In some of America’s churches you will find consistent morality with the people who live to obey the Bible and worship God. The Bible’s guidance is a church disclaimer against sin and proclaims Christ’s victory over sin as a path to follow.
Christians know the words of Christ, the truth of God’s Holy Scripture’s. Matthew 16:18 … “I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” God’s truth will triumph over all.
Scripture is clear on what sin is, it is what God has said it is, anything that offends His perfect holiness.
The Bible teaches how to deal with a sinning brother or sister within the church in Matthew 18:15-17. The fellowship hopes there will be repentance and there’s hope to restore them into the fellowship so there is love in how the situation is treated. John 13:35 “By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” 1 John 2:5-6.
But most non-Christians don’t read the Bible and without God’s grace they can’t understand it. Without God’s absolute authority and biblical guidance, sin and self-made morality are relative to each non-believer and changes from time to time.
John 3:20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
It has long been understood in America, not to go to church wearing your sin on your sleeve. You don’t show off your sin at church deliberately. As society becomes more and more wicked churches may become a target for disruption. How far from the front door do disruptive sinners get into church before their visible sin is dealt with? That would be an opportunity for showing love and to present the good news gospel out of a bad situation.
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Perhaps there will be a surge of unbiblical churches led by false teachers as we near the rapture and head into the tribulation. As evil increases more sinfulness is made legal and accepted by America’s majority. America’s distinctiveness as a nation of Christian beliefs fades more and more into part of the world system rejecting the one and only true God of the Bible.
The worldwide church of wheat and tares is described in Matthew 13:24-30. The true church of Jesus Christ shines brightly but needs to beware of the mix of people, some of which are tares or false wheat.
Tares or weeds are harmful by taking up space, valuable soil nutrients and water away from the wheat growing in the garden. Tares can be very harmful by choking the wheat either intentionally or unintentionally. Tending to the garden is a must. Christ gives a warning in Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” False teachers or false and disruptive Christians are to be dealt with.
Many of the other so called church wheat are tares and don’t know they are. These self-deceived church goers occupy much space in America’s churches but are living on the broad way in Matthew 7:13. Church is a social event for them where sin is not spoken of and living for Christ is okay if it doesn’t offend anyone.
Their deluded halfway motives for being in church range from finding business opportunities, potential spouses, good environments for children and peer pressure. Faithful uncompromising obedience to Lord Jesus and putting Him first in their lives as Savior and Lord may or may not be worked out for them.
Some tares are not yet wheat, but are in church with good motives subtly searching for God’s truth.
Some tares love and want to keep their sin so much they mask it on Sundays and openly wear it six days.
Some tares are evil with bad motives and bad intentions to bring down a Pastor or the church. There has always been a satanic assault on the true church of Jesus Christ. 2 John 1:9-11.
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Perhaps on a church sign listing the hours of Worship Service and Sunday School there will also be posted the added words, “The Bible Is A Church Disclaimer Against Sin.”
“Sober or sobering drunks welcome. Reformed or reforming thieves welcome. Biblical truth seeking repentant or repenting homosexuals welcome. Rehabilitated or rehabilitating drug addicts welcome. Transformed or transforming gamblers welcome.”
When there is trouble in the soul, to God pray and go, then church is where to grow.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Christian Church, worship, teaching, fellowship, prayer etc. is not for prideful unrepentant sinners living blatantly, visible lives of sin. At the house of God the Bible stands at the door. Repent of your sin and come on in or come on in and repent of your sin.
God gives mercy to the sinner by not immediately sending a sinner to hell. God offers His grace to go to heaven if the sinner believes in faith through the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
