Morality Without Christ

Morality without Christ is a melting marshmello, it starts out looking and tasting good, It's white at the beginning and turn black when placed in the fire, under a little hot sun or humidity it melts away or turns moldy.


Many times I have experienced the elderly who were upstanding moral citizens, until the laws were changed and then they began to do the things that they would never have done before or encourage others who want to do them.


When our level of morality is based on the culture rather than Christ, it will melt away at the slightest pressure from family and friends.


I have recently heard of the "baby boomers", who mocked and ridiculed the hippy generation with their drugs and loose morals they called "free love", beginning to shop at the pot dispensaries. The baby boomers were the generation who were born after world war II. They had higher morals in many ways than the generation that came after them. Now they are enjoying the drugs they once condemned and all because it is legal.


We can discern those who did things out of commitment to God and who were just fitting into their culture, when they make their choices after sin is legalized.


If God's Word is not the reason for our adherence to certain moral standards, then they will fall away when the cultural stigma is removed.


As believers, we do not follow the culture, we follow Christ, His principles never change and are not based on our popularity.


Joshua 24:15 ""If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.""


Acts 5:29 "But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men."


John 12:43 "For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God."


Do we love God more than we love our family and friends?


Luke 14:25-27 "25Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them, 26"If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. 27"Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.…"