July 12, 2025 • 34 mins
This conversation delves into the spiritual warfare against Christianity, highlighting how the enemy seeks to dismantle faith from within through division, isolation, distraction, and the normalization of sin. It emphasizes the importance of unity, accountability, and a return to the core tenets of faith, urging listeners to remain vigilant and engaged in their spiritual journey. For all your mobile power needs! For home or when your camping.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio and then the
static This ain't no pret sound story, so as prophetic
encrypt the signals from the shadows of the garden we
did where the TRP got secret snow parted microphone alchemist
scriptures with a twist, keep the frequency seeds in the
midst We drop fas like plagues revelations in the catus,
(00:23):
broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wrisdom with a
watchman's blade forth what synd while your whole system fail,
blood moves that for love echoes in the pine sasquas
stopping through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
We ain't just streamed safer with the prophets to code
the dreams. So with you trom in better jarge of
mind is broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design of design.
(00:48):
Yeh yeh ye yep, straight from the broadcast studio and
then the static ecstatic statics stony snow it straight from
the podcasting here straight from the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
If I were the enemy, and I mean the real one,
the ancient serpent who's been whispering live since Eden, I
wouldn't waste my time burning churches or banning Bibles. That's
amateur hour. No, I'd go subtle, surgical. I'd hollow Christianity
(01:33):
out from the inside. I'd twist the truth just enough
to sound holy. I'd swap out repentance for self help,
trade spiritual fire for feeling good fog, and make sure
the Gospel got burned under branding algorithms and applause. I
(01:55):
wouldn't attack the church from the outside. I'd join in,
slip in the back door, wearing Sunday Best, quoting scripture
out of context, and make compromise look like progress. This
episode is a spiritual counterintelligence briefing, not for the faint
(02:17):
of heart. We're going to dig deep into six core
strategies the enemy is using to dismantle Christianity, not in
the headlines, but in the hearts and habits of believers.
It's death by a thousand cuts, death by doctrine, twisted community,
(02:41):
fractured conviction, dulled leaders taken out, and apathy sold as peace.
It's not a conspiracy theory, it's an ancient war, and
the battlefield isn't just politics or pulpits, it's your soul.
So buckle up and listen before we go any further,
(03:06):
like share and review this podcast. Not for vanity, but
because every seed planted pushes back the darkness just a
little more. And this show grows because you make it grow.
So don't just consume, participate. That's how we stay sharp,
That's how we stay dangerous. All right, Time to step
(03:29):
into the war room. Let's take a look at how
you destroy Christianity from the inside if you were the enemy,
So section one Divide and conquer the weaponization of doctrine.
(03:49):
If you're the enemy and you want to dismantle Christianity,
you don't start with Satanic temples or which covens. You
start with doctrine, but not by removing it, by twisting it.
Here's the thing about Christians. We love our theology and
we should. Doctrine is the spine of belief. But if
(04:12):
you're crafty, if you know how to stir the pot,
you take that love of theology, throw in some pride,
isolate a few verses, and turn iron sharpening iron into
full blown civil war. Suddenly it's not enough to be
a follower of Christ. You're a Calvinist follower of Christ
(04:36):
or a pre millennial dispensationalist with a YouTube channel into
superiority complex, or you roll your eyes at anyone who
doesn't speak in tongues, or does you see what just
happened there? Division masquerading as devotion doctrine believes doctrine becomes
(05:00):
tribal identity, and everyone not in your camp is suspect.
Stop contending for the faith and start contending with your brother. Meanwhile,
the actual enemy just leans back and SIPs his coffee
because we're doing his job for him. The most dangerous
lies aren't the ones shouted from Hell's pulpits. They're the
(05:23):
ones whispered in Christian circles, slightly off but sounding holy
like this, we're the only ones really preaching truth. They
don't teach the full Gospel. I couldn't worship at that church.
It's too seeker friendly. Sometimes that's discernment. Sometimes it's spirit
(05:48):
spiritual elitism with a new code of paint. Remember how
Jesus prayed before going to the cross. Not for better sermons,
not for perfect theology. He prayed that we would be
one as he and the Father are one. John seventeen
(06:11):
twenty one. Unity wasn't a suggestion, it was a strategy.
But unity doesn't mean uniformity. You don't have to agree
on every eschatological theory or how wet someone gets during baptism.
But if we elevate those things above the cross, we're
(06:34):
not defending truth. We're dividing the body. And here's the kicker.
The early Church didn't even have the New Testament, yet
they had the spirit, the apostles teaching, and a radical
devotion to Christ and one another. They were killed for
(06:54):
their faith. Together. We separate over carpet color and which
Bible translation someone reads. It's embarrassing. Worse, it's spiritually lethal.
The enemy doesn't care which camp you're in as long
as you care more about that camp than the kingdom.
