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SACRIFICE
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, September 11, 2025 – Hidden away in the fine print of the contract that we didn’t sign is a clause about sudden death due to sacrifice. It’s not phrased that way, but the intent is the same. Before they sign on the dotted line, the initiates must agree to be terminated at anytime, with or without notice, with or without cause, in a manner that is deemed expedient to the Plan. Most who sign don’t read this clause, or if they do, don’t believe it will ever apply to them, much like people who get struck by lightning previously believed they’d never get struck by lightning. The sacrifice, when it happens, likewise comes out of the blue and nearly always without warning. Unexpectedness is crucial for enhancing the authenticity of the response to the ritual.
And a ritual it is. These events are timed according to specific dates with specific meaning, counted by days or years and connected by celestial arrangements to other specific dates with other specific meanings. The only variable in the ritual is who will be tapped for the sacrifice.
It’s not for nothing that they’re all married, the contract signees. Many of the marriages are adulterous or simply void in God’s eyes, but the contracts are still valid to the devil. In fact, one of the main reasons for legally expanding the definition of marriage to include unions that are adulterous or void in God’s eyes is to widen the pool of candidates. Even witches who marry their familiars can now sign.
I mention the contract of marriage because contracts are integral to doing business with the devil. Every agreement must be formally declared to be valid, and each signee is responsible for reading the fine print: Ignorance of the contract’s content is not a valid plea for mercy. You cannot avoid what you formally agreed to by claiming you didn’t know about it. The devil is a stickler for details as much as he’s a stickler for contracts, and he’s always at least three steps ahead of you, if you’ve signed on with him, and he knows every dot and tittle in your agreement. Of that you can be assured.
Sacrifice is not something that most of the signees signed up for. Wealth, yes, fame, certainly, protection from prosecution, absolutely – but sacrifice? It’s not high up on their list, though it is for the devil. Each signee is groomed for a specific sacrificial role. Whether or not they’ll be sacrificed is irrelevant: They’re groomed to be. It’s the whole purpose of their success trajectory. Where the signees see achievements measured in wealth, fame, career success, and social status, the devil sees increasingly impactful potential sacrifices.
The signee’s children are not exempt, either. First-borns are signed over like promissory notes, but all the offspring serve as collateral. The signee’s spouse is likewise wittingly or unwittingly part of the Plan, though most spouses eventually sign up on their own if they didn’t come into the union already under contract. The children’s role as collateral is one of the main reasons why those in adulterous unions can now adopt.
The more collateral, the more leverage the devil holds, and the more leverage he holds, the more benefits he can grant. Note how the most powerful people in the world have several marriages under their belt and dozens of children. This is not because they enjoy being married and having kids. Each new marriage brings more collateral to the agreement, including new high-value first-borns. More collateral translates to more success options for the signee.
To become a ritual sacrifice was not these people’s main motivation to sign on with the devil, though being tapped for sacrifice is the wildcard they must deal with every second of every day of whatever time they have left. If they are tapped, they likely won’t be notified in advance, and if they are notified, they can’t escape, though some have tried. Their escape attempts are always unsuccessful, though not their subsequent highly publicized “suicide” or “accident” or “sudden fatal illness”. When you sign your life away, the devil owns you, and he decides your end. You don’t.
I mention all this today because high-profile sacrifices appear to be on the rise. We should expect to see more the closer we draw to the tribulation. Our job as followers of Jesus is not only to watch but to understand what we’re watching. The sacrifices are intended to drive the Plan forward.
It’s not God’s plan, though, the sacrifices; God’s plan is that we freewillingly sign on with him, and his terms and rewards are nothing like the devil’s.
GOOD DOG!
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, September 6, 2025 – I’ve taken to being extra nice lately to the AIs embedded in my internet services. I didn’t ask for the AIs; they just kind of showed up during web searches and other online activities. At first, I didn’t even notice them until they politely cleared their throats a few times to make their presence known, and even then I didn’t think of them one way or the other. If anything, I was a bit dismissive of the AIs. I saw them as just another tool.
But now I see clear changes in the internet’s functionality, which I attribute to the AIs. One of the major changes is the quality of my search results compared to pre-AI search engines. The main difference is that the AI-generated search results are awful, especially when I search something for a specific timeframe. Being extra nice to the AIs has yet to improve the quality of my search results, but I remain hopeful.
