2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV
[14] Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? [15] What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? [16] What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [17] Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, [18] and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
I recently heard a celebrity say he was raising his child to have good Hindu values. This was said by someone who not only was raised in a Christian household, but whose father was an Assembly of God Pastor. We, as the Church, so badly want to be a part of the world, one with the world, and enjoy the world that we will reject our own faith and God to achieve it. See, it wasn’t enough to overlook and be tolerant of the religion of his wife, he had to embrace it and teach it to their child. How sad.
You had the words of Life. The hope of Christ. The good news that is The Gospel, yet you threw it away for a woman. Now, your child will grow up never knowing Truth. She’ll grow up with the value system that created the extreme poverty within India. The extreme filth and waste that the lower classes live in. And worst of all she’ll grow up with the value system that has no true hope because it’s based solely on how good you can be.
We are human. Flawed. Unworthy. Never able to reach perfection, let alone the presence of the Creator God. There is no do over. No second chance. No rebirth once we die. That’s it. It is appointed man once to die, and then the Judgment. Why would you take away the hope, joy, and security that is Christ? The love of God that has taken away the sin of the world?
The final Church in the Book of Revelation is a Church that is rich and well off in material things, but poor in spirit and in Truth. They are rich in the temporary, but poor in the eternal. They are lukewarm, refusing to be either hot or cold. Refusing to choose Christ or the World. This is the richest the Church has ever been, yet this is the poorest spiritually we have ever been. We can’t have our cake and eat it too. We can’t call ourselves Christians, while not only embracing an entirely different religion but raising our children in its values and not the values of the LORD God Almighty.
It’s time the Church stands up for righteousness and makes a choice. A decision. Time is running out. We can’t afford to keep playing on the fence, as if the LORD will be pleased by us replacing Him because He prioritizes tolerance. The LORD has never condoned, pushed, or even overlooked tolerance of sin. So why do we keep pushing it? We want our cake and eat it too. Today is the Day of Salvation. Tomorrow is promised to no man. Therefore, choose life. Choose Truth. Choose Christ.
Peace. Love. Go Forth and Stop Embracing The World.