As you study more deeply the things of God, leaving a spirit of anti-intellectualism, strive to avoid the much greater evil of unbelief. Many people who embark on an intellectual pursuit eventually become hardened against the Scripture itself, refusing its promises of freedom, power, and miracles. An enlightened and vigorous Christian mind is supposed to help you increase in faith and fortify you against error. If Satan cannot trick you to live like an idiot, he would want you to turn your mind against God and his blessings instead of against evil, defeat, sickness, and poverty. He would want to trick you to use your mind to strengthen his hold on humanity with a gospel of religious pretense and pointless suffering. If you fall for this trap, he could make you even less effective than an anti-intellectual. Worse, he could turn you into an enemy of the gospel even as you think you defend it.

The Bible says that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. The devil corrupts the whole man, not only his spirit, but also his health, his labor, his relationships, everything. Jesus saves the whole man — more powerfully and completely than the devil can corrupt it. A gospel that portrays Jesus as a partial savior is a false gospel. It is heresy to suggest that the devil’s works are more comprehensive than the redemption of Christ. The thief comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy — not just your spirit or your morality, but everything. Jesus called sickness satanic bondage, and Peter called sickness demonic oppression. They started to eradicate it right away. The thief steals, kills, and destroys — now, not later. Jesus has come that you might have life, and to have it abundantly — now, not later. Jesus saves the whole man, breathing life into every part of his life, right now, by faith. Any message that differs or delays is false gospel. So this is the direction you should go with all your might — faith in the whole word of God.

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