Higher Moral Ground

Individuals are employing all sorts of diversionary tactics to avoid their duty to oppose the encroachment of Christianity by Emergent/New Age heresies. The Scriptures are clear. True Christians cannot simply set on the sidelines and pretend that their position is a superior level of spirituality.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. (Eph. 5:11 NKJV)

I cannot imagine the apostle Paul saying when faced with evil attacks on Christianity, “Well, I will just pray and God will have to deal with it”. Sadly, many professing Christians, and even pastors, evangelists, and other leaders, pretend that they are taking the higher moral ground by allowing the emissaries of Satan to run amuck in Christianity.

When it comes to the issue of contemplative prayer they have found a stock answer to the call for action. They declare that it is an old and established Christian tradition to be still before the Lord. They say, “Well, it’s just about begin quiet before the Lord, and we could all use a little more of that.” No, it is not about being quiet before the Lord or it would not have become such a cottage industry with numerous books, conventions, and spiritual directors that teach people how to perform this quietness. The simplest thing in the world is to tell someone to shut up.

It is not about being quiet and still before the Lord, but it is about vacating one’s mind of all thoughts so that a demon spirit can enter unopposed and undetected. It is about uniting with the diabolical cosmic Christ (Christ consciousness) that supposedly dwells in every being, even animals. When that occurs, the individual then begins to believe that all religions are one and have the same God.

If anything, ministers have a fiduciary responsibility to warn the people that they are called to lead. Insisting that they are standing on higher moral ground by avoiding the issue is a breach of that responsibility. To whom much is given, much is required. If they didn’t want the responsibility, they ought not to have taken the job. However, now, when the tides of evil have shifted in favor of apostasy, they want to pretend they are more Christ-like than the ones who dare to stand and speak up for truth and righteousness. How deeply this pusillanimous decision must grieve the Spirit of God.

While I love all people, I do not respect the ones who will apologize and wring their hands when truth is spoken as if they are afraid someone will be offended. Truth has at least as much right to be heard as error. God didn’t call me to make people happy. He did not anoint me to win the favor and accolades of people. He called me to speak and write the truth. The truth is that the time has come when people must make a decision to either stand or kowtow to the decaying status quo in religion. If one decides to make the decision to stand on the sidelines, they ought to at least be honest and admit that their motivation is fear of rejection and its consequences, and not a desire for higher moral ground. I would not want to stand before God with “that” as an excuse with everyone in Foxes Book of Martyrs, and all the persecuted Christians from throughout the ages, standing there looking at me. I could not even face the piercing eyes of the most Holy God with anything less than, “I resisted unto blood striving against sin.”