EVIL HAS NO BORDERS

   In the word "devil" is also the word "evil".  They are the same.
   Jesus said, "Deliver us from evil." (Matthew 6: 13)
   Jesus also said, "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:  I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10: 10)
   A country without borders is not a country.
   A government that does not protect its borders will not protect its people:  and the thief will come to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
   If a nation does not protect its borders, the people will not live abundantly.
   A nation will never achieve greatness if it does not defend its borders to protect its people.
   Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall, and every empire throughout human history has fallen because they did not protect their borders:  and the thief entered therein to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
   Nations worldwide today are falling because governments are not protecting their borders:  thus enabling the thief to enter therein to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
   The empire of the United States will also fall if our government does not defend our borders:  thus enabling the thief to enter therein to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
   The enemy does not see lines in the sand:  neither does the devil.
   A nation without borders is an open invitation, or a welcome mat, for the enemy to enter therein to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
   If a government does not protect its borders, that nation does not have a government.
   As individuals, we also have borders. 
   Spiritual borders are invisible.  The devil is an evil spirit and the devil is invisible.  Our greatest battle, therefore, is not with things visible, but rather will things invisible.  If we, therefore, do not protect our invisible borders, the devil will enter therein to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
   On the other hand, if people do not believe that Christ is a real person, neither will they believe that the devil is a real spiritual creature.  If they will not believe that Christ is alive even now, neither will they believe that Satan is alive. 
  Therefore, for them to believe that Christ will return is impossible for them to consider because Christ is not a real person.  To them, Christ is no more than an image that has been built in their minds, and no more real than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.  Consequently, both Christ and the devil are no more than images in their minds, and neither is real or alive.
   It is easy for people to say that Christ was born, died, and resurrected, but do they believe this in their hearts?  Or does this indicate that they have been taught to merely repeat these words as part of their Christian indoctrination, or as a way of continuing their religious tradition handed down to them from their parents?---as if their Christianity is their family inheritance, or even as far to believe that their Christianity is in their DNA, and their religion is actually in their blood?  If so, then they will surely believe that their religion cleansed them from their sins as well as will get them to heaven, and not Christ!  To them, born again Christians are strange people.  They do not understand us.  To them, we are odd, unlearned, and perhaps viewed as no more than infidels  And in their pride, they look down their noses at us because we do not have what they have in their religion, or that we are not as good as them.
   We must remember that Judas Iscariot went to church with Jesus for three years.  But when Judas turned his back against Christ, God no longer protected the border of Judas, and the devil entered therein to steal, to kill, and to destroy.
      "Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out."  (Acts 1: 18)
      "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." (Hebrews 1: 31)
      "And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement:  so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." (Hebrews 9: 27-28)
      "Abstain from all appearance of evil.  And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (1st Thessalonians 5: 22-23)