War Against Manhood! by Pastor Mark Herridge

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Ladies, Mothers, Your Little Boys are Under Attack!

Maybe you have not thought about it much, but there is a war taking place all around us every single day. If your spiritual eyes were opened for just a few minutes you would see a spiritual landscaped dotted with bomb craters, fox holes, and trenches. Dead and dying men and women litter the ground. Bullets are whizzing by and the cries of the wounded are deafening. This battlefield is as real as any of our past – as real as Gettysburg or Normandy.

This Great War is being fought on many fronts and what I am writing about today is just one of those arenas of conflict, but to be sure it is a vital one because it involves our families and whatsoever concerns them will have an impact on our society. This battle is being fought for the control of our boys – it is a War against Masculinity. Certainly there are also battles being fought for the control of our girls, and I will deal with that subject in a future article, but it is vital that we understand what is taking place in our society and even more importantly what is taking place in our churches. It is a war against masculinity and if we continue losing this battle then we will lose future generations of young men.

One of the most lambasted and hated roles in modern society is that of the male, especially if that male is patterned after the Bible and what a traditional man should be. This war did not start last year, but has been going on since the beginning. In recent years we have seen the fight escalate. Much of what we saw unfolding in recent years on the news concerning the “Me Too” movement was about the future control of the world at large and not just about male oppression of females. To be sure, there definitely were some very bad men that had used their positions of power to take advantage of women, and those men needed to be arrested, charged, and convicted for their crimes. There is no argument

there. What was being reported openly needed to be aired out and exposed. At the same time we must recognize that the Feminist Movement, which is NOT about true femininity, politicized these glaring crimes into a grab for power. In their estimation men have forfeited their God-given position of leadership and these Feminists believe they could do a better job of leading the world. Again, do not mistake me here. There is never any reason for a man to mistreat and take advantage of a woman. Such a man is not a true man, and he should be treated as a criminal for his bestial behavior.

Today the soft man is now held up as the model for men to aspire to. Gone is the rugged man that would go out and bag wild game for the family table. These rugged men were men that would swing a hammer with resolve, wield an axe with fidelity, and carry a gun in a holster on their hip. The only gun that most boys know how to use today is a fake gun attached to cord on their Xbox. Very few shoot rabbits – now they shoot pixelated zombies and demons. Such soft activities have reduced manhood to a fantasy that can only exist in the minds of boys, and unfortunately when this fantasy finally explodes into the real world it usually does so violently in a school shooting. If these boys would have had a real man in their lives that would have taught them the truth about guns then we would not see this problem we see so prevalent today.

With complete blindness society blames a piece of metal for the violence and seeks to eliminate these acts of violence by regulating guns. The problem is in the hearts of boys that do not know how to be true men. The problem is in homes that have no real male leadership. A piece of manufactured metal and plastic is not the problem. The problem lies in the minds of those holding it and pulling the trigger. If we want to change the culture of violence we are going to need to change the minds of boys, and yes it is almost always boys that perpetrate these horrible acts of wanton violence, we are going to need to correct the masculine mindset.

Fatherless homes are driving the rise in crime around the world and especially here in the USA. Over and over again boys on the cusp of becoming adults fall into groups with other boys and fill their spare time with mischief. This mischief turns into delinquency, which turns into petty theft, which then morphs into assault. It goes from bad to worse. It moves from minor incursions of criminal activity to extreme behavior that destroys lives. Women are often viewed pornographically as objects of pleasure rather than real human beings with feelings. At this point societies answer for these juvenile delinquents is a prison sentence, which compounds the problem and solidifies it in the hearts of young men. When these boys try to transition back into society they are now angry young men and are more likely to do even worse than they had done before. It is a vicious circle that only feeds the problem.

