If we were to listen to the voice of
the world today, we would believe that the unforgivable sin is offending
others. If we could only be sensitive
enough to the feelings of others, what a glorious world this would be, or so
they would have us think. Who is the
“they” that I speak of? For the sake of
simplicity, let’s call them the Politically Correct Police, the ones who are
constantly at work in the job of defining for all the world what is, or is not,
acceptable to say, think, hear, or do.
At one time, they may have been called Nazis, Fascists, Marxists, or any
number of names given to those who think they can control the thinking of man
for the primary purpose of removing all faith in the one true God of the
Bible. In reality, we know that the one
behind it all is Satan, the Father of all lies.
He glories in endeavoring to indoctrinate all of mankind with the spirit
of antichrist for the purpose of corrupting all of mankind. He can not stand it when man gives all glory
and honor unto God, for in his pride he wants to be worshipped in the place of
God. Satan has an arsenal of weapons
which he diligently uses in his efforts to corrupt man. Presently, among others, he is using this
tool of political correctness to subvert, distract, and destroy man’s faith and
trust in God.
I don’t see one law, not in God’s word
or in the laws of man which guarantees the right not to be offended. The PC police are presently scurrying hither
and yon to establish such things as “safe places” where only that which is
deemed to be politically correct and non-offensive to others may be
spoken. The main problem with that is
that, in their efforts to define what is acceptable or not, they will not stop
until the only place that it’s acceptable to speak about the gospel of Jesus
Christ will be behind the closed doors of a church or synagogue, that is until
they are able to remove even them. This
is nothing new. It’s just another ploy
of Satan’s, all dressed up in a different disguise, to deceive and confuse the
people, God’s most precious creation whom He has made in His own image.
If you want to truly break the law of
“thou shalt not offend anyone,” just speak these words: “Jesus answered, ‘I am
the way the truth and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14: 6) In the world’s idea of right and wrong,
acceptable and condoned, those are words of hate, bigotry, and worst of all,
exclusiveness. Oh, they don’t mind if
you talk about many gods (inclusiveness), for you see being inclusive of ALL
things is just fine with them. In fact
to their way of thinking, the more the merrier for it helps to dispel and
disparage any idea that there is only One True God.
Why
else do you think that, especially in today’s world, you are more likely to
hear the words “Jesus Christ” being used as a curse word instead of being
revered and esteemed as holy and sacred?
Ah yes, use His name as a curse word, and you are not only esteemed as a
cool dude, but you are also contributing to the process of desensitizing the
minds of the people of the world to make them think that there is nothing
special about Jesus or His name. In so
doing, they seek to destroy the belief that He is God come down in the form of
man, but is rather no more than any other mere man, perhaps even a good man,
but none the less, just a man. They
don’t mind if He is thought of as a good man, for then you may lump him
together with others that the world has placed in the “good man” category such
as Gandhi, or the Dalai Lama, or any other self proclaimed guru that rises
up. The fallacy in that kind of thinking
is that there is no such thing as a “good man”, for all men have sinned and
fallen short of the mark of righteousness, for only God is righteous and
good. Ah yes, implant the delusion that
there are many paths to God in the mind and heart of any man, instead of the
truth that salvation can only be found through faith in Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, and that man will have received the lie instead of the truth; thereby,
he will have condemned his own soul to Hell to be separated from God for all
eternity.
Yes, the PC police are very good at
promoting the idea of “doing good unto others;” thereby replacing the Gospel of
Jesus Christ with the gospel of good deeds and Social Justice. The principle of “doing good unto others” is
a godly principle, but it was never meant to replace the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, as it is more frequently doing in the realm of “the world of man,”
apart from God. Satan can never create
anything new, but he just loves to make a counterfeit to pervert and distort
the true principles created by God. This
can most effectually be observed within the church of today. Many churches have become social clubs,
bringing the community together to glory in their own efforts of doing good,
instead of giving all the glory to God, our Creator, for all the things that He
has done. You may often hear the mantra
of all that is needed to create a better world is for man to join together to
feed the poor, take care of the widows and orphans, determine to touch the
lives of others in a positive way, and leave the world a better place because
of your efforts and influence to change the lives of others around you in a
positive way. This is evident in those
who preach the false gospel and power of “positive thinking,” as if the
thoughts of man are a replacement for the power of the word of God. What foolishness! I don’t deny that such an idea has value, for
the idea itself is a godly principle that is espoused in the word of God. However, it becomes perverted and distorted when
it is presented as a goal in itself, apart from the power of God within man; it
may have temporary value, but will never have eternal value. It makes man the center of all things, giving
all the glory and honor unto man, and ignoring the fact that doing good unto
others was and is God’s plan for man in the first place. “For we are God’s handiwork [made in His
image], created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance
for us to do.” (Eph. 2: 10 NIV)
However, like Satan, we lift ourselves up in the pride of our own minds,
becoming in our own eyes equal to or greater than God Himself. Many churches these days are majoring in the
gospel of social justice, but have declined to even strive towards a minor in
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When man
exalts his own works above the works of Jesus Christ on the Cross and His
ascension into Heaven, then the church has truly become the Laodicean Church of
the latter days, “having a semblance of religion but lacking the power thereof,”
(II Timothy 3: 5) meaning they act like they are religious but reject the One
who gives the power to grow in the power and image of God. In such churches, little is taught straight
from the scriptures, except in bits and pieces, often distorting it to suit
their own agendas. The meaning of the
word Laodicean is “the peoples’ choice.” Oh yes, we hear that word “choice”
quite often today don’t we: a woman’s “choice” to abort her own baby; the
peoples’ choice to decide his/her own gender in spite of biological specifics
of male or female; the people’s choice to marry whom or whatever, regardless of
God’s plan for marriage to be between one male and one female; the peoples’
“choice” to believe in many gods or no god at all. Oh yes, the peoples’ choice to follow the
desires of own hearts has always and forever led to our own destruction, but
how quickly we forget that the peoples’ “choice” to forget God will also remove
His blessings and protection over us.
