Ep. 029 The Immorality of Humanity

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Good morning and welcome back to the Potter's House Salmon Arm podcast. My name is David

Bigford and I am the pastor here at the church here in Salmon Arm. As I get things set up

this morning, I just wanted to thank you for those who are supporting the podcast, who

are sharing it, subscribing. It does help us to get the message out. What is the message?

The message is simple. It is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He came to earth and He

died for our sins so that we can have a relationship with our Father again because we are separated

from our relationship by sin. It was His sacrifice on the cross that has enabled us to bridge

that gap and come back to a relationship with our God. That is simply by the repentance

of sin and acceptance of Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. It is an important thing

to continue to remember as we are in the week of Easter. Easter Sunday is coming up. That

is the whole purpose of what we are doing. Spread the gospel message to get the word

out there that Jesus did die for our sins. He died for your sins. He died for my sins

and we can all find grace in a relationship with Jesus Christ and our Father in heaven.

The message I put together today is the immorality of humanity. The subtitle for this would be

�But I'm a good person.� We all believe that most of us before we were saved definitely

believed, �I'm a good person. I'm better than so and so or I'm better than such.�

We tend to hold on to that. What I want to lean into is the reality that as Christians

we come to the understanding that we are not moral beings aside from our relationship with

God. It is only in Christ, it is only in relationship with Christ and with our Lord that we can

be moral because sin that is ever present in the earth is what separates us from God

and that is immorality. The illustration I've got today is the persecuted church. It's the

voice of the persecuted church. There's a story of part of the underground church from

China. Before I jump into that I just want to give you the text which is Jeremiah 17

9-10 so you can turn there in your Bible and we'll be jumping into that as our launch pad

here shortly. This comes from an article written by Andrew Hall and it starts out with, �Have

you ever wondered what it would be like living in a society that blamed you for their problems?

What if being a Christian costs something like your popularity, your job, your rights,

your family or your life? This is the stark reality of many Christians overseas, particularly

in China and this type of persecution is foreign to us here in Canada or the US.�

In America, Christians attend worship service without any thought of facing judgment, slander

or persecution. While there is evidence that American society and legislation is becoming

more hostile to Christianity, believers by large do not face anywhere near the same level of

threats or persecution that their Christian brothers and sisters see every day in many

eastern countries. Ironically, or perhaps consequently, a nation with arguably the

most freedom and prosperity in the world is seeing a steady decline in Christianity.

Pew Research reported that 65% of American adults identified as Christians in 2019,

a decrease of 12% of percentage points since 2009, and 76% of baby boomers identified as

Christians while only 49% of millennials identified as Christians. Secularization has

overtaken much of Europe as well. In Western Europe, where many identify as Christians because

of historical religious traditions, most Western Europeans are non-practicing and reject the God

described by the Bible. In 1910, 66% of the world's Christians lived in Europe, but in 2010,

Europe made up only 26% of all Christians. So I believe that part of the reason for these

trends is the constant push in society today to blame the solution for the world's ills,

blaming Christian faith for all the wrongs that sin has brought to the world. It's like blaming

water for your thirst. The world is thirsty for the living waters of life that flow from heaven

through salvation in Christ Jesus, but the world blames this thirst on Christ and not on the

sinful heart of man. And so now we jump into our text in Jeremiah 17, 9 through 10, and it reads,

The human heart is the most deceitful of all things and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it

is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine seeker motives. I give all people their due reward

according to what their actions deserve. I was reading Jeremiah earlier in the week, and it's

an interesting idea because here in Jeremiah, he's a witness to his people. He's a prophet of the Lord,

but if you read through, he only in his lifetime had basically two converts, his scribe and then

another Ethiopian eunuch. And so there's this immense ministry that Jeremiah had, but he

had this painful ministry that Jeremiah had, but it wasn't received by the people of his time because

the time that he lived was a time of judgment that was coming on to the land of Judah.