(07:14):
Because when a house is divided, it falls. So what's
the antidote? Humility, discernment and remembering that the only banner
we rally under is Christ crucified, risen and returning. Disagree, debate,
dig into scripture, but don't let your love of truth
(07:37):
turn into a license to attack your brothers and sisters.
That's not defending the Gospel, it's dismantling it. And that's
how the enemy gets a foothold. Section two offended to
the point of isolation. When the enemy uses your wounds.
(07:58):
Let's get real for a second. Churchhart is one of
the enemy's favorite tools. Not because the church is evil,
but because it's full of people, broken people, wounded people,
people who sometimes say stupid things, forget birthdays, fail to
follow up, and occasionally weaponized scripture when they're angry or
(08:23):
being insecure, and you know who's watching, waiting jotting down
notes like a spiritual saboteur the enemy, because nothing dismantles
the spiritual community faster than offense. Now, let's clarify. We're
not talking about legitimate abuse or corruption. Those need to
(08:44):
be exposed and dealt with. I'm talking about the thousands
of subtle, festering offenses that creep in like mold in
the corners of your soul. Someone didn't acknowledge your contribution,
a leader didn't turn your message. You weren't invited to
the small group hangout. They made a joke that cut
(09:06):
too deep. They voted differently than you, and just like that,
a bitter route starts to grow. The enemy whispers they
don't value you. You're better off on your own. You
don't need them to follow God, and we buy it.
We spiritualize isolation, and we start saying things like I'm
(09:32):
just in the season of being alone with God right now.
I don't need a building. I am the church cool.
So is your left arm. But if you cut it
off and leave it in the forest, it's not going
to do so hot. Isolation kills faith slowly. It strips
away accountability, encouragement, sharpening, correction, all the things that community
(09:58):
was designed to provide. In the enemy, he thrives in silence.
When the wolf separates the sheep from the flock. He
doesn't need he doesn't have to run. He just waits
for the blood to cool. Here's the part we don't like.
Sometimes the people who hurt us didn't even know they did.
(10:23):
Sometimes they're just clumsy, distracted, dealing with their own junk.
But a fence doesn't wait for context. It just infects.
Jesus didn't say if you're offended, he said when Matthew eighteen,
he gave us the blueprint, go to the person, talk forgive, restore, rinse,
(10:47):
and repeat. Because the church isn't just a hospital, it's
a battlefield. And sometimes friendly fire happens, and so what
do you do when you're wounded? You bring it into
the light. You forgive even if they don't ask for it.
(11:09):
You lean back into the body, even if it's bruised.
Not because people deserve it, but because Christ did the
same for you. The enemy wants you isolated, offended, and
quietly rotting on the sidelines. Jesus wants you healed, restored,
and back in formation. So check your heart. Name the hurt,
(11:34):
then choose to be bigger than it. Because unity isn't spiritual,
it's strategic. Section three. Death by distraction. How busyness and
comfort numb the soul. If Hell was a marketing department,
(11:55):
they're not selling pitchforks and demons anymore. They're selling notifications. Buzz, swipe, scroll, consume.
Now do it again, but faster this time. If you
were the enemy and you wanted to keep Christians from praying,
from fasting, from studying the Word, from sitting quietly in
(12:17):
the presence of God, you wouldn't have to threaten them.
You just need to keep them busy. That's the genesis
of modern warfare. You don't have to persecute the church
if you can pacify it. Give people the illusion of connection.
Let them double tap Bible memes on Instagram instead of
(12:39):
actually reading the book. Let them listen to five minute
devotionals while folding laundry instead of opening the word like
it's a weapon. Convince them that doing things for God
counts as intimacy with him. Let me ask you something,
when was the last time you sat with silence? No phone,
(13:05):
no background music, no podcast, just you and the Holy Spirit? Exactly.
We've made distractional lifestyle and comfort a doctrine, and that's
exactly what the enemy wants. Because when you're overstimulated, you
(13:25):
stop feeling. When you're constantly entertained, you stop hearing. When
your soul gets addicted to noise, the still small voice
of God starts sounding like an interruption. The early church
didn't have twitter. They had prayer. They had prayer closets
(13:47):
and upper rooms. We've got red bulls and playlists. And
don't get me wrong, I'm not against technology. I'm using
it right now to talk to you guys. I've got
to start asking is this tool serving my faith or
is it sedating it? Now? Let's talk about comfort. That's
(14:10):
silent killer in Khakis. The modern Western church has somehow
decided that comfort is evidence of God's favor. But read
the Bible. It's mostly people in distress, under fire, in exile,
under arrest, or flat out murdered. Jesus didn't promise air
conditioning and church coffee bars. He promised across. Comfort makes
(14:35):
cowards out of disciples. It teaches you to avoid the uncomfortable,
don't confront that sin, don't pray in public, don't rock
the boat with truth, and so we stay safe. We
stay seated, and the fire slowly goes out. Let me
(14:57):
hit you with the hard truth. If the enemy ca
can't make you evil, he'll make you comfortable. And if
he can't tempt you with sin, he'll just lull you
into sleep. You'll still wear the T shirt, still post
the verse, but the power gone, the urgency missing, the
(15:20):
spirit grieved and ignored. So what's the fix? Start cutting
the noise, wake up and fight the drift. Create space
in your life where the only thing happening is God
showing up, even if it's five minutes a day. You
(15:40):
got to start somewhere, because the devil isn't afraid of
busy Christians. He's afraid of burning ones. Section four. You
take out the shepherds. When leadership falls, sheep scatter. You
(16:02):
want to bring down a movement. You don't chase the crowd,
you go after the leader. The enemy's not stupid, he's strategic.
