Wanna know why I’m so critical of the institutional gentile church?
The answer is simple.
It’s because they say…
“The Old Testament is dead to us.”
Putting aside the fact that I despise the term “Old Testament,” I have a major problem with that statement.
The so-called “Old” Testament (especially the Torah) is where God lays out His principles, laws, commandments, and the dynamics that govern how life works.
On top of that, the New Testament assumes its readers are well schooled in Torah.
When the so-called body of Christ decides to flat-out dismiss God’s Torah as outdated, they don’t just lose knowledge.
They lose their moral footing.
And nature abhors a vacuum.
What fills that void?
A morality shaped by culture instead of the Creator.
How else do you think we can have churches that have no problems conducting homosexual marriage ceremonies in Jesus’s name?
Or have a society that says it’s our free choice whether we administer the death penalty or not for murderers.
Or have a government that says abortion should be free, safe, and legal.
Abortion is murder, period.
But you know what makes all of this really tragic and sad?
Many Christians, and I’m sad to say, even Jews, support this so-called new morality for the modern age!
Why?
Because that’s what the elected majority decided.
What a bunch of hogwash!
Adonai doesn’t make laws based on majority preference.
Quite the opposite, actually, if you ask me.
So I have an interesting challenge for you.
As we make our way through the books of the Kings, I want you to notice how the King’s laws slowly but surely began to replace God’s laws.
This overriding of the Torah took place at a snail’s pace.
In the beginning, the people had no idea what was happening.
At first, everything seemed all cool and hunky dory.
Israel was admired as a superpower, and there was great prosperity.
Everyone was singing Kumbaya like a bunch of stoned hippies around a campfire.
But then, a few years later, after Israel’s Golden Age had peaked, Solomon passed away.
Wanna know what happened after that?
Israel took a rapid nosedive into confusion and chaos.
The Holy Nation fell apart into two kingdoms and became just like their heathen gentile neighbors.
That’s the price you pay when you abandon God’s laws and commandments and do what Frank Sinatra famously sang about, “I did it my way.”
So let’s get this straight.
And I’m speaking to modern man here.
It is a grave error to think that God’s laws are obsolete and were meant only for a primitive people thousands of years ago.
We are NOT pure enough to override the evil inclination that lies inside our sick hearts.
Our civilization is NOT advanced enough that we can decide for ourselves what is right and wrong.
If the history of the human race has taught us anything at all…
It is that we are desperately wicked, depraved, and in dire need of a Savior.
Ya feel me here, homie?
Done.
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