Ed Mabry (45:55)
Honestly, I'm gonna watch this for that, because when I first heard Bad Bunny, I have no idea. Like, my, I had never heard of the guy. You know, my, My sons know him, but know of him. But I'm like, whatever. I didn't care. And plus, I don't really care about either one of the teams in the Super Bowl. So I was. This was probably going to be the super bowl where I was gonna, you know, watch something else. I don't really care about either team, but I'm curious to see what's going to happen here. And that wasn't where I was going, but it's, it's not a bad segue because I'm interested to see what's going to happen because there's so much controversy around this person who, I swear, if you played one of his songs, I, I, if I heard a song on the radio, I would not know who this person is. So, so taking again, taking a step back is. That's why I want to set up the idea that what's really behind all of this, the release, like, why would they release this? Because they. We. I never thought we'd see anything. What is the methodology? What is the point of spiritual warfare? What, what do these entities want? What, what is their goal in making war against us? And it is, in big picture, it is to separate us from the will and the plan of God. That's what they really want. And so, so they want to. So if you want to put the goal of spiritual warfare into a nutshell, is to get us as far away from God's plan as possible. And how do you do that? You do that by making sure that we don't focus on God. If we don't focus on him, we can't be a part of his plan. And it requires cognition. See God, we have to choose God. In order to choose God, to choose his way, to choose to be a Christian, to choose to follow in the steps of Jesus and to grow and be discipled, you have to think. You can't not think and be a part of the kingdom. You cannot not think and be and get into the will of God. So that means that they want to get you in a place where you are not thinking. And when, where are you not thinking? When you are emotional, when you are overly emotional, you're not thinking anymore. You're irrational. So that's what they want to get us to. So here is something we're going to talk about a lot in the spiritual warfare class, about his main weapon, one of the main weapons. Because when people think of I'm under spiritual attack, they're thinking of something dramatic. Like you have a big financial reversal, you lose your job, you get some kind of devastating weather event happens, you get you sick, or something happens to your kids or, or something big dramatic. And those things do happen. And they are a part of spiritual warfare. They can be a spiritual attack, but they don't happen every day. What, what, what, what does happen every day? What is the best way to get you to not focus on God? Distraction. Distraction is the enemy's most subtle and most powerful weapon. Because we don't think of it as a spiritual attack. He wants us distracted. He wants us thinking about anything other than God. And the best distraction is an emotional reaction distraction because it keeps us, not only does it focus us away from God, it puts us in our emotions. And when you're in emotions, you're not thinking. And one of the best tools these days for that is social media. What does social media do? It get you emotional. What does your algorithm do? Your algorithm, whatever you, whatever your out, wherever your algorithm goes is to something to either make you. Because the two favorite emotions of these entities are rage and fear. What is everything in your social media feed making you mad or making you scared? That's what it's all about. So why are the Epstein files being released? What's our reaction to seeing this? If you are a normie, you are mad. You are angry. Look at what these people who we prop up, who we, who we worship as celebrities, who we believe are, you know, are our leaders who swore up and down. I'm not in those files. Epstein's a creep. And there you go. Yeah, now you're angry. Now for those of us who know more, we're not as angry. And you said this, you guys said this yourselves. You're not, you've been waiting for this, but you're not outraged. But what, what are you thinking about? What's next? Yeah, that's fair. So you're angry or you're fearful. Why are those two things being in those two areas so devastating for you spiritually? Because both of them are going to first of all lead you to sin and then lead you to something that's even worse and it's even more practical for the enemy. Let's look at what those two things are. Fear and rage. Fear is a form of faith, actually, because what is faith? Faith is believing something that hasn't happened yet. Now the faith that God wants is hope. Faith is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So the biblical faith is believing in a hope, a positive thing that hasn't happened yet. Fear is believing in a negative thing that hasn't happened yet. That's not where God wants you. If you, if you. Faith in God is always hope because we know how the story is going to end. So let's look really quickly at the first time. We can look at the first time both faith and rage are in the Bible. First time original sin. Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit. What do they do? They hear God walking in the garden, they get scared, they go hide. So they commit a sin. They react in fear. And what does God do? We're going to talk about this in the Genesis actually probably in the next episode of the Genesis series because they just did the one on the so called serpent, the nakash. And so in Genesis chapter three. And then God asks some questions. God confronts them to try to get them out of it. God doesn't judge them immediately. God says, adam, where are you? And Adam says, I was, I heard you Coming. And I was scared. Why did you eat of the fruit? Well, yeah, this was Adam's chance to be brave and get out of the fear and say. He could have said, yeah, God, I ate the forbidden fruit. You know, that was wrong. I shouldn't have done it. You know, my bad. What did he do instead? He says, I ate it, but it was because of her, the woman you gave me. He blamed God. He didn't answer God's question. He blamed God. That made things worse. What did he do? He refused to think. When, when you, when you ask someone a question and they don't answer it, they are stating that they're going to refuse to think. That's why. Whatever. You, and you see this all the time. When these political talking heads are on the air, you know, either a far left or far right, and someone will ask them a simple question. Like when that, when the, when that guy was killed in Minnesota at the, at the ice protest. I'm not getting into the good and bad of it, but after that, there was a lady from the nra. She was on like CNN or something, and one of them asked her a question. He said, okay, this guy had a license to carry. You're a Second Amendment person. He got killed. Do you think that that was right? She didn't answer the question. She wouldn't. He asked her again. She wouldn't answer the question. What was she doing? She was refusing to think. And we're going to get why that's so bad in just a second. Okay, so Adam and Eve refused to think, and fear brought them to that. So that's the refusal to think. Let's look at rage, because rage is the other part of this. What was the first time there was rage in the Bible? Cain. Yep. So Cain and Abel bring an offering to. To. To. To God, to Jehovah. God accepts Abel's offering. God doesn't have respect for Cain's offering. Cain gets pissed. He hasn't done anything wrong yet. He just got pissed. What does God do? God confronts him to get him out of the rage. He says, why are you mad? I'm paraphrasing, obviously. He says, kane, why are you mad right now? Sin is crouching at the door. He's right there. Sin is crouching at the door. What did Cain do? Cain could have said, okay, calm down. How can I make a better sacrifice? No, he went with his rage and he killed his brother. What happened after that? God confronts him again. God asked him a question. Where's your brother? He doesn't answer the Question. He says, am I my brother's keeper? He refused to think. He, he could have. He refused to think.
