If There Was Ever A Time......

"When you are in distress and all these things have come upon you, in the latter days you will return to the Lord your God and listen to His voice.   For the Lord your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you, not destroy you nor forget the covenant with our fathers which He swore to them" (Deut. 4:30-31).

Hey Gang:  If there was ever a time, when it was imperative that we have all of the tools of our defense mechanisms spit and polished, it is now.  It is a time when absolutes have been placed in the 'good is bad file', and we have entered that period referred to as the "eat, drink and be merry time for tomorrow we die”, and anything that gets in that way is of the 'very old school'.

I read a very soul- searching article by Charles Chandler in The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Magazine, Decision, titled "Thy Word is Truth".   He listed five lies that have consumed the world and how God's truth trumps over them.  One does not have to be an authority on the Word of God to know that the father of lies, Satan, the accuser of God from the beginning of time, knows his days are short and is doing all in his power to take as make folks to the Lake of Fire with him.   It seems one of the most common question we hear today was one that he posed to Eve in the garden, "Did God really say that? 

Do you agree that the world is in all-out rebellion to God's Word, either by rebellion or eliminating those portions you do not like to believe or adhere to?  They form false gods in order to accommodate their  fleshly desires. 

Charles went on to identify five lies much of the world believes with a rebuttal from God's word.  

Lie Number One:  There is no definitive moral authority.  God's truth:  "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16-17).  Read also Joshua 1:8 and 2 Peter 1:3-4.

Lie Number Two:  If it feels good, I can do it.  God's truth:  "All the ways of man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weights the spirits" (Pro. 16:2).  Read also Mark 7:21-23; Romans 3:10-12; Deut. 28:15.

Lie Number Three:  We are free to redefine marriage as we want.  God's truth:  "Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He bought her to the man.  And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." (Gen. 2:222-24).  Read also Matt. 19:4-6; I Cor. 7:1-2; Heb. 13:4.

Lie Number Four:  Homosexuality is good and should be celebrated.  God's truth:  "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman.  It is an abomination."  (Lev. 20:13)  "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both 0f them have committed an abomination." (Lev. 20:13).  Read also Rom. 1:26-28; I Cor. 6:9-10.

Lie Number Five:  It's my body; I can do what I want with it.  God's truth:  "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?  You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.  Do glorify God in your body." (I Cor. 6:19-20).  Read also Rom. 12:1.

Soooo, I repeat from where I began with the question: Has there ever been a time when we need to make sure our armor and tools of our defense are spit polished, as it is now? 

Blessings,

Gramps

PS  This blog was written in March and you can see what has happened since!