Galatians 5:22-23 – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
In the book of Judges, people come and go, but the sinful behavior remains the same.
Why? Because their demons remain the same. Even though there are new days, they have the same old demons.
In my book New Days, Old Demons, I explain how people live and die, but demons endure, unchanged. Baal was believed to be the senior male demon, the archenemy of God, worshipped for wealth, power, success, and status, mentioned over one hundred times, as this demon was a constant problem. In the ancient world, he was worshipped with prostitution, pornography, and pleasure. To worship Baal and Asherah, sex cults arose that erased any of the God-given sexual boundaries in Scripture and promoted gender confusion, sexual sin of every sort, and tolerance and pride of these things in the greater culture.
These same demons are powerfully at work in our culture, seducing God’s people into evil and sin just as they always have. The rise in everything from worship of the environment as our sacred goddess Mother; greed that worships the demon Mamon in everything from crime to skyrocketing debt; murder of the innocents starting with the unborn; and the mainstream acceptance of pornography, polygamy, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, transgenderism, and every other sexual deviancy is all the work of Baal and Asherah waging spiritual warfare that manifests in our physical world.
The book of Judges is a prime example of what happens when we pull Hell up into our lives rather than bring the kingdom of Heaven down to Earth. How do we bring Heaven down? Paul sums it up nicely in Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
Which fruits of the Spirit are strong in your life and which ones do you need to ask God to help you produce more of?
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