There are so many people who feel a need to get on someone else's band wagon. They seem to need heroes to motivate them, attaching themselves, perhaps hoping some of their greatness will rub off on them.
They lack contentment with just speaking truth and living it themselves. There appears to be a compulsion to find someone other than God with which to engage in "hero worship." Is it possible when we name drop a name to appear in line with a famous human being, we are deriving a sense of specialness for ourselves from their presence in our minds and in the minds of others?
Idols seem to be a common occurrence in modern Christendom. Many believers think they have no idols, but speak often of the great words or deeds of others as though a deed or words make the person special or godly. Notice too that these same people will devote an inordinate amount of time appreciating an unsaved person's stand on something, while neglecting entirely to jump on the wagon of someone who preaches Christ.
The "cause" is paramount in the minds of many people, Christ is almost irrelevant, as long as there is agreement about the cause. When we celebrate the stand of a person who believes Christ was not Who He was, then we validate the religion of that person, causes become more important than Christ.
Acts 16:16-18 "16 It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17 Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” 18 She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment."
Paul did not want a demon possessed person following them around telling people they were of God, when she was herself demon possessed, it gave credibility to the demon controlled girl. Thankfully she was delivered from the demons.
Is it possible that borrowing the fame, good deeds and words of others makes us feel as though we did those things ourselves? Sort of fame by proxy?
Right now we are seeing idols in the making, celebrating people who not only have wrong doctrine but blasphemous doctrine, because we happen to agree with them on one social cause.
To make an alliance with someone who negates the person and work of Christ, is to have an unholy alliance, it negates Christ for no other purpose than to feel important ourselves.
1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ."
1 Timothy 6:20 "20 O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”—"
I am only glad about a public stand made when it is by an Holy Spirit filled born again believer. I might share the gospel with the false Christian but I would not join ranks with them in any cause.
