The Bible uses strong language to describe any form of compromise with worldly thinking. And it doesn’t just apply to the ancient Israelites.
Hosea 4:12 says, “My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking [wooden] staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.”
Hosea used strong language against his fellow Israelites, calling them harlots because they had violated their vows to remain faithful to the one true God by adopting the false gods of the pagan nations into their own system of worship. In essence, they compromised God’s Word.
Is it possible that Christians today, and particularly Christian leaders—in their zeal to make Christianity more enticing—are actually “playing the harlot” too? Here is what I mean.
“And there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).
You see, ever since Adam sinned, man’s sin-cursed nature hasn’t changed. Certainly, those who are born again, as the Bible defines this, know that their sins are forgiven and that they will spend eternity with the Lord. Nonetheless, such Christians still have to deal with their sin nature daily while in these sin-cursed bodies.
Even the great Apostle Paul had this battle. “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good that I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing” (Romans 7:18–19).
The same situation as in ancient Israel, albeit portrayed in a different way and using different terminology, is happening today. I suggest much of the church today is really no different when we consider this sin of harlotry.
Sadly, many Christians, including many Christian leaders (pastors, seminary and Bible college professors, Christian college professors, and so on), have adopted evolutionary geology, biology, astronomy, and anthropology, along with belief in millions of years, and they have mixed such beliefs with God’s Word. Because such beliefs are founded on an antibiblical, anti-God worldview, I do humbly submit that such is harlotry no different than that of the Israelites.
So I challenge those who do compromise God’s Word in Genesis by adding man’s ideas to contemplate these things. And I end with this challenge that God gave to the Israelites.
“Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you” (Zechariah 1:3).
What’s your starting point?
Too often people come to Scripture with their own ideas—such as evolution and millions of years—and force Scripture to fit with those ideas. But when they do this, they’re allowing man, not God, to be the authority. And it’s dangerous to put ourselves in authority over God and his Word!
Christians need to look at whether they are taking ideas to Scripture or starting from Scripture to let God teach us what to believe.
A church in Manvel, Texas, puts on a Christmas display with 1,000 drones that "reenacted the story of Jesus from birth to death, complete with a voiceover narration explaining the events and sharing the Gospel message.”
The Bible:
· 0 errors
· 66 books
· 40+ authors
· 0 contradictions
· 3 different languages
· 3 different continents
· 63K+ cross-references
· written over 1500 years
· all telling the same story
"So then you will know them by their fruits. Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. " Matthew 7:20, 21.
Mr. President, @realDonaldTrump, in Luke 18:13-14, Jesus spoke of a man who knew he was unworthy to enter heaven, the tax collector who cried, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” That man, Jesus said, went home justified before God to enter heaven.
Heaven is not for the righteous in their own eyes, but for those who know they need mercy. None of us can stand before God on our record. But if you come to Him humbly—confessing and repenting of your sin and trusting in Christ alone—you will find grace greater than all your sin.
Jesus promises, “Whoever comes to Me I will never cast out.” (John 6:37)
Please, Mr. President, come to Him as that tax collector did, and you will find mercy, forgiveness, and eternal life.
Pray for our President, saints!
The assassin of Charlie Kirk will soon hear his verdict: guilty — and the just sentence, death.
But one day, there will be another courtroom — the Great White Throne — where every unbeliever will stand trial before the Judge of all. Unless we are born again, we will face that judgment too.
The Bible says:
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
(Romans 3:23, NKJV)
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
(Romans 6:23, NKJV)
“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
(2 Corinthians 5:21, NKJV)
This is exactly what Isaiah foretold:
“But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
(Isaiah 53:5–6, NKJV)
And all of this was motivated by love:
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
(John 3:16, NKJV)
The assassin deserves his penalty. But the greater question is personal:
👉 Have you been born again?
👉 Is YOUR name written in the Book of Life?
(Daniel 7:10; Daniel 12:2; Revelation 20:11–15, NKJV)
That is why Scripture pleads with us:
“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
(2 Corinthians 6:2, NKJV)
The message of the gospel doesn’t end with Jesus’ death on the cross.
The message goes on to tell us Jesus rose from the dead and offers a free gift of salvation. And we are warned in Scripture that if we don’t receive this free gift of salvation, we will live for eternity separated from God.
But for those who repent of their sin and put their trust in Jesus and what he did on the cross for them, they will spend eternity with their Creator.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
“Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9).
“And these [the unsaved] will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Matthew 25:46).
Where are you going to spend eternity?
We need to warn people!
Many Christians think we shouldn’t be “negative” or give “negative” messages. But we need to do what God does—and that’s warn people!
We need to warn people that they are sinners and, as such, would spend eternity separated from God. But to go with that, we teach the good (positive) news that our God, through his Son, provided a means of salvation for those who will receive it so that we can spend eternity with the Lord.
We also need to warn people about the evils of certain movements that are impacting generations of kids (for example, LGBTQ, critical race theory, social justice, and gender issues, climate change alarmism, and many more) and also point them to the Word of God to help them build a truly Christian worldview and impact people around them—including their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren—with the truth of God’s Word and the gospel.
So should Christians be negative? In a fallen world, we need to be negative but for the right reason—to help people understand the evil consequences of sin and point them to the positive message of the saving gospel through the Lord Jesus Christ.
For the Lord will not reject forever, • For if He causes grief, then He will have compassion according to His abundant lovingkindness.
Lamentations 3:31-32