Matthew 15:19-20 “For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person.
Being in a nation that was founded on a Judeo-Christian worldview, when we see the pagan humanistic attacks on biblical morality, we forget that this secular worldview was the depraved culture of the Pre-Christian society. Without a fixed-point, objective and absolute moral compass, fallen humanity lives by the debauched mind by the power of irresistible impulses of the sin nature of the flesh desires. God’s Moral Law of the Ten Commandments, the Mosaic Laws, and Divine statutes set the standards for morality. Christian, by the Great Commission of Jesus, revolutionized the concept of moral living in that world. The light of truth intruded into the darkness and brought moral stability into society. Today, the pagan humanism is reclaiming territory and threatening the culture filling the void when the light vacated.
Romans 13:12-14 “The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.”
US President George Washington stated, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.” Why? Because, on this side of glory, humanity is still in the fallen desires of the flesh and the ancient view of aggressively pursuing whatever appeals to the unrestrained evil imaginations of the depraved heart and erotic feelings in perversion. These sinful feelings master their lives; not their pure, just and holy Creator. Since the day that God gave the Moral Law and Christ showed us how to live moral lives, the people of God have been called to model for the pagan world the biblical worldview based upon God’s divine standards and what that God-given morality looks like in action.
In 1 Corinthians 6:12-18 the Apostle Paul explains that because of Christ paying for our sins, some say: “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
US President John Adams stated: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The term “In God We Trust” is the American National Motto because the biblical worldview is to influence and keep in check the pagan secular humanistic worldview, not vice-versa. The last stanza of the American National Anthem reads: “O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand between their loved homes and the foe's desolation; Blessed with victory and peace, may our Heaven-rescued land praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just -- and this be our motto -- "In God is our trust!" And the Star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave.” America bless God, our moral compass.
The Lord Jesus told a Parable for us: Matthew 12:43-45 “Now when the unclean spirit departs from the person, it goes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from where I came-out’. And having come, it finds it being unoccupied, having been swept and put-in-order. Then it proceeds and takes along with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself. And having gone in, they dwell there, and the last state of that person becomes worse than the first. So it will be also with this evil generation”.
Be salt and light.
In Christ, Brian
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