Month: June 2015 (Page 1 of 2)

A lot of professing Christians are upset by the Supreme Court ruling.  I wonder how long that will last.  Usually, the initial outrage, such as it is, lasts only a few days.  Then everyone goes back to the same routine as if nothing is wrong.  The people who want to change this nation into a godless nation where hedonism is the norm are well aware of that paradigm.  Thus, there are no consequences for their actions.  They will simply endure a few days of bluster and then move on to the next step in the degradation.

Let me tell you what’s going to happen—not because I’m a prophet, but because I’ve seen it before repeatedly.  There will be a number of leading Christians, denominational leaders, pastors, and of course the ever ready “talking heads” from the Christian psychological community, who will come out openly in favor of gay marriage.  “The ship has already left the harbor,” they will glibly proclaim.  Then they will set plans in motion, already concocted, to reach out to the gay community.

This is a defining moment in Christianity.  We will now see who is real, and who has been faking their calling and commitment to God.  The courage of the redeemed will be sharply contrasted by the compromise of the damned.

Something else will occur that will strike a harsh blow to religious freedom.  A number of Christians on social media will be censored.  They will lose their Facebook Accounts, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etcetera.  Free speech was only secure when we elected people who cherished that freedom.  We now have people in control that despise our freedom.  They will soon be coming for our liberty and pursuit of happiness.

Last, we are going to experience an unprecedented oppression on Churches and ministers.  Texas just passed the “Pastor Protection Act.”  The SCOTUS decision shoots that down.  The 1^st lawsuit filed against it will be successful.  Christians will be forced to take a stand or compromise to keep their jobs, maintain their present standard of living, and to avoid lawsuits and heavy penalties forced on their businesses and churches.

The saddest thing about the SCOTUS decision is that there were not enough true Christians in this nation to hold back the darkness.  Here are the stats, read them and weep:

42% of Protestants, 50% Roman Catholics, 69% Jewish, 21% Mormon, voted for Obama.  Also, 95% Black Protestants, and 75%Hispanic Catholics voted for him.  When half of professing Christians, who were fully aware of the disaster of his first term, still voted for Obama, it was clear that this nation would not survive the diabolical onslaught of wickedness that was sure to follow.

So why is everyone surprised?  Why are people lamenting and moaning the woes that have arrived and the woes certain to follow?  We live in the end times of Sodom and Gomorrah, are witnessing unchecked spiritual wickedness in high places, i.e., denominational leadership, and there is no weeping between the “porch and the altar.”

Are we not well into the final great deception and apostasy?  And yet, intercessory prayer is faintly heard in heaven.  From the pulpits there is mainly silence.  Further, professing Christians, including ministers, are attacking everyone who dares to present truth against the deluge of heresy.  Instead of coming to their defense, other professing Christians ignorantly post quotes on their Facebook pages by the very heretics that are destroying Christianity. What a display of ignorance, and what a shame!

Now we see the fruit of compromise, and we moan.  But we do not groan in prayer for our sins, spiritual anemia, and the sins of our nation.

The line has been drawn in the sand.  A significant percentage of the populace intends to return to Sodom.  However, their leaders are not content with regaining Sodom lost.  They are intent on committing every sin for which God harshly judged Israel and the nations about them.

We American Christians are a haughty lot.  We think that we will not face judgement.  However, the 50% who facilitated this great evil by their votes will face judgement.  So also will those who gave it unopposed access by failure to do anything whatsoever to repel the darkness.

“For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.” – Romans 11:21-22

People had better get prepared.  Check your spiritual pulse this coming week.  If you are no longer outraged, you’re acquiescent.  Is there any difference between acquiescent and agreed?  How long will it take some professing Christians to be agreed?  I say by Monday—a mere three days—“protest” will have disappeared from Protestant.  That leaves “ant.”  Spiritual ants…busy; 6 decades of making small mounds, moving about scraps, and now easily subdued by a shoe.  Good job, all ye that sleep in Zion!

Someone once told me, “God doesn’t need anyone to defend Him.”  My reply was, “Then why does He send prophets?”

