It was a time when men were still men and truth and right were still virtues worth dying for.”
–K.M. Weiland (A Man Called Outlaw)
“Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is truth.”
–Psalm 119:142 (NKJV)
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Postmodernism! Most people in America practice it to a certain extent unless they have a true Biblical worldview. It is diabolical, deadly, sometimes subtle, but becoming more active, and straight from the pits of hell. The methods used are not new–complacency and compromise–and along with those their purpose is to tear down, to destroy, to deconstruct the foundations of truth. It can be done in a seemingly harmless children’s movie such as Buzz Lightyear, or openly aggressive like the rioters of BLM, and in Portland and other cities. This evil ideology seeks to bring confusion and ultimately chaos.
The target–truth. The reason–to destroy Christianity and the thought of Jesus Christ. For it was Jesus who said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me.” (John 14:6, NKJV) Its purpose is to usher forth the reign of the Man of Lawlessness–the Antichrist. It starts with compromise and complacency. Live and let live is the starting point.
Let me give you a good example–the destruction of heroes. C.S. Lewis wrote, “Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise, you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” When I hear the William Tell Overture, I don’t think of the Swiss leader but of that masked ranger on his white stallion Silver, riding the ranger righting wrong. At one time, we had true, definite heroes. However, now those heroes have been seen to be flawed and the dangerous thing is that the flaws are emphasized rather than the positive things that the person did.
For example, Pappy Boyington, the World War II pilot and recipient of the Medal of Honor was rejected by his alma mater because he was a murderer of Japanese. Nothing mentioned that it was war. A bust of Abraham Lincoln has been removed from Cornel University because he was a controversial person and was involved in slavery. I mentioned the other day that I watched an episode of The Rifleman where Lucas McCain told in a folksy manner the story of Job ending with the truth, “I know that my Redeemer lives.” A few nights ago, an episode of Gunsmoke was watched in which Matt Dillon was willing to die to save Doc Adams. Doc, in answering the nemesis, quoted, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Imagine that happening today, or if it happened it would be in a mocking manner.
Why do we have the Crimos, and other crazed people shooting and killing innocents? Who do they have to look to? What has been taken away from them? There have always been “black knights” of evil, but the “white night” would appear and truth, right, and justice would win out. What has happened to the white knight, but that he has been tarnished, his guns or sword taken away, and therefore has dwindled out of sight. In fact, this paragraph would be struck out by the “Woke” crowd for it would be deemed racist. That is always a good excuse–racism.
Paul wrote a wonderful letter to Timothy in which he warned of these evils. “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come…. But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.” (2 Timothy 3:1,13-14, NKJV) Therefore, in this day of confusion, when man is turning truth into a lie and a lie become the truth, in this day when man is confused about what sex he is you must stand for the truth. Do not become complacent about the truth or about the agenda of the Postmodernist. Do not compromise with the truth, but stand firm in it holding the standard of Christ high.