For those that do not take the route of crime, and are somehow able to keep the fantasy of repressed manhood under control in their hearts, they find themselves acting more womanly than manly in their dealings with other people. This leads some boys into gender confusion and homosexuality. The militant homosexual movement loves this turn of events for our society is now cranking out an endless supply of fodder for their sexual perversions. Now we have boys that are not even sure they are boys. To compensate for this newly created problem, the liberals are creating new genders that go beyond anatomy. Some parents have bought into this lie hook, line, and sinker thinking they are a newly enlightened race of people smarter than all of humanity’s history and they are allowing their children to choose their gender when they are at the wise old age of three or four. Of course these kids are not mature enough to take out a loan at a bank, drive a car, or even vote – but they are mature enough to choose if they are male, female, bi-sexual, asexual, abimegender, absorgener, biogender, bigender, caprigender, femfluid, genderflora, invisigender, non-binary…and I must stop for the list of genders is now in the hundreds. Yep these children are definitely mature enough to choose their gender at four (sarcasm). Who in the world makes up this lunacy?

The fact of the matter is that God chooses a child’s gender at inception when the chromosomes of the newly developing child is aligned with either male or female. Sexuality is determined by gender and children should be raised in our society based on the designation assigned to them by our Creator at birth. Sure there are some extremely rare mutations that occur, but these are aberrations and not to be applied to humanity as a whole. We do not do this if a person is born with six fingers on each hand – you only see this mutations being assigned to sexuality in our society because of political correctness. There is no legitimate science behind these false claims. It is all about grant money, posturing in the press, and appeasing the powerful elite. Be careful not believe everything you hear, even if it looks good on paper or a computer screen. Common sense goes a long way in rejecting these pseudo sciences that seem to bolster the stupidity of the current state of gender confusion taking place.

This is a war on masculinity – make no mistake about it. Men are cowering down in fear. Who knows who will be next on the radar of radicalism that it will manufacture crimes in order to assert its agenda? I wouldn’t want to be a Supreme Court judge in today’s climate of hostility. Very few are going to line up and take that kind of abuse, especially if they are a male. The feminists have backed men into a corner, just where they wanted them. In the future it will be much easier to nominate women to the Supreme Court than men. Every man is going to have to run a gauntlet of false accusations, school yearbook reviews, innuendo, and anything else the left-leaning men-haters can come up with. This is just another part of the war on masculinity.

True masculinity is rooted in being a gentleman – and I am not talking about the men that frequent Gentlemen’s Clubs, for those men are NOT gentlemen. A true gentleman is a Bible Man. A true gentleman is a man that knows how to be tough when it is needed, but also knows how to be tender and treat a woman like a lady.

The true Gentleman is a man that displays his God-given calling to provide for his wife and family. That is, if he is a married man. A single man can be a gentleman as well. The married man knows that God has called him to provide the necessities of life, which also includes a protective arm around his wife and children. The wife that knows the value of a strong man basks in his safe hug and does not despise it. No matter how radicalized women are becoming, there is something still deep down in the heart of a woman that still enjoys the strength of a good man.

When you think back throughout the history of men you can see a commonality that persists from recorded time. Men were providers. Men were hunters. Men were warriors. Men were builders. Men were leaders. Men initiated other men into the society of what it means to be a man – in other words: it takes a man to make a man. It also takes a woman, and that first woman is a little boy’s mother. The combination of the Father and the Mother in the right measure molds and makes masculinity. Every man is a makeup of the love of a mother and the strength of a father. When these two elements of marriage are correctly applied to a little boy they will manufacture a man. Sure there are examples of boys raised in homes that did not turn out well. Sometimes these homes were not everything that everyone thought they were and on the surface all appeared well when in reality it was not. Other times the best laid plans went awry. Sometimes they do. As a rule though, when the home is Biblically sound it is more likely to produce the best of both male and female. This is why we must fight for Biblically sound families.

The war on masculinity is really a war on the family. Everything from marriage, to femininity, to masculinity is under attack. We must defend the Biblical definition of manhood religiously. We cannot concede this battle to our enemy.

Fathers it is time to teach our boys to be men. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a man. Boys should be taught to be proud of who God created them to be. Teach them to respect authority. Teach them to work hard. Teach them to do their chores. Teach them to treat women with respect. Teach them basic survival skills. Teach them to hunt and fish. Teach them to throw a ball. Teach them to pray. Teach them to love the Bible. Teach them to love the Church.

No boy should hang his head because he is a boy. No boy should be ridiculed because he wants to go out and play in the mud. Let the boys be boys and pick earthworms out of the ground. Let them get some dirt under the fingernails. Let them go out behind the house and build a fort out of sticks, rubbish, and saplings. When they understand them correctly let their toys be pocket knives, machetes, hammers, and BB guns.

