We are in a time of spiritual warfare, recently JP Sears, a YouTuber, comedian, author, speaker,
and someone who has a large following online, someone actually I came across his funny videos
during the pandemic as he took a lot of jabs at the restrictions and a lot of the things that our
government does against communism and all of the stuff, you probably guys have seen some of his
very crazy, weird and funny thought-provocative videos, he released a video, says, I changed
my mind about God, there’s a portion of this video that I want you to see because
you know, we just came out of ‘Come out in Jesus name,’ film was just released
about Deliverance took the theaters by storm thousands of people being delivered from evil,
there’s more films coming out, including the one about the Catholic Exorcist and
others about demonic things that are actually grounded in the Scriptures,
things that actually glorify the things that the Bible clearly teaches and something that JP Sears,
I’m going to mention what he mentioned in this video, but something that he highlighted that
really caught my attention because I think this is incredible hearing from somebody who is comedian,
a YouTuber, a large following who actually has a very biblical understanding of evil,
I’m not saying about other things that he talked about but this part more biblical understanding
of evil than I know of some pastors and some Christians, I want you to take a look at this
right now, I think we’re at a time of spiritual warfare, we look at what’s going on in the world,
conflict between different nations, division all over the place, we want to teach this
to your kids, it’s like, ah, you seem kind of satanic, well, that’s because I think they are,
so I even though we see these literal things playing out at the physical level, I think they’re
what we’re seeing is symptoms of what’s happening at more of a metaphysical level. I think right now
Satan and God are at war in a time of spiritual warfare; what’s on the line is you and I,
our souls, our children; one side wants to control us, the other side wants to free us, and I think
what we do in our day-to-day lives, our actions, our thoughts, our words is determining which side
of the spiritual warfare we’re fighting on. Oh, side note, I want to be honest;
I used to have shame... So that’s incredible, actually so in this video what he does is
from the beginning, he talks about him being into spirituality and one of the things that
I did not like when I watched his comedy stuff during pandemic was that you know over emphasis,
um, and huge focus on spirituality, not religion but spirituality, which I see that this is pretty
popular and common today in our culture where people you know, say no to religion, let’s say
yes to spirituality, which is honestly, it’s new age and it’s not Christianity,
and so he goes into that and saying that he used to be like that and now he has embraced
Christianity or Christian values, now again, I cannot comment on whether he’s born again,
whether he accepted Jesus Christ because in the video of 21 minutes he never mentioned Jesus or a
personal relationship with Christ or repentance of sin, so I do want to kind of give that
plug-in here, but one thing that I really found interesting is he said during the pandemic,
how evil, the presence of evil has helped to push people toward Christianity,
he said the presence of evil, the presence of control has caused people like him and he
says and so many others are beginning to open to Christianity now because of evil, it’s almost like
evil is helping people to become Christians and what he means by that is that people are forced
even to either to embrace evil or to find the other side of opposite of evil and that is you
know, there’s no really opposite of evil, except Christ, except Christianity, except the teachings
of the Bible, except walking with God and so that’s actually was very interesting observation,
and then sometime in the middle of the video, somewhere around here actually he talks about
and the reason why I’m highlighting some of this stuff is because you know, I come from a place
where communism was there and so he actually you know has a very strong stance against communism,
and he mentions something about communism that I want to highlight that communism, the
rise of Communism will or the rise of socialism communism, it’s those two things will go together,
they always go together, the rise of socialism and the rise of Communism requires this government
structure to push God out of the public platform, the public life, why? Because you cannot control
people who believe and he says this, you cannot control people who believe in a higher power,
he says the moment people believe in God, the moment people have a relationship with God,
he says, you can’t control them, they cannot be controlled and communism of course and socialism
does not work, if you cannot control people and so one thing about people who have Faith is that
you can’t control them because they have Faith in God, and they believe in freedom,
they believe in free choice, and God gives them that free choice, they honor the freedom that
they have even give freedom to other people, and so I found that very interesting that he mentioned
that, that what’s happening with our culture right now, is that there is a push against Christianity,
against belief in God because so this demonic agenda of socialism and communism can prevail, and
it cannot prevail as long as they cannot control people and they cannot control people until this
disable or remove our Faith in God. Another thing that he mentioned in this video and again
is that he is a comedian but pretty influential in conservative circles because he speaks for many
Christian values. I do want to highlight another thing he mentioned when you reject belief in God.