The truth is that God does not need anyone to defend Him, but it is His will that we promote and defend truth, which necessitates exposing error and heresy.  However, many professing Christians have been conditioned to believe that when heresy or misrepresentation of God’s word is put forth, they should remain silent.  This is because truth is considered a contentious trouble-maker in the world of information.  That is true in the religious and secular realms.  Thus, one who insists on truth having “the same right to be heard as error” is perceived as a bully.  In the secular realm, he or she could be accused of hate speech.  It doesn’t help that in nearly every case of a clash between truth and heresy, at the end of the exchange the proponent of heresy plays the victim.

Rather than be considered mean-spirited and unChrist-like, most professing Christians are allowing heresy and other error unopposed access to Christianity.  Heretics can now spout their falsehoods, New Age mixture, Freudian concepts, humanist philosophy, and other error, without much more than the rattling of chains from the people who know better. As a result, it is becoming increasingly difficult to defend and promote truth in this nation today.

The encroachment by the secular culture aside, a steady stream of rancid heresy flows unabated into Christianity.  Relatively few Christians oppose this diabolical flow.  They have been intimidated into remaining silent.  They believe they must walk on eggshells to even mildly challenge error.  Anything they say in opposition to heresy becomes a bone of contention.  In most cases, they shut their mouths, back down, apologize, and otherwise grovel to keep peace.  They stand by silently while those refusing to compromise endure derision and reprimand.

Here is a short list of don’ts:

1. Don’t denounce homosexuality as a sin.
2. Don’t say a popular televangelist or telepastor is a heretic.
3. Don’t tell anyone that they are wrong for any reason.
4. Don’t denounce any heresy (especially if it has been published as a book or a devotional bible).

There is an unwritten “Bill of Rights” for the deceived and heretics, with truth as its main enemy.  Heretics or deceived people promoting a heresy insist no one has the right to challenge them.  They insist, “I have the right to believe what I wish.”  That’s true.  They may certainly believe it, but do not have the right to promote it.  The moment they do, every true Christian has the right and duty to challenge it.  Truth absolutely has just as much right to be heard as error.

The question is, are true Christians going to submit to this chicanery and allow heresy to enter and spread unchallenged?  Have we now reached the point where we care more about what people think about us than about defending God’s truth?  Are we so fearful of being accused and perceived as mean-spirited individuals that we timidly protest the assault on truth, coddle the heretic, magnanimously give the heresy a pass, and with quavering obsequiousness offer a “possibly, maybe, if you please, respectfully differ, may I suggest, no offense intended,” presentation of diluted, weak, pusillanimous, and blurred truth?

My detractors, professing Christians who actually claim to love truth, would insist that one must use diplomacy when defending truth or opposing heresy.  What they actually mean is, it is wrong (even very wrong) to offend a deceived individual or a heretic.  Really?  Are not the presentation and insistence of heresy an offense to a true Christian?  Introduction of heresy is in fact an attack on Christianity and Christians in particular.  It is also an attack on God and the Savior and Lord Jesus Christ whom we profess to love with all our hearts.

The fact is, we can’t avoid offending someone if we present truth clearly and completely.  Clearly presenting truth is to challenge the heresy, heretic, and deceived individual.

The presentation of truth necessitates the exposition of error; it involves delineating the components of the heresy clearly.  Since heresy involves the behavior of people, the person will fall under the same spotlight of truth as the heresy.  This is and always has been the issue.  How does one expose heresy without offending people?  It is near impossible.  If you are going to expose heresy, you are going to offend, anger, and eventually they will play the victim.  You may as well be prepared for that to occur.  If you are unwilling to face the consequences of defending truth, you will allow heresy unopposed access and range.

56 million people die each year.  The top two killers are cardiovascular disease and cancer.  Millions of Christians are dying spiritually.  The top killers are heart sins and heretical cancer.  If you go to a doctor with one of those killer diseases, he must by law tell you the truth no matter how unpleasant or emotionally disturbing.  If you go to a true Christian with one of those spiritual killers, he or she must by God’s mandate tell you the truth.

Don’t come to me with sin or heresy and expect me to placate and coddle you with insipid verbiage.  You need the truth from someone who will give it to you, just as sick people need the truth from the doctor.

A true Christian will love you to heaven, the heretic will “love” you to hell.  A true Christian will offer you the truth, the heretic will insist that you accept a lie.