People want to call God their Father, but they reject the idea of His punishment on those who who disobey His commandments. People want to call Jesus Christ their Lord, but they reject the necessity to obey His commands. People want to call the Holy Spirit their Guide, but they reject any guidance that opposes the direction they wish to go. People want to call themselves “Friend of God,” while rejecting the True Faith for a Worldly religion based on materialism. Three times will they deny the Trinity in order to fit Him into their lifestyles, instead of styling their lives around Him; and they will rather betray Him for Worldly “blessing” and unity, being a friend of the god of this World, than to be rejected by the World for coming out of it and being separated unto God.
God called Abraham, His friend, because he believed on God's promise. Note: Abraham had to leave all he knew and set off into the unknown, going where God told Him to go. God sent the son of the slave to gain the World's riches, while the son of the Inheritance Promise, even now, struggles against the World to survive. God showed Himself to the son who longed for the birthright, while the son who rejected his birthright for a Worldly “blessing” that was used up in that same moment, could never get it back.
God in the flesh as Jesus Christ, was openly rebuked by St. Peter for His negative words and persecuted by St. Paul while he still was Saul, yet both were mightily used by God to spread His gospel; while Judas Iscariot openly showed his love and his compassion for the poor, above the anointing of the Son of God, and betrayed Him with a sign of brotherly love, to gain Worldly “blessing.” And those to whom he betrayed the Lord, rejected the traitor also, and he could find no recourse to undo the murder of the innocent blood, and therefore no forgiveness, so much, that he committed suicide afterwards.
And the modern Emergent Church takes it past the previous limits: portraying those who believe in separation from the World; who believe in obeying God's commandments; who believe in testing what the spirits say with what the Holy Spirit inspired Scripture says, as legalistic bigots who bring division into the church; while the Emergents claim that all worship the same god, under many different names and in many different ways; portraying the machinations of men's minds and from the mouths of devils, not as other religions any more, but as other denominations. And in this, they reject the Word of God, without whom none shall come unto the Father, to Whose Standard men and women must go to find the only Way, the only Life and the only Truth, for a Worldly christ-image of their own imagination, who conforms to their standards.
God shall have no mercy on those who know the Truth, yet, Driven by their Lives' own Purpose, exchange it for the unity of the World and refuse to be corrected.