He said the transgender ideology began to thrive because people who believe in God believe that
God didn’t make a mistake when he created you a male; he created you a female, or whichever gender
you were assigned at Birth was God’s design. So we embraced that as God’s gift, and so he
says the moment you reject God’s belief in the existence of God, trusting in Him, praying to Him,
then what happens is the gender, the transgender ideology begins to thrive because you don’t have
God whom you submit and subject yourself to and trust in His goodness and in His design, in this
video, he also shares about prayer, how prayer is like this tube that channels the oxygen to us,
you know, and that we need to pray more and so. I want you to finish watching the example that he
uses that is very interesting because I found this to be, um, providing discernment and how he views
problems with Christianity and what used to trip him up, and so for those of you that are watching
this and maybe you struggle with Christianity, or you struggle with public scandals in the church,
money, stuff that’s been happening with some pastors, you know, sexual immorality,
I love his perspective on this idea, in regards to spiritual warfare how to view
this Through The Eyes of spiritual warfare. Let’s watch this out saying the word God,
you know, back when I thought, like dude, I’m spiritual; I’m so cool but not religious. I
used to have shame about using the word God, and instead, I’d say oh, the universe or the
all-knowing and create different names, but I actually just meant God, so I’m delighted to
say now I have not only no shame about saying God, but I actually have joy in saying, God
It's pretty good, and then I will mention again that it’s not enough to believe in
God. The Bible clearly states that demons believe, and they tremble. We have to place
our trust in Jesus Christ. The Bible says to repent from your sin and place your trust in
I want to make that plug-in. I don’t see him referencing that at all in the video,
um, you know him embracing and speaking favorably toward Christianity, that’s a really good thing,
um, and I celebrate that I think it’s going to cause a lot of people to open their minds to
that him addressing spiritual warfare is very good thing, but I just really want to kind of highlight
that that just liking Christianity embracing some good values and morals of Christianity is not what
gets us saved even though he mentions and talks about prayer and for us to pray for evil people
so they get saved uh uses that but still we we don’t see the reference maybe he’s using that to
just kind of you know draw people in I don’t know sometimes these YouTubers and sometimes
these people kind of like start slow and then they kind of go all out but um or maybe he just doesn’t
have that understanding or the revelation of the work the finished work of Jesus Christ and the
fact that we are saved and we have a relationship with God through Jesus not just through prayer and
through embracing the good things that we like about Christian faith so I just kind of want to
make the plugin here but now I just want you to listen about the issue that not only he has but
a lot of people have with Christianity concerning some of the failures and some of the struggles in
churches I share a little perspective on what I think you and I can do to bring more God into
our lives in the world around us I want to do a quick disclaimer because it’s something that
tripped me up and gave me a negative view about Christianity and God itself I would
look at all the scandals that have happened in the name of religion I mean so many wars
have been fought based on religion based on God there’s been so many corrupt scandals I mean so
many Church scandals where it’s all about the money and then of course sexual abuse scandals
in the Catholic church so I would kind of throw the baby out with a bath water like oh dude that
dirty bath water yeah if that’s what Christianity screw that if that’s what God is screw that now I
have a much more mature look where I do believe evil goes wherever it can the devil masquerades
as an angel of Disguise wow that’s that’s an interesting concept and I I really find that very
beneficial that I think a lot of Christians need to be aware of that the evil goes where it can
so if the devil wants to control people then a good way for the devil to do that is to find
people where they’re trying to find God so I think we certainly need good discernment and
just because something claims to be of God or a church or a person claims to be of God I think we
need discernment because the devil masquerades as an angel of Light but now what I think is a more
mature view I will discern evil from churches to certain evil from God so I don’t have to throw the
god baby out with the bath water but rather just throw the bathwater out and keep the god which
seems to be much more empowering so here are four well that’s I like this I like this uh approach
and I think that we all need to be reminded of that that evil exists in this world and the enemy
