose the words in the Bible.
The sinner playing the victim
Na mwisho lakini sio mdogo, we have the sinner playing the victim to condone sin. This tactic still works, not only in Christianity but also in the world. Just play the victim and you get what you want and push your agenda. How does this work in the church?
The devil sends a spirit of self-pity that ensures that the person, Ambaye huvumilia dhambi, feel victimized and plays the victim.
Mtu huyo, who lives in sin, tells an emotional story full of self-pity and tears and come up with all kinds of excuses to exonerate himself and gain understanding for the sin.
This way the person pulls on the feelings and emotions of fellow Christians (pamoja na viongozi wa kanisa).
Na hivyo, the devil takes them in.
Now it’s all about whether the fellow Christians are born again and spiritual people or unregenerate and carnal people.
If fellow Christians are spiritual people, they are led by the Word and the Holy Spirit and obey and keep the words of God. They keep doing God’s will despite the resistance, kukosoa, persecution or the walking away or losing of people.
If fellow Christians are carnal people (natural people) they shall be led by the world and the flesh (especially their senses and feelings (what they see, Kusikia, and feel)) and feel sorry for the person and sympathize and compromise and tolerate the sin of the person and embrace the sin in the church.
Hata hivyo, there is no excuse for someone to sin and keep sinning.
Examples of excuses that are used to condone and justify sin are:
Some examples of the many excuses that are used to condone and justify sin are::
- Single Christians have their sexual needs. Therefore they are allowed to Tazama porn and masturbate.
- Christian males may watch porn, punyeto and commit fornication, because according to science, men have more sexual needs and lust that must be satisfied.
- Christians may divorce when their marriage is on a rocky road and they are unhappy. It’s certainly not God’s will that a Christian suffers and goes through rough periods in marriage.
- What is so evil about he being together with a man? He can’t help it, he is born that way
- Children are allowed to rebel and stand against their parents, because they should have their own voice in the home, and when they become older it’s normal, because they go through kubalehe.
- Little children are allowed to lie, kuiba, and push or hit others, they are just children.
- What is wrong with utoaji mimba? You don’t want (mchanga) people to throw away their future, don’t you? You don’t want people to have an undesired child that they are not ready for, or doesn’t fit in their lives, or remind them of…, don’t you? au…?
God is not pleased with people, ambao wanaishi katika uasi na kutotii kwake
Christians can be led by their feelings and condone sin by sympathizing the sinners, but God doesn’t.
Many Christians have created an image of Jesus being a good holy man, who embraces everyone and tolerates all behavior and condones sin and gives what Christians ask Him for. But have these Christians ever studied the Bible themselves?
Have they studied the four gospels and the Book of Revelation? Or have they created their image of Jesus by hear say; by reading books, seeing movies and series about Jesus, and hearing the modern preaching that is full of own opinions, matokeo, mafundisho ya uwongo na occult elements?
I think that many people, who call themseves Christians, don’t have a clear understanding of Who God is and the serioousness of sin.
Through the redemptive work, Jesus dealt with the sinful flesh, who bears the fruit of death, ambayo ni dhambi
Jesus suffered and died to deal with the sinful flesh of man that carries the death and bears the fruit of death, ambayo ni dhambi, and not to justify sin.
Jesus broke the power of sin and death and gave the power to every born again believer, who is born of God, to reign over sin and death and to say ‘no’ to the will, tamaa na tamaa ya mwili, if the believer wants to. Because that’s what it’s all about; the will of the believer.
Does the believer truly wants to get rid of his rebellion and disobedience to God and put off the unclean works of the flesh or does the believer want to keep doing the works of the flesh and keep coming up and using all kinds of excuses to keep the flesh alive and keep sinning, because the person loves the world and the works of the flesh?
The old creation does the wil and works of the flesh and lives in sin, but the new creation does the will and works of the Spirit and lives in righteousness
As long as people remain the old creation, they shall do the will of the corrupt flesh and bear the fruit of the flesh which is sin. Obeying the words and keeping the commandments of Jesus in the Bible shall be difficult and hard, because their nature wants to do something else.
But if people have become a new creation, they shall do the will of God and obey the Word and the Spirit. They shall live from their new nature and view the words and commandments of Jesus from God through the Spirit and obey them. Not because they have to, but because their new nature wants to.
‘Kuweni chumvi ya dunia’
