Posted on 02/03/2022 9:38:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Reality Is…
There are threats that face the Christian Church, and the cause of those threats is sin. Sin affects every member of the Christian faith, no matter the status. Sin causes us to stumble and sets us back in our cause for Christ. Ultimately, it should remind us how desperate we need the forgiveness and guidance of God.
But which sin seems to set us back the most? What are we glossing over, pushing under the rug, and pretending isn’t there? That, my friends, is sexual sin. In 2016, Josh McDowell told CBN News, “pornography is probably the greatest threat to the cause of Christ in the history of the world.” Wow. That’s a strong statement to make.
Churches should be pushing the alarm button…not the snooze button! The sad reality is we are not hearing the alarm because most Christian men are in the clutches of this sin. Barna Research Group and Josh McDowell Ministries commissioned a studyfound that the number of Christian men who view pornography nearly mirrors that of non-Christian men. How can this be?
Factors
How has the Church suddenly become a fruitless and passive representation of God in this area? There should be alarms ringing left and right about this topic. Yes, there are certainly pastors and leaders out there addressing it and hundreds of books have been written on it. However, instead of winning against this sin, we’re backsliding.
A recent Lifeway Research poll found that 81 percent of Americans said they were concerned with the declining moral behavior of America. If God calls and equips the Church to be set apart from this world and its lusts, why are most Christian men living sexually immoral lifestyles?
There are a couple of primary factors that contribute to this decline in morals and moral behavior. First, the world is constantly advancing the availability, accessibility, and acceptance of sexual immorality. Over half of men aged 18-49 label pornography as morally acceptable. What’s even more disturbing is that 50% of those who claimed their religion was important to them, also said porn was morally acceptable.
The second factor contributing to this moral decline is that Christians frequently underscore God’s Word and the role that He plays in the battle between the flesh and the spirit. Most of the sermons and books today focus on what you need to do to become free — not how God has a role and provision for us in this battle.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. (2 Corinthians 10:4-6)
It’s time to fight
As the Body of Christ, we cannot allow this moral decline to continue. We must sound the alarm.
Did you know that sexual sin is different than all other sins? The Bible tells us, “Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he commits sexual immorality sins against his own body” (1 Corinthians 6:18). Sexual sin incapacitates us both spiritually and physically. Satan knows this and has been using this sin against man from the very beginning. He knows we were created as sexual beings (Genesis 2:24) and our sexual immorality incapacitates us. He also knows sin causes us to hide from God (Genesis 3:10) and he specifically targets Christians.
The Church has been putting forth unbiblical tactics far too long and it’s time for the Church to stand up and fight the war of sexual immorality.
Adapted from J.S. Shelton’s book “Unmuzzled: Escaping sexual sin, Satan’s grip on men.” For more information about J.S. Shelton and “Unmuzzled” please visit: https://unmuzzledmen.com/
Author of the book UNMUZZLED, Jeremy is a man on a mission to directly confront sexual sin in the church today. He does so with the belief God is using him to grab hold of those heading toward a slaughter. He and his wife of eighteen years have five children and live in Texas.
I trust what I can prove, I blindly trust very few human beings; no politicians, no CEO’s; noone ever from HR; no lawyer even if he/she works for me; no Priests, Popes or anyone who claims to be Holy or who speaks for God. I only put blind trust in a few family and very, very close friends, were I married I would absolutely put blind trust in my wife.
The question I think you really were asking me is, what do I have faith in?
I have a faithful belief in the concept of God, the Creator, a higher power, call it what you will. I have a faithful belief in the immaculate conception and the resurrection but those are going to be a tough ones to prove to be real thus they’ll have to stay in the realm of faith for now.
I believe Jesus actually did live as there seems to be Roman records of him and others, and events mentioned in the Bible. I believe the crucifiction happened. There is actual physical evidence that these events happened.
I believe story of Noah’s flood is true although the Bible version is likely not completely accurate, more like a conglomeration of all the various cultural evidence from civiliztions around the world who had no contact with each other until thousands of years after their flood stories/mythologies were recorded, and they all speak of a great flood.
Every year geologists around the world are finding the hard geologic evidence of huge floods around the time of the Younger Dryas and shortly there after. The Earth was in a climatic upheaval at the time as it was transitioning from a glacial cycle to and interglacial cycle. And by the way, the Earth is now at the beginning stages of transitioning back into a glacial cycle. Just sayin
I tend to believe Exodus actually happened; not through the Red Sea, but rather, what was called the Reed Sea contemperaneously because it was a very shallow sea area close to the Mediterranean Sea coast. The Jewish slaves escaping Pharo’s bondage made it through the Reed Sea but Pharoh’s Army likely got caught in a tsunami generated from an earthquake in the area of the Greecian Islands. There is ample evidence of the tsunami but more evidence as in maybe charriot wheels or something physical from Pharo’s army that dates to the same time period as the tsunami is needed to prove it actually happened. I’m sorry, but Moses did not raise his hands and part the Red Sea.
Of course if one actually researches and compares the stories in the Bible with the stories from Greek and Roman mythology, one begins to notice some incrdible similarities in many of the stories.
Have you ever read the Epic of Gilgamesh? It was written during the time of the Sumerian civilization about 4100ya, thousands of years before the Bible was written. If you want to see what I’m talking about, it has some striking similarities to the Bible’s stories, you should check it out, one can actually listen to the audiobook version free from Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGaEFPssQ7s
You seem to have faith in some of the words of the Bible, while others you seem to distrust because some men have studied something else and convinced you that some stuff is just too; well too WILD to believe.
This surprises you?
Ever read of the tower of Babel?
Up until that time, all the long ago happenings to humans were in one language.
When the confusion occurred, all the remembered and told again stories had to be reformatted into a multitude of languages; no doubt becoming slightly different in each one.
Heck; we don't even have a 'standard' Greek to English translation today that men are not fussing about.
Likely?
And where are the wheels that you want as evidence?
Then why are you holding back from trusting Jesus completely?
Obviously you simply do not understand anything I’ve been explaining to you because you choose to see the entire world only through one frame of reference. I’ve become bored with this conversation because you choose to remain ignorant and keep asking the same basic question over and over which elicited the same response from me. You’re not going to get the answer you want to hear by asking the same question over and over but in a slightly different way.
How many times do I have to explain this?
Isn’t that what I said, more evidence needs to be found, are you completely effing stupid to ask where the wheels after I acknowledge that that evidence is lacking and has to be found before claiming Exodus was a real event and where it happened. Jeez you fanatics, it’s sad how you keep youselves willfully ignorant of reality.
And nothing else?
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