Will You Stand, or Will You Fold?

 Will You Stand, or Will You Fold

By Liz King

In a culture of wokeness and oversensitivity we as a society are being told to obey the narrative and not to offend or disagree with what others believe is truth.  Everything in society is acceptable except the truth of Jesus and the bible.  Many believe the labels of a therapist have more truth  to define who we are rather than Who Jesus says we are.  Many Christians who are just trying to live their faith and practice their beliefs are now being sued, imprisoned, tortured, and persecuted for following Jesus Christ.  Many Christians are being killed for their faith in alarming numbers yet the media doesn't cover it.  Why? Because to them Jesus and his truth, especially Christians don’t matter to the world.   They’d rather us focus on pushing the latest lie or agenda and focus on celebrity botox treatment and butt lifts rather than focusing on the truth of the gospel and truth in the spiritual realm.  Many Christians have fallen away from the truth of God and they practice and preach a faith filled with compromise having one foot in the world and its truth and claiming to be living a christian life yet denying its truth. Many Christians today claim Christianity but mix it with witchcraft believing that God shares his throne with the demonic realm but  claiming it as light.  They believe that other gods and Jesus can reign equally denying the truth of the cross and the authority of who Jesus is. They seek to bring all religions together and they all are the truth but yet they deny the truth of Jesus.  This is modern day Christianity.  People trade truth for a lie.  As Jesus and his truth are being forced to the side by the world and culture begins to force their truth on us, they will try to force Christians to compromise and to submit.  What will happen when you will have to choose to stand for the truth of Jesus, which many claim to believe, which could lead to imprisonment or even death will you choose to stand or will you give into fear and pressure  and fold.

Many parents and young people now live in a stagnant and compromised faith. Their relationship with Jesus is not a priority or a lifestyle. They have traded the truth for a lie.  Parents don’t spend time with their children in the word of God and prayer.  By not living their faith in relationship with Jesus in front of their children, they are not offering their children a foundation of knowing what a relationship with Jesus is or even looks like.  They think the Church fills the religious void and only gives God an hour out of the week.  It's a box that they like to check.  It makes them feel good about themselves and is seen as a duty or ritual.  Many run from the church because they have either been hurt by religious people or the truth of God doesnt fit their truth or  narrative.  There is coming a time where standing for the world's lies and agenda will be more important than standing for or living your faith in spirit and truth.  Churches will be forced to close and meeting together to worship with other believers will be a criminal offense.  When does society have that much power to dictate our personal faith and beliefs?  Why do we choose to believe an agenda that is based on things like  selfishness,  wants and desires, sex, and control?  We believe someone on television who acts like they care that we never met and cares nothing for us to tell us our truth, rather than  listening to the truth from the one who formed us in the womb and created us.  Why do we  allow government officials to dictate what truth is when it goes against the truth of God? What has ever harmed us in following the truth of God? It offers good moral truths that can only help us.  Why is it so offensive?  It is offensive because it goes against our selfish nature.  Truth is now so blurred in society that young people don't even know what the truth is.   Young people saying trust the science are now going against the science.  Learned men teach that the bible is wrong and use professor talk to convince us not to trust God's word and its truth when God’s truth is mirrored consistently throughout the Bible.  Many put more trust in people on  tik tok who try to come to the knowledge of God from a human fallen perspective, not with spiritual eyes of the Holy Spirit, only to mock God and his truth.  

With the lies of the culture and society, how anchored are we really in God’s word?  Could you defend the gospel?  Could you tell when someone has altered the truth of the Gospel?  Are you willing to risk your life for the truth of the Gospel?  As world events and disasters bring us closer to the door of Jesus' return and the end times and the tribulation, people who say they are Christians don't even know what the Bible says will happen in the end times.  One thing God’s word says is that Christians will be persecuted and killed for Jesus' name.  How many are willing to follow Jesus till death? Is your faith so firm that if your life or the lives of your spouse or children were threatened and you were given the choice to deny Jesus and live or stand for Jesus and die, would you?  If it meant that  standing for Christ you would lose your job or home and your comfort, would you stand firm or give into fear of the unknown.  Would you trust that God has you or would you trust that the world has more authority in your life than God does?  Where is your faith?  Where is your truth?  Where is your hope?  When the times change, and society demands you to live for their truth will you fold to the pressure or will you stand against the lies and stand in the truth of Jesus?  In India, China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and many other countries people are being imprisoned and murdered for their faith.  They are altering the word of God and the truth of God to Manipulate and deceive people who are wanting to know Jesus.  As AI becomes more prevalent and people are now seeking AI to preach the word of God and alter the word of God, will you know the real truth of God or will you be deceived?  Would you be able to discern the lies implanted in the truth? They are now having AI write a bible that is pleasing to all religions.  AI has no soul.  How can it then guide our eternal souls and why are we willing to give it authority over our spirit and risk our eternity to something that only wants to control and manipulate us. People soon will not be able to think for themselves because they are going to trust AI and its truth rather than us seeking for the real truth instead, especially in God’s word.  Our faith has to be in God and his word. Not man or machine, not government, not society, not movements, not media, but in God alone. 

 Only when we are in Christ are we able to stand against the lies of the enemy even when it means losing everything else.  Our truth and provision come from God, not man or the government.  So when the world begins to turn against the truth of the gospel, against Jesus Christ and his believers, and against his church, my question is will you stand or will you fold?  Will you comply and deny, or will you defy and stand on God’s truth and not the worlds?  I encourage you to wake up.  Examine your relationship with Jesus and know his word, not what someone tells you.  God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  His character is constant throughout the bible.  Jesus doesn't change with the times and culture.  He alone is the authority.  In the end his authority and truth is the only truth that will matter, so what truth will chose to stand with? His or the worlds?  If we can't stand for his truth, than did we actually believe it in the first place?