“Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.”
-1 Corinthians 16:13
When was the last time you heard a sermon or teaching on a passage of Scripture like Psalm 137:9? It seems like political correctness, passivity, and mission creep have infiltrated local churches across America. Women and openly 🏳️🌈 pastors, priests, ministers, bishops, and elders… overtly defiant to God’s Word and design… turning a deaf ear to His law, rejecting sound doctrine, teaching whatever culture wants, preaching whatever itching ears want to hear, reinventing worship, and redefining obedience.
But God is clear, “If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.”
When was the last time you heard a church leader using battle language as an integral part of a Sunday service? Maybe a prayer from Psalm 144:1, “Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.”
Why do we tend to shy away from and explain away passages like Psalm 137:9, “Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks”?
What it exposes is that the golden calf of modern Christianity is about community approval, public opinion, popular acceptance, the praise of men, and general palpability. It's the same mentality that turned a joyful crowd at Christ's Triumphal Entry (Psalm Sunday) into an angry mob screaming, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” King Jesus drove away the multitude of superficial fairweather fans by declaring, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
Do we truly trust Him? Do we have tempered faith in the Gospel? Do we honestly believe that His Word will never return void? We certainly need to know Scripture's context. We absolutely need to have the Holy Spirit’s presence, wisdom, and discernment leading and guiding us vs. the traditions of men. We need to actively and intentionally avoid conforming to the patterns of the world and the passing whims of eroding culture.
Are we building His kingdom or crumbling little monuments to ourselves? The harvest is plenty but workers are few… the kinds of worshipers the Father desires are those who worship in spirit and truth. Worship is our doing the work He prepared in advance for His Body & Bride to walk in as our new way of life! The saints are those operating under His sovereignty… those accomplishing His mission… those who are slaves to divine righteousness, not the filthy rags of ours.
That’s biblical Christianity. That’s not the brand or flavor many are identified with today. King Jesus declared, “For whoever is ashamed of Me and of My words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when He comes in His glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.”
We're either with Him or against. We're either gathering with Him or scattering. There's no third category. There's no neutrality regarding Christ Jesus and His Mission. Passivity's plight emerges as a desire for acceptance by the world. It flies in the face of Christ and The Gospel, which calls broken and depraved sinners to be born again by grace through faith in Him.
If that's not what we're baptizing people into... if that's not what we're teaching and preaching, then we may as well just recite the Sparkle Creed with Pastor Nancy, because whatever it is that we’re doing... it most certainly isn't what King Jesus commissioned us to be and do. It most certainly isn't Christianity.
Blessings!
-Kevin M. Kelley
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