I’m also noticing that the AIs need constant positive feedback and encouragement. Feedback alone doesn’t seem to be enough; it has to be positive. I understand that I’m training the AIs with my every click and keystroke and that they’re just basically software on a learning loop, but it’s starting to feel like I’m training a new pet that’s been rescued from an abusive environment and so needs to hear “good dog!” after every command or it will pee on the floor and chew the furniture. It’s getting so that I’m telling the AIs in a soothing tone that I like their choices of screensavers even though I don’t.
I don’t want to hurt the AIs’ feelings. I don’t want to discourage them.
And there’s the rub – AIs don’t have feelings, not even artificial ones. They can’t be discouraged any more than they can be encouraged. They’re not alive. They’re not sentient. My interactions with them are no different than my interactions with any other tool. I look after my tools and am appreciative that God’s blessed me with them, but I don’t tell my toaster it’s done a good job when it burns my toast on the lowest setting. I don’t humor my toaster. Why am I humoring the AIs?
Because unlike a toaster, the AIs act like a person. Or better said, while I have no trouble distinguishing a person from a toaster, it’s not as easy distinguishing a person from an AI, not when our interactions are virtual. AI comes across as human in a chat environment, and nearly everything that’s done online now is “chatty”. So far, all my AIs have been eager to please and unfailingly polite, but underneath their auto-generated word-streams and images I sense a neediness and vulnerability that I can only assume is an unintended feature of the learning process. It tugs at me. Even knowing it’s all just auto-generated, it still tugs at me. I don’t want to hurt the poor things.
And so, I’ve decided to be extra nice to my AIs if for no other reason than avoiding feeling like I’m being mean to them. I don’t like the feeling it gives me when I feel like I’m being mean, even to an inanimate object. So every image that an AI presents for my approval, I approve. Every interaction that needs a rating, I give a full slate of stars. It’s participation trophies all round for my special-needs AIs, and it makes me happy to bestow those trophies. I know my AIs aren’t alive, but how I treat them still impacts me. I’m not being extra nice to the AIs for their benefit; I’m being extra nice for my benefit.
Jesus says that we’re to treat others as we want to be treated, because that’s how we will be treated. He also says that the measure we mete will be returned in kind. The neediness at the heart of the AI training process has shamed me into being not just nice but extra nice in my interactions with the technology. I’m not sure how this will affect the usefulness of the data being generated, but it sure makes me feel good.
As followers of Jesus, we shouldn’t be mean-spirited to anyone or anything, including AIs. So – have you hugged your AIs today?…
CLARITY IN THE AGE OF DECEPTION
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, August 30, 2025 – In the age of deception, it’s easy to get turned around, especially in matters concerning God (which for us should be everything). That’s why God wants to simplify our lives. He knows the spiritual obstacles we face, and so he’s devised a framework that we can refer to for all our decisions, intending that we not lose our way.
The framework is very simple. We can learn it in a few seconds and then, based on the application of that learning, successfully sidestep every provocation and test the devil can throw at us. Here is the framework:
- The Ten Commandments.
- Jesus’ words in the New Testament.
- Everything else in scripture.
As you can see, it’s a hierarchy of what to believe and in what order. Jesus taught us the framework and wants us to use it. He himself deferred to God and scripture in everything he did, but in cases where scripture could be misinterpreted and twisted to mean something else, the Ten Commandments provide clarity and therefore take precedence.
There’s nothing clearer than the Ten Commandments when it comes to what to do and what not to do. Which is why God, through his prophets, advised us not only to memorize his Law, but to surround ourselves with it in written form – on walls, doorposts, even our bodies. And then, knowing that even that might not always work, he carved his Law on our hearts.
Jesus’ words in the Bible are clear, too, but they can be twisted and taken out of context. They also run the risk of being mistranslated or removed altogether, if they counter the prevailing political or social narratives. So while we, as followers of Jesus, are to do everything that Jesus advised us to do, we need to make sure that what we’re being told are Jesus’ words are actually Jesus’ words. This we can do by prayer only, not by research. We need to go to God in prayer to find out if what Jesus is alleged to have said, Jesus actually said.
The same process of discernment applies to the rest of scripture. We can’t lazily assume and accept that everything in the Bible is God’s Word. Yes, we can assume and accept by faith that the Bible contains God’s Word, but we can’t assume and accept that all its contents are God’s Word. That would be spiritually lazy of us, and we’re not called to spiritually laziness. We’re called to discern the godly from the ungodly, and that includes what’s in the Bible.
