Yesterday’s sermon at the Rooted was a good one. In it, Pastor Chris spoke about Satan’s strategy in attacking God’s people. Some of us tend to see Satan’s attack in everything from bad traffic to bad weather. As C. S. Lewis taught us in The Screwtape Letters, we should neither ignore him nor obsess about him. But we should be on guard. What Chris said is spot on: “Consistently in Scripture we see the spiritual war being fought not in the trivial matters of daily life (like traffic and weather)…but in teaching…It is a war of counter intelligence, a war of lies and deceit, a war of ideas and teaching.”
The text was 1 Timothy 4:1-11, “Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared…” (vv. 1-2). How do people walk away from Jesus? Through deceit, false teaching, and the lies told to them by liars.