Fathers take off of work early and take that boy camping. Buy a bass boat and take him fishing. Take him to the shooting range and teach him how to handle a gun properly. When he is at home don’t you allow that boy to mistreat his mother or sisters. Train him in all of the right ways. Dad, let your son see that there is no shame in crying –especially in a worship service at Church. Let those boys see you take their mother in your arms and give her a kiss of affection. Let the words “I Love You” be common in your home.

If your boy is too soft then find the problem and change it while he is young. There is nothing wrong with the rugged male. If you have to then throw the Nintendo out of the house, burn the skinny jeans, and buy him some nice blue flannel. This is a war and some drastic measures are in order. If your son is the baby in the family don’t let his Momma and Sisters baby him so much that he never grows out of it. Let him be a boy. Sound boys turn into sound men.

There is so much more that I could say here in this article, and I am sure that I will say more in the future about this. It is imperative that we raise our boys to be men. We must instill in them the virtues of real manhood. The world does not need any more sissies or any more thugs. Both are undesirable. What this world needs is Biblical examples of what a Godly man is. If this is done correctly it will go a long way towards getting our families and our nation back on track.

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DEAR LADIES, women of God …. Declare right now that the LORD made you to be HIS servant, an “helpmeet” to your husband (Genesis 2:18). THE DEVIL IS A LIAR. Where are those jezebel devils going to be on Judgment Day when you stand before your Maker and Judge to give account for how you lived – how you viewed and served your husband He gave you? Selah ladies, selah. WHERE O WHERE will all jezebels be? – eternal damnation in the lake of fire, with not one exception. There are SO VERY MANY jezebels operating in the church world, especially here online! Every one of them is going to hell and the lake of fire. Are you going to go with them or are you going to obey God’s order for your life? It’s time for you to huddle up with Jesus in prayer and the Word today, right now ANDDDD to establish divine truth in the hearts and lives of the younger women, now – which God commanded you to do (Titus 2:1-5). SHARE this post. Jezebel Unmasked!

Apostasy

Jesus Calling Devotional Exposed: 10 Things You Might Not Know

“I know so many who are so deceived by this book!! The author is a woman and she makes Jesus sound like your boyfriend who is so in love with you he can’t bare a minute without you! It is sickening! Plus she says the Bible was not enough for her. She needed more. This author died and if she did repent of her blasphemy against a holy God she is burning in hell as we speak.” Karen Cochran

BEWARE of the Jesus Calling devotional book which is written by a full blown heretic, Sarah Young. This book continually assures things to lost souls (catholics, etc.) reserved only for the true Christian. It promises salvation, assurance, grace, mercy, the glory of God, etc to lost hell bound idolatrous sinners. Like antichrist Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life book, Jesus Calling never calls sinners to repent which is a Gospel essential and without which God will never save any soul from sin and hell (Luke 13:3, 5). You will never hear Jesus’ born again commanded or command to repent in this heretical devotional book title Jesus Calling. This monstrosity simply confirms sinners in their sin, sealing their doom in the lake of fire (Jeremiah 23:17; Lamentations 2:14, etc.).

Sarah Young is just another self-willed false prophet who does “ministry” her way, not God’s, in order to sell books and to mislead eternal souls into eternal damnation.

The blessings of God in Christ’s salvation are reserved only for those born again “in Christ,” and never for hell bound religious idolaters (John 15:7; 2 Corinthians 1:20; 2 Peter 1:1-4, etc.).

Stacy Strother writes:

“Her subtly, deceptive, doctrinally corrupt fairy tale version of what she calls bible studies for all the different ages of people, including children’s bible studies, teen and other, are found in the book stores—shelves filled full.

She is deceived, a false witness, False bible teacher, and has not heard from our Jesus—the Christ, Son of the living God, of which, is the very Word of God.

She hears from demons. Period! She needs to REPENT, and be born again! Please Lord Jesus, help her see her own demise!”

