In His Service vs. Lip Service
by Pastor Mark Downey
March 4, 2012
Scripture Reading: Mark 7:1-9
The populist cry of the American Revolution was "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." Fast forward to the present time and we can witness a complete reversal. Treason within church and state has become as commonly accepted as watching TV. Both ironically call good evil and evil good. Resistance to God is obedience to tyrants. Too many of our people have lost the Spirit of '76 in standing up against evil and the church world doesn't know how or even why it should obey God. They don't know what to obey. Thomas Jefferson said, “I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery.” Orwell picked up on that idea in his mythical totalitarian state, whereby freedom is slavery, war is peace and ignorance is strength. The thing is it’s not a myth anymore.
The mind-numbing process to substitute God's sovereignty with pious paganism or self indulgent morality is in plain view. In fact, the adversarial façade of a vicarious manifestation of Christianity can be too obvious for most people to detect. Audacity is taken to extreme limits. All that is seen is the whited sepulcher and not the soup of vile remains inside. The Big Lie grows exponentially.