I just want you to take your time with this direct quote from God Himself. There are those who propose that God is through with Israel and that anything in the Bible which originally applied to “Israel” no longer literally applies to Israel but now applies spiritually to the church. If God’s promises do not apply literally to Israel, then how can you be assured He will keep His promises to the church? God is not through with Israel yet._††_†

When a Muslim says that their god is the same god as the Christian God I do not give it much thought because I know their beliefs are rooted in error and therefore prone to propagating error. It is the same whenever I hear similar proposals from adherents of any belief outside the walls of Christianity. But when I hear such things offered by those claiming to themselves be Christian I never ceased to be amazed. Obviously such statements cannot possibly come from someone reading and believing their Bible, so I often wonder exactly what authority they derive their beliefs from.

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It goes something like this: I will reconnect after many years with a friend from my distant past. While bringing me up to date on the main milestones of their life they will say something like, “And for years I was lost to Mormonism but by God’s grace he saved me out of that”. At that point I provide a big sigh of relief and issue a small praise heavenward. But then they follow up with, “So now I am so much happier as a Charismatic Catholic”. It stuns me into silence every time how someone escaping one serious error somehow manages to flee to another equally or even more serious error.

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Sometimes I think the lifelong pursuit of a Christian is unlearning the definitions to every word as they were taught them by the world in order to learn them correctly as God applies them in His Word. And one of the ways He does this is through the use of comparisons and contrasts. In God’s Word there are juxtapositions of words which are uniquely set apart from the way the world associates or uses them. In the world’s vernacular, what would the “sun” have in common with a “shield“, or how could “grace” be the flip side of “glory“?

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From time to time it is necessary to pause and consider at whom the world is really taking aim. The warfare taking place in the heavenly places is actually reflected in what takes place on earth. But as soldiers in the trenches on the front line we can become so absorbed in the battle taking place around us that we forget the goal of the war is far greater than just overcoming the little foxhole we happen to occupy. And we might lose sight of the fact that just as we are committed and focused philosophically to our side, so are they over there opposite us.

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I wonder how many Christians would continue living like a marginalized Christian if they had an honest assessment from their children? If your family does not even believe that you are an honest, Bible-believing Christian, what are the odds it can be true in the other areas of your life? Would your child even describe you as a Christian? How much of what they have learned to put into practice in their own Christian walk would they attribute to being handed down to you by them directly?

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Undoubtedly if a poll of all Christians were taken it would be a very small percentage, if any, who would disagree with the statement, “Christians are supposed to live IN the world, not OF the world”. And yet there is a striking paradox in the Western church today. Living in a consumer-driven society, it appears that the incorporation of consumerism into the church is one its leading problems. No longer possessing the influence to change society’s values more into conformance with God’s Word and ways, the church is allowing society’s values to change it from within.

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