Where We Went Wrong

It has become increasingly more frustrating to me as time goes on, just how gullible the world’s population have become. It is more and more evident that “they will exchange truth for a lie”, and I know that is because of the delusion that the same people will fall into because of their rebellion towards God almighty.

Sadly it seems as though many not only individualistically, but collectively as a nation and in a larger sense, the world are operating as if they have been “turned over to a reprobate mind”; One can only deduct with these conditions, and the continual fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy, that the chapter of the church age is rapid approaching the end.

One of the saddest things I’ve witnessed is the departure from the faith by children who were raised in the influence of the church, and I must ask myself where was the failure? I won’t get into worship styles or preferences, but I will get specific about the real issues.

1. From the earliest age our children must be taught that there is absolute truth, and that it is based on God’s Word, alone.

2. For the Christian, Holiness is not an option, but a result of the genuine experience of salvation, which will produce good fruit, not the “holy fire insurance”, that is so commonly preached in one fashion or another. (Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV) The children will only be convinced of true faith, when they see it lived out in their parents and other influential adults’ lives. Example is the best teacher.

3. We must either deliver the strong message to the public school institutions, that “Secular humanism” is a religion, and must not be taught in our schools, because is reflects a mandate of the state, which is an endorsement. We must educate all on what the foundations of secular humanism are, so they have the boundaries by what cannot be taught. Private or parochial educations are the only other solutions.

4. We must learn to elect officials purely on Biblical Moral Principles. For too long, the public has fallen for the “dangled carrot” of government provision, and abandoned moral code to get “the biggest carrot”.  We can measure our own lives and our society based on Proverbs 6:16 (below).

 16  These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19  A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.  Proverbs 6:16-19 (KJV)

5. We must be informed of what God says about everything, and give God’s Word more credence than man’s word. (Hosea 4:6 below)

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6 (KJV)

None of this is new revelation or information; we as the church simply have not embraced God’s Word as completely as we should.

Something to think about…..