Approaching the End of the Church Age Mentality

As we approach the end of the church age "bad is being called good and good is being called bad."

For years in the 1970s people were saying silly things like; "follow your feelings" and now its "trust your gut", as though these things are entirely accurate.

They are not accurate, only at times, and at other times they are not accurate. Lots of people "feel bad" when they are confronted with their own sinfulness. And, lots of people feel good worshiping a false god. Following feelings is the worst advice anyone can give.

Someone actually said this to me once; "but I feel", in response to correction with scripture, as though their feelings trump God's word. This is the irrational thinking in the church today.

Often they watch an emotional situation and lean into the emotion as though it is accurate while ignoring the facts. They even fight against the facts in anger.

Have you ever been attacked for telling the truth about something or someone? If you love God and His facts then I am sure you have been not only attacked but gossiped against.

Remember that the apostles were martyred because they told the truth. People in our country do not kill us physically, it's against the law here, but they do murder us in their hearts. God said if you so much as hate your brother it's the same as murdering them.

1 John 3:15 "Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him."

Those who claim they are Christians but hate another believer for telling the truth cannot be born-again until they repent.

When a born-again believer tells the truth they do it out of love. They do it to save someone's soul or to help another believer correct an error in thinking. We do not bludgeon others or attack their character to manipulate them into submission.

Those who use hate and manipulation to control others do not love, they only care about winning to feel superior. Remember these people love their feelings over the facts.

The "hyper-grace" people are of this sort, they use grace as an excuse to sin. Since their feelings mean more to them than the truth does they will go to almost any lengths to discredit and harm anyone who hurts their feelings with the truth.

2 Timothy 3 tells us what is in the heart of those who love themselves and their feelings more than they love God, if they love Him at all.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult (ragingly insane)Times Will Come

3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

I tell you these things not to make you sad, just like the apostles said in their letters, but to help people out of their bondage to self to trust in Christ.

John 8:45

"45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!"

2 Corinthians 7:8-13

8 For though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it—for I see that that letter caused you sorrow, though only for a while—

9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.

10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

11 For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

12 So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness in our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God.

13 Because of this, we have been comforted.

And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all."

Hallelujah!