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Satan is a "prince of darkness" that "masquerades as an angel of light." So, his strategy is to take evil things and PACKAGE THEM as virtuous things, and take virtuous things and PACKAGE THEM as evil things.
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Satan is a "prince of darkness" that "masquerades as an angel of light." So, his strategy is to take evil things and PACKAGE THEM as virtuous things, and take virtuous things and PACKAGE THEM as evil things.
Examples...
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Justice is a good thing I preached an entire message on recently. But not everything being done in our culture under the LABEL of justice is a good thing.
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Tolerance, inclusivity, and affirmation are good words. Not all the things you're being told you have to believe under the labels of tolerance, inclusivity, and affirmation are of God.
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"Women's rights" are a good thing. He's trying to package an evil thing (abortion) inside the good label "women's rights."
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The Bible's teaching about gender, marriage, and sexuality gets packaged as "hateful bigotry."
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Encouraging a Christian couple to wait until they're married to have sex is pejoratively labeled "purity culture."
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Encouraging loving, godly, courageous men to lead their families gets labeled as "toxic masculinity."
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When you hear a label, you've got 3 options:
1) Some people DEMAND that everyone accept everything under the label or else they're intolerant, non-affirming, hateful, etc.
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1) Some people DEMAND that everyone accept everything under the label or else they're intolerant, non-affirming, hateful, etc.
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2) Some people DISMISS. For instance, some people dismiss any conversation about justice because they see bad things being done under its label or convictionally can't agree with all of the proposed solutions even when they agree there's a problem.
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3) Christians should DISCERN. Knowing this world is "lorded over by the father of lies" we should pause, weigh EVERYTHING by the Word, and neither accept everything under a label nor reject everything under a label, but keep what's Biblical and reject anything that's not.
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