Caution: the devil uses people to attack you-3

* Luís Alberto Alves

This is often the case with homosexuals. God loves you deeply. But reprove their behavior, which is something sinful, as written in chapter 1 of Paul's letter to the Romans. The devil cleverly distorts selling the idea that Jesus has no love for homosexuals, letting hidden that God does not accept is the sin they commit. In fact, any sin is reproved by God.

In the same way many Christians do not accept when a prostitute is converted. From the moment you accepted Jesus and all the dirt was taken from your soul and spirit, it is a new creature. There is another way to go. We all have our past of filth. From the moment we resolve to embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ we pass into the world of lights, where darkness no longer finds space in our life.

The great problem is that Satan uses false converts, or even the weak in faith to distort the gospel. They invest in the lie that God does not love the sinner. A great falsehood. Jesus will never love sin, whether it is of nature, robbery, stealing, lying, hatred, resentment, prostitution, perversion, deceit, addiction, witchcraft, lesbianism, homosexuality, revenge, laziness, guldice, drunkenness, etc.

Because of lack of wisdom many Christians can not make this separation: sin and sinner! They are different things. Prostitution and prostitution are two realities. Prostitution, in the case of a woman or even a man, is to use the body to gain pleasure by earning money or seeking to destroy the marriage of one's neighbor. The same goes for homicide, when someone decides to kill someone. Only God has the prerogative to take the life of the human being.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Caution: the devil uses people to attack you-2

* Luís Alberto Alves

And how do Christians act today? At our side, be it at work, school, church, family circle or even in the streets, we are surrounded by Pharisees and evil people interested in catching us in the traps, which for the most part seem innocent without any trace of evil. Is not true. Satan put his wicked seeds there with beautiful wrapping.

Discernment is important in the life of any Christian. No one should ever act like a robot, accepting any argument, without seeking support in the Bible. Today we live the age of technology. In social networks it is routine to appear videos edited about a certain biblical passage, used to denigrate the image of God. People, without doing a detailed analysis of that material, pass it on and even adopt it as absolute truth.

It's the same as sex before marriage. The world does not accept this behavior, which is out of date and out of fashion. He takes passages from the Old Testament, where kings were entitled to several women (Solomon had a thousand) and emphasize that it is not wrong to act in this way. Of course they go over the 10 commandments, where God stresses that "adultery" is sin. They also leave aside the text of the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 5, verse 28, when he says: "But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman with unclean intent in his heart, yet committeth adultery with her ... "

Whoever does not know the Word of God deeply, believes that sex before marriage is not sin. In a beautiful package, satan puts this gift of darkness into the hands of the Christian. Today, the bug is sold as something right. Sin is presented as a good deed. The devil joins the bad action and the sinner in the same sin and says that God agrees with that.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Caution: the devil uses people to attack you-1

* Luís Alberto Alves

They do not understand the details implicit in the texts. Perhaps out of laziness or disinterest, the Word of God is relegated to neglect. As a great connoisseur of the Gospel, Jesus knew that the Roman empire, responsible for the government of Israel, at that time, did not allow the Jews to carry out the death penalty. That is why the Lord was taken to Pontius Pilate after being arrested.

If Jesus Christ agreed with the Pharisees and authorized the death of Mary Magdalene, because of the violation of the Law of Moses, he would rebel against the Romans. Something, as a child of God, could not do, for he would sin. On the other hand, he could not accept the conduct of that woman, for the Lord said that he "loves the sinner and not sin."

Look at how the Pharisees plotted the trap against the Lord: If you authorize the stones to murder Mary Magdalene, you would disobey the Roman government, if you let it go free, as if you had done nothing wrong, you would pass over the Law of Moses. Recall that Jesus flatly stated that "He came not to revoke the Law (that of Moses), but to fulfill."

What was the way out that the Lord found for this situation? He commanded the sinless men to throw the stones. Neither took any action. After escaping from death, Jesus told Mary Magdalene to leave, but never again to prostitute himself. As a great teacher, the Lord did not rebel against the two laws (that of Rome and that of Moses) and still prevented a life from going to hell!

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Caution: the devil uses people to attack you

* Luís Alberto Alves

Most of the time Christians think the devil will materialize to attack him. He is spirit and needs some body to turn his evil intentions into reality. You'll use something bad that looks good so you do not arouse suspicion.

He did this with Jesus Christ, the son of God, imagine with us! In the famous episode involving Mary Magdalene, the devil used the Pharisees, who were great connoisseurs of the Word, for they had easy access to the Old Testament texts, printed on leather scrolls or parchment.