Isn’t it ironic? The peoples’
“choice” is, more often than not, to reject the only God who has promised to
love and protect us; thereby, rejecting the ONLY path to Heaven? It’s as if the PC police have redefined the
word choice as being “good,” while the word God is redefined as “evil.” Hmm, isn’t that rather confirming the truth
of what the Bible has taught? “Woe unto
them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light
for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.” (Isaiah 5: 20.
More about this in II Tim. 3) Isn’t it a
crying shame when the people who are supposed to know God and all that He has
and is doing, will exchange the truth and standards of God for the opinions of
mere men. The people of the world will
always act and think like the world. But
God’s people have no excuse for acting like the rest of the world, for they
have the truth of the word of God, but either they don’t bother to study and
know the truth to live it out in their lives, or they knowingly and willfully
choose to ignore its truth in order to purposely follow the rebellious desires
of their own hearts. That is where the
true shame lies. Yes, we are always
going to sin and need to repent and seek God’s forgiveness for our
frailty. As long as we are in the flesh,
we are in a spiritual battle between our old sin nature and our born again
nature. Knowingly and continually
choosing to stay in sin without repenting, is a far worse state, for we have
been taught and know better. How can we
be the salt and the light in the world if we continually live out our lives in
opposition to the Lord, looking and behaving just like the rest of the world
that knows not God?
Let us reject the lies of the gospel
of social justice which has its foundations in the idea that man is able to
earn salvation through his own intelligence and efforts. Instead, turn back to the truth that
salvation is a gift from the grace and mercy of God, a gift that can not be
earned by the efforts of man. No man can
stand before a righteous God, for all of our righteousness is as filthy rags
before Him. We can be made right and
acceptable unto God by believing in the power of the cleansing blood of Jesus
Christ, shed for us upon the Cross as He took upon Himself all of the
punishment for our sins. Jesus was our substitute; He paid our sin
debt in full. “Neither is there
salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved. The only righteousness that we have which
makes us acceptable in the sight of God our Father is that which is imparted
unto us from Jesus as a result of believing upon Him as Savior and Lord, and
being born again in Him. He places
within us a new heart that has been pricked, (a heart of flesh and not of stone
one which is rebellious and hardened against God) and His Holy Spirit comes to
live within us. It is He who has called
us unto Himself, and it is He who leads and guides us into all truth, growing
us up daily to become less of ourselves and more like unto Him. The good works that we do thereafter are as a
result of our love for God and a burning desire to do that which is pleasing
unto Him. Our good works are not done
for our glory, but rather that we might be a blessing unto God and give Him all
the praise, glory and honor. We can’t
even boast about our good works, neither would we want to. Rather, we lay them at the feet of Jesus, “for
it is He which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.”
(Phlp. 2: 13)
Man is
justified by his faith in God, not by his works, but by the works of the Lord
Jesus Christ. We are to be schooled by the word of God that we may not be
deceived by our own deceitful heart, our flesh or Satan.
“Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of
God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no
reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of
men. And being found in appearance as a
man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even
the death of the cross. Therefore God
has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at
the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in
heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under earth, and that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father. (Phil. 2: 5-11)
For those who know Jesus as Savior and
Lord, and those who may still be seeking to know Him, I implore, encourage, and
strongly urge you to understand that there is a world of difference between
knowing about Jesus and knowing Him in your heart as Savior and Lord of your
life. No amount of doing good deeds,
thinking positive thoughts, or seeking after false gods is going to bring you
into the Kingdom
of God
Wake up church! Let us arise from our apathy and return once
again to the newness of when we first loved Christ with passion and vigor. Let us return to what it was like when His
word and Spirit burned so bright within our hearts that it was impossible for
us to keep His praises from rising up from deep within us. Let His praises bubble forth from our heart
and mouths like an unstoppable fountain of life. Push back against the darkness of the world
with all of its politically correct jargon.
Choose, when necessary, to offend men, but never to offend God. Refuse to be intimidated, manipulated, or
silenced by them. Refuse to be
indoctrinated by it or conformed to it.
Study the word that you may be transformed into the image of God by the
hearing of His word, and by the power of His Holy Spirit. Have we forgotten the truth and power of His
word and Spirit? “Greater is He who is
in us than he that is in the world.” (I John 4: 4) “For the word of God is quick [alive], and
powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword; piercing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4: 12) Rise up in the boldness of the power of the
Holy Spirit; let nothing and no one silence your voice to speak forth the truth
of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The word tells us to give no place to the devil. If we are intimidated and silenced, then we
have given every place over to the devil!
Jesus has said, “But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I deny
before my Father which is in Heaven.” (Matt. 10: 13) Yes, we are being engulfed by the teachings
of the Laodicean church of the latter days.
Remember,
its main description it that it has the appearance of religion, but lacks the
power of God, having put the “peoples’ choice,” that is the will of man, over
and above the will of God. And when they
appear before the Lord’s judgment seat, because they trusted in their own works
and not in the work of Jesus Christ on the Cross, they will try to claim: “Many
will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and
in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew
you. Away from me, you evildoers!’” (Matt. 7: 22 , 23 NIV)
Again and again let us proclaim unto
the whole world, there is no other gospel and there is no salvation except
through Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God!!! It is written: “Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.” (Acts 4:12 ) Salvation is through faith in Christ
alone!! He poured out His life for us;
let us be willing to pour out our life, even unto death, for Him.
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