He knows that when a shepherd falls, a whole flock
can lose their way. And if you can take out
the voice people trust, the rest become a whole lot
(16:25):
easier to scatter, confuse, or devour. Let's not sugarcoat it.
We've seen it happen again and again. Pastors with secret lives,
megachurch leaders imploding and scandal, charismatic influencers selling snake oil
in Jesus' name, the headlines practically right themselves, and while
(16:47):
the media grins and clicks rack up, there's a deeper
wound happening behind the scenes, Believers questioning everything. If he
was a fraud, what's his message fake? If she fell
into that sin, what hope is there for me? If
(17:11):
God was really real, how did this happen? It's the
domino effective doubt. That's exactly what the enemy wants. Now Listen,
I'm not here to bash spiritual leaders. Most of them
out there are grinding into obscurity, loving people, preaching truth
and carrying more weight than we'll ever know. But those
(17:34):
are the ones the enemy really wants, not the wolves,
the real shepherds, because the higher you climb in leadership,
the lonelier it gets. The more influence you carry, the
bigger the target on your back. And if that leader
isn't grounded, if they're not surrounded by accountability, saturated in
(17:57):
prayer and submitted to God, the enemy just has to
wait because pride pressure isolation than BAM crisis. But here's
the next layer of the attack. Once the leader falls,
the enemy doesn't just ruin them, he broadcasts it. He
(18:21):
wants you to think every pastor is a hypocrite, every
church is corrupt, every sermon is self serving. He wants
the failure of one person to become the excuse for
the spiritual disengagement of one hundred. It's classical psychological warfare,
and it's working. There's a whole generation out there raised
(18:46):
in the church now walking away, not because they stopped
believing in God, but because they saw people they trusted
collapse and no one helped them process the fall. But
let me say this, plain and raw. Your faith is
in Christ, not in a man with a microphone. It's
(19:12):
kind of ironic, isn't it. Yes, we should honor the trust,
honor and trust spiritual leaders, but they are not your savior.
They are human. They're flawed, frail, capable of failure, horrendously
glorious failure. And if they fall, mourn it, but don't
(19:37):
let it unravel your calling. So what's the defense for leaders?
It's real accountability, deep repentance and transparency before platform. For
the church, maturity, discernment and the ability to grieve failure
(20:01):
without abandoning truth. And for the enemy, a reminder. You
can strike a shepherd, but you can't kill the church
because we don't follow men. We follow the King, and
he already crushed your head on the cross section five
(20:25):
doubt dressed his wisdom the deconstruction agenda. So let me
start by saying this, asking questions isn't the problem. God
is not afraid of your doubt. He's not shaken by
your wise or your wrestlings. But here's the thing. Doubt
(20:47):
has destination. It's either drives you to toward truth or
it drives you away from it. And lately a whole
momentum has sprung up around the idea of deconstruction, and
not the kind that rebuilds something stronger. I'm talking about
(21:07):
the trendy, platformed kind that tears everything down, calls it trauma,
then builds a new gospel out of whatever cultural vibes
are hot this week. If you were the enemy and
you couldn't stop someone from encountering Jesus, what would you do.
(21:28):
You'd convince them he was too messy, too confusing, or
too patriarchal. You'd blur his identity, twist his words, undermine
the Bible just enough to call it a man made
book while quoting it for Instagram captions. You'd dress doubt
(21:51):
up in robes, you'd dress doubt up in the robes
of critical thinking. You'd call rebellion authenticity, and you would
call apostasy liberation. Sound familiar. That's exactly what we're seeing.
And it's slick too, because it starts with real pain,
(22:14):
real questions, church art, bad theology, hypocrisy, legit stuff we're
talking about here. But instead of running to the healer,
people are running to therapists, TikTok theologians, and ex pastors
who now charge Patreon fees to help people unlearn Christianity.
(22:39):
They're not interested in the truth, They're interested in autonomy.
