July 24 2017 – Click here to listen
I read this morning where a company in Wisconsin is implanting microchips in the hands of employees that volunteer to receive them. The chips will enable them to purchase goods simply by holding their hand under a scanner to scan their hand and pay for it without ever opening their wallet.
There were also some artificial Intelligence (AI) articles I read recently stating that computers that utilize AI will exceed the human mind in just a few short years. There was an article on robots replacing workers cooking hamburgers, harvesting agricultural products, patrolling streets for crime and so on.
Perhaps most disturbing is the manufacture of sex dolls which are silicone covered replicas of handsome men and beautiful women. The dolls respond to heat and touching certain areas, speak, and are designed to appear to be human in every way, and of course having sex with them is the number one selling point. They seem to really be catching on and a manufacturing plant in China is in full scale production of them. They are already using them in houses of prostitution in the UK.
As with television and its X-rated television shows, and pornography on the Internet, and drones which now kill people from the air all over the world, scientific advances are quickly turned to evil purposes by evil people.
I’m reminded of a parable in Matthew 13:36 that spoke of an enemy who come in during the night and spread “Tares” in a farmer’s wheat field. Tares are a form of a weed. In the agricultural society of Christ’s time, many farmers depended on the quality of their crops. An enemy sowing weeds would have sabotaged a business. They didn’t have weed killers in those days, so the master was asked what they should do. Instead of tearing out the wheat with the tares, the landowner in this parable wisely told them to wait until the harvest. After harvesting the wheat from the entire field, the tares could be separated and burned and the wheat would be saved in the barn.
When Jesus explained this parable, He declared that He Himself is the landowner in the parable. The enemy in the parable is Satan. In opposition to Jesus Christ, the devil tries to destroy Christ’s work at every turn. Instead of requiring the weeds to be rooted out of the world, and possibly hurting the wheat. (immature believers), in the process, Christ allows them to remain until His return. At that time, angels will separate those in Christ who will enter heave from those who are not who will be burned in hell.
Most of you are familiar with this parable. Now apply it to today. Jesus told us to allow the wheat to grow. That means we do not just yield television, the Internet, and other scientific advances to be used exclusively for evil. We too must use them to do good in an effort to bring in the kingdom of heaven.
When Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand”, He meant the spiritual realm which exists on earth side by side with the realm of the evil one. At the end of this age, angels will separate the true from false believers. But for now, both good and bad seeds mature in the world.
It is not inevitable that society has or will sink too low that it becomes hopeless and therefore we should just sit around awaiting the Rapture since we can’t do anything anyway.
No, my friends the wheat grew right alongside the weeds. The many mountains of culture in society including academia, arts and entertainment, media, government, the church, and the family may all contain huge infestations of evil, but the wheat should be right their growing towards the light.
The Internet was allowed into existence to spread the word of God and build the kingdom of heaven and was never intended to be used exclusively for evil purpose. We, at the Jesus Alliance, know that the entire world is lies in the power of Satan; however, we are from God and thus will continue trying our utmost to utilize the Internet and other advanced forms of communication to do just that.
Join us – won’t you? We must do everything we can to use all of God’s gifts for good and not evil. The weeds will be allowed to grow alongside the wheat but for a season, and then will come a day of harvest. I want to get in the barn . . .
1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.