“So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.” (Romans 1:24–25, NLT)
Evil lies to people all the time. Sadly, all too many fall for the lies. Even people who profess Jesus Christ as Lord can become deluded into believing lies. It has happened before many times in history. Every time, it caused suffering and downfall and death. Every single time. When you play around with the truth, when you fall for the lies, it will always… always… come back to bite you big time, whether you are a person or a nation.
Today, our world is filled with liars who would like you to believe their lies. They have, as our scripture for today includes, “traded the truth of God for a lie” (Romans 1:24). These people have degraded the truth, hid the truth, falsified documents, and much more in order to spread lies and deception and delusion. In doing so, they have perpetrated evil. Yet, they are so delusional, they call the truth a lie and lies the truth. Don’t be sucked in by their lies. It will only end in pain and suffering.
There are people today suffering from a lie. They believed that living a certain lifestyle was not harmful. Some used prescription drugs to damage their kidneys. Some used alcohol to damage their livers. Some used street drugs that caused a stroke and damaged other vital organs. They believed a lie and are now paying for their mistake. Each now must hope for a new organ or die a painful death. What do some do? They begin to believe in more lies. They talk themselves into another delusion. How? They believe that the organs used for transplants were taken from people who gladly wanted to offer them up. In some cases, this is true. People have donated kidneys to a friend or relative or out of love. Some have donated bone marrow, knowing it could easily save the life of a cancer patient. Some have donated eyes and bodies to science or for organ donation and after a car accident, which has saved many. However, one of the biggest “harvesters” of organs today is China. There, people are accused falsely of crimes in order to put them into prison. While there, their organs are removed to be sold on black markets and in exchanges all over the world. This is why they often ask medical questions before a person is accused of a crime or goes to prison in China. It is a lucrative market worth millions and billions. Yet, many all over the world are under the delusion that the organ they are receiving comes from a pure and holy gift, not from an illegal harvesting of innocent and guilty prisoners. Katrina Lantos Swett, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, called this practice “An Unspeakable Crime against humanity” at the recent International Religious Freedom Summit. She acknowledged that medical leadership and governments throughout the world cover up this great lie.
Lies are common in the political world, which frequently uses lies or innuendos to shape a false narrative. The Biden Administration in the United States proudly touted in 2021 that not only is the economy great, but the U.S. has the “fastest growing economy in the world”. This is a lie. There are 50 countries that have faster growing economies as reported by CNN, a liberal news source that constantly supports Biden policies. Even they called this claim by Biden a falsehood. The democratic leadership in the United States stated that by 2022, 8.6 million jobs had been “created” since they got full control of the Presidency, Senate, and House of Representatives in 2020. What they are actually reporting are people going back to work after COVID-19 lockdowns. These jobs weren’t created. It’s all a lie meant to sway public opinion. In Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau froze bank accounts, encouraged the damaging of property, and did everything in his power to hurt those who spoke out against his own draconian government procedures in lockdowns. Trudeau even shouted “follow the science” to push lies and his own political agenda. I could easily tell you of a thousand more lies spread by politicians throughout the world. In everything from spending to taxes to social programs to economic news and so much more, lies are told more than the truth in politics. Only a very precious few can be trusted.
The medical establishment lies all the time. The CDC leadership in 2020 said masks wouldn’t help the spread of COVID-19. Then, later that year, they reversed themselves and said the masks would help. Now, medical professionals know that the surgical masks that presently pollute the oceans and landfills never really were a good deterrent for COVID-19. As for the vaccine for COVID-19, there were other lies. On December 14, 2021, Joe Biden went on record that people vaccinated for COVID-19 “do not spread the disease to anyone else.”. Another lie. In fact, the vaccines were NEVER tested for transmission before rolled out to the public. So, all the while Hollywood was telling people who would not get the vaccine that the unvaccinated were “killing grandma and grandpa” while the vaccinated were saving the world from the epidemic, they were spouting absolutely unadulterated lies that were spread by social media and even protected by Big Tech and Big Pharma.
Speaking of Big Tech and their lies, we have come to find out that much of the lies spread around the world recently were supported and encouraged by Big Tech. During the pandemic, Facebook and Google and Twitter and Reddit and many other outlets blocked doctors and nurses and medical professionals and even health specialists from spreading the truth about COVID-19 and MRNA vaccines and other therapies. When it was discovered that Vitamin D supplementation and a healthy diet and certain medications and over-the-counter therapies could help the transmission and recovery from COVID-19, Big Tech colluded to silence the truth. Paid by political and social groups and Big Pharma, they silenced people who desperately tried to bring you the truth. By doing so, they accused millions of disinformation while being the biggest source of disinformation in history! They lied on a global scale.
