As I sit in a hotel room in Denver Colorado this morning I’ contemplating all that took place this week.
From Congress Women Griffords to MTV new reality show, then we have the Jet’s vs. the Steelers’.
I think where is God is in all of this? The scripture that pops into my mind is Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, NKJV and Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! NKJV
I am not comparing Congress Women Griffords or football to good or evil I’m just thinking of all the things that are happening in the world today.
That is not to say I don’t have issues with MTV’s reality shows from the Jersey Shore to the new one Skins and let’s not forget 16 and Pregnant. Then we wonder what it the world is going on with our kids. The big wigs only care about the bottom line. They don’t care what is happening to future generation of leaders. I’m certainly not against people making money nor am I a hypocrite. I believe in the free market and all of its benefits. But where do we draw the moral line in all of this madness?
I’ve walked the streets of City Center Denver CO for about a week. It is a beautiful city but the thing that stood out the most was the enormous amount of kids wondering the streets. I mean that are everywhere, with backpacks and sleeping bags seemingly wondering aimlessly. Went to diner in a upscale restaurant in downtown Denver. My wife and I were enjoying diner and having a conversation with our waitress or am I allowed to even say waitress any more, don’t I have to say server (the world is nuts). This waitress/server was 23 years old living on her own and has traveled to more places than me and my wife and we’ve have travelled all over the world. I’m not speaking negatively of the girl she was the nicest person I’ve ever met and God bless her for the courage to do what she is doing. We see this more and more in the younger generation. I believe it is because there are so many single parents. When we were growing up things were different we went everywhere with our parents. And we did the same thing with our children. Today it is a very different lifestyle. Why? Because there is lack of parental guidance, we’ve let the government and our education system what our children. Not only we’ve let TV run our children, they’ve become our babysitters, video games, DVD players are the something’s. I don’t how many times I’ve been restaurants and watched parents pop in a DVD or give their kids DS systems to play with. I’ve asked myself that question.
I believe the reason for this is this. Number 1 we have to keep up with Jones, so we work 2 jobs and then we love the lifestyle and mom starts to go to work. The kids are put in daycares, the daycare sees the kids more than mom and dad. I’ve operated a daycare center and I saw these kids being dropped off at 7 or 8 am and being picked up at 5 or 6 in the evening. It would break my heart because I thought how much quality time are these children getting with from there parents. Do their parents really know or do the children really know their parents.
The other area I’d like to talk about in the area of TV. I was talking about TV in the above paragraph MTV, well some of the garbage that appears on other cable networks is absolutely remarkably trashy.
And the commercials, I am tired of seeing commercials for K-Y Jelly intense. Personally I don’t need K-Y Jelly me and my wife are very satisfied. And Cialis or Viagra, has the world gone ballistic with all this stuff. I’m not a prude and certainly don’t have a problem with sex in the context o marriage. But every time you turn around it is all about sex. And most of time it is outside the context of marriage. I read an article on some statistics about sex and it is not uncommon for men and women to go out and hook up meaning they are just going out to look for sex. This was brought in the Jersey Shore show.
Friend I’m here to tell you this the Bible says in Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! NKJV
What we see is the world is changing the standards that God has set up in the Bible. And what used to be evil and something to ashamed of is now good and we should not be ashamed of.
Let’s go one step further, same sex marriage and gays and right off the bat someone will say he is homophobic. When in fact God created a man and women, Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, people are certainly free to live they way want because God did give us a free will, but don’t try to make it legal and right because it is not right. It is not something that I want forced down my throat. Let me say this I have compassion on people but these people who claim they are gay or lesbians well it is just a spirit of lust. Let me give you some scripture, Galatians 5:19-21, 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. NKJV
Let me give some definitions of what the first four words mean, and let’s recognize that those who practice these things won’t inherit the Kingdom of God.
Adultery and fornication both come from the Gk. word porneia – this word includes all sexual activity outside of marriage. This would include adultery, homosexuality and lesbianism.
Uncleanness = This word comes from the Gk. word akatharsia, which is the word kathario which is where we get catherization from which means cleansed or pure. But it has the letter a in front of it, which reverses the meaning. It now means dirty or unclean, it has to do with thinking. I cover this in detail on the CD.
Lewdness or lasciviousness = This word comes form the Greek word aselgia and it means excess, but primarily refers to excessive consumption of food or wild, undisciplined living that is especially marked by unbridled sex. This word aselgia is listed as the primary sin of Sodom Gomorrah
Idolatry = when we hear that word we probably envision large carved images of stone pagan gods, with wild naked natives dancing in the moon light. I don’t think this is what Paul had in mind when he used this word idolatry. The Gk word for idolatry eidolo-latria is a compound word. The word idolatry means the “worship of idols”. Eidolo meant man made idol, a heathen edifice, a pagan statue, or an image of a false god
Let me close by saying this God does not hate these people as a matter of fact He loves them. He loves them so much that He gave His life for them. God is not against them He is against the sin. If we continually hang onto sin He is going to judge it.
Let me end with this that we need to teach our children that God loves them and that there is a moral standard we have to uphold. Don’t grow weary in well doing, and remember Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, NKJV
God bless you,
The Remnant Preacher
No comments:
Post a Comment