You Say the Times are Evil
Live Nobly and You will Change the Times
-St. Augustine-
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We are living in evil times. We must remember the Church has always lived in evil times. They are called the Last Days. We must remember that “the whole world lies in the lap of the evil one.” Hence, it makes sense that these are evil days. In fact, the Apostle Paul reminds us and commands us to “redeem the time for the days are evil.”
The good news is that Christianity is not dependent upon the environment. It does not need a friendly host. Karl Marx concluded that environment determines expression. That may be true if you are Pavlov’s Dog. However, the New Testament teaches that Christianity is not dependent on Environment, but on Relationship. The New Testament teaches Immunization not Isolation from the world. This being true, we must seek to be immunized from the world by reading, studying, meditating and memorizing the word of God (Psalm 119; 2 Tim. 3:16; Rom. 12:1-2, 13:13; 2 Cor. 7:1) as we live in a culture that is controlled by the god of this world. (I John 5:19)
The first century church reminds us of the spiritual law of thermo dynamics: The greater the heat the greater the expansion. But let’s not kid ourselves---expansion like an explosion can hurt.
Serving Him with you
Until He comes for us,
Fred Chay
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