Gary Varvel: New Year's Day terrorist attacks

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“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” - 1 Peter 5:8

The New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans and that bizarre Tesla Truck explosion in Las Vegas, are reminders that we are in a spiritual war with people who are slaves of the devil. And although the terrorist attacks were in the physical world, the actual battlefield is in the mind.

The media is reporting that the driver of the truck who killed 15 people in New Orleans joined ISIS over the summer. How did this happen? His moral principles would have been corrupted. He had been “demoralized.” His worldview had been indoctrinated with an evil ideology of ISIS.

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Soviet defector, Yuri Bezmenov explained it this way: “A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. He will refuse to believe it.”

The Bible explains that a demoralized person has been “blinded by the god of this world.”

2 Corinthians 4:4 says, “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”

So how do we fight this spiritual war? Not with conventional weapons but with spiritual weapons.

2 Corinthians 10:4 says, “We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.

What are God’s mighty weapons? Prayer and the Word of God. I know that unbelievers mock “thoughts and prayers,”because they they are spiritually dead and can’t understand the power of God. But the only power capable of changing the hearts of people is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Romans 10:17 says, “So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.”

ARCHIVE: I drew this cartoon in 2015. The idea came from this Biblical principle:

Jesus said, “out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.” (Matthew 15:19)

Evil thoughts and murder were in the heart of the New Year’s Day terrorist in New Orleans and he did the will of the devil who comes to “steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” (John 10:10a)

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