And let's be honest. We love the sound of our
own enlightenment. We want to be as deep, woke, evolved.
We want to be spiritual but not accountable, faithful but
(22:59):
not submitted. And we want a Jesus who doesn't say
pick up your cross, just one who says you do you.
But that's not Jesus, that's an idol and a hoodie
with a podcast Mike. The Bible says in to Timothy
(23:21):
four three that a time will come when people will
not endure sound doctrine, but will gather around teachers who
teach them what their itching ears want to hear. Friends,
that time isn't coming, It's here right now. Now. Let's
(23:42):
be clear. If you've got real questions, bring them. If
your faith has cracks, and examine them, but do it
with the goal of finding the truth, not just justifying
walking away from it. God can handle your wrestling as
long as your actually wrestling with Him, not with shadows.
(24:03):
And if you're listening to this and you've been burned, disillusioned, disoriented,
listen carefully to me. Don't confuse the failure of people
with the failure of God. Jesus never fails, He never
lied to you, He never manipulated you. He never let
(24:26):
you down. People did, systems did. But he He's the same, yesterday,
today and forever. So question boldly, but anchored deeply, because
if your deconstruction doesn't end in Jesus, it wasn't a renovation,
(24:48):
It was a demolition. Sin. Section six, Sin as identity,
the normalization of rebellion. If you want to destroy Christianity
from the inside, you don't just attack truth, you redefine it.
You baptize rebellion in the language of identity. You don't
(25:12):
call it sin anymore, you call it authenticity. This is
where the enemy goes from whispering to outright preaching, and
we're seeing it everywhere. God made me this way. Love
is love. Don't judge, live your truth. These are the
mantras of a gospel light, cross optional, repentance free religion
(25:38):
that wears a Jesus sticker, but has no blood, no fire,
and no resurrection power. Because real Christianity says this. You
were born broken, yes, but that's why you need to
be born again. The modern lie is that your desires
define you. Say that again. The modern lie is that
(26:03):
your desires define you, That your urges are sacred, that
anything less than full affirmation is downright hatred. But here's
the hard truth that rarely makes it onto a coffee mug.
God loves you exactly where you are, but he loves
(26:26):
you far too much to leave you there. Sin is
not identity. It's not to be affirmed, it's to be crucified.
And the Bible doesn't say follow your heart. It says
your heart is deceitful above all things. It says, pick
(26:48):
up your cross, lay down your life, crucify your flesh.
That's the way of the kingdom. But the enemy, he
preaches the exact opposite. He tells you your sin is
not only acceptable, it's beautiful. It's your brokenness that actually
(27:10):
is bravery, and that anyone who says otherwise they're just toxic,
oppressive religious and the Church, too afraid of being unloving,
has started to echo the same lie. We call compromise compassion.
(27:31):
We preach inclusion without repentance, We preach acceptance without transformation.
We want Jesus the comforter, but not Jesus the confronter.
But listen to me. Jesus didn't die to affirm your identity.
(27:52):
He died to transform it. You were not called to
be yourself. You were called to you were called to
deny yourself. There is no gospel without repentance, and there
is no grace without truth, and there is no salvation
without surrender. The normalization of sin is the final stage
(28:16):
of spiritual rot. It turns the church into a social club,
It strips the cross of its scandal, It turns the
blood of Jesus into nothing more than symbolic decoration, and
it leaves people smiling all the way to destruction. So
what do we do. We bring back the fear of
(28:40):
the Lord. We preach the gospel as it is, not
as we wish it were. We stop apologizing for calling
sin what it is, and we start offering real hope
that you don't have to stay in chains, that you
can be free, that you can be new. The enemy
(29:03):
wants you proud of what Christ died to free you from.
But Heaven throws a party not when someone accepts themselves,
but when they repent and are reborn. We covered a
lot today and now, and none of it's soft. And
(29:28):
none of it was soft because the war we're in
it's not metaphorical, it's not poetic. It's real, it's strategic,
it's happening right now in boardrooms, breakrooms, pulpits, and podcast feeds.
(29:49):
The enemy isn't playing checkers, he's playing chess. And if
you're not paying attention, you're not just at risk, you're
already compromised. But here's the thing. You're not helpless, you're
not alone, and you're not without weapons. You have the
(30:10):
word of God sharper than any double edged sword. You
have the Holy Spirit, your counselor your comforter, your fire,
and you have each other. If you choose unity over ego,
prayer over pride, and holiness over hype. So what's the takeaway?
(30:35):
Stay awake, stay humble, stay armored up. Refuse to be
upon in the enemy's game. Refuse to let offense, distraction
or compromise. Take your soul offline, and refuse to make
peace with sin just because it's popular. You were born
(31:00):
into a battlefield, but you were reborn into a kingdom.
