What the Unsaved Know About God’s People & How They Benefit

Many of the unsaved know God’s people do stray; this is why some will disguise themselves as sheep. Yet, on the inside they are nothing more than wolves always prepared to prey on God’s children.  Wandering into temptation, lies, secrets, cover-ups and some of you know the rest, you did some things recently and those things seared your conscious, created relationship challenges, and sooner or later one is going to experience losses!

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The unsaved are good at deceiving believers.  They know how to twist Scripture to suit their needs, dabble in the occult to make people do what they want, and most of all, hide sins!   Many have deceptive, lying spirits that plague them daily, because they have chosen to live life without God.  Notice I said they have chosen not to have a relationship with God.  Our Creator is a shepherd that wants to protect and guide us, because he knows the future and he also knows where our enemies lurk and what their secret desires are.  Without God in the plan, we suffer! 

I would like to remind readers of my book, "Face Your Foe" is to help those of you who have been blindsided by ungodly men and women who claim to love, know, and appreciate your personal relationship with Christ.  The book wasn't written just to problem-solve with common foes with common issues with us.  Some enemies are strategic and want very much to see a believer suffer, because they are jealous, bitter, difficult, or have some kind of disorder that keeps them mentally bound.

Many of our critics couldn’t tell you when was the last time God, if ever, have spoken directly to them, and even worse they aren’t certain if they are sincerely saved or not!  Their focus shouldn’t be on you and how might you benefit them spiritually, financially, mentally, etc. but all attention should be placed on Jesus Christ!  Direct the naysayer, the worldly, and the confused to Jesus!

Some of you who are reading "Face Your Foe" or finished up with it, have bank accounts that are often in the negative, because you continue to support someone or a group’s ungodly lifestyle.  You know deep down inside you should have never participated in a holiday gift exchange especially with a child of darkness, but you did anyway.  You know God isn’t pleased.  

Other believers are enablers, helping those both young and old who battle with demons of self-destruction continue to harm self by buying alcohol, purchasing cigarettes, or telling them to take drugs.  The wicked are like parasites attached to a wayward believer’s skin feeding off of fleshly desires for more of whatever they like:  pornography, premarital sex, and violence.  Those believers that wonder why some critics have become enemies might want to consider what they are doing to keep backsliding critics happy one day and then angry the next with them.  Can we say, Hypocrite!  

Sometimes God will use a difficult person to challenge and remind a believer of his or her character traits in Christ and how he or she is beginning to weaken in his or her faith.  Acting pathetic and double-minded when it comes to dealing with our enemies is not on the list!  The unsaved benefit from one's weakness as follows:

1)  They obtain or maintain wealth, while one remains in debt.  They play on your generosity.

2)  They expect servants not friends.  After all, you are supposed to be like Jesus, right?

3)  They only listen to counsel that makes them feel good.  So you stay in their good graces when you don't speak anything unflattering.  Their esteem is built up while they tear yours down!

4)  They use you to do things that compromise your morals.  They will mention a title such as: "best friend, mother, father, brother..." they have in your life and all they have done for you in an effort to guilt you into doing what they want.

5)  You are sick from all you have gone through with them, while they are well.  They pity you and talk negatively about you to others to appear like they have it altogether.

Other things they will achieve as a result of your weaknesses include: breaking up marriages and sleeping with coveted partners, rob one of belongings, turn children against you, find ways to get one incarcerated or worse kill, and revel in one's failures while puffing themselves up. 

Our Lord is all-knowing—He sees you, me, the righteous and the unrighteous and what we do and don’t do when it comes to bringing glory to Him.  It’s during times of trial when we start asking questions like, “Why is this person (or people) treating me in this negative way?”  If we choose to trust in God, he will reveal a person’s true intent.  

Watch how people react or respond when you share the good news of Christ or any truth that causes them to open their eyes to ungodliness.  You will know in time who is friend and who is foe.  A friend will be glad you told them something useful and will try to attain more knowledge on the subject, but a foe will put up a protest whether publically or privately about you.

I leave you with this, no matter what you are going through, remember Romans 8:28 and brother Job's story.

Nicholl McGuire is the author of Face Your Foe, Know Your Enemy The Christian's Critic and the owner of this blog.