It was quite a few years ago....I was just beginning to ask Siri something on my iPhone....when my wife said goodbye on her way to work....I shouted out to her...."When are you getting off"....of which Siri hearing this answered...."We are talking about you Special Dog....not me!" I don't know what she was thinking....but we get along fine now....better than that woman in the car GPS who keeps getting exasperated saying...."Recalculating."
We evangelicals in this modern age have made some grave miscalculations. We all just said that yes we believe in Jesus....so we must be Christian....and we went back to whatever we were doing....easy decision right....no cost....no...."Come out from among them."Jesus addressed this in a parable. He asked who out there would start to build a tower....without first calculating the cost? Well that's what we have done. Pastors seldom if ever offer the information on how much it would cost....because they have no idea themselves....and we never asked.
The Democrat Party has been pagan for quite a while....but when did we....their nemesis....become hell's angels? Folks....when you help someone like Putin throw people off buildings and murder with the worst of dictators....and threaten nuclear war.....threaten nuclear war....and you don't want to help any other nation because you are the only thing that matters in the world....and when people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson have become your leaders....and you blindly follow someone like Trump....then hell's angels is a shoe that fits. We in the church need to do some serious recalculating....on just about everything.
"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works." 2 Corinthians 11: 12-15
"But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed." Galatians 1:8
Note: It's another morning watching over an elderly loved one. I have posted a number of times on how extremely difficult it is to watch them pass their last years on the morning live television shows....when unbeknownst to them our glorious and wonderful Savior and King beckons all to feast on the joys of who He is! Today is in a way a double whammy....in that the horror of the evening true crime show....invades the already intellectually dystopian morning offerings. These shows....such as 20/20 and Dateline....(there are literally dozens of these type of shows on literally hundreds of television stations)....these shows grab our heart and our mind for an hour....filling us with great detailed murders and rapes.....and we watch....bewitched by the evil. Pew reported that twice as many women are lured into this than men. We have no idea how it affects us....and drags us down into the muck and the mire or the evil of this world.
Complicating further this situation with our elderly loved ones....we have the natural tendency to look at them in their weakened physical state and their diminished mental state....and if they have never shown signs....as best as we humanly can tell....of having been born again....then we seem to give up on that hope....but more than give up actually....in our 'love' for them....we take it upon ourselves to change the gospel. What was the Apostle John like in his old age....or Abraham or Moses or David? 100 Huntley Street was a Canadian....700 Club....back in the 80s....(It is still on the air)....and back then I saw a 95 year old man....this was probably the early 80s....and he stood there as I remember....his eyes shining in his love for God's Word....and told the audience how the Bible gets only stronger and more wonderful as the decades roll on! I have never forgotten that....and I hope that I never do. Combine that with those who are aged who I have known personally....some for over forty years....who are as devoted to their Savior as they had ever been....if not more. One of the bigger challenges that we face is in thinking about our loved ones...particularly parents....who may have long since died....and we never saw evidence of salvation in them. We want to fight this....and maybe argue with God. What all of this boils down to is that love for anyone....stranger or elderly parent or child....should first show in our concern they they know Christ! Folks....I loved my father....and think about him often. He died in 1979....before I knew the gospel....and my only hope is that someone in that hospital reached him for Christ. With my mother who died ten years ago....I told her of Christ for over thirty years....and I do have a hope from her last few years. We do not have the right to change the gospel....and we have the responsibility to hold it fast in the absolute truth that it is.
Complicating further this situation with our elderly loved ones....we have the natural tendency to look at them in their weakened physical state and their diminished mental state....and if they have never shown signs....as best as we humanly can tell....of having been born again....then we seem to give up on that hope....but more than give up actually....in our 'love' for them....we take it upon ourselves to change the gospel. What was the Apostle John like in his old age....or Abraham or Moses or David? 100 Huntley Street was a Canadian....700 Club....back in the 80s....(It is still on the air)....and back then I saw a 95 year old man....this was probably the early 80s....and he stood there as I remember....his eyes shining in his love for God's Word....and told the audience how the Bible gets only stronger and more wonderful as the decades roll on! I have never forgotten that....and I hope that I never do. Combine that with those who are aged who I have known personally....some for over forty years....who are as devoted to their Savior as they had ever been....if not more. One of the bigger challenges that we face is in thinking about our loved ones...particularly parents....who may have long since died....and we never saw evidence of salvation in them. We want to fight this....and maybe argue with God. What all of this boils down to is that love for anyone....stranger or elderly parent or child....should first show in our concern they they know Christ! Folks....I loved my father....and think about him often. He died in 1979....before I knew the gospel....and my only hope is that someone in that hospital reached him for Christ. With my mother who died ten years ago....I told her of Christ for over thirty years....and I do have a hope from her last few years. We do not have the right to change the gospel....and we have the responsibility to hold it fast in the absolute truth that it is.