So the world wants to paint a picture. They want to paint a picture that there is an innate virtue

and purity in the heart of man, that religion is the cause of every harm in society. So throughout

the world, we hear this siren song that humanity is kind at heart. What does that even mean? People

say I'm a good person or most people are good. There are just a few bad apples. Why do people

claim this, and what evidence is there to support this hypothesis? It certainly isn't the biblical

view, but that doesn't stop others from criticizing Christianity and claiming that more people have

died for God than anything else. This is another siren song that we hear being amplified by political

leaders everywhere. What are we to make of these ideas? What are we supposed to do or supposed to

turn to in order to get the right answer and wisdom? It brings me to my first point, which is the

claims of atheism, communism, and humanism. And so now we turn to Proverbs 26. We're going to read

verses four through five and then verses 21 through 23. In verse four, it says, answer not a fool

according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly,

lest he be wise in his own eyes. And then in 21 it says, as charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,

so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels

that go down into the inner parts of the body like the glaze covering an earthen vessel and

feverant lips with an evil heart. All the claims of atheism, humanism, communism, socialism, all the

theisms are based on the principle that man is good and that religion is evil. And I'm not going

to stand here and proclaim that all religion is good because we know that the only way to heaven

is through our Lord Jesus Christ. But there is a reason that these groups lump Christian faith into

a larger umbrella of religions. By doing this, they can transpose all the evils of paganism, deism,

naturalism, or even other monotheistic beliefs onto Christianity. It allows them to cover

up their sins as only being the judging of the unenlightened. This trend in society has been

going on for millennia but it is but has in my opinion increased exponentially in the last few

hundred years. During the Renaissance, Christianity was still a major part of the scientific community

as well as the artistic community. Slowly though there was a trend towards Gnosticism and atheism

that started to garner support in the arts and the academic world, not because of any new truths

that were being found but rather for the same reason the Israelites left behind their covenant

with the Lord. They wanted to live in their sin more than they wanted to live for God and in doing

so they struck out to build new altars, new idols that they could worship. They wanted freedom from

the judgment of God and man and this was the beginnings of humanism. In 1 Kings 11, 1 through

8 it says, Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughters of the Pharaoh,

the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the Sidonian, and Hittite women. From the nations

concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, you shall not enter into marriage with

them, neither shall they with you. For surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.

Solomon clung to these in love. He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred

concubines and his wives turned away his heart. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away

his heart after other gods and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart

of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians,

and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the

Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord as David his father had done. And then Solomon built a high

place for Chamash, the abomination of Moab, and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites,

on the mountain east of Jerusalem. And so he did for all his foreign wives who made offerings and

sacrifice to their gods. So here we have Solomon, one of the wisest of all men in history. And we're

told this in the Bible that he's the wisest of men. And he allowed himself to be lured away

by his flesh. And then eventually at the very end of this section that I was reading,

he even built an altar for Molech. And if you're not familiar, but Molech was one of the pagan gods

where they would sacrifice babies onto the altar. They would sacrifice their own children

on the altar of Molech. So this is a pretty wicked thing to comprehend the fact that he

would make such a strident shift in his own beliefs. And he would turn to the worship of these

pagan gods. But this is not unheard of in the history of Israel. Because in 1 Kings 12, 25,

30, we have another example of this. This is when Jeroboam, he decides to build his own golden calves,

which is the second time the people of Israel would do this. But in verse 25, it says,

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from

there and built Panuul. And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will turn back to the house

of David, if this people go up to offer sacrifice in the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem. Then the

heart of this people, then the heart of his people will turn again to the Lord to Rehoboam king of

Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah. So the king took counsel and made

two calves of gold. And he said to the people, You've gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold

your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. And he set one in Bethel and the

other he put in Dan. Then this thing became a sin for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.

