Be Righteous & Let The Accusations Fly

Word-Of-The-Day: ‘He who vindicates me is near. Who then will bring charges against me? Let us face each other! Who is my accuser? Let him confront me!’ (Isaiah 50:8)

A video on ‘X’ is circulating showing a man named Maurice who is in the congregation of a ‘progressive’ church. Maurice stands up and begins to boldly proclaim, in Truth and in the boldness of Righteousness, that this church and their pastor is preaching and living a false doctrine. He states with firm but a loving and passionate conviction that this church is not one of God but of sin. He provides the Scriptural references that tell of God’s repudiation of LGBTQ, and that He is not a tolerant or subjective God but one of strict conviction requiring close adherence to His Word.

Maurice is at first shouted at to shut up and sit down, then confronted by several men asking him to leave, and only after the congregation starts to sing over his voice is Maurice silenced. It is not known, given the short time of the video, that any congregants were swaying his Righteous words, but they cannot say that they did not hear the Righteous Word of God come their Day of Judgement.

We can debate whether the middle of their service was the proper time for Maurice to confront this unrighteous gathering, but the one thing Maurice did was answer Isaiah 50:8; he faced those who he accused, he confronted them, and he gave them the charges of disobedience to God. He did not ‘tickle their ears’ with soothing lies that they heard before, but gave them the piercing Truth of the Lord’s Word.

This verse is often looked at not from the accuser’s perspective, like Maurice, but from the accused. Instead of the unrighteous as the accused, we as Christians are often accused for our lack of tolerating sinful acts that are accepted by society at large.

A couple of items to put this into perspective; the first was a controversial exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture in Washington, DC, back in the height of ‘wokeness‘ in 2020, called ‘Assumptions of White Culture’, which listed out certain traits of ‘Whiteness’.  It was soon removed its exhibits as the curators soon realized the traits they listed were actually wholesome, Christian traits.

The traits included a focus on the nuclear family (working husband, dedicated wife, 2.3 children on average), a work ethic with a dedication to earning income, saving money, work before play, following time schedules, and many other things that describes the ethos of the majority of Americans (regardless of color).  These traits were painted as being ‘negative’ when of course, factually, most will see them as ‘positive’ (and they are traits that are ‘colorblind’).

It is reasoned by the ‘woke’ that the ‘white culture’ or, more accurately the Christian culture, has an expectation of following wholesomeness or Righteousness in actions of our behavior, relationships, and efforts toward pleasing God, a ‘productive’ lifestyle to pursue. These expectations are opposite of the ‘woke’ culture of consumption, with ‘play before work’, and little or no production or output. These expectations, though spurned by the secular worldview, are of course in line with the Word of God and how God provides for us to live.

The second item is a term called ‘doxxing’, more broadly the ‘cancel culture’, where individuals who give an opposing opinion on today’s events in social media are ‘investigated’ by ‘offended’ persons.  These offended people track down the individual’s address, employer, church, friends, and other associations, and begin a campaign against them to get them ostracized in their professional and social groups, meet in front of their homes to directly harass them, and fired from the employment for sharing an opinion different from theirs. 

The accusers often remain anonymous, or hidden from the accused.  It goes back to a commentary the ‘woke’ mind demonstrates; you have the right to freely express your opinion, as long as it agrees with the secular culture. For the Christian, like Maurice, it is demonstrated that while you have the right to freely express your opinion, you can continue to live within that opinion, but you must understand that God only accepts obedience and not opinion in the worship of Him.

Christians are tolerant to seek out all people, to invite them into the fellowship of God and share the Gospel message with all. The tolerance ends, however, when one attempts to enforce their false opinions over the Word of God. ‘I’m a Christian, but’ usually means that person’s ‘but’ is an opinion that supersedes the Word of God, in their minds.

It is this that many people find fault with Faithful followers of the Word, the the Truth is through Jesus, Heaven has a strict immigration policy with three simple rules for admittance – accept Jesus as Savior, obey His Word, and repent of your sins. Hell has no such restrictions, it is ‘open borders’ and anyone can walk in. No one wants to be told their way is the way to perdition.

But God can defend us; and he can and will certainly vindicate us.  Those who falsely accuse us will one day face God, prayerfully here on Earth should they repent and realize their sins of being false witnesses twisting ‘right’ until it is ‘wrong’.  If not on Earth, they will face God in Judgement, and without Earthly repentance the penalty is eternal damnation in Hell. 

This should be even more of a reason to go and carry out the Great Commission, to bring Christ to those who need Him.  We may carry opinions that others will shout down, but our Lord encountered the same as He went to the cross.  Those who shout down righteousness are the same as those who shouted ‘Barabbas’; unfortunately many who accuse us will hide themselves in the darkness.

Know, however, that we who are accused falsely by those who are in fact doing wrong will be vindicated. Though it may not be in our lifetime on Earth, there will come a day when our accusers will face their Judge, and they will – should they not be repentant or never obeying the Word of God – find out for themselves their ‘opinion-over-obedience’ mindset will send them to an eternity of torment, devoid of God and His love.

Stand firm; as many who try appeasement find out, they can not apologize away the facts that are in the Truth of the Word.  I would rather face destruction here, as my Lord did, than face eternal destruction, as unfortunately many in the ‘cancel culture’ will do. I will not apologize for who I am, as I cannot deny who I am – like Maurice, a disciple of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.