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by Ken Pullen
ACP
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6: 5
Even the teachers and students of psychology, sociology, and anthropology know if something is introduced into a society and given acceptance rather than rejection no matter what that something is, the society begins to adopt it as normal.
In sociology 101 students are taught behavior and societal patterns are considered ?deviant? behavior until a point where those behaviors are accepted and then within the minds of the society, at least within a large enough population, those very acts once considered taboo, abominations, disgusting, or downright evil become ?normal.?
This does not mean those acts are then lawful, permitted, moral, ethical, healthy, or an act which is normal. It merely means over time the population becomes worn down to a point, and so numb and consumed with either talk about a certain behavior, or an increase in those behaviors no matter what the present or previous standards of moral behavior were becomes ?adopted.?
People surrender to it all.
Rather than being a people humbling ourselves before God, rather than turning to God and His Word, rather than being part of a revival of the true and honest path laid out by Scripture ? we are a people instead like sharks gone berserk with the expanding cloud of blood in the water tearing into every morsel of evil we can sniff out in the churning seas around us.
We are a people causing evil to swell and for righteousness to shrink and all but disappear in what we embrace, elevate, worship, and permit.
And what?we are permitting, surrendering to, allowing, and accepting is the growth of sinful behaviors. The lusts and desires of men and women preceding all that has come before, and placing individual pleasures and desires above the very Word of God.
But then, these practitioners of abominations making men and women, supposedly in the pursuit of godliness and holiness, before the Lord our God sigh and cry do not believe in God, or the Bible, or they have adapted definitions for God, replacing He the living individual with a pagan view?such as??spirit earth?, or some ?life force? or ?energy.? Which is nothing but a perversion and lack of understanding of the truth. Which occurs because Satan has gained such great power over the past number of decades in the hearts and minds?of people, who?are now convinced in their blindness anything goes. It is all acceptable! Even to many of those claiming to be a Christian.
More and more denominations are not only accepting homosexuals and lesbians they are elevating these sinful people to places of authority within their churches.
Our own government and military now allow bestiality, pagan worship, open homosexuality and lesbianism. All the while getting up in front of microphones and cameras and telling the completely lost and blind drowning in sin and abomination that our better days lie ahead of us, and we are making ?progress? as a people.
We act all distraught and sorrowful when we hear of a child under the age of 10 being murdered, which is horrendous indeed, yet those same people finding such news distressing and abhorrent are numb and blind to the daily murders of thousands of children by abortion.
In America, our citizens, which comprise only about 312 million of the now over 7 billion people living on earth; or Americans comprise about 5% of the world population consume 80 percent of all the mood enhancing and pain narcotic drugs on the market.
We vote for legalizing drug use. We vote for legalizing the murder of children. We vote to permit homosexuals and lesbians to ?marry.? We revile God, Jesus Christ and the Bible. We pollute our foundations. We corrupt the Word of God. We elevate and worship idols and sin. We admire and embrace every abomination under the sun under the cover of darkness.
We are slaves to evil slaves to Satan.
We are addicted to slavery.
The slavery of evil imaginations and we permit those imaginations to come to fruition.
The slavery of permissiveness and lack of discipline, respect, sense, critical thinking, objective thinking, ethics, and an almost complete breakdown of morals.
Over the past 50 years we have permitted the rapid growth of sin going unchecked and accepted, even to the point false teachings dominate so-called Christian ministers, priests, reverends, and pastors not acknowledging sin, not preaching the truth of the Bible, not preaching salvation which is needed by all because all have sinned and continue to live in sin unless commending their lives over to Jesus Christ the Lord. Not merely as their ?personal Savior? which has become grossly perverted and misunderstood, but we all must make Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives. We must bow and permit the Holy Spirit to live within us, guide us, instruct us, and keep us from temptation and sin rather than permitting this anything goes mentality ? which will only lead to eternal death because of failure to discern the Scriptures and live a life pleasing and acceptable unto the Lord.
Too many worship idols while claiming to worship God and Jesus Christ. There is widespread total disregard for Scripture anyone disagrees with and doesn?t fit how a person wants to live ? rather than the individual turning their lives over entirely to God and Christ living according to the complete living Word of God.
We are living just as the people in the times of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Joel, Ezekiel, Jonah, Amos, Haggai and every prophet of the Older Testament.