So here we have an example. So Jeroboam is the king of the northern kingdom. He became king of

the northern kingdom after Solomon's son Rehoboam had the kingdom stripped from himself. It was a

judgment from God. Two tribes stayed with Rehoboam king of Judah and 10 tribes went with

Jeroboam. And one of Jeroboam's first acts as king of the northern kingdom was this type of

idol worship, was this turning away from their God. So in that article, he says, He was the king

of the northern kingdom. And in that article, written years ago by Dinesh D'Souza, we see

highlights, the highlight of the goal of these new age views to cast religion and more importantly,

Christianity into a horrific light, to blame society's ills on Christianity rather than on

their own iniquity. Atheism, not religion is the real force behind the mass murders of history. So

this was written way back in 2006, again, by Dinesh D'Souza. And it follows, in recent months,

that the Christian Church argued that religion represents the as end of faith, author Sam Harris

puts it, the most potent source of human conflict past and present. Columnist Robert Cutner gives

the familiar litany, the crusade slaughtered millions in the name of Jesus, the inquisition

brought the torture and murder of millions more. After Martin Luther, Christians did bloody battle

for another three centuries. And his best seller, The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins contends that

most of the world's recent conflicts in the Middle East, the Balkans, Northern Ireland, and Kashmir

and Sri Lanka show the vitality of religion's murderous impulses. The problem with this critique

is that it exaggerates the crimes attributed to religion while ignoring the greater crimes of

secular fanaticism. The best example of religious persecution in America is the Salem witch trials.

Many people were killed in those trials, thousands, hundreds, actually fewer than 25. Yet the event

still haunts the liberal imaginations. It is strange to witness the passion with which some

secular figures rail against the misdeeds of the crusaders and the inquisitors more than 500 years

ago. The number sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition appears to be about 10,000. Some

historians contend that an additional 100,000 died in jail due to malnutrition or illness.

These figures are tragic, and of course population levels were much lower at the time, but even so

they are minuscule compared with the death tolls produced by the atheist despotisms of the 20th

century. In the name of creating their version of a religion-free utopia, Adolf Hitler, Joseph

Stalin, Mao Zedong produced the kind of mass slaughter that no inquisitor could possibly match.

Collectively, these atheist tyrants murdered more than 100 million people. So my goal here is not

to argue with people who hold to this ideology. I do not recommend that you go out from this place

and argue with atheists or any other religion. We should only be concerned with preaching the

gospel to the lost. The reason I bring this to you today is to hopefully to boost your confidence

in the Lord. The truth of the Bible is the word of God and to be able to stand confidently when

challenged by the world. To see these falsehoods and stand for Christ. So let's take another look

at what Christianity looks like in China. I use China because they are a preeminent communist

country on the planet and by far the most successful country in applying Marxist Maoist

principles. So as a brief history of Christianity in China, let's read this. Christianity has faced

many challenges in China since Mao Zedong came to power in 1949. Most Christians in China meet

illegally in Chinese house churches, a vast network of underground churches. Before the rise of the

Chinese house church movement, the Chinese Communist Party formed a state recognized church,

the Three Self-Patriotic Movement. Like many tyrannical regimes, the CCP portrayed the TSBM

as an opportunity to foster patriotism, fight imperialism, and promote freedom of religion.

Many Christians optimistically bought into the message and then some of the key tenants of

communism appeared to align with Christian values. Fostering community, helping the poor, fighting

greed. How after cutting through the propaganda, examining some of the TSBM's requirements,

the true colors of communism bled through the mirage of rhetoric. And Hebrews said,

take care, brothers, lest there be any in you or be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart,

leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is

called today, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share

in Christ if indeed we hold to our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said today,

if you hear his voice, you will be able to hear the voice of God. And if you hear his voice,

you will be able to hear the voice of God. And as it is said today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your heart as in rebellion. For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not

all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he provoked for 40 years? Was it not those

who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not

enter his rest? But to those who were disobedient. So we see that they were unable to enter because

