Recovered In Christ

It is a new level of self delusion when people who do not even follow Christ try to school believers. And it is an unfortunate timidity that allows followers of Christ to take it lying down. I have received over a dozen private messages and emails from disturbed believers because some people are posting this ridiculous meme about liberal, hippy Jesus not being “anti gay” or “anti abortion”. I feel for them, they love Christ and sincerely try to obey and follow him and feel a righteous indignation that Christ is being hijacked by people whose sole interest in him is to antagonize and attack believers. Yet they are afraid of the backlash if they say anything. They apologize in advance for reading my posts in secret. And I have to tell you, that breaks my heart. I love you guys, and I have no interest in shaming you into being more vocal about the truth, I just pray for the day to come that you would see through their ridiculous tactics. Just think about it for a moment. Really think about it. Look at the equation: they do not love God or believe in his Son, they do not have the Holy Spirit living in them guiding them into obedience to the word of God……and yet their sily meme that Jesus was this or that can make you stumble?? Huh? I feel sorry for these “antagonizers” because some of them actually think they are Christian, and see no difference in authority between a meme and the word of God! Wow…umm…ok then.This is not about being a liberal/conservative or a “fundamentalist” or being hateful or anti anything. (Nice try :))This is about the truth. And not mincing it or swishing it around your mouth until it loses its bite before you swallow.

Listen friends, if they cared anything at all about the truth of Jesus, they would not settle for a meme. There would be an inner conflict, there would be a new attitude towards sin. But there isn’t.

If you actually think Jesus Christ, the sacrificial lamb that bore the wrath of God BECAUSE of your sin is ok with you continuing in sin, you are lost and deceived.

Winning you over to a cuddly Christ is not what you need. You need a real step 1 with sin. And I pray that the people in your life who do know Christ, who are genuine believers, will not simply pardon your sin….but will tell you what Jesus famously told the woman caught in adultery…..go and sin no more.

“It is a Jesus; gentle, dreamy, shy, sweet, almost effeminate and marvelously adaptable to whatever society He may find Himself in. He is cooed over by women disappointed in love, patronized by celebrities and recommended by psychiatrists as a model of a well integrated personality. He is never acknowledged as Lord. These quasi Christians follow a quasi Christ. They want His help but not His interference. They will flatter Him but never obey Him.” A.W Tozer