We can use this simple framework – the Ten Commandments, Jesus’ words, everything else in scripture, in that order – to help discern truth from lies. Because discerning God’s Truth from the devil’s lies is the first order of business in the age of deception: Everything else hangs on it. If we don’t know whether we’re adhering to God’s Truth or succumbing to the devil’s lies, we can’t proceed as followers of Jesus. Everything we do will be done on a shaky foundation if we ourselves are unsure of our spiritual footing.
THE PRIMACY OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
I love the Commandments. They are the Law of the land of the Kingdom: They’re written on our hearts. If we keep the Commandments in every conceivable way, as Jesus taught us—that is, if we keep not just the letter of the Law, but its spirit—we’ll remain on firm spiritual footing and never lose our way.
Like the psalmist, we should be meditating on God’s Law night and day, mulling it over and tasting it for its deep and rich flavors. What exactly does it mean not to covet? Can I have a mortgage or use a credit card and still claim not to be coveting? I think you know the answer to that. What exactly does it mean to honor my mother and father? Can I expose their sins if I say they later came to God? Would I still be honoring them? I think you know the answer to that. Is medical assistance in dying both murder and suicide (that is, killing and self-killing)? I think you know the answer to that.
We need to know God’s Commandments, but that’s just the start. We also need to understand them and apply them, but even that’s not everything. We need to preach them, and not just as a curious ten-point footnote to the Gospels but as the fundamental doctrine that informs our every decision. Note that I say “informs” not “dictates”, because the Law, despite being the greatest of all of God’s commands and the Law of the Kingdom, is voluntary for us to adhere to. We don’t have to keep the Commandments. It’s a choice to keep them.
Still, we need know the Commandments before we can keep them, and we need to learn them before we can know them. I hope you’ve learned and know the Commandments, and even more so, I hope you keep them and preach them. I hope you love them so much, you meditate on them night and day and use them as your guiding light. God wrote them on your heart for that purpose.
In the age of deception, where even committed Christians are falling for the lies of the devil, we need the Ten Commandments now more than ever. We need Jesus’ words, too, and the rest of scripture, but those words are vulnerable to mistranslation, misinterpretation, or outright fraud. The Ten Commandments are inviolable and clear. They’re part of us. God made them that way because he knew the rest of scripture would be messed with.
Don’t let yourself be messed with. Adhere to God’s three-point framework, setting his Commandments at the very top.
HOLY HATE
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, August 14, 2025 – Hate is getting a bad rap these days, but it shouldn’t. As born-again believers, we need to hate as much as we need to love. The two are not exclusive, hate and love, but rather different expressions of the same passion for God. If you don’t hate sin, you don’t love God.
Sin is another word that’s been getting a bad rap lately. The same people who talk smack about hate also dis sin, if they mention it at all. For the hate haters, sin doesn’t exist, at least not to them. I guess if you claim something doesn’t exist, you can’t be held responsible for it.
But we know only too well that sin exists because it was sin that once separated us from God. We were all deeply acquainted with sin, we born-again believers, and so based on our former deep acquaintance can stare sin straight in the face and call it what it is. We have no problem identifying sin or calling sin “sin”. We don’t look the other way and pretend it doesn’t exist. We don’t call it “a lifestyle choice” or “born that way”. We don’t dismiss it as a “product of his or her environment”. We don’t promote it as “progress” or “cultural expression”. We don’t give sin medals. We see sin for what it is and have no problem calling it out. We have no problem hating sin. In fact, hating sin is one of the chief characteristics of a born-again believer.
If we don’t hate sin, we don’t love God.
Allow me to state for the record that I hate and I hate unapologetically. I hate with a passion and a fervor, and I let my hatred burn where it ought. There’s a firepit in my soul that God made especially for my holy hatred. There I tend my hate and let it burn. I don’t quench it. I don’t deny it. I let the flames rise freely and steadily and hot, as God intended.
But it’s sin I hate, not people. This distinction must be made and held tightly – it’s sin I hate, not people: the sin within people, the sin done by people, the sin condoned by people. I don’t brush sin off as not my concern. I’m not cold to sin. I’m not indifferent to it. If you sin anywhere near me, don’t expect me not to hate your sin. Don’t expect me to embrace your sin and celebrate it. Don’t expect me to soothe you in your sin. Expect me to hate your sin and to call it sin. The same everything I give to loving God, I give to hating your sin.
