July 14, 2024
Greetings and blessings to all of you. Are churches becoming more like a social club? Or is the church becoming a place to meet in order to get encouraged and strengthen in the Lord to go back out into the battle? Do you even know that there is an active battle going on? The Bible says in Ephesians 6:12 “for we do no wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this age against spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places.” The believers are the salt and the light. In Matt. 5:13 the Bible says, “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men” Are we being trampled? I believe we are. The ideologies that are being demanded for us to respect and affirm are being shoved down our evangelical throats…following that with some honey so we can swallow it without choking. We know that the believers in Christ are preservatives to the world, preserving it from the evil inherent in our society of ungodly men whose unredeemed natures are corrupted by sin. The presence of Christians in the world is the truth of God’s Word that brings light to the darkened hearts of sinful man. Read First John 1:1-10. What if the world never hears “the Truth”. Our enemy is the world, the flesh and the devil. They need us to tell them the Word. The question in our lost and dying world is…. will we speak up or shut up? Silence is not an option. Christ called us to be witnesses until he returns. Living out your faith actively means to influence our culture. The young people want to be influencers on Tik Tok and on You Tube. But influence others to what end..something demonic, just plain worldly or not in the interest of leading others to Christ. The world is saying keep your faith inside your church walls…and just preach Love. Jesus preached Love. But he also preached a message of (Sin/Repentance)and that got him nailed on a cross. Truth exposes Sin/Darkness. Heaven forbid if we do as Peter and John did in the book of Acts in Chapter 3 and 4. “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.” When are others going to say that about you and I?
With the Love of Christ
First Lady Vivian C. Currie
Pastor ALC