Professing Christians, Fruitcakes and Homosexuals

///The following is a rather lengthy “mini-sermon” for the professing Christians of the world, and an encouragement for “Christians” to become Biblical Christians. It is still not too late to rekindle your faith and love for Jesus Christ. Not all who profess to be Christians belong to Jesus.  Reaffirm you stance in Jesus and your faith. Take back your families, and resist the world, its lies and untruths.///

Professing Christians, Fruitcakes and Homosexuals

I woke up this morning feeling discouraged and defeated; discouraged that I failed in another attempt to bake my seasonal fruitcakes without incidence and defeated once again by my own inability to correctly follow a simple recipe. I am using a family recipe handed down from my father, but I have not been able to duplicate his cakes in either taste or appearance; his cakes were always perfect.

As I review my many cooking failures that have occurred over the past several years I believe it may be time to move on.  I should spare you some of the ugly details of my failures, but I cannot pass up another opportunity for self chastisement. For instance: One year I left out the sugar and when I realized my mistake I tried to add it at the last minute—a difficult undertaking once the cake was ready for the oven; another year I decided to soak my cakes in brandy. Too much brandy invited unwanted questions at the church Christmas social; another year I discovered bugs in my flour but too late to stop the baking process. I sifted all the little critters out, well most I suppose, before I mixed all the ingredients together. 

The only additional mistake I made was sharing this little “critter” tidbit of information with my wife. She shared it with the few people who normally like my cakes and now they avoid cake bake sales altogether. The list could go on; I have been trying to bake an award winning cake for eight or nine years but to no avail.  This may be my last year as I feel like giving up.

This year I thought I had the process down pat.  My first baking was almost perfect, but my next baking was severely undercooked.  I should have used longer tooth picks to test for an undercooked center.  My main mistake was in using different size baking pans and forgetting to adjust the oven baking temperature for larger pan sizes.  I suppose I can use the cake crumbs for an ice cream topping—five gallons of vanilla ice cream should be sufficient.  I could cast some blame on my six year old granddaughter but that would be unfair.  She liked tasting the fruit, measuring and mixing but even she did not like the finished product. I do not believe there will be a prize winning cake in my future.

While I am kicking myself around I might as well tell you I am discouraged and feeling defeated by the state of the “Christian” church. I am not discouraged in the same way Elijah was discouraged when he was fleeing from Jezebel. Elijah thought, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty.  The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword.  I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”  Read the entire account of Elijah’s “pity party” in 1 Kings, chapter 19.

But, why does the Christian church not recognize the times?  Have Christians been blinded by their own selfish natures? Have they forsaken the God they worship?  They are no longer a witness of the goodness of God but are partakers of immorality and idolatry just as the worldly.  In fact, you cannot tell the difference in their lifestyles.

Most Christians can no longer separate Truth, what the Bible teaches, from untruth, what the world teaches.  Consider America’s media sources.  I go through periods where I have to tune out the media jocks of all stations and their “fair and balanced journalism.” They all have their own “dogma” that they proclaim as “truth.”  Those periods are growing closer and closer together as media sources have been drawn to sensationalism much like the news headlines you would see on the front page of the National Enquirer. How about you? Do you know when you are hearing the Truth?

When I say tune out I am not saying that I stop listening or reading any media source or sources, I am simply saying I become more selective in what I am willing to read, watch, hear or even discuss and the amount of time I have to devote to such activities. Otherwise, I could become totally insensitive or blatantly intolerant to the views of others—like most of our Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican politicians—who have been blinded to integrity and morality by their greed and grandiose narcissistic personalities they exhibit as they claim to represent their constituents. 

We all have our own source of truth that we have embraced and our lives bear witness to that truth.  My source of Truth is the Holy Bible.  I believe it is the inspired word of God and that if you read and study the Bible under the guidance of the Holy Spirit you will come to believe in the following Truths:

·         “Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Light and no one comes to God except through Him” (John 14:6). There is only one pathway to Jesus’ heaven and that is through Him!  What about your heaven?

·         Marriage is a covenant between one man and one woman. 

·         Pro-life should be the law of the land, not the murderous Pro-choice “method of birth control” practiced by those without a moral conscience for the life they carry.