the truth of history. When we dig into history through the lens of the Bible, we see a more

clear picture. When filtered through the Word of God, we can begin to see the failing of humanity

coming from the root of original sin. The claims of the isms become more clearly diversionary

tactics to hide their own fallen nature. In Jeremiah 17, 1-4, it says, the sin of Judah

is inscribed with an iron chisel engraved with a diamond point to their stony hearts

and on the corners of their altars. Even their children go to worship at their pagan altars

and a share of poles beneath every green tree and on every high hill. So I will hand over my holy

mountain along with all your wealth and treasure and your pagan shrines as plunder to your enemies.

For sin runs rampant in your land. The wonderful possession I have reserved for you will slip from

your hands. I will tell your enemies to take you as captives to foreign lands. For my anger blazes

like a fire that will burn forever. The reality of human condition becomes evident when we look at

the results of humanistic belief systems, especially those in the last hundred years.

Take for example, the death in communist countries. These numbers are not even from external wars,

but rather internal cleansings. And some of these are fairly conservative numbers.

So the true numbers could be much higher than this, but these are looked at to be conservative

by most. So these numbers killed by communist regimes. China 65 million, Russia 25 million,

Cambodia 2 million, North Korea 2 million, Ethiopia 1.7 million, Afghanistan 1.5 million,

Eastern Bloc 1 million, Vietnam 1 million. A hero of the left, communist socialist and atheist is

Saul Alinsky. Obama, Hillary Clinton all openly admired this man and his view of the worlds. So

as we look at his life, this community organizer, Saul David Alinsky was born in the Chicago slum

to Russian Jewish immigrants. Alinsky said in an interview that they were strict

Orthodox. Their whole life revolved around work and synagogue. When he was asked if he was

a devout as devout as a boy, he responded, I suppose I was until I was about 12.

Alinsky remembers that he was and says I was brainwashed really hooked, but then I got

afraid. My folks were going to try to turn me into a rabbi. So I went through some pretty

rapid withdrawal symptoms and kicked the habit. So the reason why we're looking at Alinsky is he

is a hero to the left and we want to look at his his rootings in his life because a lot of the

isms that we fight today, a lot of the stuff that the humanistic tendencies we fight today,

these people will like hearken back to people like Alinsky. So we really want to like take a

quick look at his life and philosophy. His political philosophy was very non-conformist

and this carried over into his personal life. When asked if he had ever considered joining

the Communist Party, he said not at any time. I've never joined any organization, not even

ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much and philosophically,

I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism.

The goal of the radical, Alinsky explained in his last book Rules for Radicals, must be to

bring about the destruction of the roots of all fear, frustrations, and insecurity of man,

whether they be material or spiritual. Enemies of the poor can no more live up to their own rules

than the Christian church can live up to Christianity. In a move that horrified the religious right,

Alinsky dedicated the book to the devil, the first radical known to man who rebelled against the

establishment and did so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom, Lucifer. His first

book published in 1946 was Reveille for Radicals. Three years later he published John L. Lewis,

an unauthorized biography. So here's a man who really does strive after the same goals as

Satan by his own words. He is a radical to the utmost. He doesn't want any hindrances to his

own belief and that sin of pride is the sin of Lucifer. So I feel pity for many that live their

life running from God. Even this devout atheist and self-proclaimed radical underpins his belief on

the disinclination to God and therefore Christ. His only focus is on tearing down the belief

for his own gratification. It is a very succinct for him to devote his work to Lucifer. Granted

it was likely tongue-in-cheek from his perspective, but regardless it's the same

root that drives both Alinsky and the devil. In Mark 7, 20-23 it says,

So let's look again at the blight of Christians in China. In the TSBM, Christian believers must

strictly abide by the laws, regulations, policies of the Communist Party and the state, and strive

to be patriotic law-abiding citizens. To be patriotic and law-abiding, Christians must comply

with the government's labor codes and strive to contribute to the development of the four

modernizations established by the Communist Party. When scheduled religious activities are in

conflict with production and work schedules, the economic activities must take priority.

