Church of God, Kansas City

Sermon by Rick Frazee: "Tools of Satan". Rick discusses the tools of Satan and how to combat them in a time of spiritual warfare.

Do you get more worked up when someone speaks ill of your candidate than when someone speaks ill of Christ? If you will suffer through a sitcom that repeatedly glorifies the things that God hates, but you quickly change the channel in frustration when a TV personality or famous athlete makes a disparaging remark about your candidate, it may be a sign that your affections are disordered.

Think about this one.

Pre-election non-partisan sermon I gave today: Does God always choose our government leaders?

THE PARABLE OF THE PARATROOPER

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? -- Psalm 11:3 Aren't we on the verge of this? The enemy has been eating away at all our foundations.... The cracks are getting larger, and a radical minority is ready to take a sledgehammer to the edifice. I can only suggest... "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 Can we, in prayer, pull down the spiritual strongholds of the enemy? Put them in fear? How did the demons react to Jesus? In fear! God's chosen have Christ within us, through the Spirit. The human minions of the evil spiritual empire can also be put to flight by the power of prayer in faith. We are not weak -- the Spirit of God is a spirit of power and a sound mind. Stay steady in prayer.

Excellent approach to culturally sensitive topic.

Some people wouldn't believe it even if Jesus Christ himself said it.

Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma. (James Crabtree)Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma. (James Crabtree)

Proverbs Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise - Proverbs 6:6... We live in rare age of the world, in which slothfulness has become, not only common, but even a goal for many. Young people grow accustomed to doing just enough work to "get by." Older folks look to their retirement as the end to all their problems. But the solution that Solomon gives us is this: go to the ants, you who wish to forsake work, and consider their ways in order to become wise. Go to the ant: be humble enough to learn, even from an ant. The ant has no guide or supervisor, no encouragement or accountability... and yet she is faithful to fulfill her duties day in and day out. Ants do not procrastinate; they do what they can, when they can. In contrast, we often do not do anything, because we can't do everything at once. The ant labors little-by-little to get each job accomplished, each need met, each provision made. In fact, she is so slow and methodical in her duties, many won't even have the patience to watch and consider her, as Solomon instructs us to. Both success and failure come little-by-little. Like a garden, it just takes a little neglect to grow a lot of trouble. A little neglect has cost teams their victory, people their lives, kings their power. What little thing can you do today to heal your marriage, help your children, draw closer to God? Learn from the ant, and do it now.

Dallas Willard had reportedly quipped that some people are "vampire Christians" -- they want Jesus only for his blood. Once they have salvation, they make Jesus... their cosmic lifeguard, not the Lord of their lives. "Vampire Christian" isn't so much an insult as it is a sad description of those who lack the depth of what it means to be "in Christ." (Quoted from SEEING JESUS FROM THE EAST: A FRESH LOOK AT HISTORY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURE. See more