Today I am watching a movie called "Time Changer." It is the story of a man who goes forward in time from the 1800's, to see what happens when society implements the principles of Christ, "apart from His Name."
The first time I saw it, I rejoiced that someone else was seeing what God had been telling me for some time now.
For many years in our country we taught the morals of Christ and the principles for living that were acceptable to Him, in nearly every venue we enforced these principles, but neglected to tell the children that we should follow them out of obedience to Christ.
The question now has to be, in this time of great apostasy, "how did we get to this point, if we taught so vigorously the principles of morals that Christ taught in His Word?"
WE got to where we are because we taught the principles of Christ apart from His name. We have told young people they should follow the path of kindness, love and self sacrifice, without telling them that we do it because Christ commanded it.
We led the children to believe that mankind developed their own methods of righteousness because it would be good for society. The travesty has been that children were not given a good reason for their obedience of these principles, other than "decent people" live this way.
Because there was no understanding of where the principles came from, the children were open to whatever change the culture decided to make. After all, if society made the rules, then the rules can change at will.
Our culture was committed to societal principles, but not to Christ, does it not follow that if the culture changed its' principles then we too could also change with it?
