Acceptance Of Sin!
There is massive deception that is spreading across the world. It is the acceptance of sin, sinful practices, as normal. We are told to put on the full armour of God for us to be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. The devil is a liar and the father of lies, and he has and is feeding lies to the world that many types of sin are OK.
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. John 8:44
There are many lies that the world chooses to accept, but we as Christians do not have to accept the so-called political correctness that try to invade our churches. The world without Christ is still under the curse of the law. We have chosen the path of righteousness; the world chooses to follow the deceptions of the devil. The way of the world.
For this reason, God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, Romans 1:26-28
There are degrees of sin,
This is something that we need to understand. Equality, diversity and inclusion laws that are forced upon us are not Godly. They have become a way to force all to accept sinful lifestyles and ideas. In parts they are demonic, they are schemes of the devil.
The Word of God clearly states truths to us that we should stand upon. People are deceived into believing they are something that God never created them to be. I am talking about gender ID, and homosexuality. The scripture above says that God has given them over to a depraved mind. That means that their minds have become blind to what is right. They think that what they choose to do is good. It has gone so far that people can question whether they are male or female. Even worse that than that, that we should stop teaching children that they are boys or girls.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh; so, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Mark 10:6-8
I was at a child protection and safeguarding course for swimming teachers a few weeks ago. This covers children from birth to 18 years old. We were told that if fully developed teenage girl came to the pool to swim in men’s swimming trunks because she identified herself as male, it is acceptable. That she cannot be challenged!
We can see clearly the direction that the world chooses to go in acceptance of these things. As Christians we should not go along with the world’s views. We are to love the people as God does, but not be condoning the sin that they live in. We should be showing the love of God towards them by sharing with them the truth found in God’s Word.
We are not to judge people in sin to condemnation. We are to stand upon and declare the truth of God’s word, hoping to bring people to transforming forgiveness that is in Christ. We know our eternal destination in Christ, and the eternal destination for those who end life without Christ.
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
God loved the world so much that He sent Jesus to die that the world’s sin might be forgiven. It is forgiven, the only sin not forgiven is unbelief in Jesus. To choose to continue in sin is to reject the forgiveness that comes through belief in Christ. I am talking about a lifestyle of sin, of which homosexuality and gender dysphoria is. These are Spiritual problems that effects the thought processes in what is right and wrong.
There are those who will never accept the truth of God’s word, to repent and accept God’s grace in forgiveness. They will reject The Lord Jesus and His payment for their sin. This is because they will refuse to acknowledge that their sin, is sin! This comes because of the acceptance by the world of the sin’s normality. They call what is bad as good, what is good bad! But God says:
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21
Jesus tells us that way to eternal life is narrow, and few will travel on that road; that wide is the path to destruction and many will go down that road. This indicates that in comparison there will be few who will accept the goodness of God’s forgiving redemption, compared with those who reject it.
As Christians, we are not responsible for who will or will not come to repentance. Every person is responsible for their own direction for their lives. We can just deliver the good news of God Kingdom of grace and forgiveness. The response of people is down to individual choice.
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Matthew 7:13-14
There is only one way to eternal life, that is through accepting the payment made by the death Jesus Christ. It cannot be that people accept that sinful lifestyles are normal and not sin, that is to call God a liar. For God has made a way of escape from the judgement that leads to the second death; being cast into the lake of fire, from which there is no escape.
God is extending grace, forgiveness of sin through Jesus. It is just a simple choice. Reject The Lord Jesus or confess that Jesus is Lord now in this life.
But what does it say? “The word is near you , in your mouth and in your heart ”that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. Romans 10:8-10
The truth is this, that God has already forgiven all sin except rejection of Jesus, if we say that have not sinned, we make God a liar. Everyone has to come to a place where we repent of our sin and accept God’s forgiveness through Jesus Christ. To not do this is rejection of God’s forgiveness.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:16-18
What choice will you make?
To repent from accepting what God calls sin and stand for truth? Or to go with the world and stand on the side of the lies of the devil? It is a choice that needs to be made. This is the biggest choice that anyone will have to make in this life. It will determine our eternal destination!
Be Blessed
Charlie
FREEDOM IN CHRIST 