“A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy;
I came so that they might have life
and have it more abundantly.”
(John 10:10)
Dear Friends –
Christ labels the Devil a thief because all that Satan does is in vile opposition to a loving God who gives life; Satan is dead-set on destroying everything that God made, and his hatred and jealousy of God are unyielding. When the Devil steals a soul away from belief in God, that fallen angel, aka the Devil, knows that deeply hurts God, and that is his main revenge for being thrown out of heaven. The soul he took profits him nothing, nor does it garner the lost soul anything but a place in hell eternal with the Devil who can
never outdo Almighty God. Most street criminals have no idea what awaits them because as Jesus said, they have not known either the Father or me. In the meantime, Satan is making hellish life on earth for believers who shudder at the daily slaughter and destruction of God’s principles. Homosexuality always has been forbidden by God, and when it appeared in the early pages of The Bible we saw His wrath for this infraction released by the destruction of the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah. Today, the Devil has managed to have worldwide acceptance of this behavior, evolving into an LGBTQ community with power that continually tries to erode God-designed gender roles. Adultery was one of God’s original “Thou shalt not” commandments, but look around you and find how accepted infidelity is these days. There is no longer shame or a stigma applied to cheating spouses for it has become so common. The focus for outrage has changed to the perversity of sexual acts where the lack of control results in additional crimes committed to meet sexual urges. Abortion is a grave offense against God’s Thou shalt not kill, and has certainly come to the forefront with the Supreme Court’s ruling. Some Governments align themselves with God by outlawing killing, however, some differ on the humanity of the unborn and kill anyway, while others permit Euthanasia, killing under the guise of mercy. What a soulless nation we have become with the Devil’s help instead of maintaining our Christian foundation and growing God’s family on earth.
Never has there been a great need for evangelization to fight these horrid accomplishments of Satan. How hard it is for 
young Christian families to raise children in these times with peer pressure, in its many forms, exerting every possible means to contradict God’s ways, even to the point of ridiculing belief as weakness. How hard it is to swim against the tide of nonbelievers promoting unlimited freedoms by ignoring anybody’s rules, but especially God’s. How hard it is to watch evil thrive and avoid punishment when discipline by government is practically nonexistent, rarely effective, and ill-equipped and budgeted to handle the overwhelming volume of offenders. The bad guys have strength in numbers, they know it, and that should not be so.
Christ brings strength to His brothers and sisters who want to contend with evil as He did because we are far from God The Father’s original plan for us to live in a Paradise-like existence… to have life abundantly. And just as Satan entered the original Garden of Paradise to upset God’s plan, so has he continually tried by deceit to this 
very day to steal beautiful life from our existence. So we take a lesson from Adam and Eve’s mistake and refuse Satan any power over our life. We kick him out of our scope of existence everywhere that we can by action and prayer. We point out to all concerned the exact evil that is destroying the good life through every avenue of social media possible; name names where possible by God’s dictate to rebuke and chastise sinners. We get mad, as did Christ when He took a whip through the temple, and we show our disgust and exasperation with all those people and forces that openly desecrate the God-designed good life, and who demand that tolerance and enforcement for their evil ways be recognized by society. We act, we speak out, and we pray… we show God that we truly care… and we leave the results up to Him.
IMMORALITY ON THE RISE… WHY?
No one denies we have evil, criminal, and immoral behavior affecting our daily lives like never before; in every community across our nation, security and tranquility have been replaced with fear, anxiety, and mayhem. Evil no longer exists in just the wrong part of town anymore, it’s coming in your back door, also knocking women and men down on the street in hate of their nationally or skin color, smashing and grabbing whatever they want destroying businesses, and taking cars out from under the owners 
in parking lots or follow-home robberies, drive-by shootings killing purposefully and indiscriminately by wretched gang members, and on and on it goes. The horrific massacre at the Texas school last month produced a grief-stricken outcry, ENOUGH! When are we going to stop this repeated killing of our children? All we do is talk about it, and analyze how it happened, accomplishing nothing because the enormity of the causes are too complicated to handle when they are grouped under gun control issues and detection of mental health problems. But they miss the most obvious underlying cause of all our vile problems which is IMMORALITY… the quality of being without principles of right and wrong… something that is left up to religion to teach and encourage, not governments.
A moral person, knowing the difference between right and wrong, has made the spiritual choice to live a virtuous life over one of selfish vice. An immoral person may very well know the difference between right and wrong, but definitely chooses the wrong way of life when it suits their egotistical needs; a totally immoral person is 
evil personified and is committed to self-gratification at the expense of anybody, anything, and at any time. These deranged individuals turn into predatory animals to have their self-worth established and publicized, or reestablished after a demeaning experience. A gun is the easily available tool that emboldens them with a sense of power and might over their unarmed opponent, and as proficiency grows with accomplishments, so does the desire to escalate. This insane behavior germinates from bad seed that lacks all the wisdom, truths, and blessings of Almighty God, which is instilled only in His Seed to grow and blossom into all that is right, not wrong.
We are nourishing weak seedlings everywhere through wrongful images of vile behavior, graphically displayed in brutal video games, violent and salacious TV shows, movies, song lyrics, and social media platforms that enable grandiose
arrogance, deceit, and intimidation. This garbage we are feeding our young is producing weeds! These dregs of society are not the result of any one thing like gun control laws, but rather, the total collapse of moral education thwarted by the radical “ism” factions of the day as in humanism, relativism, socialism… who are all fighting religious education. Without God and His creeds ruling the majority of our lives, we have the Devil dominating with hell on earth. Until we figure out some way to get God’s creeds accepted in the public forum for the general education of all, we will continue to have horrendous mass shootings… the disintegration of the family… and immorality in all its’ vile forms will continue to rise... for only Godliness can conquer evil.