The preface verse from Genesis 6 was in a time prior to God giving Moses the law, and prior to the Great Flood. Evil was so rampant, there was so much violence, godlessness, sin, and so many abominations among all the people ? save for Noah, Noah?s wife, and Noah?s sons and their wives ? that God caused the Great Flood to rid the earth of what He had regretted (repented) creating.
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And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
Genesis 6: 7
Man was the only problem in creation. And because of man?s will and disobedience; man?s purely selfish endeavors and the sin and abominations they wrought God became vexed and we literally made God heartsick. We grieved the Creator.
As a loving Father there was discipline and consequences.
Throughout the ages since the Great Flood the people on earth have waxed and waned in their turning from God or turning to God. In their degree of sin and abominations.
We now live in a time right before the last time as it is known by man and woman.
Because of our sin, because of our shrugging off sin and abominations. Because of what we permit and allow as we pervert and disgrace the Word of God by obliterating the truth of Scripture and supplanting those truth with false teachings and unsound doctrine. By admitting into and administering directly to professed Christians out-and-out paganism and everything alien to the truth of God and His Word.
We have grown lax and confused. Complacent and lost in what we profess as faith. It is more important to too many people professing to be Christian that they are liked and accepted by this world rather than stand and hold firm to the absolute truths of God?s Word.
Have we not learned from history? Have we not learned from Scripture the consequences of such behaviors?
Do we not truly believe the Bible?
If we did we would behave in a much different manner than we do. We would not permit the myriad abominations and sins in our lives, and we would not shrug off, accept, permit, embrace, and even elevate the growing sin and abominations of this world.
I stand firm in my belief there are at present two distinct and very real types of Christians. The majority consist of worldly Christians. They take the name Christian and claim to be one but have no concept of what it truly means to live as one. They do not know nor have the Holy Spirit working in their lives. They are serving this world, serving Satan, striving for acceptance, riches, their own glory, denying the complete Word of God and only subsisting on bits and pieces of carefully selected, massaged, and distorted verse. The worldly Christians comprise the bulk of those professing to be Christian.
The small ?remnant? are those true Christians who live according to the Word of God and live through faith, humbling themselves before Almighty God and Jesus Christ the Savior and Lord of their lives, and trusting completely in the Holy Spirit and the untainted, true, complete Word of God.
There are truly few of these people walking this earth at any given time. And numbers are decreasing ? not increasing. And the time is drawing nigh when the open door to salvation will be closed to the Gentiles (anyone not a Jew.) And this time is drawing very close.
The great apostasy is upon us.
We see abomination upon abomination. We live in and see a world writhing and rising and falling in a sea of sin at every turn. Attitudes. Language. Beliefs. Morals. Respect. Critical thinking. Honesty. Ethics. You name it and the consuming sin growing by the minute is tainting and altering everything and every aspect of life on earth for God?s creation ? man and woman. And child.
These abominations and sin have even grown and ensnared churches. And those professing to be shepherds leading flocks.
Is it any wonder?
And the Lord said unto him, ?Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.?
Ezekiel 9: 4
We can either remain slaves ? serving Satan addicted to the ways and beliefs of this world, or we can bow before God and become truly free men and women, released from bondage, by believing completely, having faith, being justified in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, and making the Son of God the Lord of our lives. And we do this, we continue this once turning to God by continually turning to God in prayer and turning to His Holy Word ? the Bible. The complete Bible. A pre-1969 translation of the Bible.
Try it. See what can happen.
Perhaps this world is beyond true revival at this point, but each of us is not beyond personal revival in the truth of God and His ways, His Word, and we are not beyond allowing the Holy Spirit to revive us, direct us, teach us, help us to discern the ways of the Lord. His will is revealed in His Word. Without communion through prayer, meditation, and diligent reading of Scripture, and then obedience to His Word we cannot say we know God.
Let us break the chains of bondage and slavery to this world and breath deeply the reviving pureness of the Lord?s truth ? His Word.
(Please continue this by reading January 3, 2013 ?Scripture Verses? here on ?A Crooked Path? under the title heading ?From Jeremiah and Ezekiel?.)
Source: http://acrookedpath.com/2013/01/03/addicted-to-slavery/
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