cycle of compromise

Antipas was a real man, who was actually slain in the of the modern pergamos for his witness to Christ. It was discovered by experience that there are cities closed to the gospel of deliverance. The demon power is strongly and deeply entrenched. It is not difficult to feel darkned. Millions are in hell or on the way to hell because of the philosophy of humanism, which is athesistic to the core. Surely evil philisophers and rulers are from the rampants of hell itself. The biggest thing that the gates of hell teaches that Christianity is not a defensive mechanism. Much of the Body of Christ is always waiting for the devil to hit them. In the old times the strongest part of a city was the gates. The gates were the center learning, the center of commerce, the center of politics. That the reason why Jesus speaks of the gates. He did not speak of the wall where someone could climb up a tree and jump over. Instead, He spoke of the strongholds of the city its gates where the enemy has all of his artillery

Jesus said, "Even those gates cannot stand up before you, Go and knock them down." The biggest thing he has, the worst thing he has, knock them down. Let us read (Proverb 29:18). "Where there is no revelation the people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law. And now, with a sigh, he records the failures He reminds his readers that his people had set in motion a cycle of complications. By the way that cycle is regular repeated. It isn't limited to the Ancients. Disobedience always brings a cycle of complication. God is faithful set them in motion. 

The world operates on vision. God's people live by revelation. The world seeks grand and noble purpose and most satisfying things on which they can invest their lives. Institutions established goal and objectives and then organize themselves to achieve them. God's people function in a radically different way. Christians arrange their lived based on the revelation of God, regardless of whether it makes sense to them. God does not ask for our opinion about what is best for our future, our family, our church, or country. He already knows! "what God want is to get the attention of His people and reveal to us what is on His heart and what is His will, for God's ways are not our ways! (Isaiah 55:8-9).

Whenever people do not base their lives on God's revelation, they" cast off restraint." That is, they do what is right in their own eyes. They set their goals, arrange their agendas, and then pray for God's blessing. Some Christian are living far outside the will of God, yet they have the audacity to pray and ask God to bless their efforts! 

The only way for you to know God's will is for Him to reveal it to you. You will never discover it on your own. When you hear from the Father, you have an immediate agenda for your life: obedience. As the writer of Proverb observered: Happy is he who keeps the law."