Additionally, no unauthorized meeting points are allowed, and Christians cannot persuade and force

others to believe in Christianity. Brainwash teenagers under 18 with religious beliefs or

bring children under 18 to religious activities. The prohibition on evangelism continues. Christians

cannot preach their religion outside the church building and specific places which have been

designated for religious activities, nor can they receive self-proclaimed evangelists into their

homes, churches, or meeting points. There are also additional codes which are typically not written

but still enforced by the government that prohibit baptism, formal and formal Bible studies,

praying for healing and teachings about the virgin birth, the resurrection of Christ, and the second

coming of Christ. The CCP hunts down Christians who fail to comply with these regulations and gives

them two choices, deny Christ by swearing allegiance to the CCP or refuse to recant and face torture,

imprisonment, or execution. For those who chose the form of the CCP rewards them with leadership

positions in the TSP and goads them to spy on Christians in the underground churches to reveal

key details about their leaders, meetings, and members. This has created a deep animosity

and distrust between the Chinese house church and the TSPM. Likely so, right? I mean who would

who would want to partner with the TSPM when they're really not, you know, Christian at all?

This is the road that every humanistic society will eventually head down. Without God's morality,

there is no measuring stick for what's right and wrong. Right and wrong are solely up to the

interpretations of the individual and the state. The corruption of the human spirit devotes

in this state and becomes more and more animalistic and willing to do worse and worse things to each

other. Even right now in South Africa, Julius Malemi, the leader of the economic freedom fighters,

is willing to sing a song that says kill the boar, the farmer. And this just recently happened

where they were in a large group of 90,000 cheering supporters singing this song. The boars are the

descendants of the first Dutch settlers. So here we have, you know, people, large numbers singing,

basically kill the kill one group, kill the boars, kill the farmers, because they this is what

humanity leads to. Without Christ, mankind seems to always revert to a very based state. Instead of

being filled with the gifts of the spirit, mankind seems to draw seems drawn to hate, anger, greed,

lust, and all sorts of other wickedness. There's a certain atheistic hubris. The crimes of atheism

have generally been perpetrated through a hubristic ideology that sees man, not God, as the creator

of values. And using the latest techniques of science and technology, man seeks to displace God

and create a secular utopia here on earth. Of course, if some people, the Jews, the landowners,

the unfit, or the handicapped have to be eliminated in order to achieve this utopia, this is the price

that the atheist tyrants and their apologists have shown themselves quite willing to pay.

Thus, they confirm the truth of Fyodor Dostoevsky, his dictum, which says, if God is not,

everything is permitted. We do have a better way, though. Much of our institutions that we

take for granted are because of this foundation. Canada and the United States were created on the

foundation of Jesus Christ. This does not make everyone in history perfect, but what it does is

proclaim that no one is perfect outside of Christ. And this is the difference, and this is also the

point. This brings me to my final point, which is the hope of Christ. There is a wisdom in knowing

and acknowledging that we are fallen and that we need salvation in Christ. This allows us to recognize

that we are in error and adjust our course by repenting and submitting to Christ. The atheists,

communists, and humanists cannot do this because that would nullify their standing. The trust that

is required to be placed on men and women of charisma is falling. In Jeremiah 17, 5-8, it says,

This is what the Lord says, Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human

strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert,

with no hope for the future. They will live in barren wilderness and in uninhabited salty land.

But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.

They are like trees planted along a river bank, with roots that reach deep into the water.

Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by the long months of the drought.

Their leaves stay green and they never stop producing fruit. We are called to place our

faith in the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Here I am, send me. This is a message from Pastor

Isaac Liu. Brother Yun's son, Pastor Isaac Liu, author of Son of the Underground, shared his story

at a conference recently. When Yun was in prison, he and his wife prayed for a God-fearing son,

and when Liu's mother became pregnant, the Chinese government ordered her to have an abortion.

