Good, and Evil.

I think I have never seen a time such as the time we now live in. In my life it has never been so blatantly obvious the division. For the life of me, I cannot understand why people on the other side are blind to the fact that they have aligned themselves with the literal satan. Of course, I know theologically why they have. I know the teaching of the Bible about man’s depravity, and sin nature. I know that man is blind, and dead, in his sins, unless God causes him to be born again. Even understanding that, I am still shocked every time I hear someone extolling sin as a virtue, and decrying holiness, and obedience to God, as a horrible sin.

Let’s look at a few modern issues that we are separated on; Abortion, Euthanasia, Human Flourishing, Homosexuality, Promiscuity, Gender Roles, Eldership, Vocation, Lying, Theft, Lawlessness, Prejudice, Unbalanced Scales of Justice, Corrupt Judges/Prosecutors, The Usage of Natural Resources and the Subjection of Man to the Creation, to name a few.

The theme that runs through all these issues is the inversion/perversion of God’s ordained hierarchies, and determinations. Abortion is obviously the unjust taking of the most defenseless humans’ lives. It is murder of the preborn for the convenience of the promiscuous mother. It is an atrocious sacrifice of a baby to the idol of self. It is an abominable sin, and yet there is an entire political party that affirms it as a virtuous right, that must be sacred, and the act is tantamount to sacrament.

It’s ugly perverse sister is Euthanasia. Just as abortion is the unjust taking of the vulnerable youth, euthanasia is the murder of the old, or those who society has judged worthless due to disease, depression, or any other small suffering that makes their life intolerable. Suffering is not fun, nor is it enjoyable, unless you are perverse, but suffering from God is sanctifying.

Human flourishing is seen as a virulent scourge upon pseudo-mother Earth. The environmentalists would have you believe that we are destroying our planet. Well, it isn’t our planet. God has given us dominion over it, but it isn’t ours. We aren’t even ours. We belong to God. Our lives are not for our living according to our wills, and pleasures. The planet isn’t ours either. It is winding down. The entire creation is temporary. We are to use the world, and it’s resources to encourage human flourishing. We are made in the image of God. More of us is glorifying to God. We are to subdue the Earth for the flourishing of mankind. Not the other way around. We are not to be subjected to the consideration of what is better for the planet! No! Quite the contrary! The planet is subjected to us for our use in bringing glory to our Master!

Human sexuality is precipitates down to this, Genesis 2:21-25
“21 So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 And Yahweh God fashioned the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,
“This one finally is bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
This one shall be called Woman,
Because this one was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.”

God has made us male, and female. There are only two genders, and they coincide with their sex. There is no discussion, debate, re-imagining for X generation! One does not imagine away the objective truth of God the Creator, in His creation. All sex outside of marriage is fornication, promiscuity, adultery, and considered sexual immorality. It is all sin. In the confines of a Biblical marriage, the only true marriage, sex is a beautiful gift from God. The intimacy of the union between man, and wife, and the legacy of children is a blessing from God. To destroy it by mutilating your genitalia, sterilizing yourself with opposite gender hormones, and surgeries is another abominable act of rebellion against God. I can hardly recon the immense darkness of those who would do these things. The notion of it boggles my mind. How could a person proclaim this as a virtue? Of course, they are dead in their sins, and blind. We know, but how can they not know?

There is a lawlessness happening now in some major cities. We see it, and can’t understand why half of the country doesn’t even blink. To them, it is right for these people to take what they want because they have been victims for so long. Victims of what? Who knows? I’m sure we’ll be called racists, and white supremacists, even if we are black. We’ve seen it. Black Christian brothers, and sisters in Christ are being called white supremacists because they are against lawlessness. If you ask me, it is the folks pointing the finger who are guilty.

Just from looking broadly at a few of these issues is enough to illustrate how different our values are. How can these two groups be from the same country? How can we have grown up along side each-other? The wheat, and the tares have grown up side by side. God in His wisdom has not uprooted the tares so as to not destroy His crop. The tares will be burnt up in God’s just judgment, and right wrath. His fire for us is refining fire. Our dross will be brought out to make us pure. We will be in God’s presence for all eternity.

One country. Two nations. One is in the Kingdom. The other is in the desert of sin, dead bones, perverse, and twisted. Wretched, like we once were, but without God’s grace for all eternity. If you don’t want to be among the eternally dying, repent of your sins, and trust Jesus for your salvation. If you won’t, and hate every good thing God has determined to be good, and you call that which He has judged evil, good. You are without hope. You will continue to die, and never finish dying. You will be in Hell, dying for all eternity. You will suffer the conscious, eternal, torment, of one under God’s judgment. Repent now. Agree with God that you were wrong, and that He is right. Be translated from death to life, darkness to light, dying to living.