·         The willful removal of God from America by the godless minority while the “Godly” majority sits idly by is hastening America’s moral decay.

·         Political Correctness is destroying freedom, not broadening freedom. 

·         Homosexuality is a lifestyle of sexual promiscuity and “unnatural affections.” Many homosexuals will not live in monogamous sexual relationships among “their own” but willingly, or purposely, choose to spread sexually transmitted diseases to the heterosexual population. The same can be said for people who abuse drugs and alcohol.

Christians should “Love sexually immoral people, but disapprove of their lifestyle.  Sexual immorality has been detrimental to the health of all people groups throughout the history of man. If you will not take God’s word for it at least consider the advice and warnings of communicable disease experts.  

Now, you may find my Truth intolerant, and you probably are calling me a bigot and a homophobic, but that is OK.  I am not trying to convert you to my way of thinking or religious belief.  Only the Holy Spirit can reveal to you the Truth of Jesus Christ and the Cross and only Jesus Christ can save you. You can believe whatever your source of truth reveals to you.  I will be tolerant of your views, but I will not compromise my views or merge my views with yours in an attempt to promote a harmony of spirits and a “let’s all get along since we all are in and of god.”  My Truth is a religion of peace, not violence or intolerance; what about yours?

Christian, temporarily put aside the latest “talking points” on economic and political issues of the day and focus on your “Christian morality” and the coming assault on Biblical Christianity—the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ, His Cross and His shed Blood on Calvary for the redemption of man; the Holy Bible as the inspired Word of God to man; and Jesus Christ as the only way to God.

This current assault on Christianity is not new and is probably deserved given the current worldliness of professing Christian; (Unlike the Christian, Biblical Christians are standing and witnessing for their God. See above definition.).  It has been going on since Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection and will continue until Jesus’ Second Coming.  Nothing is really new, only the packaging and modern day terminology.  Heresies regarding Jesus Christ were from the beginning as man has sought to defend their concept of god, death and the afterlife. This assault has always been led by the spiritual forces of darkness— Satan and his hordes and the worldly they can easily capture with their tempting lies. The same forces are at work now and have blinded the “me” generation of Americans.

By refusing to believe in God, most Americans have become worldly participants in immorality and have allowed themselves to be captured by the spiritual forces of darkness, and they do not even realize it.  Look at the Occupy Wall Street anarchist;” they truly represent a “lost” generation who claim “rights” to the wages of others for which they themselves did not labor.

When parents voluntarily give up the teaching of morality to their children and the discussion of sexuality to the government or Hollywood, is it any wonder that early teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, disrespect for authority and ignorance of common morality standards have become acceptable social norms.  Laugh if you like at the humor of television programming that constantly offers a little bit more, and then a little bit more of sexual immorality.  Soon the traditional standards of Biblical morality will have quietly disappeared from the consciences of the majority of America’s households. 

Christian, do you want your children or grandchildren to grow up to be alcoholics, drug addicts, and included among the selfish and immoral scum of society? If so, just keep on keeping on in your silent denial in what I call “generational parental apathy.” It is a plague upon America’s traditional moral and religious family values that needs to be stopped. 

Twittering with God everyday helps guard my heart from Satan’s whispering temptations.  How about you?  Unless you have the Holy Spirit indwelling you, you are subject to the whims of your own desires and risk inviting demonic spirits to indwell you.  Ponder on America’s drug and alcohol use, divorce rate, pornography epidemic, sexually transmitted diseases (STD’), godliness, greed and corruption to name just a few examples of America’s current morality plight.  Can you not see the spiritual forces of darkness at work?

When will Christians stand and become Biblical Christians and defend morality and uphold the commandments of their God?  If not soon, America will become the Sodom and Gomorrah of the twenty-first century and will pay the ultimate price for her silence—loss of her children to immorality and godliness, loss of traditional family values that bond a nation and loss of love for her fellow man.

I will leave you to ponder on the following scriptural verse:

 “’In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.’ These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit” Jude 1:18-19 NIV.

“Professing Christian,” will you stand with God or will you stand with the world.  It is your choice. To do nothing is to stand with the world against God.

Let me think. Was it four or five eggs and two cups of sugar or four cups of sugar and one egg?

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