Now, let’s center on the church. It too is tainted with lies. In fact, those who would love to tell you the truth are often silenced in the church. I have been threatened, ridiculed publicly, and even lost my job when I expressed the truth. In one church, I tried to stop the practice of under-the-table dealing of contracts being issued to “favorites”. I was told to be quiet. In another church, I was threatened to keep quiet about abuses (some illegal) that were occurring. I and my family were threatened with “bad things happening” if I did anything about it. I did do something about it and suffered the consequences.
What many people do not know is that politics and ideologies now run many denominations. Seminarians and pastoral candidates are culled based on their political views and ideological stances more than their faith and biblical integrity. For example, I know of at least a dozen people who were kept from ministry because they would not adhere to liberal political beliefs. I know of pastors who were criticized when they dared to say that God “hates divorce” (Malachi 2:16), that “grooming” of children is wrong, that giving children as young as ten the option of gender reassignment surgery was evil, that fornication and adultery are sinful, and that portraying transsexuals as inherently godly people is a worldly practice that should not occur in the church. Trust me when I tell you that MOST denominations choose pastors NOT from a biblical perspective but based on political and ideological biases. And yet, we are lied to that the churches aren’t permeated with worldly practices and leadership.
Chances are, you are bombarded with lies from social media, the news, friends, family, and even well-meaning church people every day. BUT just when you think this is all new or that the end time must be coming, realize that lies have been a bane to the faithful since the beginning of time. Satan lied to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden!
Today’s scripture shows that lies were also a problem in the first century churches. Paul, who was a Roman citizen, knew that many worldly lies came from Rome and Roman leadership. He warned about lies being spread and growing in the churches. Paul wrote to the Roman Christians that when worldly sin corrupted people, God “abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired” (Romans 1:24). When this happened, “they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies”. They also “exchanged the truth for a lie” by “worshipping the things God created rather than the Creator”. Even in today’s world, we can see how people do “degrading things with each other’s bodies”. There are children who undergo sex change operations. There are psychologically ill people who self-mutilate. I’ve seen the picture of one devil worshipper who had a surgery to place bony horns on his head. Another tattooed evil symbols on his chest. Nazis forced Auschwitz prisoners to tattoo their prison numbers on their forearms. Women have breast augmentations in order to better sell themselves for sexual favors. Drug dealers have plastic surgeries to cover up their crimes. On and on, the lies of the world cause humans to worship themselves and their accomplishments. They promote “the worship of the things God created rather than the Creator Himself” (Romans 1:25).
Paul was convinced that Roman Christians needed to keep worldly lies out of the church. He also was convinced that every Christian should keep worldly lies out of his or her own life. When you allow lies to replace God’s truth, all kinds of evil things can and will crop up in and around you. Worldly lies can only enslave you. Your only recourse is, as Jesus said, that “the truth will set you free”. What truth? God’s truth. There is no other truth.
Today, our world is filled with liars who would like you to believe their lies. They have, as our scripture for today includes, “traded the truth of God for a lie” (Romans 1:24). These people have degraded the truth, hid the truth, falsified documents, and much more in order to spread lies and deception and delusion. In doing so, they have perpetrated evil. Yet, they are so delusional, they call the truth a lie and lies the truth. Don’t be sucked in by their lies. It will only end in pain and suffering.
There are people today suffering from a lie. They believed that living a certain lifestyle was not harmful. Some used prescription drugs to damage their kidneys. Some used alcohol to damage their livers. Some used street drugs that caused a stroke and damaged other vital organs. They believed a lie and are now paying for their mistake. Each now must hope for a new organ or die a painful death. What do some do? They begin to believe in more lies. They talk themselves into another delusion. How? They believe that the organs used for transplants were taken from people who gladly wanted to offer them up. In some cases, this is true. People have donated kidneys to a friend or relative or out of love. Some have donated bone marrow, knowing it could easily save the life of a cancer patient. Some have donated eyes and bodies to science or for organ donation and after a car accident, which has saved many. However, one of the biggest “harvesters” of organs today is China. There, people are accused falsely of crimes in order to put them into prison. While there, their organs are removed to be sold on black markets and in exchanges all over the world. This is why they often ask medical questions before a person is accused of a crime or goes to prison in China. It is a lucrative market worth millions and billions. Yet, many all over the world are under the delusion that the organ they are receiving comes from a pure and holy gift, not from an illegal harvesting of innocent and guilty prisoners. Katrina Lantos Swett, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, called this practice “An Unspeakable Crime against humanity” at the recent International Religious Freedom Summit. She acknowledged that medical leadership and governments throughout the world cover up this great lie.
