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By Gary Ritter
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“How foolish you are! We do what we’ve always done. We look at the man’s weaknesses, his proclivities, and use them against him.”
“This one’s a difficult case. The Enemy has said he’s a man of integrity. He even spoke that word prophetically to him.”
“He is human. He has sin from his past he’s never repented of. We’ll find it if we seek it out. We will cause him to fall. We’ll even destroy his standing with his pastor, so the man no longer trusts him and will thrust him from his ministry position.”
“That would be delicious. Let’s see, what have we got on him? How about the big one – sexual immorality? Anything there?”
“Give me a minute; this book is heavy. I’m checking the records. Nope. He did all that before the Enemy got ahold of him. He was thoroughly ours then, but he put all that under the accursed Son’s blood.”
“Okay, look for debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft. Any of those?”
“This is extremely disappointing. He’s given up all his idols and looks only to the Enemy. I shudder at the thought.”
“What about hatred, rage, selfish ambition?”
“He’s quite self-controlled and patient. His love – excuse me while I metaphorically vomit – has grown in the last year. I’m beginning to despair of how we can bring him down.”
“Dissensions? Anything there?”
“Oh, my goodness, look at that. I think we’ve hit on something. He has a questioning nature and he’s always thought that was a good thing. Unfortunately it can be, but what if we twist that nature to make it critical? We’ll make him call evil good and make him wise in his own eyes. We can convince him to think he’s offering constructive criticism when he’s actually causing dissent.”
“Yes! Yes! We can encourage him to talk to others in (hah!) ‘productive dialogue’ and begin to create disunity in his church. Because he’s a leader others will think he’s on to something that’s Godly. They’ll go along and we’ll tear the church apart. Maybe it’ll split, even dissolve all together. I can’t wait!”
“Beautiful. Let’s be about our business.”
A week later…
“I’m so depressed. It was going so well. What did we do wrong?”
“I’m scratching my figurative head. We had him questioning the pastor’s plan – even his integrity. It got misunderstood exactly as we intended. We were well on our way. The pastor learned about it, confronted him in a way I surely thought would cause their relationship to degenerate, and…oh, I’m so disgusted. Instead of reacting in anger to the pastor’s accusations, he repented. He was contrite, meek, and submissive to the authority of his pastor. He asked the pastor and the Enemy to forgive him. Ugh! What’s that all about?”
“I hate it when these disciples of the Enemy get down on their knees, when they surrender their ambitions and desires, their inherent natures to Him. If I had knees in which to be weak they’d be trembling in rage right now. As it is I can hardly think straight.”
“I know. When they’re humble it destroys all our good work. We try to bring somebody like him down and what do we get? Zilch.”
“You know we’ll have to report this. Master will learn of this one way or the other. If we keep it from him, we’re goners.”
“I shudder to think of our fate either way. We tell Master and he zaps us, or we hide it from him and he finds out. We might as well jump in the Lake of Fire right now. We’re doomed.”
“Master hates failure. He’s had so much of it in his life. I almost feel sorry for him.”
“Good, you tell him that. I’m sure he’ll appreciate it.”
“You don’t think so?”
“Oh, oh. Here comes Master now. I think we’re…”
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