Imperishable Inheritance

Mod­ern Chris­tians today no longer want to dis­cuss the Bible. This is a weighty state­ment, but Chris­tians today want to stay so much in the realm of “basic doc­trine” that they fail to see the Bible pro­claims so much more.

When I approach another believer to dis­cuss the­ol­ogy, they imme­di­ately pro­claim it is un-important, un-edifying, and divi­sive. Rid­dle me this: would I go down to a Chris­t­ian singer after a show and say to them, “what you are doing is un-important, un-edifying, and divi­sive to the Body.” Would I say that? Of course not, to do so would be fool­ish. But that same Chris­t­ian singer can come and say that about the­ol­ogy, and it would be accept­able. Don’t you see? The­ol­ogy is my out­let and my skill to which God has granted to me. Much like the singer, we have indi­vid­ual tal­ents and none is more or less impor­tant than the other (1 Corinthi­ans 12:15–25).

I’m hav­ing prob­lems relat­ing to other mem­bers of the Body. I spent so many years study­ing other reli­gions and philoso­phies that I don’t know how to talk to a Chris­t­ian that has no idea what Exis­ten­tial­ism or Sikhism con­stent of. I was a pro­fess­ing Bud­dhist, Taoist, Uni­tar­ian Uni­ver­sal­ist, Post­mod­ernist, and on and on. In fact, when I started seri­ously study­ing Chris­tian­ity I wanted to be a Jew! I just can’t relate to a Chris­t­ian that takes their faith for granted and/or they don’t even know why and what they believe.

Maybe there is just some­thing I’m miss­ing, but this is all true espe­cially in Amer­ica. In a time of Solid Rock stat­ues, pro­po­nents of a gay mar­riage amend­ment, Lady Hope advo­cates, those who believe Amer­i­can was founded on Chris­t­ian val­ues, and other things that are incred­i­bly un-Biblical and untrue to history—I don’t know what to do. We have down­played truth so much for unity we have gospel hyp­ocrites. They have no belief on the val­ues present in Lord­ship Sal­va­tion, God’s eter­nal decree, God’s fore­knowl­edge, and other very impor­tant Bib­li­cal issues. What did Jesus say?

“You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gath­ered from thorn bushes nor figs from this­tles, are they? “So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. “A good tree can­not pro­duce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree pro­duce good fruit. “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. “So then, you will know them by their fruits. “Not every­one who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the king­dom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not proph­esy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name per­form many mir­a­cles?’ “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’ “There­fore every­one who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be com­pared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:16–24