Things That Last
THINGS THAT LAST
Good Morning,
As our nation becomes more alienated from the Bible, we also see unscriptural agendas promoted more often through immoral behavior, wrong family values, national leadership, or environmentalism. These facts are sure: the Bible affects people in dramatic ways, and the lack of Bible affects a society dramatically.
God's Word is eternal, while the world’s values and goals are very temporary and pitiful.
Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
Psalm 102:26 “They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:”
Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
1 Corinthians 7:31 “... for the fashion of this world passeth away.”
1 John 2:17 “And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
Whether it be wealth, beauty, musical glory, or political popularity, the rewards of this world are short-lived. The brevity is due to many lives being based on worldly possessions that have no foundation. When we build our lives on the goals of the world, we become foolish and temporary.
A Texas university announced that it was setting up a program to solve the mental health problem of masculinity. The most basic component of life is clearly under assault: men and women, male and female, masculine and feminine.
Obvious facts are attacked and assaulted.
If I am interested in buying a dog, it will be identified by gender. When someone talks about a horse, terms like mare, filly, gelding, or stallion are always used. Each term is an identification as to gender. Every valuable animal for sale has a gender listed; every store has its clothing categorized by the simple categories of gender, size, or style. California is about to lead the way in stupidity as they propose not filling out the gender on human birth certificates until the child grows enough to determine its true inner gender. Cows or poodles are born and identified with a gender; but the gender of humans, created in the image of God, is under debate? Can stupidity be any more obvious? Without the Bible and God, mankind has no limit to the measure that its stupidity can reach.
The university I mentioned earlier is proposing such absurdity is supposed to be a place of “higher education,” yet it challenges the “mental disorder” of masculinity. I ask again, “Why do people send their children to these schools?”
The Texas college announcement is not a matter of gender as much as it is a satanic matter of rebellion against anything God promotes.
Our world promotes couples living together rather than committing to marriage, for marital commitments are Bible-based. Moral purity and sobriety are fought because it is biblical. The very term virginity is mocked by Hollywood and the media everywhere. School sports on Sunday is significant, not because Sundays are better days to play, but because it is rebellion against church attendance on Sundays. Has anyone noticed how many high school graduations in public schools are held on Wednesday nights? It just happens to be the same night as the mid-week Bible studies in most churches. One of our young people graduated from a secular college; the ceremony just happened to be scheduled on a Sunday morning.
We must remember that our world is against God, against the Bible, and against anything for which God is in favor.
Nations without a strong Bible base will oppress people because God sets them free. Do not doubt this fact — proof can be seen all over the world. Muslim cultures live in primitive manners and oppress their people; it only makes sense because God wants people free and prosperous. The most prosperous nation in the Middle East is Israel, a society founded upon the Bible.
Do your best not to allow the world to guide your life or your thinking about marriage, child rearing, or personal finance; for all that is in the world is a godless, temporary lie.
2 Peter 3:11 “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,”
vs. 12 “Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?”
vs. 13 “Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
May we live for things that God promotes and seek out that which is eternal.
Pastor