really wants to take people out of circulation and you know so he changed his mind about God
um what that would look like in the future I pray that the Lord will speak to him that the
holy spirit will bring him to Christ um you know talking about evil we have a movie coming out to
come out in Jesus name that actually deals and confronts evil and so I do want to remind each and
every one of you that when it comes to scandals and the misrepresentation of God that happens a
lot of times in the churches even is really the direct result of the enemy going into the places
where people are seeking God and then causing that evil to happen God is at war with evil God doesn’t
will evil and that as Christians you know we are called to take a stand against that evil and to
take a stand in spiritual warfare as soldiers and to fight against demonic doctrines to fight
against demonic agenda that’s really what it is to fight against Satanic agenda and that is to remove
God to remove the lordship of God out of our life to remove the person of Jesus Christ from our
life and to really make Christianity look really terrible so that people run away from Christianity
saying oh it’s just an organized religion but I just need spirituality because that’s what’s
happening with our generation it’s really it’s demonic it’s the enemy of pulling people into
spirituality away from Christianity and so um Christianity is spiritual but spirituality does
not mean Christianity and so that’s where the new age a lot of that you know, the Universe,
you know, Tree Huggers as well and you know those that are really into environmentalism,
those who are you know about saving the planet, not about you know saving souls, and not about
and then those would be the same people who will be fighting so that we can abort children,
you know but let’s say save trees you know, let’s save whales, let’s save dolphins, and stuff and
so that’s not Christianity. Christianity is we want to take care of our planet but people are
made in the image and likeness of God and you know life begins in the womb, we got to protect
the children, we got to protect the children from demonic ideologies, and we got to bring people to
Faith in God, we’ve got to bring people into Faith in Jesus Christ, repent from our sins and embrace
the principles that you know, I like the fact that he highlights Christian values, and principles and
says you know what I really like them, you know Faith in God, family, Freedom, Power of prayer
and then he ends with you know, four things that we need to do to bring God on the scene
and pretty much have Faith in God, listen to God with second one pray often was the third one and
the fourth one is live a life of service, and so I mean it basic Christian principles that you
know the gospel teaches Christians to do and so, I think the world is noticing that and those who are
really resistant toward this, you know control of the government especially started to happen during
the pandemic the lies the propaganda the you know follow the signs and then you know and then the
science changed and you know people lost their jobs. people lost their lives because of so many
things happening because of the government’s control over the churches shutting down the
churches. At first, it was yeah because we didn’t know what was happening. Still, at the same time,
it really got to the point where it was also a spiritual attack to try to kill people’s Faith
in God because so many people never came back to church, so many people fell off from their
relationship with God after the pandemic. So the enemy succeeded in that, and I think
the people who are resistant toward that, who want freedom, who value family, and who value Faith,
are beginning to find themselves drifting toward Christianity. Still, what I want to mention also
as Christians, we have to be very careful because, you know, liking Christianity and embracing
morality is not the same thing as being born again. Christianity is less about being good. It’s
more about being born again. It’s more about being saved from our sins and from God's wrath. It’s
repenting of our sins, placing our trust in Jesus Christ, and then living our life as an offering,
as a blessing, as a servant to others fighting evil, standing against the Demonic agenda of our
generation, helping the poor, helping the needy, praying to live in Faith and to be people who hear
God through His Holy Spirit and through His Holy Scriptures so I’m encouraged to hear this. I’m
praying for this God, that the Lord is going to move in his life as well as I want to encourage
you, we are in a spiritual battle, and the enemy is after our souls; we are stuck in the middle of
this war, you know, between God and the devil, but God lives inside of us through Jesus Christ
and by His Spirit. Therefore we are on the winning side. We will see better days ahead of us because
of Jesus. He’s coming back, and He’s going to set up His Kingdom on this earth. He will remove all
of the evil, and to His kingdom and to His Reign, there will be no end. Thank you for
watching. Be encouraged. We’re on the winning side, and The Best Is Yet To Come With JESUS.