“Repent! The end is near.” Sound familiar? Same story, different year, but totally doable. Throughout the past year we bared witness to an amazing event. Something a lot of us felt, and could sense approaching. Which only leads to one question, why weren’t we prepared for it?
The world almost came to a standstill. Everything shut down, was turned over, and set on the decline except one thing. The Gospel. A revival of the church occurred, and is still ongoing. The church (its actual living breathing congregation) went out into the mission field and testified. The building was no more, the Word was on the move, in a way that it’s never been. Streams going live, feeds filled with the Word, proclaiming the Kingdom and the Gospel of Grace. So what weren’t we prepared for?
With a revival of the church on the rise, the devil, that great master of duplicity, put into place the only viable option—the resurrection of false doctrine under the guise of social justice, namely, worldly virtuism.
Chastity, more wholeness, purity, restraint, justice, self-control, prudence, generosity, self-sacrifice, unconditional love, work ethics, decisiveness, fortitude, integrity, mercy, peace, stability, charity, compassion, friendship, empathy, trust—All these are virtues, and when used in accordance with the Word, produce “good fruit”. Matthew 7:15-20 states “Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, by their fruit you will recognize them.” Or take for example, 2 Timothy 4:3 “For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.”
Worldly virtuism has become the new religion; The US has become the New Pantheon. And although the Pantheon employs the same virtues as described above, the bad fruits it bears are more than recognizable: Pride, envy, laziness, anger, greed, gluttony, and lust.
There’s a defining difference between worldly virtuism and spiritual righteousness. The message, and the fruits thereof.
Worldly virtuism says that I am not a child of God. Worldly virtuism says that I am a sinner. My sin is being born unique. And because of my uniqueness, I am a racist, and must ask for forgiveness. Because of this “sin” I am to be stripped of my individuality before God, and must beg forgiveness from those who are incapable of giving it. Not only because they don’t care to, but because they have not sacrificed anything to be able to provide me the hope in a life everlasting which I have received through Christ Jesus; The one and only Savior of man.
Under the guise of virtuous deeds, this Pantheon breeds hate and division. There is no life spoken, no real hope given. Do you see the face of Christ on these new movements? Are the fruits of its labors giving life to the Kingdom or to the world?
There is nothing Christ-like in this new doctrine. There is no new baptism into the hope of sonship with God the Father. There is no savior of whom you can say has conquered death, and intercedes on your behalf.
The New Pantheon sits on the foundations of man, with social justice as its high priest, and deceit as its god.
Now is the time to rebuke this false doctrine. Do not fall for its treacheries, do not bow to the shame it rears.
We already have the promise of forgiveness, a hope of salvation.
“Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ. For he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he lavished on us in the Beloved One. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace” (Ephesians 1:3-7).
One man, one death, one hope.
Should you need any other scale by which to measure these false doctrines remember Jesus said, “‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).
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