The arrogance in our world is building layer upon layer, solidifying in the minds of those who elevate self, that they are worthy of great praise and special rights of passage.
God speaks often in His Word about the insolent pride we will see growing in the end days. 2 Timothy 3 is probably one of the most relevant Scripture of all, for our time. It describes the mentality of most people, even those who claim to be "Christian" will buy into the lie that they are special and deserve whatever they want, justifying all their sinfulness, even bludgeoning those who have discerned what they are to demean and dismiss them as full of insanity. There is an intolerance for correction, rebuke and admonition. This intolerance creates weak minded ignorant people, uninformed about basic principles of the Bible. Our culture has replaced the principles of the Bible with a mixture of a little Bible and a whole lot of secular psychology, devaluing the Biblical principle by overshadowing it with humanistic ideas concocted by ungodly, God rejecting men.
All this mess of arrogance and insolent pride is blinding the eyes of most. So many are still placing their trust in psychology and the government to save and preserve their freedoms. They are not aware of the spiritual problems that run rampant through our culture, because of these hedonistic ideas.
Because of the reluctance to judge anything as wrong, even though the Bible clearly tells us to judge all things, the people will not stand up boldly for God's principles, also because most do not know God's principles, they have been deeply indoctrinated with psychology so that they cannot discern truth when it walks up and bites them on the nose. We end up with a culture that protects the evil man while leaving the righteous man without advocacy. The wicked man is surrounded by affirmation and adulation while the righteous one is demeaned and dismissed.
Our nation has accepted the evil, thinking it's good, even in our politics.
We have been covertly conquered by an Islamic dictator, however, the people are afraid to admit it. Because they will not admit it, they will not take any measures to remove him.
Indoctrination is a powerful thing, we have lived with freedom so long, we forget that there are people out there who are working hard to take away that freedom. We cannot see what is happening as a country, because our noses are so deeply entrenched in worldly pleasure, all our mind is able to wrap around is what we are fed by the media day in and day out. All of this is a direct result of ignoring God. We add His principles into our thinking when it serves our purpose and ignore all the other Scripture that tells us to do more difficult things to maintain a godly culture.
There is strong evidence that our government has been covertly infiltrated and dominated by a dictator, however, few have the strength to say so. Our constitution is being trashed, ignored and demeaned as never before in our history, the congress is acting as a figure head much like the queen of England, present but having no power.
Our culture bought into the lie that if we are just nice enough to our enemies they will like us and stop playing unfairly. This intellectual travesty has allowed evil people to gain a foothold and grow in power. Sadly many people believe that Christianity is a system that wins people through continual capitulation of rights and principles, surrendering to the enemy, without challenge, in our personal lives as well as our government.
Christ allowed Himself to be walked on and demeaned at times, even to the cross, but many times in His ministry he rebuked, corrected, even taking a whip to the evil men who defiled His Father's house. He called men "white washed tombs", He called Judas a devil, rebuked the devil that motivated Peter to deny Him, boldly told the woman at the well all her sins, called the Pharisees "brood of vipers." Why is it that we remember all the meek things Christ did while forgetting and negating all the times He rebuked harshly, even non-believers. There will be those who say, "He can do that He is God." Yes, but remember we have Him living in us, He tells us what we need to know, we no longer depend on our own mind, we are suppose to think with the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:16 "For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ."
I have heard that meekness should not be translated as weakness, but rather "power under control." Perhaps Christians like to appear weak, then they never have to do anything difficult. They can smile sweetly, pretend they don't care and feel humble and martyr-like. When we don't take care of business, calling things what they really are, we can feel superior in doing it, while never having to face the hatred of those who walk sinfully.
Matthew 10:22 ""You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved."
Psychology has permeated our culture to such a degree that we have found it advantageous to throw out the wisdom of the Old Testament that tells us how to handle wicked men, and none of them tell us to be "friendly" to them. We are either told to rebuke them or get away from them. Perhaps the problem is that we have been indoctrinated in psychology so long, we can no longer discern when someone is an evil or destructive person.
Psychology teaches that there is no bad human being only hurting ones. This is not Biblical. God shows us clearly that there are evil men and that they will become worse as we reach the end.
All one has to do to find out truth is go to the Word, type in the words "evil men" or "wicked men" and read them while asking the Holy Spirit to show you. There is no question we are not to allow evil men to prevail over us or our families. We are to handle them, sometimes it is to rebuke them sharply and other times it is to remove ourselves because they will listen to nothing, even becoming more evil in their tactics because of their obsession to control others.
Perhaps along with our desire to become sweet and loving as a believer, we should also balance it with "power under control"
concepts. We have effectively allowed our culture to become desperately evil by caring more about being liked than we do about justice and righteousness.
I could list all the verses and passages that pertain here, but it is not necessary, all of you have Bibles, go to them and prayerfully search the scriptures to find out if any of this is true. Then begin to ask the Lord to give you the mind of Christ, that you might be in obedience to Him. Be sure to care more about being holy than you do about being liked by others.
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