A lot of people try to soften Christianity. Instead of calling sin what it is…sin, we try to tone it down and make it sound less offensive. Just look at how most people nowadays change how they speak about sinners because they don’t want to offend anyone:
* Unrepentant sinners are called “pre-Christians”
* Fornicators are just “living together”
* Adulterers are just “having an affair”
* Homosexuals are “gay”
* People in a homosexual relationship are said to have an “alternative lifestyle”
* A woman who murders her child in the womb is “aborting a fetus”
* Covetous people are just “ambitious”
* Sinners are just “human beings”
Instead of preaching God’s truth, a lot of preachers water down the Gospel to the point that it isn’t even the Gospel any more. Instead of being warned to flee from the wrath to come (Romans 2:5), some pastors encourage people to “try this Jesus thing out for a while” or they preach the false message of “health, wealth and prosperity.”
There is no way that God is impressed with our being tolerant to sin. God cannot be pleased with us watering down the message of hope, everlasting life and the only way of salvation through His precious Son. Show me one place in Scripture where God tells us to hold back His truth in order for people to like us. Or show me where God says that we shouldn’t preach the full Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Folks, this is very serious. No matter how we try to sugar coat it, sin is sin. There’s no way around it. Sin is sin no matter how you spin it. Look what the Bible has to say about sin and sinners:
* Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6:9-10).
* Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Gal. 5:19-21).
* But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine (1 Tim. 1:8-10).
* But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Rev. 21:8)
When you speak God’s truth as found in the Bible, people say that you are intolerant. You will be accused of being a hater. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The only way you should speak against sin today is to speak God’s unvarnished truth. We must warn people to flee from the wrath to come instead of being concerned about how comfortable their trip is on their way to Hell.
I am accused of being intolerant and of being a hated-filled person. I’m alright with this because what matters most to me is to be obedient to God and being obedient means speaking His truth from His Word; to a lost and dying world. My prayer is that God will convict people of their sins; that they will cry out to Him to have mercy on them and that they will repent and believe the Gospel.
By the way, if you have turned from your sins and put your faith in Jesus Christ our Lord, then God no longer sees you as a guilty sinner. He now sees you through the righteousness of Jesus (2 Cor. 5:21).