FALLEN ANGELS

By Rick Mathes

John 6:67 (NASB77) ⁶⁷ Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?”

Satan’s arrows and saints’ friendly fire often cause seekers to fall away and remain condemned to eternal dying in the furnace of Hell. Even with the best of intentions they find our gospel offensive. Think about it: God dies in shame on a death steak. That’s hard to believe. Jesus is fully God and equal to the Holy Spirit that forms the trinity? How about Jesus, of his own volition died and then rose himself up from the dead: the ultimate healing? This isn’t easy stuff.

Many fear the persecution by family and friends tht is sure to follow a conversion. They will just laugh off your “born-again” experience and just wait and see in the bushes to laugh and cater to you when you screw up and sin.

More often than not, the reason people turn their back to the Lord is peer-group pressure; your evil companions become your only support system and you would rather stay in the comfort zone of sin, step out into the wilderness of vulnerability which is sure to follow your new life and new friends.

It’s really hard to let go of your sensual enjoy your sensual enjoyment of drugs, sex and rock-n-roll. You can’t even imagine a world without alcohol, loose women, gambling, drugs and crime. It really is a new planet when you forsake the devil and pledge allegiance to the King!

Sadly, but it is true, that many just plain don’t want to be bothered about religion. It’s just sheer laziness. Why waste time hanging out with Christians that just don’t know how to have a god time.

The reason some drop out is unsound doctrines. I’m not into handling snakes, drinking poison, or jabbering in a silly unknown language.

Satan has so corrupted the church to with false beliefs that “unless you get the real deal, you will fall for anything a persuasive devil can reach you with.

Lastly is when the situation you are in changes from terrible toi tolerable. This is when Satan persuades you that you don’t need religion; you can handle it one more time!