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Sun Tzu's treatise, The Art of War, encompasses numerous enduring strategic principles, including insights into leadership and conflict resolution. 

These principles aim to secure swift, efficient, and strategic victory, often embodying the 'ends justify the means” philosophy, whereby any method—immoral or harmful—may be deemed acceptable if it leads to a desirable outcome, such as victory.

Unintentionally, the author appears to endorse perpetual warfare and incessant conflict, for once an individual adopts an aggressive mindset, peace becomes unattainable.

For example, Sun Tzu asserts, “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."

Consequently, a warrior committed to winning through conflict may employ deceptive and nefarious strategies to prepare for war, thereby initiating a state of undeclared, ongoing warfare and continuous conflict.

The text does not predict the duration of conflicts once warfare commences. Historically, Imperial Japan anticipated conquering China within three months to a year of the 1937 invasion. Similarly, Russia expected to conquer Ukraine within three to ten days following the 2022 invasion.

None of these projections materialized.

The reason lies in the fact that deception and subterfuge, whether directed at adversaries or oneself, undermine the credibility of the aggressor who believes that victory can be secured through deceptive superiority, moral compromise, and the sacrifice of innocent lives, leading to a loss of moral standing and international reputation.

Engaging in aggression results in a loss of legitimate standing in the global community, owing to the human cost and violations against humanity.

Such aggression ultimately leads to a lose-lose scenario concerning human lives and ethical integrity.

While Sun Tzu acknowledges the economic ramifications of prolonged warfare, historical contexts differ from current global markets, where even short-term conflicts can precipitate significant and enduring economic repercussions.

Finally, the adage, "The wise warrior avoids the battle," underscores the importance of eschewing warfare and conflict altogether to maintain moral standing, economic stability, and to foster enduring peace and prosperity.

 

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Is power and control part of the fruit of the Spirit?

Is power part of someone's character, talent, or personality?

Is control part of someone's character, talent, or personality?

How do you control character, talent, or personality?  

Is ruthless part of the fruit of the Spirit?  

Is it possible to be devoid of any weaknesses? 

What happens to your soul, heart, and mind when it exists in grandiose delusions of power and control and ruthlessness?

Will you become more intelligent, gain greater wisdom, or enlightenment?  

Be more connected to the Holy Spirit and humanity?

Accomplish greater deeds?  

Invent amazing innovations?  

Solve complex problems of the world?  

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If someone is never spiritual can that individual ever be a part of humanity or even reality?

Heaven on Earth

 

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“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”  

                                             - Matthew 6:21

What is your most valued treasure?

Remove all mundane temporal things, the things you cannot take with you when you die, and what is left?  

What happens when you live your whole life focused on the “treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19)?  

Your heart, soul, and mind become neglected and poor.

Therefore, what is your most valued treasure? 

Obviously not any treasures of the mundane, "but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal" (Matthew 6:20).

Where are these treasures in heaven found?  

These treasures in heaven can be easily found in heaven on earth (Matthew 6:10), stored within the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), within the deepest parts of your purity of heart and soul.

Thus your most valued treasure besides your deepest connections to the Lord, loved ones, and Holy Spirit, is the most authentic you, the you the Lord created you to be, stored and expressed in the fruit of the Spirit within you.

If you care only for the treasures of the mundane, neglecting the treasures of heaven, then how would you ever live a spiritual life and defend yourself against sin and the temptations of Satan?

Moreover, would it have any effect to wear the Armor of the Lord without ever connecting to it or activating its protective holy light?

By keeping in step with the Spirit, we can live by the Spirit and have a heaven on earth (Galatians 5:25).

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Do you really think that cockroaches, devoid of honor, decency, and purity of heart, could have conquered anyone through the desecration of the temple of the Holy Spirit? 

Or were the cockroaches conquered by Satan and the sins of lust, perpetrating crimes against humanity? 

Where is purity of heart, where is honor, and where is love in conquest?  

Nowhere.

Because the abusers, delighting in abuse, damnation, and the abuse of power, are in delusions of grandeur, being conquered by Satan as their purity of heart, honor, decency, and love are destroyed. 

Sinful practices result in damnation, not salvation. 

Do you think cockroaches would be forgiven for them, especially without redemption, confession, repentance, and atonement for sins?

 

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There are individuals who would go to any lengths to attain their Caesar objectives and missions, even at the expense of innocent lives and their souls, neglecting or overriding the objectives and missions of the Holy Spirit.

What are the ramifications of disregarding or disobeying spiritual laws and the commands of the Holy Spirit?

Throughout history, those who have defied the Lord have expedited their own destruction and demise.

Although there are records of successful conquest, such acts are never equivalent to governance. Territories are seldom held together for long periods. What is the purpose of these conquests a century later? Merely legacies of senseless deaths and crimes against humanity.

At the onset of World War II, Hitler and the Axis powers conducted numerous conquests rooted in fear and hatred.

Fear and hatred are not innovations in economics nor healing lights; only the destruction wrought by war which accelerates greater devastation.

By the end of World War II, Germany, under Hitler's rule, was in ruins, and its people faced starvation.

Why then adopt similar destructive practices as those of Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan?

Is it necessary to possess psychic abilities to foresee the eventual outcome of such destructive harm?

How does one fund an army, navy, or air force in the absence of a robust economy?

Regardless of justifications, what becomes of your soul when you commit atrocities and murder innocent individuals, particularly children, for personal gain?

Conquering material possessions or worldly domains that belong to the Lord, at the expense of your soul or innocent lives, does not constitute true conquest but rather signifies the condemnation to be conquered by greed, abuse of power, and Satan’s temptations.

This represents nothing but a failure of character and a lapse in resisting Satan’s temptations.

When Jesus Christ was tempted by Satan after forty days and nights in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13), to worship Satan in exchange for worldly power and kingdoms, He responded, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.’”

Who do you serve if not the Lord or humanity?