March 12 2018 – Click here to listen
I get all kinds of nasty letters throughout the year. I read a particularly nasty one the other day and I laughed out loud. I thought, where’s the love?
I have often wondered why so many people hate Christians. Statistics clearly demonstrate that we are the most charitable people on the face of the earth. The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently published the following statement: “The more important religion is to a person, the more likely that person is to give to a charity of any kind, according to new research released today.”
If a disaster strikes anywhere in the world, one can be assured that a Christian organization like Samaritan’s Purse, the Salvation Army, and churches galore will be there to help. These efforts are not limited to one-time disasters either. Check any city and you will find Christian organizations daily feeding and caring for the homeless, helping unwed teens and neglected and abused youth, volunteering at hospitals and hospice, visiting jails and prisons and other endeavors that offer hope to those who have none.
So why do so many people hate Christians?
“The further a society drifts from the truth,” George Orwell once said, “the more it will hate those that speak it.”
Make no mistake Christians sin just like secular people do, but true Christians feel remorse for not following the commands of Christ and ask forgiveness for their sins. They call their mistakes sin and try to live as sin free as they can. Secularists do what they want with impunity and resent anyone calling their actions sinful.
In the Bible when Jesus is brought before Pilate at his mock trial, Pilot asks him if he is a king. When Jesus admits that he is Pilate says
“You are a king, then!”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
“What is truth?” retorted Pilate.
That is a typical response of a secularist. Those who do not have a biblical worldview cannot discern the truth. The bottom line, anyone who calls sin what it is, sin, is hated.
A secularist society readily accepts divorce on demand, abortion, gay marriage, pornography, fake news, Mardi Gras type drunken festivals, and so on because there is no basis to refrain from the “if it feels good, do it” mentality. Meanwhile Christians read about these things being forbidden in the Bible and understand that they are contrary to God’s will. They might engage in them temporarily but are convicted of their sins by the Holy Spirit and are miserable until they turn from their sins. When and if Christians denounce sin publicly as they are told to do by the Bible, they are hated by secularists because of its truth established by none other than Jesus Christ.
John 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through
Jesus Christ.
Secular humanism judges everything religious/spiritual as worthless and leaves all divinity and religion out of humanism entirely, and grounds the humanist life and its ethical principles on reason alone.
If God is removed from the equation and we rely on our humanist desires and reason, the results are inevitable. As evidence just look around the world. Which country is predominately Christian?
The United States.
Which country leads the world?
The United States.
Christians stick to the Bible and don’t hesitate to speak out against sin! God is with us . . .
Eph. 6:14
Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,