About That Jesus Calling – 10 Things You Might Not Know

ARE you seeking to experience God OR to KNOW HIM? (John 17:3)

“People want a word from God instead of the Word OF God.” Warren Smith

by Lighthouse Trails Editors

1. Did you know that Sarah Young says she had been inspired by the “Jesus” of a book called God Calling?

2. Did you know that Christian publisher Harvest House’s book The Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs says that God Calling is an example of a channeled New Age book “replete with denials of biblical teaching”?1

3. Did you know that the “Jesus” of God Calling teaches that God is “in” everyone?

4. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling contradicts the Jesus of the Bible?

5. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling rejects the Jesus of the Bible’s warnings about the future and tells us to “laugh” at the future?

6. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling frequently flatters his followers, which contrasts the way Jesus Christ spoke to people?

7. Did you know that Sarah Young’s “Jesus” revises the night that Jesus Christ was born and calls it a “dark night” in a “filthy stable” in “appalling conditions” even though the Bible says the shepherds rejoiced in all that they had seen that night? 2

8. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling revises the accounts of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph of the Bible?

9. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling encourages his followers to practice contemplative “listening” prayer and to have a “buffer zone of silence” with no warning about seducing spirits?3

10. Did you know that the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling emphasizes New Age terms and concepts throughout the book?

The 10 points above have been taken from Warren B. Smith’s new book, “Another Jesus” Calling. This book provides valuable information that can help you warn your family and friends how the “Jesus” of Jesus Calling contradicts the biblical Jesus.

Notes:

1. John Ankerberg & John Weldon, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1996), p. 103.

2. Sarah Young, Jesus Calling, p. 376.

3. Jesus Calling, June 15th entry

FEEDBACK:

“Solid Biblical refutation of the “New Age ” nonsense passing itself off as the latest thing God is doing. In our area a number of Churches have embraced this and other similar material with no discernment to the un-biblical nature of this drivel. Thank God for Warren B. Smith and others who provide an inestimable service to the Body of Christ as “watchmen on the wall.” Pastor Tom, West Harrison NY”

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Apostasy

Billy Graham Promoted and Sent People to Go Join the Catholic Church

“One of the most troubling problems within the church today is the unwavering loyalty to a ‘christian’ personality rather than to Christ and His Word. The unwillingness to test every man’s teaching with God’s Word, coupled with a stubborn lack of discernment, produces fertile ground for deception to flourish.” Evangeline DiChristi

from Chick Publications

Billy Graham Still Sending Converts Back to the Pope

Billy Graham. We know that his messages are solid gospel. Few in or out of the Christian World have not heard of him. Since 1949 he has held the spotlight as the most prominent evangelist in Christendom. He has just finished his 416th crusade in Pasadena, California that drew over 300,000 people in four days. 13,000+ responded to his altar calls. Graham is now 86 years old and has one more crusade scheduled in New York City next year, health permitting.

The Pasadena crusade was on the anniversary of his first Los Angeles revival 55 years ago. It was after that meeting that Graham was “kissed by William Randolph Hearst” according to Dr Cathy Burns in her book, Billy Graham and His Friends. This meant that Hearst had decided to promote Graham’s ministry in his nationwide chain of newspapers.

Immediately, reporters and photographers were crawling all over the Graham meetings. Front page articles began to appear in the leading local papers wherever Graham held meetings. One reporter was assigned full time to travel with Graham’s team.

In 1991, Graham claimed that this sudden attention remained a mystery. Burns describes a more complex scenario. Regardless, the publicity propelled Graham into the national, if not international, limelight.

Jesus warned, “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you.” Over the years, Graham became the friend of presidents and kings, a beloved “America’s Pastor.”

But the fame came with a price. In his book, Smokescreens, written in 1983, Jack Chick describes how Roman Catholic leaders viewed and used Graham as a key player in their ecumenical plans. As early as 1965, he was a guest speaker at Catholic Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina where he received an honorary doctor’s degree. A college official’s letter describes Graham’s address as “theologically sound” as may have been given by “any other Catholic preacher.” The letter further states, “I would state that he could bring Catholics and Protestants together in a healthy ecumenic spirit.” Graham was also speaking at several other Catholic colleges at that time.

