Reforming the Hypocrites

 

Christians, like every person, can be hypocrites.

We say we love God but we remain silent when His Word is blasphemed.

We say we obey His commands while we refuse to tell the wicked that their deeds are, indeed, wicked.

We speak the truth of His Word in our Sunday Schools and Bible studies and then go into the world silently but then mock the world’s educational facilities for providing “safe places” and “gender affirmation.”

In a huge venue with several thousand people, a Christian man spoke the truth as he testified that the problems we have in our nation right now are a portion of the judgment of God on us as a nation. It is hard to argue with and he was applauded and soundly agreed with while he was on stage.

It is encouraging that more and more of the nation’s “celebrities,” not necessarily Hollywood but popular podcasters and “journalists” (a.k.a., “influencers”) are speaking more of faith and God and the importance of seeing our problems as demonic or evil. Judgment seems to be spoken of as something to fear, which hasn’t happened in a really long time.

So, this is obvious in public but the church is still caught in a “fear of man” that keeps us cheering on the celebrities but remaining silent in our communities. There was a church in Reading that stopped having an AWANA program for the whole neighborhood because it got hard. The children were not from families that had raised them to obey authorities and they were difficult – but not harmful.

A friend visited there on a Sunday and immediately came away saying that any church that gives up in the children has lost its moorings. “Jesus said, “Let the children come to Me.” (Matthew 19:14).

Since that time (a few years ago), it has become more obvious that this is not just a problem in the church. As a nation we have thrown our children to the wolves. We can kill babies in the womb. If a state outlaws it as murder, we can just order the pills to get it done!

We’ve stood by as young children have been sold for sex or, recently revealed (to me), to be killed for the “fun” of it (this was revealed in an interview about “Diddy” Combs and other criminals).

And, we’ve allowed the public schools to teach and train our kids to love evil and hate good, to accept lies as truth. 1Corinthians 15:33 says, “Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”  Surely, most of the teachers in our public schools are not deliberately evil, though we have heard the stories of many who are. However, the state curriculum that they must use is grounded in humanistic teaching that allows for evil to thrive in its midst.

Christians, certainly, and most Americans would agree that raising, teaching, and preparing the next generations to work, love, and serve others is a top priority. If we believe that, we must work hard to see first of all that they live. Abortion is murder. Then, we (not the government) must educate them in a way that puts truth above “feelings,” and justice above tolerance.

We need to practice in public that which we preach in the safety of our church walls, We need to be reformed from our hypocrisy.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.  For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.  Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

2 Comments

  1. Harry Neely on September 27, 2024 at 12:24 pm

    As it has been written from the beginning, “If you think it evil to SERVE God then CHOOSE YOU this day whom you will SERVE.” “God forbid that we should forsake the LORD and SERVE other gods…” The word “choose” means to “select” or “prefer.”

    Beth, most professing Christians claim to be Amendment 14 federal citizens owing allegiance, fidelity, and obedience to the United States federal government and at the same to owe their allegiance, fidelity, and obedience to the King of kings.

    How can this be without being a hypocrite? How can one serve and owe allegiance to two sovereigns, one secular and the other sacred?

    To be faithful, effective soldiers for Christ we have to have access to good intelligence as to how the enemy of God operates to defeat the King’s soldiers and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

    As soldiers for Christ we ought to be able to define the term “citizenship.”

    “Citizenship” is the status of being a citizen. “Citizens” are members of a political community who, in their associated capacity, have established or SUBMITTED themselves to the DOMINION of a [civil] government for the promotion of their general welfare and the protection of their individual as well as collective rights.” Harriott v. City of Seattle, 81 Wash.2d 48, 500 P.2d 101, 109 in Black’s Law Dictionary, 5th. Edition.

    “Citizenship is MEMBERSHIP in a POLITICAL society [body politic] and implies a DUTY of ALLEGIANCE on the part of the [citizen] member and a duty of protection on the part of the [government] of society. These are reciprocal OBLIGATIONS, one being a COMPENSATION for the other.. Minor v. Happersett, and Elk v. Wilkins.

