Christians have always, to one extent or another, felt like fish out of water. And this should come as no surprise. After all, the systems of the world gravitate away from Christ rather than towards him.
A Scottish Baptist minister named Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910) stated: “Society is not of God, and the institutions of every nation upon earth have still in them much of the evil one. Christian people are set down in the midst of these, and the antagonism is perennial.”
The Apostle John clearly understood this ever-present dynamic. He wrote, “We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one” (1 John 5:19).
God is of course always sovereign over all things. Nevertheless, Satan controls those who are outside of Christ’s Kingdom, and he works strategically to consume the hearts and minds of young people.
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