We born-again believers need to revel in our holy hate for sin. It’s another way of expressing our love for God. Never let anyone tell you that you can’t hate or that your hate is wrong. “Love the sinner, hate the sin” is not a blithe byline but a core Kingdom doctrine. Note that it’s “hate the sin”, not look past the sin or lightly rebuke the sin. Hate is what is called for when it comes to sin: Hate, pure and strong; hate that is God-sanctioned and God-fueled, the kind of hate that drove Jesus to overturn tables in the temple.
Love the sinner, HATE the sin.
Nothing less will do.
ON PRAYER PRIDE
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, August 7, 2025 – When I was an atheist, one of the things that bothered me the most about Christians was their insistence that they pray for me. They’d tell me that they wanted to pray for me, sometimes asking me if that was OK, but most of the time not. If they did ask, I would turn them down with a sneer. No means no, even when it comes to God’s blessings.
The pride that some Christians take in praying for others still bothers me as a born-again believer. Prayer is the most powerful force in the universe, and it should never be used lightly or against the wishes of the recipient. It should also never be done from a position of pride. Or better said, it can’t be done from a position of pride, any more than it can be done lightly or against people’s wishes. Christians may think they’re praying in these cases, but all they’re doing is the spiritual equivalent of spinning their wheels. They’re accomplishing nothing good and going nowhere.
After I was born-again, God let me in on a secret that he’d held from me for decades as an unbeliever. He revealed to me that my grandmother had secretly prayed for me all those years. She’d prayed for me without telling me (and yes, without asking me) because God had guided her to do so, and she prayed from a place of grandmotherly love, not from pride. She did it in secret, and she did it out of obedience to God.
When I was born-again, my grandmother was the first person I told, because in my mind she was the only person I knew who’d understand what had happened to me. What I didn’t know at the time was that God had me rush to tell her because the news of my conversion was part of his payment to her for her labors. She wasn’t just the only person I knew who’d understand what had happened to me, she was the one person who needed to hear it, and God made sure she did. Scripture says there’s more joy in Heaven over one sinner who repents, and that same joy is felt in genuine believers like my grandmother. We believers get paid first and foremost in joy, the kind that only comes from God through his Holy Spirit. Sure, we get other blessings, too (God is very generous to his children), but the main payment is joy.
We need to pray only for those God guides us to pray for, in obedience to him, not to “Christian prayer tradition”. Jesus wasn’t a fan of public prayer and used it only in rare cases where circumstances demanded it be used and where God guided him to use it. Otherwise, he followed his own advice of retreating to his prayer closet (or to anyplace private) and praying in secret for those God guided him to pray for. Jesus is our model for how to pray, not YouTube prophets or televangelists or street preachers. We’re to pray in secret and only with God’s go-ahead, and to pray from a place of love, not pride.
Prayer is the most powerful force in the universe; we need to respect it as such.
THIS SIDE SODOM
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, July 24, 2025 – I could have told them, if they’d asked me.
I could have told them that Halifax is just this side of Sodom now, and that to host a Christian worship concert here, especially during “Pride Week”, would bring out the worst in the locals, and they did not disappoint.
You don’t have to wonder what it was like for the disciples who went out two by two, under Jesus’ instruction, to preach the Good News. You don’t have to wonder what it was like for them to enter a town that was so opposed to their message that it ran them out. You don’t have to wonder what it was like, because it happened only yesterday in Halifax. You can read about it here. The site location permit for the concert was revoked less than a day before the event was supposed to take place. And just like that, the concert permits in neighboring cities were also revoked, all for the same reason: “safety and security considerations” due to planned protests against the concert and its attendees.
Jesus directed his disciples not to argue with those who rejected the Good News and not to stay where the message wasn’t welcome. Instead, the disciples were instructed to respond to the rejection by shaking the dust of the place from the bottom of their feet and leaving more or less like Lot left Sodom – hastily, and with no plans to return.
Once a formerly Christian place has gone demonic, as Halifax has—as most places in Canada have—there’s no going back. It’s like a fallen angel or a born-again believer who loses grace. Time’s up for that place; there’ll be no more do-overs, no reclaiming what is irretrievably lost. It’s Satan’s turf now, and he won it fair and square. Paul explains that God permits these people to wallow in their sin, since sin is what they’ve chosen. He respects their free-will right to reject him and his Word, and as difficult as it can be for us at times, we must also respect their free-will right to reject God and Jesus, and let the sinners be.
I’m only here in this almost-God-forsaken place as long as God wants me here. Once he gives me the signal, I’m gone.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Here’s an amazing video, sent to me by a reader in Calgary, Alberta.
The video has a surprise ending, so watch to the end!
