The Fog Part 3 Series

Series: Reflections from Sabbatical

Sermon 3: The Fog

Thesis: The eerie spiritual fog has rolled in over the Western church and Christian culture, it has descended on us because, “There is no fear of God before people’s eyes today.” This created the right atmosphere for the fog to roll in and engulf our nation in deception and deceit.”

Main Scriptures: Romans 3:18, and Psalms 36:1

Romans 3:18: “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Psalm 36:1: “An oracle is within my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

What I discovered was when sin is running wild in a nation or community it is because people have no fear of God – the no fear of God gives them no wisdom or discernment and they act as evil fools.

But Scripture warns us what happens without the fear of God – evil spreads -s in abounds – sin becomes more and corrupt – people are abused, and people die!

Proverbs 9:10: “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

The problem in our society today: Therefore the “no fear of God” has created a whirlwind of foolishness, evil ways and a world without wisdom! A world without wisdom produces fools (those who do evil) in accordance with the Bible – this lack of wisdom is the inability to use knowledge rightly and correctly! When this fog is unleashed, it creates division and dissension in a society, mayhem spreads and evil fools start forcing their God forsaken beliefs onto others. They even say their beliefs are good for people and Godly beliefs are bad for people.

An example of deception and deceit today:

Patricia Tolson – Epoch Times – “What began as drag queen story hour evolved into drag shows for children. Now, naked men peddle bikes in front of children at pride parades in Seattle while LGBT activists in New York City marched through the streets chanting: “We're here. We're queer. We’re coming for your children.” As previously reported by The Epoch Times, the tide is turning on tolerance for transgender ideology. Biological science has been replaced by internal feelings and chosen identities. The clarity of one's sex has been blurred by the ambiguity of "gender." There are now an infinite number of pronouns. Failure to use the correct pronoun can result in losing your job. Men are claiming titles, trophies, scholarships, and accolades in women’s sports. Men are named Woman of the Year and crowned in women's pageants. The backlash started when Anheuser-Busch chose a transgender influence to become a spokesperson for Bud Light. It became a revolt when Target took aim at children. Now, recent surveys confirm that Americans have had their fill of harmful transgender indoctrination and "woke" corporate pride campaigns…

She continues …According to a recent survey conducted by Summit.org, in partnership with McLaughlin and Associates, 61 percent of likely voters believe that "introducing young children to ideas like transgenderism, drag shows, and LGBTQ+ themes hurts their emotional and psychological development." Still more, 63 percent believe that the activists pushing transgenderism, drag shows, and LGBT themes to children have an ulterior motive. Conversely, the survey also found that 50.3 percent of TikTok users believe introducing children to transgenderism, drag shows, and LGBT themes is helpful for their emotional and psychological development. Only 33.8 of Facebook users feel the same. In addition, 44.9 percent of TikTok users say introducing children to transgenderism, drag shows, and LGBT themes is "motivated by a desire to help children." Only 31.4 percent of Facebook users believe the effort has altruistic intentions…”

From https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/analysis-americans-reject-trans-indoctrination-of-children-and-corporate-pride-campaigns-5360706

Illustration: Protests over LGBT pushing to put porn and teach contrary teaching to children over same sex matters or they can be another sex – a parents right group is fighting this in LA.

Scripture Texts:

Romans 1-3; Psalm 32-36 see sections of Scripture!

So, what are we to do as Christian’s? Tolerate it all – remain silent on the lies and the twisted value system of the world? So they can destroy our families, kids and society?

I believe throughout the Bible when a society drifts more and more toward evil we see a model of how God followers are to respond – let’s look at one such example from the Old Testament:

Ezekiel 33:1-20 (NIV)

1The word of the LORD came to me: 2“Son of man, speak to your countrymen and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, 3and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, 4then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not take warning and the sword comes and takes his life, his blood will be on his own head. 5Since he heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning, his blood will be on his own head. If he had taken warning, he would have saved himself. 6But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’ 7“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.