    God’s people are members of a “HOLY NATION” not of a secular humanistic nation and our God is a jealous God because we belong to Him not the secular state.

    United States means a federal corporation. 28 U.S. Code, Section 3002 Definition at (15)(A).

    Where is “United States” located?

    Location of United States – The United States is located in the District of Columbia.. – Uniform Commercial Code, Section 9-307 Location of Debtor

    I wonder where in the District of Columbia the United States is located?

    Did you know that “All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by WHITE citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property” – 42 U.S. Code, Section 1982 – Property rights of citizens.

    It’s not what you don’t know that will hurt you it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

    How do you KNOW what you KNOW (or think you know) about Amendment 14 federal citizenship is TRUE?

    Don’t reject KNOWLEDGE because if we do God will reject us and our children.

    “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because thou hast, REJECTED knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me, seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children..” Hosea 4: 6

    We are Ambassadors for Christ and our job is to proclaim the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and call God’s elect to come out and separate themselves from the secular body politic, be reconciled to God, and come out of the secular society and no longer touch the unclean thing.

    Finally, “The term “national of the United States,” as defined by statute (INA 101 (a)(22) (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)00 includes all citizens of the United States, and other persons who OWE allegiance to the United States but who have not been GRANTED the PRIVILEGE of citizenship.

    Amendment 14 federal citizenship is GRANTED to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. The grant of Amendment 14 federal citizenship must be accepted to be complete and no one can be compelled to accept the grant or gift and privilege of federal citizenship.

    Beth, I did not make this stuff up. As strange as it sounds citizenship and how one acquires it is not at all the way we were taught in state schools.

    Remember, all just posers of government are from the CONSENT of the governed and no one can be compelled to CONSENT to be governed by the civil or municipal law of a secular body politic.

    As always I stand to be corrected if I have erred in anything I have written above.

    Please share this comment with you husband and prayerfully consider the implications of choosing to serve the civil government and the King of kings at the same time and in the same situation. It is IMPOSSIBLE so choose you this day whom YOU will serve.

    “God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods.” Joshua 24:16

    Church – … body or community of Christians UNITED UNDER ONE FORM OF GOVERNMENT…” Black’s Law Dictionary, 5th. Edition.

    Don’t you think that the “one form of government” mentioned in this legal definition is that one form of government placed on the should of King Jesus and the advancement of which there will be no end?” Our duty as Ambassador is to call the elect in the secular society to come out and be reconciled to God by coming into the Kingdom of Heaven. We are not to spend time trying to make the unregenerate civil authorities recognize God when such an idea is foolishness to them because they are carnal and cannot know the things of the spirit of God.

    “No man who is warring for [in the service of] God should be involved in secular matters.” Maxim of Law on page 1190 of Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th. Edition

    Compare with 2 Timothy 2: 3-4 where we read, “Thou, therefore, endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier..”

    Good soldiers are well trained to defeat the enemy and therefore must KNOW how the enemy seeks to defeat our King.

    For the most part God’s people has no idea how the enemy operates and sadly most are not interested to learn. They hate to give up the leeks and onions (government benefits) and serve the LORD their God and Him only. For this reason I suspect that God is ashamed to be called our God today because we have yet to CONFESS our true standing in the world. Hebrews 11: 9-16.

    The situation in which we find ourselves today is due to our rejection of the knowledge of our true standing in relation to the other unregenerate pagan in the community.



  2. Dick Dixon on September 27, 2024 at 2:14 pm

    Amen! America and the whole world have bowed to what feels good syndrome. Vote, but vote for the lesser of two evils. To me, sin is still sin even if it seems lesser than the other. We as a nation are doomed… He can’t be much longer in coming.
    God bless and keep up the writing that you do.

    Dick Dixon