This prediction was fully realized. In Smokescreens, Chick shows various illustrations. In 1971 Graham is shown meeting with Oakland, California, Catholic Bishop Floyd Begin who lauded Graham’s ministry. In 1972 he received a Franciscan Friars’ award for true ecumenism. In 1979 Graham praised the pope as a “moral and spiritual leader that believes in something.”

In 1981 he was closeted for almost two hours with Pope John Paul II. After the 1982 New England crusade, thousands of those who went forward for salvation were turned over to Catholic clergy for follow-up.

And this hasn’t changed. Before the Pasadena crusade this year, The Tidings, official newspaper for the Los Angeles diocese, reported that Cardinal Mahony had written to parish priests to encourage their members to attend the crusade.

Crusade officials bragged that they had “a marvelous agreement” with Graham to give all registration cards to the diocese, of the inquirers who identified themselves as Catholic. The object was to “reincorporate Catholic Crusade participants back into full sacramental life in the Catholic Church.” “This is ecumenicity at it finest,” said Alexei Smith, Ecumenical and Interreligious Officer for the archdiocese.

There is no doubt that hundreds of thousands have been swept into the kingdom during the Graham crusades. But how tragic that so many who responded to Graham’s call to salvation were then sent back to the spiritual bondage and pagan rituals of the pope’s prostitute church?

Jack Chick concludes the Smokescreens chapter: “Yes, beloved. Billy Graham, as much as I love him and hate to say it, I believe was cleverly used as a smokescreen and as a pied piper for the whore of Revelation.”

In Graham’s 1952 Pittsburgh crusade, the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph reported that Graham said:

“Many of the people who reach a decision for Christ at our meetings have joined the Catholic Church and we have received commendations from Catholic publications for the revived interest in their Church following our campaigns. This happened both in Boston and Washington. After all, one of our prime purposes is to help the churches in a community. If after we move on, the local (sic) churches do not feel the efforts of these meetings in increased membership and attendance, then our crusade would have to be considered a failure.” [Emphasis in the original.]

Did you notice that Graham was only interested in a church’s increased membership-but nothing was said about a person receiving Christ as his or her personal Lord and Savior. This is what is important-not church membership! Church membership could increase a 1000-fold but if people are not being saved, then all is in vain.

Graham also gave a boost to the Catholic Church (in 1952) when he added that he “hoped to hear Bishop Fulton J. Sheen at one of the masses at St. Paul’s Cathedral tomorrow. ” [Emphasis in the original.]

“In 1968, Graham was in a meeting in San Antonio, Texas. He said that the Roman Church had given ‘tremendous cooperation’ in areas where he had held crusades. He added, ‘A great part of our support today comes from Catholics. We never hold a crusade without priests and nuns being much in evidence in the audience.”
By 1973 nuns were singing in the choir at Graham’s crusades.

Continuing on with Graham’s ecumenical outlook, the June 10, 1966 issue of Time said that volunteers “will tactfully receive those stepping forward to make a decision for Christ, [and] steer them to the nearest church of their chosen denomination….”

In Poland in 1978, “Graham taught nuns and priests how to evangelize. A picture taken at the famous Polish Shrine of the Black Madonna shows Graham welcoming pilgrims to the worship of their Virgin.”

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10 Clues Your Love for God has Waxed Cold [podcast]

The wise virgin saints are keeping their lamps full of divine oil, they are taking personal responsibility for their own spiritual state with Christ the great and soon coming Bridegroom. Read Matthew 25:1-13.

“The Love of Many Shall Wax Cold”

“And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matthew 24:10-14

Did you notice in verse 14 that those who hot for Jesus are participating in the preaching of His Word to the end of the earth (Mark 16:15).

Anyone not devouring God’s Word daily is falling away, is not enduring to the end, is choosing the let their love for Jesus wax cold, and on the wrong, the losing end of this prophecy Jesus gave here on record in Matthew 24:10-14.

“I will spue (vomit, reject) thee out of my mouth”

“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:” Revelation 3:16-17

Praying God will help you love Him more (Matthew 22:37-40). It really all boils down to WHO we love most. THAT is exactly who we are serving (Romans 6:16).

Loving God is everything as far as what’s in our control – because it’s a choice, daily, and will determine if one remains in Christ to the end.