And that kingdom it doesn't bend, it doesn't break, and
it's sure as hell doesn't bow to the culture. So
be bold, be weird, be set apart. And if this
episode spoke to you, if it rattled your cade, stirred
(31:23):
your spirit, or hit that deep down place where the
fight still lives. Then do me a favor like the episode,
Share it with someone who needs to hear it. Leave
a review. That's how we keep this thing growing. That's
how we see now these seeds keep getting planted in
enemy territory. This is broadcasting seeds on Benettine and we
(31:49):
are not backing down until next time. Stay sharp, stay free,
and stay in the fight.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
No
Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio and then the
static This ain't no pret sound story, so as prophetic
encrypt the signals from the shadows of the garden we
did where the TRP got secret snow parted microphone alchemist
scriptures with a twist, keep the frequency seeds in the
midst We drop fas like plagues revelations in the catus,
(00:23):
broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wrisdom with a
watchman's blade forth what synd while your whole system fail,
blood moves that for love echoes in the pine sasquas
stopping through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
We ain't just streamed safer with the prophets to code
the dreams. So with you trom in better jarge of
mind is broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design of design.
(00:48):
Yeh yeh ye yep, straight from the broadcast studio and
then the static ecstatic statics stony snow it straight from
the podcasting here straight from the podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
If I were the enemy, and I mean the real one,
the ancient serpent who's been whispering live since Eden, I
wouldn't waste my time burning churches or banning Bibles. That's
amateur hour. No, I'd go subtle, surgical. I'd hollow Christianity
(01:33):
out from the inside. I'd twist the truth just enough
to sound holy. I'd swap out repentance for self help,
trade spiritual fire for feeling good fog, and make sure
the Gospel got burned under branding algorithms and applause. I
(01:55):
wouldn't attack the church from the outside. I'd join in,
slip in the back door, wearing Sunday Best, quoting scripture
out of context, and make compromise look like progress. This
episode is a spiritual counterintelligence briefing, not for the faint
(02:17):
of heart. We're going to dig deep into six core
strategies the enemy is using to dismantle Christianity, not in
the headlines, but in the hearts and habits of believers.
It's death by a thousand cuts, death by doctrine, twisted community,
(02:41):
fractured conviction, dulled leaders taken out, and apathy sold as peace.
It's not a conspiracy theory, it's an ancient war, and
the battlefield isn't just politics or pulpits, it's your soul.
So buckle up and listen before we go any further,
(03:06):
like share and review this podcast. Not for vanity, but
because every seed planted pushes back the darkness just a
little more. And this show grows because you make it grow.
So don't just consume, participate. That's how we stay sharp,
That's how we stay dangerous. All right, Time to step
(03:29):
into the war room. Let's take a look at how
you destroy Christianity from the inside if you were the enemy,
So section one Divide and conquer the weaponization of doctrine.
(03:49):
If you're the enemy and you want to dismantle Christianity,
you don't start with Satanic temples or which covens. You
start with doctrine, but not by removing it, by twisting it.
Here's the thing about Christians. We love our theology and
we should. Doctrine is the spine of belief. But if
(04:12):
you're crafty, if you know how to stir the pot,
you take that love of theology, throw in some pride,
isolate a few verses, and turn iron sharpening iron into
full blown civil war. Suddenly it's not enough to be
a follower of Christ. You're a Calvinist follower of Christ
(04:36):
or a pre millennial dispensationalist with a YouTube channel into
superiority complex, or you roll your eyes at anyone who
doesn't speak in tongues, or does you see what just
happened there? Division masquerading as devotion doctrine believes doctrine becomes
(05:00):
tribal identity, and everyone not in your camp is suspect.
Stop contending for the faith and start contending with your brother. Meanwhile,
the actual enemy just leans back and SIPs his coffee
because we're doing his job for him. The most dangerous
lies aren't the ones shouted from Hell's pulpits. They're the
(05:23):
ones whispered in Christian circles, slightly off but sounding holy
like this, we're the only ones really preaching truth. They
don't teach the full Gospel. I couldn't worship at that church.
It's too seeker friendly. Sometimes that's discernment. Sometimes it's spirit
(05:48):
spiritual elitism with a new code of paint. Remember how
Jesus prayed before going to the cross. Not for better sermons,
not for perfect theology. He prayed that we would be
one as he and the Father are one. John seventeen
(06:11):
twenty one. Unity wasn't a suggestion, it was a strategy.
But unity doesn't mean uniformity. You don't have to agree
on every eschatological theory or how wet someone gets during baptism.
But if we elevate those things above the cross, we're
(06:34):
not defending truth. We're dividing the body. And here's the kicker.
The early Church didn't even have the New Testament, yet
they had the spirit, the apostles teaching, and a radical
devotion to Christ and one another. They were killed for
(06:54):
their faith. Together. We separate over carpet color and which
Bible translation someone reads. It's embarrassing. Worse, it's spiritually lethal.
