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Murder, suicide, anger, violence, perversion, and destructive behavior of many sorts have become headline topics in the media today! The nation seems to be filled to overflowing with misguided attempts to find answers in all the wrong places to the many challenges life throws at us!

Sadly, nothing about this is new, looking in the wrong places has been a predictable pattern of behavior for thousands of years. After all, we live in a world dominated by a Satanic world system that specializes in deception so there should be no surprises there!

The problem is further compounded by the fallen nature of man, the dead spirit and the living active sin nature makes susceptibility to deception a powerful force in the decision-making process.

Discovering the truth requires outside intervention; without help, we cannot discover the truth of our situation. I wrote on this in an essay, “Your Dream World and the Red Pill” In one section of the essay, named, “The Red Pill”, I wrote:

“In the story Neo is told the truth of his situation and given the opportunity to take a non-reversible red pill that will change his life forever and discover for himself what reality is really like; he decides to take the red pill and his adventures begin. We too have a red pill called salvation in Jesus Christ; when we take that red pill we are born again, given spiritual life and given God, the Holy Spirit, to live in us forever. Only then do we have the power of discernment and the ability to distinguish between the Satanic matrix that holds us, and true reality.”

A tragic number of people are thrashing about in their Satanically devised matrix, seeking to find answers to the problems they face. The answers that work can only be found by taking the red pill of salvation, looking to the cross, and breaking free from Satan’s matrix!

True reality is only revealed in the pages of the Bible; it is only there we find the truth that will set us free! In John 8: 31-32 it is written:

³¹ Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. ³² And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Over the years, I have become convinced the most important thing in life is a devotion to obedience to God’s commands! Mankind was created to be God’s image bearers to his creation; to serve God as God’s representative to everyone and everything!

It is only as we faithfully serve God that we can find peace, happiness, fulfillment, and contentment! It is only in the power of God, the Holy Spirit we can find the fruit of the Spirit.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. ²⁴ And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

By God’s grace, let us all join the Apostle Paul in letting Christ by our strength! In Philippians 4:11-13 it is written:

¹¹ Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: ¹² I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. ¹³ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.