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David L Powell Jr

Male. Lives in Euless, United States. Is married.

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David L Powell Jr

March 21, 2024 9:13 am

Good words from Kansas. Servants of God, “The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”... View MoreGood words from Kansas. Servants of God, “The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” -1 Timothy 1:5 One of the quickest ways to offend some people is to tell them the truth. They prefer relationships where they can pretend and drone along doing what makes them feel good. If you or I come along and point out that the Bible teaches something they do not wish to believe, we become the bad guy. The deluded do not value the hard facts of reality. We watch this play out on the personal level but it also is true in society in general. Christians need to prepare ourselves to encounter rejection and even slander because the world around us does not like to hear the truth. But using truth telling like a broad axe can do as much damage as good. Like the Lord Jesus, we must speak truth but do it in a kind and compassionate manner. We must remember that as kind and gentle as Jesus was, many despised and rejected him. Jesus did not win over every person he came into contact with. If fact, by the end of his earthly ministry, he had a whole constellation of opponents and enemies. That should sober up those of us who desire to live a godly life in Christ. The culture around us is rotting away. Things like truth telling and hard work and thrift are no longer held in high regard. When Christians warn of the danger of a federal government spending us all into oblivion, we are not necessarily being political. Of course spending money you do not actually possess can lead to political disaster (and it is) but it is a disaster on a personal, family, or national level as well. Such behavior is born of greed, covetousness, deceit and all sorts of other evils. To address the fruits of evil is not political, it is moral. The law of God is being violated and there is always a settling of accounts because we live in God’s universe, not the sentimental, make-believe universe of utopian dreams. Try telling the truth about a few things as see what happens. If you tell folks that much of the human suffering and misery of our nation is due to sexual misbehavior and the dissolution of marriage and the nuclear family you will be ridiculed. You will be quickly wearing the title of bigot around your proverbial neck like a social albatross. If you challenge the results of public education, get ready to feel the wrath of high-minded folks who believe you hate your local community and all school teachers everywhere. Never mind that increasingly children cannot read or write or do basic math. If you question our nation’s spreading war and sexual perversions all over the world, you are likely to be labeled as a traitor. Nevertheless, I suggest you regularly tell the truth about all these things. But here’s the catch. Just being a critic or a person of contrary opinion is not what Christians are called to do. Christians are called to be tempered by our strong conviction that we must act out of Christ-exalting and personally humble motives. It is easy to criticize. The peanut gallery of life always appears to be a safe spot. If we are going to engage another person or the culture at large, we must do so out of genuine God-given love. It is sad that American Christians too often take their marching orders from the popular opinions of the day rather from Holy Spirit convictions rooted in biblical truth. Too many Christians want to be loved by the unregenerate world. Few of us want to be thought of as hard-hearted bigots who enjoy criticizing others. The quickest way to shut up the average Christian is to charge him with being a hater. Who wants to be known by that? Speaking truth can get you crosswise with those who agree with you on most topics. Conservative Americans and Bible-believing Christians share many of the same beliefs, but not all. The abortion issue is a case in point. Many political conservatives have decided that public opposition to abortion is a losing political strategy. That might be. The truth is that butchering babies in their mother’s womb and them selling their tiny body parts is a grotesque evil that must be irradicated. Tell the truth about the folly of transgenderism and see what happens. The truth is that surgically altering the bodies of boys and girls to try to reverse their gender is a grotesque evil that must stop. Most Christians are nice people. But being a Christian involves much more than being nice. It involves being transformed by the grace of God. It means acting in accord with God’s call to righteousness. It involves risk because the struggle is a matter of life and death. The devil and his minions are working to delude and deceive everyone they can. Christians are called to speak the truth in love out of clear conscience and a sincere faith. No one gets a pass on this. We either trust and obey or we cowardly go along to get along. Let’s work and pray toward a life that is saturated with truth that we believe, live in and speak boldly. Blessings, Pastor Coram Deo

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