The enemy doesn't care which camp you're in as long
as you care more about that camp than the kingdom.
(07:14):
Because when a house is divided, it falls. So what's
the antidote? Humility, discernment and remembering that the only banner
we rally under is Christ crucified, risen and returning. Disagree, debate,
dig into scripture, but don't let your love of truth
(07:37):
turn into a license to attack your brothers and sisters.
That's not defending the Gospel, it's dismantling it. And that's
how the enemy gets a foothold. Section two offended to
the point of isolation. When the enemy uses your wounds.
(07:58):
Let's get real for a second. Churchhart is one of
the enemy's favorite tools. Not because the church is evil,
but because it's full of people, broken people, wounded people,
people who sometimes say stupid things, forget birthdays, fail to
follow up, and occasionally weaponized scripture when they're angry or
(08:23):
being insecure, and you know who's watching, waiting jotting down
notes like a spiritual saboteur the enemy, because nothing dismantles
the spiritual community faster than offense. Now, let's clarify. We're
not talking about legitimate abuse or corruption. Those need to
(08:44):
be exposed and dealt with. I'm talking about the thousands
of subtle, festering offenses that creep in like mold in
the corners of your soul. Someone didn't acknowledge your contribution,
a leader didn't turn your message. You weren't invited to
the small group hangout. They made a joke that cut
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too deep. They voted differently than you, and just like that,
a bitter route starts to grow. The enemy whispers they
don't value you. You're better off on your own. You
don't need them to follow God, and we buy it.
We spiritualize isolation, and we start saying things like I'm
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just in the season of being alone with God right now.
I don't need a building. I am the church cool.
So is your left arm. But if you cut it
off and leave it in the forest, it's not going
to do so hot. Isolation kills faith slowly. It strips
away accountability, encouragement, sharpening, correction, all the things that community
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was designed to provide. In the enemy, he thrives in silence.
When the wolf separates the sheep from the flock. He
doesn't need he doesn't have to run. He just waits
for the blood to cool. Here's the part we don't like.
Sometimes the people who hurt us didn't even know they did.
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Sometimes they're just clumsy, distracted, dealing with their own junk.
But a fence doesn't wait for context. It just infects.
Jesus didn't say if you're offended, he said when Matthew eighteen,
he gave us the blueprint, go to the person, talk forgive, restore, rinse,
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and repeat. Because the church isn't just a hospital, it's
a battlefield. And sometimes friendly fire happens, and so what
do you do when you're wounded? You bring it into
the light. You forgive even if they don't ask for it.
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You lean back into the body, even if it's bruised.
Not because people deserve it, but because Christ did the
same for you. The enemy wants you isolated, offended, and
quietly rotting on the sidelines. Jesus wants you healed, restored,
and back in formation. So check your heart. Name the hurt,
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then choose to be bigger than it. Because unity isn't spiritual,
it's strategic. Section three. Death by distraction. How busyness and
comfort numb the soul. If Hell was a marketing department,
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they're not selling pitchforks and demons anymore. They're selling notifications. Buzz, swipe, scroll, consume.
Now do it again, but faster this time. If you
were the enemy and you wanted to keep Christians from praying,
from fasting, from studying the Word, from sitting quietly in
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the presence of God, you wouldn't have to threaten them.
You just need to keep them busy. That's the genesis
of modern warfare. You don't have to persecute the church
if you can pacify it. Give people the illusion of connection.
Let them double tap Bible memes on Instagram instead of
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actually reading the book. Let them listen to five minute
devotionals while folding laundry instead of opening the word like
it's a weapon. Convince them that doing things for God
counts as intimacy with him. Let me ask you something,
when was the last time you sat with silence? No phone,
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no background music, no podcast, just you and the Holy Spirit? Exactly.
We've made distractional lifestyle and comfort a doctrine, and that's
exactly what the enemy wants. Because when you're overstimulated, you
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stop feeling. When you're constantly entertained, you stop hearing. When
your soul gets addicted to noise, the still small voice
of God starts sounding like an interruption. The early church
didn't have twitter. They had prayer. They had prayer closets
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and upper rooms. We've got red bulls and playlists. And
don't get me wrong, I'm not against technology. I'm using
it right now to talk to you guys. I've got
to start asking is this tool serving my faith or
is it sedating it? Now? Let's talk about comfort. That's
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silent killer in Khakis. The modern Western church has somehow
decided that comfort is evidence of God's favor. But read
the Bible. It's mostly people in distress, under fire, in exile,
under arrest, or flat out murdered. Jesus didn't promise air
conditioning and church coffee bars. He promised across. Comfort makes
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cowards out of disciples. It teaches you to avoid the uncomfortable,
don't confront that sin, don't pray in public, don't rock
the boat with truth, and so we stay safe. We
stay seated, and the fire slowly goes out. Let me
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hit you with the hard truth. If the enemy ca
can't make you evil, he'll make you comfortable. And if
he can't tempt you with sin, he'll just lull you
into sleep. You'll still wear the T shirt, still post
the verse, but the power gone, the urgency missing, the
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spirit grieved and ignored. So what's the fix? Start cutting
the noise, wake up and fight the drift. Create space
in your life where the only thing happening is God
showing up, even if it's five minutes a day. You
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got to start somewhere, because the devil isn't afraid of
busy Christians. He's afraid of burning ones. Section four. You
take out the shepherds. When leadership falls, sheep scatter. You
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want to bring down a movement. You don't chase the crowd,
you go after the leader. The enemy's not stupid, he's strategic.
