No matter what is going on or what will come in the future, we as believers should hold fast to what we know to be true from the Word of God and continue to apply it by the gracious enablement of the Holy Spirit. Our hope and confidence are in Christ. We pursue Christ and Christlikeness. We don’t live in the past with its successes or failures. We work out our salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12-13). We hold fast to Christ and our hope in the gospel (2:16).
The world we live in continually churns out distractions, counterfeit truth claims, and a Christ-less morality and system of virtue signaling, with accompanying atonement via shame and oppression. Christ and his gospel offer truth, forgiveness, atonement, reconciliation with God and man, removal of shame and provision of freedom from sin.
Across this country, individuals and organizations are coming for our children. World News Group recently featured as story set in Albemarle County, Virginia. Parents there are challenging Public School curriculum which defines, “racism as one-sided – the oppression of people of color by white people… It instructed students that white, Christian, cisgender students make up the ‘dominant’ and ‘oppressor’ culture while students of other races, religions, and sexual orientations were ‘subordinate’ and ‘oppressed.’”[1] This is the curriculum and it is designed to shame white, Christians into conformity with a perverse and ungodly agenda. Brothers and sisters, do not be ashamed, captured, or persuaded by manipulative agendas. Hear this, Christ is Lord. He is on his throne. Psalm 2 informs us that the Lord laughs at those who seek to throw off his rule. He will respond to them in his anger. Christ is Lord, no one else. His Word is the authority, nothing else.
Jesus is Lord, not Caesar (i.e. any earthly government). Jesus is the source of truth, not critical theory or its many offshoots. Jesus is Savior, not cultural power-brokers who demand wokeness, environmentalism, and adherence to contradictory, inconsistent public health decrees while suppressing those who provide an alternative. Jesus provides hope, not earthly political leaders.
We must make sure that we are not adhering to some form of Christian syncretism. Jesus is Lord, if you know him. He is Lord, even if you don’t know him. You would not consider being a follower of Christ and Hinduism, at the same time. You wouldn’t consider being a follower of Christ and relying upon religious ceremonial ritual to become the man or woman God saved you to be. Don’t allow worldly philosophies, morality, and its way of life to pollute your thinking and devotion to Christ. Paul told the Corinthian believers he was concerned that the enemy was successfully leading them astray. Listen to 2 Corinthians 11:3-4, “But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.”
Are we tolerating contradictory philosophies in our own lives? The Scriptures instruct us to turn from such things. We should be seeking to grow in Christ through the pure milk of the Word (1 Pet. 2:2). Pursue Christ and honor his name.