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40

“Thou hast left thy first love”

“Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.” Revelation 2:4-5

1. When you are choosing not to spend quality time with God in prayer each and every morning… When you are choosing not to spend quality time with God in His Word each and every morning (Luke 9:23-24; 1 Chronicles 16:11).

2. When your love for God’s people is being reduced instead of increased (Philippians 2:12-13; 1 John 5:1) Marks of the True Christian …. “Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; 11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;” (Romans 12:9-11) See John 13:35.

“And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. 21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.” Luke 8:20-21

“We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.” 1 John 3:14

“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.” 1 John 5:1

Reading 1 Corinthians 13 today will refresh your heart and mind on the divine importance placed upon LOVE.

3. You are not denying self and not taking up the cross daily (Luke 9:23-24; 19:27; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:3, etc.).

4. You aren’t communicating the light of truth to others because you no longer seek or fear the LORD and so His divine virtue isn’t teeming in and flowing out of you. Your cup no longer runs over but instead is running empty (Psalms 23). You have a lampshade over the light and are not letting His light shine in and through your life and words… “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.” (Isaiah 58:1)

5. You live in fear instead of faith and the joy of being with Jesus (Luke 21:28; 1 John 4:16-18; Proverbs 28:1; Psalms 2:11).

6. You preach promises and not conditions…following the apostate modern church and you don’t preach the cardinal doctrines of the original Gospel which we are commanded to “earnest contend for.” (Jude 3) You begin meditating on and living by trends instead of truth (Jeremiah 9:3; 2 Timothy 4:2-4; Philippians 4:8; Romans 12:1-2).

7. You have little or no true fellowship with other born- again Bible believing disciples of Jesus as is defined in God’s Word and not by the modern church world (Acts 2:42).

The Word of God is to run rich, to be abundant among God’s people … “In all wisdom” and “all in the name of the Lord Jesus” … “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.” (Colossians 3:16-17)

8. You know you are backsliding when your main thrust and identity become politics, not the work of the Gospel. YOU are a blood bought disciple of Jesus, not a conservative. You are a Bible believing follower of Christ (Luke 9:62; Galatians 6:14).

9. When you love this world…..When you spend more time and money on hobbies and the things of this fleeting world than you do on attending to knowing, walking with the LORD and preparing to be used of Him (Mark 4:17-19; 1 John 2:15; James 4:4).

10. When you spend more money on trash and trinkets then helping the work of the One you claim to love and the poor. You know you are backslidden when you are not obeying God with what He’s placing in your temporal possession. He shall bring you into full account for this.

Regrettably, people will give their money to any and every pleasure under the sun but make excuses when the opportunity to support the work of the One they claim to love and serve. The Holy Spirit foretold that in the final days before the return of Jesus, there would be those with a mere “form of godliness”, “men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,” and “lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” (2 Timothy 3:1-7) According to the LORD, one of the main ways to measure our true love for Him or lack thereof, is by peering into our personal stewardship of the resources He’s placed into our temporary possession. Luke 12 and 16 offer a plethora of divine wisdom and warning concerning the judgment to come, the judgment we shall endure in giving account for our stewardship in this life.

The clear proof that God is working in our lives, that we are truly following Jesus, is that we are becoming less and less vested in this fleeting, fallen world (James 4:4; 1 John 2:15-17). And that we, our good works, our giving are more and more invested in eternity – in the eternal kingdom of Christ, laying up treasures in Heaven, sending them before us, relinquishing the things of this world for the glory of God – putting them to work for the eternal Gospel of Christ – for saints to be fed and equipped and the lost to hear the Word of God (Matt. 6:19-21).

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:19-24

To underscore the importance of stewardship, we should realize that 16 of our LORD’s 38 parables involved stewardship. Those who now do not wish to face and confront this truth, are apparently those who are in the most need of hearing it.

PRAYER: Father I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. Please cause my conscience to be super sensitive to Your conviction, Your leading, and to evade all that defiles me in Your holy eyes, sin. Here and now I submit my life afresh to You dear LORD. You must increase but I must decrease. I am crucified with Christ and thank You for conforming me to His holy image. I am all Yours LORD and thank You that You are all mine. I love You Jesus. Please make me one with You and the Father and with Your beloved body. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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