The “Great Rage” that is seen, felt, heard, and smelt almost everywhere every day is not due to any election, political party, or government. This “Great Rage” we all see, sense, and know if we’re paying any degree of attention is due to one thing.
The people are being given over to reprobate, wicked, unrighteous minds.
Due to the people turning from God.
Period.
This is living Romans 1 KJV . Start at verse 18 and read.
This is living in the Biblical times of Romans 1 ESV. Start at verse 18 and read.
Continue to read throughout the Word of God. The people have been given over to their wicked, unlawful, senseless, raging, unrighteous, vile evil minds. Due to their en masse turning from God.
We are living in very visible, palpable, times of God’s judgment upon the world. The pangs of childbirth as the end draws ever closer. If wondering why the “pangs of childbirth” were mentioned then you are one that definitely needs to spend less time watching TV, or on social media, and spends more time, much more time with your eyes, heart, mind, and spirit immersed in the Word of God!
The people rage, the nations rage. Being given over to their base reprobate minds where God does not exist.
Be they the always unbelieving heathen, or the modernist who claims to be Christian yet doesn’t understand the least of what that means let alone having grown to maturity and living as a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ as they have embraced every false teaching that has come along perverting the truth and living a lie just as the heathen, tough worse because they claim to be something they are not and are seen by the heathen as a “Christian.”
I may be in error in my thinking. Still, I came to interpret the instruction to be like salt, to season our words with salt, not to be lacking in flavor, and be as salt meant to always flavor our speech and our language first and foremost relying on the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Not to be mistaken or misinterpreted as being like a street preacher or always preaching, but in what we hear and see? To think and then respond having the Holy Spirit indwelling in us, to speak or write in the knowledge of the Lord’s saving grace and sacrifice, in the knowledge of the Word of God. To respond as a child of God rather than a child of disobedience, rebellion, and of the world.
I may be in error and there most certainly may be more to this, but this is what I keep in my mind and heart, or attempt to. I fail often. More times than not. Thankfully, the Lord lifts me and puts me right in His ways according to the Word of God again and again due to my feebleness and fleshly weakness. Not yet perfected, being sanctified continually.
I believe we ought to look at everything from a Biblical viewpoint. Up against Scripture. According to the Word of God. Flavoring our words accordingly.
Let me know if I’m incorrect in this as comments are now working.
But knowing I always turn to the Word of God and not the words of man…
Ken Pullen
Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
Responding to The Great Rage (Audio)
During the cultural hostility of the first centuries, the Apostles said to let our words “be gracious, seasoned with salt.” That’s not advice, that’s instruction.
05/17/2022
By John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander
Reprinted from BREAKPOINT
Writing for The Atlantic, Quinta Jurecic argues the politics of rage are “seeping into every corner of life.”
The New York Times, for example, reported that over 500 health officials had quit their jobs since the pandemic, many citing threats and intimidation. According to an Education Week survey, 60% of school administrators say their employees were threatened with violence over the schools’ handling of COVID. In 2021, the FAA logged over 6,000 reports of “unruly passengers,” as opposed to just 150 in 2019.
To be sure, Jurecic’s political bias is obvious—but the problem she describes is real.
During the cultural hostility of the first centuries, the Apostles said to let our words “be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” That’s not advice, that’s instruction.
In today’s world, we won’t be able to avoid conflict, but these stands we take have to be the right ones and how we take them will reflect who we really serve.
People, to paraphrase Paul, are not our adversaries. They are our objective.
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