Bullies: Cry Uncle or Enough

     I have a memory where a class bully had me pinned to the ground with one knee on each of my shoulders. He implored me time and time again to say "uncle". That is the word expressing the "white flag" of surrender. I never would say uncle, but after I tired of the bullying I would scream out "enough"! The only other choices I had was for the bell to ring or the bully to get tired. I consider the bell or him tiring as defeat. I would lunge high and flail to the last breath until freed from bowing to those big bullies. My slogan has always been, never give up!
     For meek Christians the world is the bully. Yes, we are to be meek, but not to submit. Life is a tribulation and that is the bully Devils' way to pin us to the ground. He doesn't wait for "uncle" to be expressed; with us pinned to the ground he is king. The Devil is like a roaring lion waiting to devour the weak. He has little taste for firm meat, and is just waiting for the world to tenderize to his liking.
     Christians cannot even say, "uncle". Satan knows when he is king is when people do his will. That's why bullies are bullies - to have people do their will. Weak people know the tactics of the bullies and do their will without being bullied. They actually may enjoy having the bully as their friend, and are always ready to do whatever the bully commands or even desires. Many of us have seen gangs led by bullies. Obstensibly, some people keep the company of the bully because everyone seems to enjoy the pleasure of his company.
     I hope the reader sees where this is headed: Eventually, someone comes along to stop the bullying. The hero in white, although low-key and patient, steps on the bully's toes, grabs his fingers and twists him to the ground. The hero humbles the bully, and the in the end, the bully is revealed as the nothing that he is! Well, Satan is nothing, and in the end, our Hero will make him bow before humbling him in a fiery pit. When the bully fails to  change, which he won't, our Hero will destroy him. That's what bullies get - destruction!
     Of course, our "Hero" is Jesus Christ, and the bully is the Devil. The Devil has a gang as well: they are two other beasts and legions of dark angels who do the Devil's will. They too will die! We don't think much about it, but Satan's children - sinners - are cheerleaders for the evil team. They like what the world has offered and want to continue the way it has always been. The Devil has even made bullies of humans: to be like their father the Devil, they bully for Satan. We see that everyday now as in the days of Noah.
     We are there! The world is just as in the days of Noah. Sacred scripture reveals those days well. (See my latest book: Killing God: The Tree of Life.) The description provided of those days are much like a modern-day rock concert where everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes: Every type of wickedness was evident from drunkenness, revelry, lasciviousness, wild music, and all sorts of worldly pleasures. The plain of Cain became Hollywood. Satan wrote the script and his children acted the parts, including real sex, and they were proud.
    With transparency, I reveal my attitude about Hollywood and most of the entertainment industry: They are the "bullies" doing the Big Bully's will. Hollywood and the rest of the pleasure industry have their "knees" on the world. Each day the bullies become more brave, and it seems that no authority is there to reign them in. People bow to their will for just a little more pleasure. We can expect that from sinners, but the Entertainment demon has his knees on meek Christians as well. Unlike other bullies, they don't care if  Christians ever say "uncle"; they are satisfied if we just lay there and submit because we enjoy what they put out.
     Christians everywhere have become soldiers of the Devil without ever knowing it. Of course, they don't necessarily serve the Big Bully but enjoy his company. The Big Bully is satisfied with that! Some Christians do say, "uncle"; they just give up and stay at home. Hollywood seems too powerful to have a feud with them. "Good" Christians just sit at home, and let the Devil have his way with the world. They don't realize that neutrality cannot exist in the world. It's either God's Way or Satan's law of sin. By keeping quiet they are sacrificing their children to Molech.
     Of course, they don't toss their children into the fire in the belly of Molech, but let entertainers do it for them! Those overly meek Christians are apathetic and pathetic. They give their "seed" to the Devil to grow his crop.
     Sincere, dedicated Christians, and there are few, say, "Enough!" They realize how devouring the Devil is, but as Daniels in the lions' den, they depend on God to fight the battle with them. All they need to do is have no fear in the face of the "lion" and his legions of black "panthers". God does the battling
     Daniel had no choice: God selected him to fight the lions. Daniel merely had to be brave a nd let God tame His beastly creatures. That's what Christians need to do as well: Call (pray) for God to destroy the "lions" which are all about us. Unlike Daniel, we don't have to go into the den to fight. We can fight the Entertainment demon by keeping him out of our dens, living rooms, and entertainment rooms. It's easier to fight those demons at home. However, if we go to them, for most, the battle is already lost. Christians sit complacently in movie seats and stand at rock concerts allowing the Entertainment demons to fill their souls with sin, the very place where God dwells!
     We Christians seem to forget that we are God's Temples. Inside us somewhere is what should be as holy as the Holy of Holies. Unless the priest is spiritually and ceremonially clean, the priest would die in the presence of God. As "royal priests" we take the offering to God ourselves. We place our sacrifices in the temple of God - ourselves. We are like Cain, in that what we bring to the altar is brought in with a selfish attitude. we don't want what's holy but all we offer the Holy Spirit is worldly pleasure. Christians who do not provide the temple with an acceptable sacrifice will die! Satan uses entertainment to provide the unholy and impure sacrifices to billions of souls. Satan smiles as Christian sit there taking it in, and going where the evil reigns.
     Also, in my book, I discuss that holy children of God sit high on the Holy Mountain in the days of Noah, and wanted what Cain's people had. They wanted to be entertained and pleasured. They did not bring the world to holiness, but the world brought down the Church - Seth's line. Christians are to be righteous as Seth was. However, contemporary Christians, just as in the days of old, leave the Holy Mountain to come down on the plain of iniquity. Seth's become Cains just to be entertained!
    Entertainment and pleasure are the most effective "fiery darts" which Satan has in his arsenal. He hardly needs to take out his heavy weapons of tribulation because weak Christians are easily defeated.
     Just as Pavlov's dogs, the Entertainment demon conditions us to salivate at the very thought of being entertained by the world. Those who cheer for rock musicians are too enslaved by Satan to raise out stretched arms to God. Can you not see which "tree' you stand under? God cries for us as Satan cunningly smiles. He may not have you yet, but at least God agonizes. That's what Devils do: because they cannot kill God, they make him sad. God is not happy at all with us Christians. Satan is!
    We all have the Devil's knees on our shoulders and are imprisoned by sin... just some more than others. I will never cry "uncle" nor just lay there in defeat. I say, "Enough!"

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. (Jam 4:3-10).

     Right now, as always, the entertainment industry is bullying Christians. They offer little of which we can have pleasure, so we go to their turf and gulp up evil. Entertainment is not bad and neither is pleasure.  On the other hand, worldly entertainment (unrighteousness) is, and too much pursuit of pleasure and entertainment is wrong. The Church has become little more than a place to be entertained. Even too much clean entertainment is distracting if it excludes hearing the truth from Holy Scripture.