KBM Standing Against Moral Sins
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As I mentioned in the last episode, we will be focusing this year on being “Defenders of the Faith” due to the rise in people, even those that should know better, ignoring God’s desire for us to do so. We started off proving God’s word desires for us to stand up for Jesus, the Word, and defending God’s holy word against sin and corruption. Today we are going to focus on one “group of sins” that is being ignored and those are the sins on morality. We will dive into the individual sins in the coming weeks, but one of the arguments being made in our modern times is…
“We need to focus on Jesus, we don’t need to focus on these other “trivial” matters.” In other words, we need to focus on Jesus’ love for the souls of humanity and his sacrifice for said souls because everything else is second fiddle or “trivial.”
Now to be clear, they believe moral issues are trivial for two reasons.
First, they don’t want to demand Christians not live immoral lives, and believe it is “on the individual Christian” to determine if they are morally being acceptable to God or not. This of course flies in the face of what God demands being preached.
2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
Second, they don’t believe these various moral issues are issues at all because they don’t believe they are sins and will spend a great deal of time defending their beliefs to other preachers pointing out their unwillingness to preach the whole counsel of God, just so they won’t have to preach these lesson and thus let the whole congregation know their stance on these doctrines.
7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
So the real reason they don’t preach on them is because they don’t believe they are wrong and they don’t want everyone to know that, in their congregation, because “they know full well” not everyone will agree with them. This is a weak and unscriptural mindset. Preachers and teachers of God’s word are not to sit by and let sin or a sinful mindsets infect the church and those souls Jesus did die for.
God has been abundantly clear on our need to teach his word unadulterated and completely without compromise.
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
God has been clear on how we “should feel” toward all sin.
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Those of us that love God and his precious word must not idly sit by and watch his teachings on moral issues ignored and must stand of for God, his holiness, his righteousness, and be a defender of the faith not a defender of “some faith.”