He knows that when a shepherd falls, a whole flock
can lose their way. And if you can take out
the voice people trust, the rest become a whole lot
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easier to scatter, confuse, or devour. Let's not sugarcoat it.
We've seen it happen again and again. Pastors with secret lives,
megachurch leaders imploding and scandal, charismatic influencers selling snake oil
in Jesus' name, the headlines practically right themselves, and while
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the media grins and clicks rack up, there's a deeper
wound happening behind the scenes, Believers questioning everything. If he
was a fraud, what's his message fake? If she fell
into that sin, what hope is there for me? If
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God was really real, how did this happen? It's the
domino effective doubt. That's exactly what the enemy wants. Now Listen,
I'm not here to bash spiritual leaders. Most of them
out there are grinding into obscurity, loving people, preaching truth
and carrying more weight than we'll ever know. But those
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are the ones the enemy really wants, not the wolves,
the real shepherds, because the higher you climb in leadership,
the lonelier it gets. The more influence you carry, the
bigger the target on your back. And if that leader
isn't grounded, if they're not surrounded by accountability, saturated in
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prayer and submitted to God, the enemy just has to
wait because pride pressure isolation than BAM crisis. But here's
the next layer of the attack. Once the leader falls,
the enemy doesn't just ruin them, he broadcasts it. He
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wants you to think every pastor is a hypocrite, every
church is corrupt, every sermon is self serving. He wants
the failure of one person to become the excuse for
the spiritual disengagement of one hundred. It's classical psychological warfare,
and it's working. There's a whole generation out there raised
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in the church now walking away, not because they stopped
believing in God, but because they saw people they trusted
collapse and no one helped them process the fall. But
let me say this, plain and raw. Your faith is
in Christ, not in a man with a microphone. It's
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kind of ironic, isn't it. Yes, we should honor the trust,
honor and trust spiritual leaders, but they are not your savior.
They are human. They're flawed, frail, capable of failure, horrendously
glorious failure. And if they fall, mourn it, but don't
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let it unravel your calling. So what's the defense for leaders?
It's real accountability, deep repentance and transparency before platform. For
the church, maturity, discernment and the ability to grieve failure
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without abandoning truth. And for the enemy, a reminder. You
can strike a shepherd, but you can't kill the church
because we don't follow men. We follow the King, and
he already crushed your head on the cross section five
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doubt dressed his wisdom the deconstruction agenda. So let me
start by saying this, asking questions isn't the problem. God
is not afraid of your doubt. He's not shaken by
your wise or your wrestlings. But here's the thing. Doubt
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has destination. It's either drives you to toward truth or
it drives you away from it. And lately a whole
momentum has sprung up around the idea of deconstruction, and
not the kind that rebuilds something stronger. I'm talking about
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the trendy, platformed kind that tears everything down, calls it trauma,
then builds a new gospel out of whatever cultural vibes
are hot this week. If you were the enemy and
you couldn't stop someone from encountering Jesus, what would you do.
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You'd convince them he was too messy, too confusing, or
too patriarchal. You'd blur his identity, twist his words, undermine
the Bible just enough to call it a man made
book while quoting it for Instagram captions. You'd dress doubt
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up in robes, you'd dress doubt up in the robes
of critical thinking. You'd call rebellion authenticity, and you would
call apostasy liberation. Sound familiar. That's exactly what we're seeing.
And it's slick too, because it starts with real pain,
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real questions, church art, bad theology, hypocrisy, legit stuff we're
talking about here. But instead of running to the healer,
people are running to therapists, TikTok theologians, and ex pastors
who now charge Patreon fees to help people unlearn Christianity.
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They're not interested in the truth, They're interested in autonomy.
And let's be honest. We love the sound of our
own enlightenment. We want to be as deep, woke, evolved.
We want to be spiritual but not accountable, faithful but
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not submitted. And we want a Jesus who doesn't say
pick up your cross, just one who says you do you.