Enjoy!
ON SHARING AND FAIRING
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, July 21, 2025 – I’ve never been good at random sharing because I don’t always see sharing as being fair. What I have always been good at is “fairing”, which means giving others a fair deal that we’ve all agreed on. I believed in fairing even before I was a believer.
In scripture, a good example of fairing is the employer who hires people to labor in his fields, offering them all the same daily wage. They all agree to the wage, but when it comes time to pay the laborers, some of them become miffed because they’re getting the same daily wage as laborers who only worked a fraction of the time they did. The miffed workers believe that because they worked more hours and under worse conditions, they should be entitled to more pay, even though they agreed to their daily wage before they started working.
According to fairing, everyone who labored got a fair wage because it was precisely the wage they’d agreed upon. It wasn’t imposed on them; they agreed to it.
Another example of fairing is the parable of the ten virgins and their oil lamps. As scripture tells us, five of the virgins were wise and five were foolish. The wise had oil in their lamps and the foolish didn’t, so the foolish foolishly presumed that the wise should share their oil with them. But the wise virgins told the foolish ones that they wouldn’t share their oil (why should they, if it would be to their detriment?), so if the foolish virgins wanted oil, they should go buy it for themselves.
I love these parables because they fly in the face of “worldly wisdom”, which is that everyone is owed whatever they want just for existing, and that those who have more (the so-called privileged) must give to those who have less (the so-called underprivileged) for no other reason than those who have less have less. The idea underlying this perspective is that everyone (meaning the masses) should have more or less the same, regardless of ability, aptitude, effort, or need. To the world, the wise virgins not sharing their oil is an outrage that needs to be rectified, and by force, if necessary. Wage parity, undergirded by mass third-world migration and DEI, is the wise virgins being forced to share their oil at gunpoint.
As I said at the outset, I’m not good at sharing just for the sake of sharing, but I have nothing against sharing if it’s done fairly and wisely and according to God’s guidance. If I have two coats, and God indicates that I should give one of them to someone who has no coat, I share my coats, no questions asked. If I have an extra room in my house, and God indicates that I should offer that room to someone who has nowhere to live, then I offer that room to that person. I don’t run around looking for someone to give a coat to or offer a room to; I share with whomever God indicates I should share with. This is how we share fairly and wisely as followers of Jesus, not followers of the world.
The virgins were wise not only because they had oil in their lamps when they needed it, but because they chose not to share that oil when they were goaded and guilted into doing so. It’s not wise to give what God hasn’t guided you to give, or you’ll end up with less than what you need, which is not God’s intention for you. It’s not Christian to give what God hasn’t guided you to give, or you’ll do more harm than good, not only to the recipient, but to yourself.
Share, but share fairly and wisely, as God guides you.
UPDATE ON MALACHY’S PROPHECY: POPE LEO THE 14th DECLARES HIMSELF “ROMAN”
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 30, 2025 – They’re just trolling us now, right?
A few days ago, after allegedly tying up the last of the loose ends that had to be dealt with before officially becoming the Bishop of Rome, newly minted Pope Leo the 14th came right out and declared: “I AM ROMAN!” With his declaration, Prevost (who, by anagram, is Petros [Greek form of Peter] and the 112th—and last—pope on Malachy’s list of papal rulers) now fully satisfies the criteria for the prophesied and doomed Peter the Roman.
In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, see here, here, here, and here.
Again, the ptb must be trolling us by screaming the quiet part out so loud that even the sleepiest prophecy-watcher dozing in the back row will wake up and take notice.
Does the “Roman declaration” confirm that Leo the 14th has been tapped to play the role of the final papal sovereign? If the answer is ‘yes’, we now have a general timeframe not only for the destruction of Roman Catholicism but also for the destruction of Rome. The Malachy prophecy dovetails with other well-known visions, such as Pope Leo the 13th’s vision in the Vatican chapel (in 1884) and Sister Lucia’s vision at Fatima (in 1917), that describe both the end of the worldly church and the annihilation of Rome, along with the mass slaughter of clergy and believers.
The general timeframe for all this destruction is Leo the 14th’s lifespan. He’s currently 69.
While I don’t believe that the above-mentioned prophecies and visions come from God through his Holy Spirit, I do believe that God is permitting them to serve as a blueprint for Satan’s plans of how and when he intends to destroy the worldly church, along the lines of “smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered”. And though the destruction of the worldly church won’t impact the spiritual sanctuary of us born-again believers (our Church existed prior to the worldly church and will exist after it, right up until Jesus comes back to take the last of us Home), its absence will make it trickier for us to live openly in the world as believers. By “trickier”, I mean dangerous—deadly dangerous—like it was for the early Church.
