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We live in peculiar times.
It is a time when that which constitutes fantasy is given precedence of over the observable reality in which we all live.
Lately, I’d been hearing an awful lot regarding the release of “That Wizard Game” – more specifically, Hogwarts Legacy.
Up front, I want you to know that, yes I am a “gamer” and no, this is not an endorsement. In fact, I’ve come to a place of spiritual understanding that would prevent me from participating in, let alone endorsing such a franchise… but that is not the point of this post. The point is the controversy which sprung up around the release of this game, and the public outcry against it – namely leveraged from the LGBTWTFBBQ community.
You see, regardless of what any of us may think of Ms. Rowling (the author of the Harry Potter series), she has been very vocal over the last few years regarding the objective reality of the distinctions between male and female. Her refusal to bow the knee to this agenda has earned her the ire of said “community”.
In short, they called for a boycott of the game, and – in short, this failed. Miserably.
Personally, having watched this (and other) strange agendas gain traction within modern culture, I knew that, on some level, this movement (and others like it), were doomed to see it’s adherents “eat their own“. I also won’t lie and say that I don’t derive some level of satisfaction when it happens.
It seemed to me that, given the ferocity of the Feminists, it was only logical that they and the Trans movement would eventually lock horns – and this has only begun. In the past few years we’ve seen, not only men participating in, and dominating in female competitive sports, but we’ve actually seen men physically beating women for sport.
Let that sink in for a moment – people thought it would be acceptable to allow men to participate against women in a “sport” that constitutes beating the cr@p out of your opponent. Heck, they thought it was inclusive, which made it virtuous.
You just can’t even make this up any more – light for dark anyone?
Beware, those who call evil good and good evil,
who turn darkness into light and light into darkness,
who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.
Isaiah 5:20
Since it’s not my intention to simply highlight the wickedness running rampant today… I mean, you already see it right??! – I want to take this discussion down a far more practical route.
You see, it’s my perception that for decades, the church as a whole has sought to maintain some level of amiability with the world. From affirming relationships that God clearly calls abomination, to supporting the death of the unborn in the guise of “right to chose” and so forth, I have seen far more examples in my time on this earth than I’d care to of the church seeming to cave before the tide of modern culture.
Now, on one hand, you can kind of see the draw, I mean, the thinking (I would hope) is that by being friendlier to those outside the fold, one might gain more opportunities to witness the Gospel to the lost right?
Wrong.
All that really happens is that you ultimately undermine your own witness before you’ve spoken your first words.
No, we are called to be salt and light. We are called to be a peculiar people. We are called to stand for truth, regardless of circumstance or consequence. Nowhere in scripture are we directed to do otherwise. Trying to do so only ends up with us speaking impotently to a culture that isn’t listening because it isn’t paying attention to us. In effect, we just become more noise in a world that already seems like a riotous cacophony.
So what should we do?
* STOP CARING WHAT THE WORLD THINKS OF US *
We have got to get this through our heads – they (the worldly) already don’t like us. They already want us to shut-up and go away. Should we then, tip-toe around issues we know to be a literal cultural manifestation of doctrines of demons?
Why? Why would we do this? Because they’ll cancel us?!
We already don’t have much of a voice and frankly, pandering to the spirit of the age hasn’t gotten us anywhere. Maybe instead of trying to play nice with wickedness, we should try it Gods way for change?
“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you. Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too. But they will do all these things to you on account of my name because they do not know the one who sent me.”
John 15:18 – 21
Honestly, this should be so basic to every disciple that it shouldn’t even need to be said – yet here we are.
Did Yeshua / Jesus hold back when He spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well? Nope. Not even “kind-of”. First He “read her mail” and basically called her out for the series of sinful relationships she’d been living in. he didn’t smooth it over, or coddle her and tell her it was “okay”… and yet, through His honesty and insight, she listened and was changed. (John 4:16-18)
Yeshua didn’t tell the adulteress that her adultery was “okay” – He told her to go forth and “sin no more“. (John 8:1 – 12)
The crux is this; if you seek to please both God and man, you’ll please neither.
If however, you seek to please God, then what men think about it is completely irrelevant – and you should treat it as exactly that; irrelevant. Let us stand firm for the truth and make no apologies for it. The truth does not apologize for itself, so neither shall we apologize for it.
Basically this; if you want to go be friends with the world, the go be friends with the world. If you want to be a disciple of the Messiah – then get a spine. It isn’t optional.
Until next time,
שלום עליכם – Shalom Aleichem – Peace Be Upon You