But that's not Jesus, that's an idol and a hoodie
with a podcast Mike. The Bible says in to Timothy
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four three that a time will come when people will
not endure sound doctrine, but will gather around teachers who
teach them what their itching ears want to hear. Friends,
that time isn't coming, It's here right now. Now. Let's
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be clear. If you've got real questions, bring them. If
your faith has cracks, and examine them, but do it
with the goal of finding the truth, not just justifying
walking away from it. God can handle your wrestling as
long as your actually wrestling with Him, not with shadows.
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And if you're listening to this and you've been burned, disillusioned, disoriented,
listen carefully to me. Don't confuse the failure of people
with the failure of God. Jesus never fails, He never
lied to you, He never manipulated you. He never let
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you down. People did, systems did. But he He's the same, yesterday,
today and forever. So question boldly, but anchored deeply, because
if your deconstruction doesn't end in Jesus, it wasn't a renovation,
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It was a demolition. Sin. Section six, Sin as identity,
the normalization of rebellion. If you want to destroy Christianity
from the inside, you don't just attack truth, you redefine it.
You baptize rebellion in the language of identity. You don't
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call it sin anymore, you call it authenticity. This is
where the enemy goes from whispering to outright preaching, and
we're seeing it everywhere. God made me this way. Love
is love. Don't judge, live your truth. These are the
mantras of a gospel light, cross optional, repentance free religion
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that wears a Jesus sticker, but has no blood, no fire,
and no resurrection power. Because real Christianity says this. You
were born broken, yes, but that's why you need to
be born again. The modern lie is that your desires
define you. Say that again. The modern lie is that
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your desires define you, That your urges are sacred, that
anything less than full affirmation is downright hatred. But here's
the hard truth that rarely makes it onto a coffee mug.
God loves you exactly where you are, but he loves
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you far too much to leave you there. Sin is
not identity. It's not to be affirmed, it's to be crucified.
And the Bible doesn't say follow your heart. It says
your heart is deceitful above all things. It says, pick
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up your cross, lay down your life, crucify your flesh.
That's the way of the kingdom. But the enemy, he
preaches the exact opposite. He tells you your sin is
not only acceptable, it's beautiful. It's your brokenness that actually
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is bravery, and that anyone who says otherwise they're just toxic,
oppressive religious and the Church, too afraid of being unloving,
has started to echo the same lie. We call compromise compassion.
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We preach inclusion without repentance, We preach acceptance without transformation.
We want Jesus the comforter, but not Jesus the confronter.
But listen to me. Jesus didn't die to affirm your identity.
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He died to transform it. You were not called to
be yourself. You were called to you were called to
deny yourself. There is no gospel without repentance, and there
is no grace without truth, and there is no salvation
without surrender. The normalization of sin is the final stage
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of spiritual rot. It turns the church into a social club,
It strips the cross of its scandal, It turns the
blood of Jesus into nothing more than symbolic decoration, and
it leaves people smiling all the way to destruction. So
what do we do. We bring back the fear of
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the Lord. We preach the gospel as it is, not
as we wish it were. We stop apologizing for calling
sin what it is, and we start offering real hope
that you don't have to stay in chains, that you
can be free, that you can be new. The enemy
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wants you proud of what Christ died to free you from.
But Heaven throws a party not when someone accepts themselves,
but when they repent and are reborn. We covered a
lot today and now, and none of it's soft. And
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none of it was soft because the war we're in
it's not metaphorical, it's not poetic. It's real, it's strategic,
it's happening right now in boardrooms, breakrooms, pulpits, and podcast feeds.
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The enemy isn't playing checkers, he's playing chess. And if
you're not paying attention, you're not just at risk, you're
already compromised. But here's the thing. You're not helpless, you're
not alone, and you're not without weapons. You have the
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word of God sharper than any double edged sword. You
have the Holy Spirit, your counselor your comforter, your fire,
and you have each other. If you choose unity over ego,
prayer over pride, and holiness over hype. So what's the takeaway?
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Stay awake, stay humble, stay armored up. Refuse to be
upon in the enemy's game. Refuse to let offense, distraction
or compromise. Take your soul offline, and refuse to make
peace with sin just because it's popular. You were born
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into a battlefield, but you were reborn into a kingdom.
And that kingdom it doesn't bend, it doesn't break, and
it's sure as hell doesn't bow to the culture. So
be bold, be weird, be set apart. And if this
episode spoke to you, if it rattled your cade, stirred
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your spirit, or hit that deep down place where the
fight still lives. Then do me a favor like the episode,
Share it with someone who needs to hear it. Leave
a review. That's how we keep this thing growing. That's
how we see now these seeds keep getting planted in
enemy territory. This is broadcasting seeds on Benettine and we
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are not backing down until next time. Stay sharp, stay free,
and stay in the fight.
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