Sightseeing Turns Tragic – UHD 14:6

Dave watched as the group walked closer. Everyone was excited about seeing Kiluea’s continual eruption up close on the Big Island of Hawaii. It was a trip of a lifetime. The Christian group was convinced that it presented a tremendous educational opportunity to engage the fiery volcano in close proximity. One area allowed people very near to the edge, and the excited group marched right past the safety warning sign eager to get a better look. Dave stopped at the sign and started warning the group not to walk out too far, but they were curious. They wanted to learn as much as they could without slipping. As they walked toward the lava tube, the sound drowned out Dave’s warnings. Dave was such a worrier and way too conservative. Dave wanted to run after them but he feared for his own safety. Bob went too far, and his feet began to sink deeper into the hot lava near the edge of the tube. His friends had to pull him back to hardened lava. After the group left the site and returned to the warning sign, there was a mini-eruption at that very spot. The rest of the group pulled back in amazement. Someone said, “That was close.” “But what a good education.”

Spiritual Laughing Gas – UHD 14:6

I’m scared. Very few Christians seem to be able to detect the nitrous oxide carried on the winds of directionless conversations that are spreading the virus of complacency toward the truth of God’s word. Perhaps they are in denial while they play poker and sip lattes. Perhaps they lack the special mental equipment to detect traces of the gaseous substance. Perhaps they think the gas mask of dialogue will filter out any harmful substances. Perhaps they suppose that some kind of invisible defense shield will protect them from any damage, or that once infected, an antidote is close at hand. It saddens me to watch the effects of spiritual laughing gas on the unsuspecting.

I’m fearful. Lord, I cast my anxieties upon You. You are the only one who can redirect the nearly undetectable tidal-waves of winds that silently, speedily races across Christian thought.

Heb. 2:1For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.

 

The Gibeonite Strategy — UHD 14:6

Under the unity rubric of a common word, unauthorized personnel have begun dialogue with the sources of false religions opposed to Jesus Christ. The Ultimate Hard Drive runs on the John 14:6 Processor that insists that Jesus Christ is the only way to be in right relationship with God the Father. Leaders from those who reject Jesus Christ sent emissaries waving a white flag, lying to us about their true intentions. Being kind-hearted and magnanimous, several of our number reached out in love and appreciation while being sucked into a vortex where our core processor must be left behind. They are being plunged into a zone where they are unprotected. It’s the Gibeonite Strategy.

My Nightmare — UHD 14:6

I’m fearful……I nearly throw up at the sight of believers free-falling into the oblivion of space, untethered from their life-giving source. 

I feel like someone who sees unseen invaders snatch helpless children away into the blackness of the night. I’m screaming for help while people disappear into the darkness, waving and smiling as they imagine themselves on a ride of a lifetime. It’s a nighmare. 

The minds of these saints are under stealth attack. A quick damage assessment shows that the core of truth has been compromised. The support struts of the fundamentals of the faith have cracked and splintered under heavy enemy fire. The authority and power of our commander has been seriously undermined by the grumbling crew members who often choose to ignore our commander’s directives. Meanwhile, communication channels are crowded with many voices with different two-way conversations clogging the airways, causing the mind to spin in many different directions. Warning! Virus Detected.

Heb. 2:1For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.

An Uncomfortable Truth – UHD 14:6

A global disaster looms over the horizon. It is the slow erosion of the Christian mindset by ideological pollutants. This seepage acts like a relentless cancer that cripples sound thinking. The malignancy travels through the air odorless and undetectable to the eye. It randomly enters the unsuspecting and otherwise healthy Christian through several audio-visual Christian mediums that ride on the winds of changing thought and it eventually erodes protective layers of the mental ozone. It raises the levels of toxins in the brain until healthy understanding and common sense is drowned out by the rising tide of high-sounding scholarship that questions the reality of God’s sovereign power over all the physical earth.

Early recognition is the key to successful treatment. What would help is early warning detection systems that automatically place us on high alert so that encounters with these toxins can be recognized and treated immediately.

In an American society that forced God out of public recognition by ostracizing prayer in Jesus’ name, a culture that banned the truth of God’s Word from education, and a populace that questions whether absolute truth can be known, anthropocentric philosophy remains as the main proprietor of the way of life on earth. Several axioms pop-up on the mental computers to indicate symptoms of polluted, earth-bound thinking: “The land is life;” “God holds people responsible for the earth’s climate;” “The good news about Jesus Christ causes the physical erosion of the ozone.”

Once these contaminants enter the brain, the damage to the cells of clear thought and wisdom is inevitable and the mental capacities are slowly poisoned until recovery is nearly impossible. This is an uncomfortable truth.