Have you ever heard someone say this to you: "Jesus was just a good teacher," or "Jesus never claimed to be God," or "Don't all roads lead to heaven?" or "Isn't the message of Jesus to just be kind and do good things?" I'm sure there are many more statements like these that we hear everyday, and Christians are accused constantly of being "narrow-minded", or bigoted, or "intolerant". The cry of this generation is seen on car-bumpers everywhere: "COEXIST".
Have you ever thought about what that word really means? Follow that thought out to its logical conclusion...yep. It really means 'DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING'. Because if you do, then you are being intolerant of someone else. All of the religions of the world make exclusive claims. Can they really ALL be right? How about the post-modern thinking of the day? It wants to obscure the whole issue of faith and say that "there really is no truth or error, no up or down, black or white, light or dark. It's all just different shades of grey, right? Just be cool man, don't take a stand for anything cause we're just bits of matter driven by fate and one day we'll fade into nothingness"...Yep, that's the mantra of this generation, and it leads to the destruction of the family, the weakening of the Church, and the breakdown of society itself.
THINK about the claims of postmodernism. Can it really be that there are no absolutes, no objective truths? We can run around and claim that all day long, but when night falls, and evil comes knocking on our doors, WHO do we call out to? When injustice invades our lives, what do we cry out for? To what system of power, goodness and justice are we appealing to? What is law, and where does it come from?
THINK about the person of Jesus Christ. He claimed to be God, to be sent from God, and that He had come to seek and save that which is lost, that He came to die in our place, and lead the people of God out from the disgusting and vile wretchedness of our enslavement to sin and fear of death into the kingdom of heaven, into the light of truth and purpose, the family of God.
Christians, if we don't maintain the exclusive claims of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, then our church meetings are in vain, our worship is pointless, and we should just call all the missionaries home. If we have no absolute, guiding truth from God to which people can look and be delivered, then why are we doing this Christian thing? If we aren't living lives of obedience to God's Word, and telling the truth about sin, how will people know they need a Savior? If we look, sound, and act just like the world (cosmos=the world system), then Christianity is no more real and true than any other belief system.
Christians, know your Bible, speak the truth, and don't be afraid that holding the line will cost you anything truly valuable. Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us, and death is only graduation day!
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