Because of her husband's status as enemy of the state just days before her scheduled abortion,

she gave birth to a premature baby weighing less than three pounds. Pastor Liu would grow in the

spirit. At age eight, he began memorizing the Bible, and by 18, he had left China and became

a pastor in Germany. As the son of a missionary, Isaac had a direct calling on his life. He grew

up with the expectation of serving God and didn't always welcome that calling. After turning 13,

he prayed not to become a preacher because of the many hardships he faced due to his family's

commitment to Christ. His father and mother were imprisoned many times. He went to 11 different

schools in 10 years to flee persecution. He grew up in poverty and isolation, all because his

parents calling to serve God. He grew bitter towards God and began to doubt God's goodness and

power. However, he held to the word of God as a teenager, and eventually God won the battle in

Liu's heart. He compared himself to Jonah on how God used an unwilling prophet in a terrible sermon

to turn the hearts of many to repentance and faith. Liu shared that like Jeremiah,

we may have many excuses for why we are inadequate to serve the Lord, but the Lord is simply looking

for faithful servants who will simply trust in his power and obey his command. We have millions of

excuses, said Liu, but we must just obey and trust the Lord. If I could have every head bowed, every

eye closed, wherever you are, obviously be safe if you're on the road. This message is twofold.

It's about the recognition that without Christ we are immoral beings,

and it's that understanding that sets Christianity apart.

Only Christians have the recognition that we are fallen creatures that need salvation,

and we find that salvation and that hope in Christ Jesus. That's what sets us apart. Oftentimes

in life, if you're a Christian and you're following God, you'll come across people who say,

oh, you think you're better than me. Oh, you think because you go to church or you don't drink or

you don't smoke or you don't do these things, you're better than me. But what they're misinterpreting

isn't that Christians we think we're better than anybody. We don't. True Christians recognize

that we're better than nobody and that we're all fallen and we're all sinful and that we need Christ.

And that's the message this morning is if you're lost, if you're hurting, if you're broken,

there's an opportunity for you to be grafted into the family, to the kingdom of God.

And all you have to do for that is recognize that you are broken, that you are lacking,

that you do need Jesus. So all you have to do is if you want to come to Christ is say a simple prayer.

And if you want to say that prayer, if you want to signify that with an uplifted hand,

I can't see if a God can see you wherever you're at. This is a quick invitation that I do after

every message. So if you rose your hand and you meant that, then just repeat after me, dear Lord God,

I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I'm fallen. But I know that you sent your son Jesus Christ and

that he died for me. He died so that I could be set free from the bondage of sin. So I repent of

my sin and I accept Jesus as my Lord and my Savior. And I thank you for your grace and salvation. In

Jesus name I pray. Amen. It's a simple prayer. And it's sometimes I get wordy and I apologize,

but it's a simple prayer where you're repenting, you're accepting that you're a sinner, but you're

turning away from that sin and you're accepting Jesus to be your Lord, to be your guide going

forward and you're inviting him into your heart. So if you prayed that prayer and you meant it,

then you are now written into the Lamb's book of life. And I pray that you take the next steps,

which is get a Bible, start reading the gospel, start in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

You can download it on a phone, it's easy. Or you can reach out and I'll get you a Bible.

But then you just you start praying, you cry out to God and then find a church to belong to. If

you live in Salmon Arm, reach out. We have church every Sunday at 10 30. You can contact me,

all the contact information is in the show notes. If you're not in the area here in Salmon Arm,

British Columbia, then that's okay. We've got 3,500 churches globally. I can help you find a

Bible believing church, but find a church to lock into and to serve. Because part of being a

Christian is service. It's preaching the gospel, it's sharing your testimony,

it's all of these kinds of things. But it's what locks you in and gives you community,

gives you family. And so with that, I just want to thank you for listening to this message again.

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God bless.