F4S: What's to cancel? This -- the Cancel Culture.

Thursday, October 21, 2021

What's to cancel? This -- the Cancel Culture.

Many people feel so alone and isolated today. I hate that. Wanna live to change this. 

Q: So, how do you feel about the Cancel Culture

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Does it seem as though hatred and division abound these days? Does it seem like every news story we see is more distressing than the one before? The natural question to ask is, Sup with all that? What is going on and where do we go from here? 

To live in our day: 

1.) It takes wisdom (that's about doing the right thing without any president in this era that’s without any president). 

2.) It takes supernatural courage.. yeah, takes boldness.   

3.) It takes God’s power, anointing and love working through us to get the truth out. 

Jeremiah experienced an early cancel culture first hand, up close and personal.

"Then they said, 'Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.” Jeremiah 18:18 

Remember when Jesus canceled that woman who was caught in act of adultery? Neither do I because it never happened. Come to Him as you are

“..the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. ‘Teacher,’ they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 

Remember Jesus meeting that woman at the well that he cold shouldered and canceled (that also never happened). Her own people had canceled her through, but Jesus quickly accepted her cuz of 100% pure love for her. 

Here’s a good idea. Let's cancel.. the smug, know-it-all, accusatory, arrogant Liberal, cold-blooded judgmental, cancel culture in our society. Don’t you feel sick of the Liberals...

  • Socialism
  • The Huge Push Towards Globalism, Open borders and a cashless society
  • Pandemic and how it’s been politically weaponized
  • Economic Chaos
  • Apostacy -- the Falling Away. “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold." Matthew 24:12
  • The Violence and Blindness Regarding These End Times
  • The Cancel Culture
  • Spiritual Famine - People are Not Satisfied and Hungrier today than Ever Before and yet the Word of God is more Available than Ever Before
  • The Hatred of Jerusalem and of the Jews
  • Ignorance of Christ’s Triumph on the Cross and of His Gospel

Look at the ministry of Jesus -- He really loved people from every background and culture. Never canceled them out. When the world put them out, He took them in. He still delights to forgive and love people now. Remember how He was reaching people in a variety of ways.

  • He preached on hillsides and in marketplaces.
  • He stood on a boat and spoke to people on the shoreline.
  • He sat and talked with children.
  • He personally trained twelve men.
  • He spoke to a woman at a well.

And while the methods of communication have changed these days a bit since then, His Gospel message is still reaching people today in countless ways, on numerous platforms through believers around the globe. 

It's no time now for us to become like those the Liberals and their cancel culture. It’s no time to become bitter, gripey, finger-pointing, grumpy, or hateful of people and syndical.. cuz our own sins were canceled out. The Bible says... 

"When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses, having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross! And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." Colossians 2:13-15  

“..by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace.”  Ephesians 2:15

“He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. ‘By His stripes you are healed.’" 1 Peter 2:24