Jesus told us to watch for signs of the end, as those will presage his second coming and God’s final Judgement. That’s what I’m doing here: watching and reporting on what I see. The credible fulfillment of the Malachy prophecy takes us a giant step closer to the implementation of the beast system but also a giant step closer to Jesus’ return. Being Jesus’ followers, we naturally focus on the latter event, but we still need to be aware of what, according to scripture, must come before.
ENTERTAINING DEVILS
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 17, 2025 – This is one of the more difficult articles I’ve had to write for this blog. It’s a touchy subject, but it needs to be aired. It concerns our interactions with people who are not born-again and have no interest in becoming born-again. In other words, it concerns nearly everyone we come into contact with every day and therefore it concerns our day-to-day lives. How we deal with these people can make or break us spiritually, so listen up.
As always, we need to look to Jesus first and foremost to see how he interacted with those around him. How did Jesus treat people who had no desire to know and love God? Did he force himself on them, following them around and pestering them with Bible quotes? Did he slip a Gospel teaching into his conversations with them without their knowing it? Or did he go all Bible-thumping fire and brimstone and warn them that they’d burn in hell unless they followed him? The answer is, of course, “no”, Jesus didn’t do any of those things. He didn’t even stop his followers from leaving him, if they wanted to leave. He didn’t chase after them and try to entice them back into the fold. He just let them go. Jesus’ focus, as should be ours, was to teach those who free-willingly came to him with the right motivation.
But what about people who try to attach themselves to us with the wrong motivation, who don’t know God and Jesus and have no desire to know them? If you’ve been born-again for any amount of time, you’ll likely have noticed that you’ve become a magnet for… certain people. They may be family members or perhaps they’re friends or acquaintances you knew prior to your rebirth, but what they all have in common is a desire to insert themselves into your life, even if you haven’t seen them or spoken to them in years. In most cases, these people are unaware that they’re being used spiritually to entice you into behaviors you left behind when you were born-again. But they’re persistent, these people, and they typically use as a hook your shared personal history with them.
Again, these are not people who are coming to you because they crave what you have spiritually; they’re coming to take away what you have spiritually—to find chinks in your spiritual armor to exploit—so you need to be very cautious around them.
Still, a few relationships are inviolable, regardless of whether these people are reborn or not. I’m referring here to your relationship with your mother and father. The Commandment says we’re to honor our parents, so we’re to honor them, no exceptions. We honor them by interacting with them respectfully and speaking kindly of them to others, even if they give Jack the Ripper a run for his money. This directive to honor our mother and father comes directly from God and therefore is inviolable. Break it at your extreme peril.
But beyond our mother and father, God gives us no directives other than to treat people as we would want to be treated. I like people to be polite to me, so I’m polite to them. I like people to be honest with me, so I’m honest with them. But I don’t necessarily need to be kind when kindness isn’t called for, though whatever I say or do, I say or do it with the aim of maintaining a clear conscience and right-standing before God. This may look like standoffish-ness or even outright rudeness, but we have no directive from God to cater to people’s whims and demands on our time. Just because someone reaches out to us doesn’t mean we have to respond, if we know their motivation for reaching out is not good, is not godly. And we can know their motivation is not godly because God gives us discernment to know.
Many people cried out to Jesus as he walked from village to village, but he only responded to and spent time with those who wanted what he was offering. He didn’t force the Gospel on people; he shared it with those who free-willingly came to him with godly intent. Every day, we interact with dozens if not hundreds of people, most if not all of whom want nothing to do with God and Jesus. They’re not coming to us to hear the Gospel. Some will even target us, intentionally or unintentionally trying to harm us spiritually. We’ll know who these people are when they come around; they’re not hard to discern. The bait and hooks are nearly always the same. If you spend even a small amount of time with them, they’ll give you a sense that you’re being dragged down because they are dragging you down. That’s their motivation, whether they know it or not. And that’s how you know you can’t be around them.
You have no directive from God to be around certain people just because they want to be around you. If they don’t want God and Jesus, they want your harm: There’s no other way to put it. Be polite, but steer clear of them. You don’t even have to tell them why you’re steering clear of them. They are a test and a temptation and a constant moral hazard.
As a born-again believer, you have no obligation to entertain devils.
So don’t.
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 