If every person making the claim that they are Christians, about 5 or 6 out of 10 according to every survey and poll conducted — thus Christ followers, believers in the whole Holy Bible from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 believing every word to be God-breathed and given to select men…?

Why isn’t America seasoned with the salt of all of these?

Where is the daily, nightly flavoring, seasoning of this salt in this land that has lost favor with God for turning from Him and turning to themselves, their idols — the MAIN IDOL BEING SELF, their politician idols, their sports team idols. Idol worshipping everything under the sun that passes over this land by the grace and will of God? Placing so much above the Lord. Doing so while abandoning the truth to love the world more than the Word, more than the truth. Refusing to make the bold stand and sacrifice for the truth of the Lord and His inerrant infallible living and active Word.

Instead of being uncompromisingly firm, rather than resolute and faithful to what is given to us by God in His Word, refusing to obey, refusing to believe, refusing to live a truthful and fruitful life as a true child of God, a true believer, a true Christ follower born anew the reality is appeasement. Adopting and approving of the wicked ways of the world that are opposed to God.

Accepting, appeasing, adopting, and approving of every abomination under the sun, moon, and the stars.

Lying, adopting lies, believing lies, treating lies as truth, taking offense if questioned about the lying, and living the lies of this world are the norm. Lying has gained and become normalized, accepted speech and behavior among the people of this nation.

As the Lord Jesus Christ said;

“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”

Matthew 5:13-16

There ought to be no compromising the Word of God. Not one word contained within.

There ought to be no lying from the heart of a true believer. More concerned about the reaction of anyone, someone, no matter who in this world than being concerned about God’s reaction to our lying, our appeasement, our adopting, our approval of the world’s wickedness.

Nothing has changed one iota since our original parents in the Garden of Eden, has it?

Not one thing…

Has the reality of POST-CHRISTIAN AMERICA sunk in? What this means? Is it believed within you? The evidence of this is as clear as the writing on the wall was to Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon a few years ago.

For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:4

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Wednesday, June 26th, 2024

Believers must uncompromisingly ‘live not by lies’ in a post-Christian America

Truth has a target on its back in a culture that profits from lies and confusion

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

by Emily Wood Hawley – Special to Higher Ground

Reprinted from Higher Ground / The Washington Times

Each generation grows up in a world slightly different than the one their parents did, but the early-2000s America I was raised in is drastically different than the America my future children will inhabit as basic definitions have been flipped on their heads.

Truth has a target on its back in a culture that profits from lies and confusion.

As “Pride” month is upon us, it’s even more evident that the dividing lines are starker than ever as part of society rejects truth as fundamental as male and female.

We are operating by different sets of definitions on concepts as foundational as marriage and sex to the point where even the question “What is a woman?” is considered controversial.

Realities once accepted as fact by society at large are now under fire by a culture that seeks to undermine the truth. Such delusions have gone so far that federal law will soon instruct K to 12 schools to affirm biological males who claim they’re women, allowing them to use girls-only spaces with the change the Biden administration made to Title IX.

In a post-Christian era that has “exchanged the truth of God for a lie” as in Romans 1, we can still rest assured that we were each born at the exact moment in human history that God intended and are called to uphold truth in a fallen world.

And as Christians in, but not of, a world that is in opposition to truth, we must be countercultural and live not by lies.

The lies of totalitarianism

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet dissident who exposed the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, wrote an essay entitled “Live Not By Lies” in 1974 before he was exiled to the West for his opposition to the totalitarian regime.

While Mr. Solzhenitsyn penned these words to urge Soviet citizens not to cede to the control under which they were living, his call to “live not by lies” also applies to us as Christians in a culture that has co-opted truth for falsehood. He penned these powerful words as a call to rise above the regime and not give in to lies, words that ring true today:

“Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently)—step back from that gangrenous edge! … overcoming our timidity, let each man choose: Will he remain a witting servant of the lies (needless to say, not due to natural predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to rear the children in the spirit of lies!), or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries?”

The lies of post-Christian America

Just a few years ago, many of the lies accepted as truth today would have been mocked. It has not even been a decade since the Obergefell opinion was handed down in 2015, and we are seeing how slippery the slope actually is from rejecting God’s design for marriage to now dismissing realities as fundamental as the gender binary and how quickly society declines when the truth is spurned in the name of progressivism

Of course, truth itself is resolute and unchanging, but this does not mean it can’t be twisted or snuffed out in dangerous ways. As we already see, accepting falsehood as truth comes with an array of consequences, and we are paying the price. Society cannot thrive when truth is dethroned, and a culture not anchored in foundational truth will descend into disorder.

It’s a dangerous world where wrong is considered right, lies are considered truth, evil is considered good, wicked is considered moral, and relativism is considered absolute.

To see the tragic consequences of living by lies, look around at the confusion and chaos of a culture that calls the murder of innocent children “health care” and encourages the medical mutilation of minors under the guise of “gender identity.”

This is why as believers, we must never play by the rules of deception or cede ground to lies regardless of how “offensive” the truth may seem. As Mr. Solzhenitsyn said, “Never knowingly support lies.”

For example, it is not nice, polite, or loving to affirm falsehood for fear of being regarded as insensitive; it’s harmful. Calling someone by their “preferred pronouns” opposite of their biology is doing them a disservice by perpetuating a destructive delusion. Supporting lies is cruel, not kind.

Truth without compromise

Satan is the father of lies who has deceived mankind since the Fall in the Garden of Eden when he asked Eve, “Did God really say …?” Should we be surprised that he is still lying to confuse and ensnare humanity?

The definition of Truth is Jesus Christ Himself (John 14:6) who told the Jews who believed in Him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32).

Only in Christ is there absolute truth and freedom. As believers in a post-Christian America, we must uncompromisingly live not by lies but by the Truth that sets us free. Clinging to Him, we must reject falsehood and be loyal to the truth over fear of man and love of the world.

As Mr. Solzhenitsyn emphasized in his essay, this is not the “easy” path, but it’s the worthwhile one for the soul and can effect significant change: “So you will not be the first to take this path, but will join those who have already taken it. This path will be easier and shorter for all of us if we take it by mutual efforts and in close rank. If there are tens of thousands of us then we would not even recognize our country.”

Now is the time to live with unwavering conviction and clarity instead of cowardice and compromise, living not by lies.

Emily (Wood) Hawley is a staff writer for Liberty Counsel, a nationwide public interest civil liberties law firm committed to restoring the culture, advancing religious freedom, protecting the unborn, and strengthening the family. Emily served as a political appointee in the Trump White House and as a press secretary in the U.S. House of Representatives. She holds a degree in journalism from Liberty University.

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Believers must uncompromisingly ‘live not by lies’ in a post-Christian America