6 Let no man deceive
you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon
the children of disobedience. 7 Be not
ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For
ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children
of light:
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all
goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
It is common today for people to take sexual sins lightly
unless they are something that society generally finds disgusting, which is
limited to a few things only and the list seems to be getting smaller and
smaller every generation. But, these are things that incur God’s wrath so,
apparently, our sexual attitudes and conduct are important to our Creator. Paul
warns about being deceived by those who would dismiss these concerns as being
irrelevant.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good
evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Christians are warned not to participate in the sins and
sinful attitudes previously mentioned. They are to walk as light and examples
before the world, examples of goodness, righteousness, and truth, having this
evidence of the Spirit in them. They are to show to the world what Christ
approves of, faithfulness to a spouse and a rejection of the lasciviousness of
the world.
A glance at surveys on the subject would suggest that over
half of self-defined Christian spouses
in the United States admit to committing adultery and even a quarter of
Pastors. There are those who insist that self-defined Christians are just as
likely to divorce as any other segment of the population. Christians have no
moral authority in the culture and no standard to set that doesn’t seem
completely hypocritical.
In one poll half of self-defined Christian men and one out of
five Christian women admitted to being addicted to pornography. Nearly half of
Pastors admitted that cyberporn was either a temptation or a current struggle
for them. Christians are supporting and by the sheer number of self-defined
Christians in America making the $100 billion per year pornography industry
profitable.
As far as having the moral power and credibility before the
world that Paul is demanding here American Christianity is a sham, phony,
pretense for self-justification that has little impact in the way of example to
set for the unbelieving world.
Who exactly are we pointing our fingers at when we talk
about, “those people?”
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