Shepherd • @thelandmark_ | Husband • @Sarah_Maher7 (IG) | Author • Discerning The Devil’s Playbook
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Outward activity does not equal inward productivity.
Just because there's motion on the outside does not mean there's life on the inside.
Jesus pierces through the noise.
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Our security is not in our holding on to Him, but in His holding on to us.
John 10:27-30
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If we’re walking with the Lamb, we can’t be speaking like a snake. What we say matters. Think twice before you speak, because your words carry weight.
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Discernment: when your eyesight comes into alignment with God's sight. That's what produces insight.
They don't let headlines or culture wars write the narrative. They look to the Book. What does God say?
Laodicea is the church that makes Jesus sick. And it is the most comfortable church in Revelation.
Here's what the seventh letter exposes in us. A thread:
"You say, 'I am rich'... but you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked." Revelation 3:17
Draw a line from you say to you are. That gap is where this church lived, and where many of us do.
The modern parallel of Balaamism is progressivism, where tolerance is disguised as truth.
Tolerance is the satanic counterfeit of repentance.
"Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth" (Revelation 2:16).
You can believe the Bible and still allow the world to interpret the way you see Scripture.
Many sincere Christians have been sincerely deceived.
So many people are for all, against Jesus Christ.
Better to be against all for Christ than with all against Christ.
"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you" (John 15:18).
A church that defends doctrine but forgets devotion is halfway to death.
It is not enough to be clear about Christ. We must also be close to Christ.
"Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love" (Revelation 2:4).
Your feelings aren't your identity. In Christ you're a new creation (2 Cor 5:17), and that settles it.
In Pergamos, the sick slept on the floor of Asclepius' temple so snakes could slither over them and pass along his "healing."
Trust the science, y'all.
His rod and serpent is now the World Health Organization's emblem. Same demons, repackaged.
Revelation 2:13
The modern parallel of Balaamism is progressivism, where tolerance is disguised as truth.
The end result: "Love is love." License to sin.
Legalism on one end, liberalism on the other. Both put something in Christ's place.
Jesus' answer to a compromising church is a sword.
"Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth." Revelation 2:16
It is better to be under the scalpel than the spear.
Pergamos was politically powerful, home to a 200,000-scroll library, and the first city in Asia to build a temple for Caesar worship.
Once a year you burned incense and said "Caesar is Lord." Christians refused. Their anthem was Jesus is Lord.