CREEPS

Hello all of you Non-Creeps.

This first picture is a character that appeared in multiple horror flicks in the 40's and 50's. He was known as The Creeper. If you saw this guy come on the screen...creeping around...you knew that someone was about to get strangled and die.

I was watching the news last night and this morning...and I was overwhelmed by the EVIL...and the CREEPS that are delivering this evil on planet earth. I am watching an 18 year old kid that grew up before my eyes...played football with my son...being charged with attempted murder by putting a girl in a coma, drinking, having weapons on campus. I see a supposed generous man...bilking multiple millions of dollars from citizens of Tennessee...and then commit suicide. I'm watching reports of a little girl held captive in the desert of Nevada who is being sexually abused and 3-4 years later may still be held captive. One story after another...washing over me like waves of sewage...leaving me feeling dirty and unclean. WHY? CREEPS!

CREEPS (1) To move along with the body close to the ground, as on hands and knees (2) To come on gradually and almost unnoticed (3) A person regarded as very annoying, disgusting (4) To give one a feeling of fear or repugnance ie. He/She gives me the CREEPS.

With all of the scientific breakthroughs...with all of the existential enlightenment..with all of the politically correct posturing...with all of the watered down religion...we are NOT evolving into a better society. If anything where grace abounds...sin abounds much more. (Roman 5:19-21).

NOTE: Don't get me wrong...there are good things happening...but they are more like streams of light into darkened corners.

Well Rod...what do you think the problem is? I think the instigator of the world full of creeps is...the devil (little). Notice that if you put in a space between the d and the e...it is d...evil (the evil).

"Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your ADVERSARY...the devil...prowls about LIKE a roaring lion...seeking someone to devour." (I Peter 5:8). What is the solution for the devil? "But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world." (I Peter 5:9).

As believers we are called into a Resistance Force...resisting the devil. (I Peter 5:9/Ephesians 6:1-6)

What are the ROOTS OF THE CREEPS. The roots run deep into disobedience...and have grown throughout the ages bearing fruit and entangling mankind. (Genesis 3:1-24) "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men...because all sinned." (Romans 5:12)

A CREEP PROFILE (II Timothy 3:1--9)But realize this, that in the LAST DAYS difficult times will come:

a. Lovers of self
b. Lovers of money
c. Boastful
d. Arrogant
e. Revilers
f. Disobedient to parents
g. Ungrateful
h. Unholy
i. Unloving
j. Irreconcilable
k. Malicious gossips
l. Without Self-Control
m. Brutal
n. Haters of good
o. Treacherous
p. Reckless
q. Conceited
r. Lovers of Pleasure rather than lover of God
s. Holding to a form of godliness...although they denied its power.
t. Enter into households and captivate weak women weight down by sins
u. Led on by various impulses
v. Always learning...and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
w. Evil men and impostors...proceed from bad to worse
x. Deceiving and being deceived

Combine this with a list of the deeds of the FLESH: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery (enchantment with drugs), enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envyings, drunkenness, carousings and things like these...You have a pretty good profile of the CREEPS.
(Galatians 5:19-21) The only problem is that this is not necessarily...NON-CHRISTIANS...but people who say they are Christians. As I read the profile...I cringe because as I point my finger and shake my head at the news reports on television...I see glimpses of ME. At times I identify with the CREEPS.

Well...Ain't God in control of this world...and if He is..then why does he allow bad things to happen to little girls in the desert...and 18 year old boys...and drunk drivers killing innocent people...and wars...and pornography...and drug addictions...and murders...bigotry and racism (black, white, oriental, and any other color/race you add into the mix)?

"We know that we are of God..and THE WHOLE WORLD...lies in the POWER OF THE EVIL ONE." (I John 5:19). Quit blaming God for the bad...like the insurance companies do when any storm, flood, hurricane, explosion, etc....is called an ACT OF GOD. Hey God can do anything He wants to do...but give credit where credit is due.

What are we suppose to do...roll over and die or stick our heads in the sands as evil runs rampant. NEVER!!! We are called to resist...we are called to NOT fight flesh and blood but to first attack the root of the problem (Ephesians 6)...and then take a stand in the physical.

JESUS HUNG UP FOR OUR HANGUPS (II Corinthians 5:7-21/I Corinthians 15:1-6)

For some unexplainable reason...Jesus gave us authority...to be the BODY OF CHRIST...to break down the gates of hell...and bring the WILL OF GOD on EARTH as it is in HEAVEN.

R.L. Boyd