And I am so absolutely tired of the low view of sin that is so prevalent in the modern following that so many people call "Christianity"! Look! The true Christians are far and few between, seldom if at all found amidst most seats in your watered-down mega churches and worship concerts and youth groups and retreats that have been falsely assumed with Christ ....
Know this: I have not once claimed perfection except that which is Christ's. I am saved only by the grace of God. The inclination of my flesh is toward sin, but I have a desire for God to overcome that because the desire is from God and God will finish what He has started.
... But I am so SICK of what we now call "Christianity"! I am so sick of the "Jesus" that "only loves and never judges" and the "Jesus" who wants everyone to be "just the way they are." This is not Christianity -- you have taken Christ's name in vain and attached it to secular humanism!
"But that's your view of Christianity and this is mine; don't judge me." (Or some variant of this is said to me.)
I have watched friends, good friends, people extremely close to me be shown false in their faith. Did they defect -- lose their salvation? Hardly. They never had it. The fruit was rotten from the beginning, and let me tell you why:
Because even though they "knew" the songs, went to church, could talk about the Bible, about youth group, about all of this junk, their heart was never taken by God.
It was never taken because even in those early days, they had sinful sympathies. Excuses.
If I say, "but isn't that a bit low cut on you?" -- Right response? - "You're right," and put a jacket on. And yet I hear ... "If you got it, flaunt it!" Well, such is flaunted more and more, and suddenly it becomes perfectly moral to post nude pictures online. Because after all, "That's how God made us." Should I be surprised when such a person denounces Christ?
When "I don't judge or 'discern' or whatever you call it, against homosexuals" turns into a sort of empathetic view of the sin, into the "Love is love" battle cry, a watered down faith, a "coming out" of the closet as they say, a greater focus than sexuality than God, and finally a denouncing of Christ ...
When a person "oks" passionate kissing in their relationship, and suddenly "it's ok to snuggle," turns to "anything's ok as long as it's not actual sex," and soon they are living together and giving the appearance of evil, and when the truth is out, "we're getting married anyway." (But it never happens, and Christ is denounced.)
These are just a few examples. Truly I have been privy to some things lately which I cannot even write about, because they are too terrible.
Do think it is a mistake? ... Don't you see that these little things, these little scrutinies which folks continue to justify are what cracks them and gives contemporary application of the very verse, "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us." (1 John 2:19 ESV)
I am not a legalist. Drink, but don't get drunk. Play, but don't be given to play. Work, but don't be given to work. Rest, but don't be lazy. Love and do not awaken lust before its time. These things aren't sin, and are good in proper context! But all of this love of darkness, this empathy and defense of sinful lifestyles, this casting off of the gospel for a "seeker sensitive" church, this extremely low view of sin -- when did this become living like Christ?
Do you think that just because Christ did things which contradicted the religious leaders, "all" which seems a contradiction to holiness is Christ-like? If you've percieved that then you have dearly misunderstood the gospels, which are perfectly unified under a solid message if indeed you have the Holy Spirit to discern and study these scriptures well.
Who among you are true to Christ!
Who isn't just in this because it's what you grew up with and are comfortable with? Who isn't in this just because you enjoy the emotional "experience" that some seeker-sensitive megachurch instills sunday morning? ... Who's after more than hanging out with friends in your youth group? More than all of the selfish things that people falsely turn to Christianity for, and are sent away because they were never actually bought by the blood of CHRIST?
Tolerance of what scripture calls sin, has always led to one of two things: absolute repentance or eventual apostasy. Which are you?
I tire so much of seeing those whom I knew and loved as a new convert, one by one be shown false in their belief. How they made excuses and brushed them off years ago and outright spit in the face of Christ today. I hate it!
... And yet I know that as with the days of Elijah, God has kept for himself a people today. Oh, How I pray for you, who are truly His. That you would be encouraged, not to follow in the footsteps of the false converts around you, not to take sin lightly, but to take the scriptures seriously, and to follow the one and only, true and holy God who is King today and forever and ever, Amen.
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