Unfortunately, our society today is eager to embrace anything that is the exact opposite of God. Sports sponsors have paid millions to sports personalities to keep the name JESUS off of their hats or clothing. While other ideologies are nothing more but worldly fruit of those who are merely interested in living a life that glorifies themselves instead of God. So it’s not surprising to me that for the past couple of months I’ve noticed how more and more Churches are literally falling away from God’s Truth.
But what exactly does, “a falling away” mean?
According to the Strong’s Concordance the Greek transliteration is Apostasia. Which means to leave, departure, or literally, a leaving from a previous standing. If you scroll down to the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance it states, defection from the truth, falling away, forsake.
The defection from the truth seems to be what is happening all around the world, because, the latest to embrace these worldly ideologies is Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church who is embracing a same sex blessings policy. This literally means Pope Francis is advocating for the LGBQT ideology and means he has completely gone against God’s Word. While the bible is very clear, all have sinned, and we are called to help non-believers, it also teaches GOD’S CHURCH is to turn away from worldly perversions. If same sex blessings are given, then the Catholic Church is promoting sexual immorality, fornication, and worldly love which goes against the scripture which states;
Do you not know that you yourselves are
God’s Temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells
in you? If anyone destroys God’s Temple,
God will destroy him; for God’s Temple is
holy, and you are that Temple.
1 Corinthians 3:16,17
As a Christian I’m called to present God’s Truth in a loving manner without condemning, without judging or without criticizing. Just present the facts of God’s Truth and then it’s up to each person to decide.
However, the Bible gives a pretty good explanation and defines what’s behind this movement, and basically, why it’s being pushed. The scripture reads;
1 Timothy 4:1,2 – Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
2 Timothy 4:3,4 – For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Acts 20:28,30 – Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the Church of God, which He purchased with the blood of His own Son. I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
Matthew 24:9,11 – Then they will deliver you up to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My Name. At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another, and many false prophets will rise and mislead many.
From these scriptures alone, the falling away is caused by;
Deceiving Spirits and Teachings of Demons
False Teachers
Human Desires
Persecution
For additional understanding, the Book of Jude provides even more information and provides more insight as to “why” these people are rejecting Jesus Christ and living worldly. The scriptures read;
Jude 1:4 – For certain men had crept in among you unnoticed-ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the Grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:8 – Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
Jude 1:10 – These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
Jude 1:16,19 – These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage. But you, beloved, remember what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.” These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.
Beloved, God’s Word has provided the TRUTH, but, it’s up to each of us to choose our path, worldly ideologies and false teachings or the ways of God.
Jesus the Righteous Path 