The Da Vinci Code in theaters...
We are always to be in training. Paul said that we ought to “study to show ourselves approved unto God; workmen that need not to be ashamed; rightly dividing the word of truth
(2 Timothy 2:15).”
Peter also said that we need to “be ready always to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15).”
Why am I saying all this? What does this have to do with the Da Vinci Code? You’re going to run into people who buy into the lies found within this fictional piece. It is not for us to say “I don’t know...all I know is that Jesus loves you.” That is not our role.
Paul said in 2 Timothy 4 that we must “be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfull your ministry.”
Listen, if it’s not the Da Vinci Code, it’ll be something else. It seems like there’s always something that challenges the claims of Christ and of the Bible. It is said that the Bible is the anvil by which many a hammer has been worn away. The Bible still stands. The hammers come and go.
Please, you be ready as a good soldier of Christ.
-AROTM
Tomorrow...
Thursday, May 18, 2006
