We must not place our trust in princes or human institutions, mightily influenced as they are by Satan, the father of lies. Satan's influence has hopelessly corrupted all human institutions—government, religion, education, health care, jurisprudence, industry, finance and the media. For example, governments no longer serve us but seek to control us and churches emasculate morality by teaching only political correctness, while in some cases concealing pedophiles and promoting the rights of sexual perverts. Health care has become so corrupted that hospitals are places people go to get sick. Sadly, forces of greed and corruption have even high-jacked institutions of charity, their executives sometimes receiving high levels of compensation while their recipients receive left-over crumbs. Broadly, the many institutions of hope have done little if anything to resolve the reasons for their existence. In some cases, they are more a part of the problem than its solution. God's called-out ones will find it more profitable to trust in the Lord than in princes or any institutions of hope created by mankind.