To quote my friend, Gary Kah, “With the rapidly changing political, cultural, and spiritual climate we are facing in America and around the world, we want to be a relevant force for truth and righteousness amidst our deteriorating society. This is not an easy task, but it is what God has called us to do.”
If Christians are to be effective in our mission to be “salt and light” to our society, and in our commission to get the whole gospel to the whole world, we best stop fighting “sins” like “whack-a-moles” and learn to hold on to our faith and to stand before our enemies with a clear conscience.
In Romans 1:18-32, the Apostle Paul outlined the step-by-step disintegration of a society. One cannot read the passage without recognizing the first step in that lengthy process is the suppression and the rejection of the true knowledge of God.
“The Church is not a cruise ship with the pastor as the master of ceremonies, but rather a battleship, and the souls of those on-board hang in the balance.”
Jesus said the indisputable evidence of His deity would be that “As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so would He be in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40) Regardless of how it is calculated, it is impossible to get three days and three nights from Friday to Sunday, and yet, that religious tradition has been accepted by the majority of believers since 325 AD.
“The Indwelling Christ” John 15:1-8
Communion Service
The next seven days are the most important days in the life of every Christian.
Without the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, there is no Christianity. Unless Jesus was God’s Passover Lamb, slain to take away the sins of the world, He died as a martyr, and not our Savior, and we are still facing God’s eternal judgment for our sins.
The Scriptures are clear. Believers who dare to live as devoted disciples of Christ will suffer at the hands of those who hate Christ. However, the epistle of James says, “Count it all joy when you fall into various trials!”
“No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God’s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.” From, My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers, my quiet-time companion since 1974.
“To find something worth living for, find something worth dying for!” Martin Luther King was among those given credit for this quote, or a paraphrased version of it, but it is an apt description of how Jesus described the Christian Faith.