\u201cTake heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.\u201d – Hebrews 3:12<\/p>\n
CNN reports that professing Christian recording artist, Toby Mack\u2019s son, died of an \u201caccidental overdose of fentanyl and amphetamines.\u201d There is no such thing as an accidental overdose of that combination of drugs. The risk is clear that to submit ones life to be medicated by the agents of Satan is to invite spiritual and physical death. It may be slow and years into the future, or quick.<\/p>\n
There was a time when such incidents only occurred in the hopeless and sin-bound people of the World System. Now that the Great and Final Apostasy has occurred, the majority of professing Christians are apostates. The young generations are with the blessing of leadership accepting the influence of the kingdom of darkness. They are dying of sin-caused maladies.<\/p>\n
Everyone makes mistakes and no one is perfect, but true Christians do not commit flagrant and willful wickedness and rebellion against God. To do so would require rejecting the indwelling Holy Spirit and defiling His temple. It is to depart from God.<\/p>\n
It is a great mistake, and extremely dangerous to young and impressionable professing Christians, to project dying from a combination of illegal drugs as a mere Christian mistake. Instead, it should be identified for what it is\u2014the consequence of departing from God. It should be a warning to the ones who are on the verge of doing the same thing.<\/p>\n
No one wishes to injure the grieving friends and family members. But they will grieve matter what. So why marginalize the rebellious and dangerous behavior, leading more young people to take the same risk. Why make certain that more parents will be awakened in the night with the tragic news that their son or daughter is in eternity?<\/p>\n
Maybe if the true path of discipleship, what it means to be a genuine child of God, was preached and taught more often and thoroughly, fewer young men and women would depart from the \u201cFountain\u201d of living water to drink from Satan\u2019s broken cisterns.<\/p>\n
Tragically, that is not the case. Instead there are millions of people claiming to be Christians but are unwilling to live or accept what that truly means. They believe it means\u2014under the guise of loving lost people\u2014to conform to the World System and its lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and pride of life. To listen to their music or preaching is like drinking from a sewer pipe.<\/p>\n
TobyMac offered the following statement about his son:<\/p>\n
“He didn\u2019t want to be a child star, he wanted to be a man with scars and a story to tell. I always admired, respected and encouraged that stand.<\/p>\n
“Truett always had a soft spot for God. The Bible moved him. His heart was warm to the things of his King. He was by no means a cookie cutter Christian but give me a believer who fights to keep believing. Give me a broken man who recognizes his need for a Savior every time. That\u2019s who Truett was and how he should be remembered.” (TobyMac releases statement on son’s sudden death: ‘He had an untamable grand personality’;\u00a0Matthew Leimkuehler, Nashville Tennessean)<\/p>\n
And people wonder why so many individuals in the younger generations have no clue about true, biblical, Christianity.<\/p>\n
This is not a game! Satan has no pity for his victims. We are temporarily on this earth, invited to spend eternity with God, or can choose to spend it with Satan. It\u2019s that clear. Choose wisely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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