When we take this text, we only keep the passage in which Jesus tells the woman to leave, because his accusers could not kill her, and sinned no more. So far so good. However, in analyzing the dialogues held by the accusers, insisting that Mary Magdalene was caught in flagrant adultery and according to the Law of Moses, as it is in the book of Leviticus, she should be stoned to death.

Jesus only heard and commanded the first sinless man to lay the first stone against her. Of course, in a moment of lucidity, everyone recognized sin within themselves and left. But what is the reason for the Lord not to accuse or absolve the adulterous woman? Today, few people read the Bible closely to gain spiritual knowledge.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God-3

* Luís Alberto Alves

He waits for the holy supper to wear the holy cloak and try to deceive the Lord once more. Unfortunately, when he leaves the church, he returns to the garbage that has become his home. The rebel attitude appears in several places, mainly at work and with relatives. Decisions and wrong postures are never recognized. He is always right and God is wrong.

The process of cleansing the heart passes through forgiveness, not the mouth, but the sincere. To forget the evil that someone did to you and never let it come to mind. Same old water, to ignore the damage that that attitude caused in the soul. Instead of taking the right path, many Christians insist on keeping their feet on the road that will lead them to hell.

Some say they are not silly or silly to serve as a punch bag for people used by the devil. They break out for verbal and even physical aggressions. They refuse to give in. The business is always to attack. They claim that they are Christians, but not fools. In the work they face the boss, in the church they question pastors, workers, and in the family choose the attack like defense for any type of questioning.

They do not realize that they have become puppets of their own hearts. They believe they are right, when in fact it is the other way around. They refuse to think deeply about any subject. When they ask Jesus Christ for something they fall into the error of stipulating time, as if God were employed by them. Examples of this kind exist in the thousands among Christians.

Only a minority of self-sacrificing servants of the Lord humble themselves and ask Jesus Christ to take away all that is bad from the heart. They fast, pray deeply and acknowledge that they need the help of God. They are not greater than anyone, they only have the humility not to fall into the error that they are super-Christians. They know that all sin, but try not to let mistakes become fuel of evil inside the heart.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God-2

* Luís Alberto Alves

No human being is perfect. But we need to ask the Lord to help us clean. Do not let us turn into spiritual garbage dump. It is not a shame to acknowledge to Jesus that we need your help in this process of deep cleansing. Sadly, pride prevents this posture from becoming a reality.

Within countless Christian churches there are many brothers in the faith who on the outside are beautiful, like a marble tomb in the cemeteries, but inside it is a garbage dump. Capricham in the visual, in the clothes, shoes, makeup, in the case of women, bracelets, necklaces and hairstyles, but the heart remains unclean ...

Arrogant people do not take advice. They think the best in the world. In their myopic vision, the heavens are very close. They like to hear only what pleases them. When it is a hard word of correction, they soon close their faces and quickly leave the place. It is as if life were just roses, without thorns, without any kind of difficulty.

Interesting that the dirty of heart does not realize its filth. He's the same homeless, never admits that he needs a shower and clean clothes. In the thief's view, crime is not a sin; as well as the trafficker, who never acknowledges that he sells death to drug addicts. The unclean in heart acts in a similar way.

* Luís Alberto Alves

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God-1

* Luís Alberto Alves

Even so, suggested by the heart, decide to step on the accelerator, forgetting that in the car is present his family, including children, and bet on a suicide overtaking. Seconds later, fatality takes the place of reality. If he thought, give space to reason, he would wait for the bus to pass and then, yes, to enter that plate.

Jesus was categorical in saying in Matthew, chapter 5, verse 8: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Today, at a time when the gospel has become a bargaining chip, where legal worship is what promises mansions, luxury cars, big money on the checking account, hallucinatory passions; few bother to leave your heart clean.

If it were possible to make an x-ray to detect dirt on this organ of the body, it would rarely go red, but completely dark, because of the innumerable sinful desires deposited there. How many people do not hide in the heart perversions, hatred, grudges, revengeful desires, adulteries, prostitutions, homosexuality, both female and male, robberies, robberies and idolatries ...

What is more curious is that a small number of Christians are concerned about talking to Jesus Christ and presenting this filth asking the Lord to do a housecleaning inside. The business is to put more fuel into the fire and let sin turn a high mountain. Some believe that it is possible to hide our imperfections from God. So life goes on toward the abyss.

* Luís Alberto Alves