Secular Morality - An Oxymoron

I had a thought about judgment, here it is:

It is curiously contrary that those who accuse Christians of being judgmental, have an odd morality that estranges them from ethical principles and godly wisdom. 

The evident difference:

🔥 When a Christian quotes scripture, the secularist that has committed sin, personally or through collusion, rages and rebels against the suggestion that they have done wrong

🔥 When a Christian reads scripture, and they blush with shame or embarrassment when they realize how they have sinned, been disobedient to God, and have thrown shade on their profession of faith, said Christian is inclined to confess their sins, repent of them, ask God for forgiveness, turn away from their wayward ways, and sin no more. 

Let us look at this in a structured fashion:

Christian quotes scripture

Secularist gets defensive, irritable, self-righteous, accusatory

Christian reads scripture

Christian becomes abashed, saddened, self-conscious, apologetic

As a Christian, when I am at fault in my approach to life's challenges and issues, you can be sure God will point out the errs and omissions in my thinking, and doing: I welcome his merciful correction so that I can recalibrate to Christ. This is why the Bible is invaluable to me, because I know how inclined I am to want my own way, and how misguided I can be without his intervening into my world, my mind, my heart, my very being. This said, I decided long ago that I do not argue with Biblical Truth, because that is a foolish endeavour... God wins every time because he is infallible, never changes, and is perfect in all his righteousness. His will is flawlessly faultless.

Expectations

Christians know there is more expected of them than to just mind our own business, say nothing, pray silently, and hope for the best. Christians have confidence in the Truth as being able to make us free, and there isn't a Christian alive worth their weight in salt, that does not share what they know because souls hang in the balance, giving us a compelling reason to speak up boldly. 

Here, dear reader, is one of the commands given by God to his followers, for the express purpose of making disciples of men. If a person can indeed be reproved, there is a chance they will fall in love with the gospel truth, that Jesus died for the sins of the world and wants none to be lost:

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them (Ephesians 5:11)

I cannot approve sin, just like God cannot approve mine... I am not God, he is the one that established us as his creatures, and he is the one that calls the shots in the judgment department. 

My job is to avoid being friendly or having fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness. In other words, I am to refrain from the disobedience of indulging in what God considers works of darkness, but rather reprove them. To do, or condone, what God condemns, is a treacherously dangerous path of rebellion against the living God. 

1 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather

2 Reprove them

Next, the Bible is very clear how God views adulterers, adulteresses, those that are friends with the world (secularism) and cheating on the God that made them. Read below James 4:4-8:

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 

God is called jealous, dear reader, and rightly so: wouldn't you be, if those that you created in love, turned their back on you, stopped up their ears, spoke ill of you and disobeyed all that you commanded for their own well-being? God has been very merciful thus far in our own generation, but those that sin against him by turning to the world in all its wickedness, are marking themselves as his enemies. Good Lord in heaven, that is a scary prospect! 

Now at this point in your reading, you are either with me in my arguments or against me. Which ever way, you are making a decision that will help or hinder your progress in understanding that God is Sovereign, and no matter what you read or hear a professing Christian write or say, he is the ultimate judge and he never, ever, I mean absolutely not at any time, errs in his guidance, or his judgment. 

So, my challenge to you, if you happen to be a secularist opposed to a Christian like me pointing out that homosexuality is a sin, is to go argue with God, and see how far that gets you. If you think "your" God is different from the one in the Bible, then indeed, you are friends with the world, are at enmity with God, and you are in danger of continuing to be his enemy until you take your last breath... 

THAT IS

  RISKY 

   BUSINESS

Look again at James 4:6-8:

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith , God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 

God gives grace

God resists the proud

God gives grace to the humble

Let us submit ourselves therefore to God

Let us resist the devil

He will flee from us

Draw nigh, close to God

He will draw nigh, close to you

Cleanse your hands sinner, they are dirty

Purify your heart, and be single minded

Draw nigh to God

And God, in all his glory

Will draw nigh to you