Lies are common in the political world, which frequently uses lies or innuendos to shape a false narrative. The Biden Administration in the United States proudly touted in 2021 that not only is the economy great, but the U.S. has the “fastest growing economy in the world”. This is a lie. There are 50 countries that have faster growing economies as reported by CNN, a liberal news source that constantly supports Biden policies. Even they called this claim by Biden a falsehood. The democratic leadership in the United States stated that by 2022, 8.6 million jobs had been “created” since they got full control of the Presidency, Senate, and House of Representatives in 2020. What they are actually reporting are people going back to work after COVID-19 lockdowns. These jobs weren’t created. It’s all a lie meant to sway public opinion. In Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau froze bank accounts, encouraged the damaging of property, and did everything in his power to hurt those who spoke out against his own draconian government procedures in lockdowns. Trudeau even shouted “follow the science” to push lies and his own political agenda. I could easily tell you of a thousand more lies spread by politicians throughout the world. In everything from spending to taxes to social programs to economic news and so much more, lies are told more than the truth in politics. Only a very precious few can be trusted.
The medical establishment lies all the time. The CDC leadership in 2020 said masks wouldn’t help the spread of COVID-19. Then, later that year, they reversed themselves and said the masks would help. Now, medical professionals know that the surgical masks that presently pollute the oceans and landfills never really were a good deterrent for COVID-19. As for the vaccine for COVID-19, there were other lies. On December 14, 2021, Joe Biden went on record that people vaccinated for COVID-19 “do not spread the disease to anyone else.”. Another lie. In fact, the vaccines were NEVER tested for transmission before rolled out to the public. So, all the while Hollywood was telling people who would not get the vaccine that the unvaccinated were “killing grandma and grandpa” while the vaccinated were saving the world from the epidemic, they were spouting absolutely unadulterated lies that were spread by social media and even protected by Big Tech and Big Pharma.
Speaking of Big Tech and their lies, we have come to find out that much of the lies spread around the world recently were supported and encouraged by Big Tech. During the pandemic, Facebook and Google and Twitter and Reddit and many other outlets blocked doctors and nurses and medical professionals and even health specialists from spreading the truth about COVID-19 and MRNA vaccines and other therapies. When it was discovered that Vitamin D supplementation and a healthy diet and certain medications and over-the-counter therapies could help the transmission and recovery from COVID-19, Big Tech colluded to silence the truth. Paid by political and social groups and Big Pharma, they silenced people who desperately tried to bring you the truth. By doing so, they accused millions of disinformation while being the biggest source of disinformation in history! They lied on a global scale.
Now, let’s center on the church. It too is tainted with lies. In fact, those who would love to tell you the truth are often silenced in the church. I have been threatened, ridiculed publicly, and even lost my job when I expressed the truth. In one church, I tried to stop the practice of under-the-table dealing of contracts being issued to “favorites”. I was told to be quiet. In another church, I was threatened to keep quiet about abuses (some illegal) that were occurring. I and my family were threatened with “bad things happening” if I did anything about it. I did do something about it and suffered the consequences.
What many people do not know is that politics and ideologies now run many denominations. Seminarians and pastoral candidates are culled based on their political views and ideological stances more than their faith and biblical integrity. For example, I know of at least a dozen people who were kept from ministry because they would not adhere to liberal political beliefs. I know of pastors who were criticized when they dared to say that God “hates divorce” (Malachi 2:16), that “grooming” of children is wrong, that giving children as young as ten the option of gender reassignment surgery was evil, that fornication and adultery are sinful, and that portraying transsexuals as inherently godly people is a worldly practice that should not occur in the church. Trust me when I tell you that MOST denominations choose pastors NOT from a biblical perspective but based on political and ideological biases. And yet, we are lied to that the churches aren’t permeated with worldly practices and leadership.
Chances are, you are bombarded with lies from social media, the news, friends, family, and even well-meaning church people every day. BUT just when you think this is all new or that the end time must be coming, realize that lies have been a bane to the faithful since the beginning of time. Satan lied to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden!
Today’s scripture shows that lies were also a problem in the first century churches. Paul, who was a Roman citizen, knew that many worldly lies came from Rome and Roman leadership. He warned about lies being spread and growing in the churches. Paul wrote to the Roman Christians that when worldly sin corrupted people, God “abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired” (Romans 1:24). When this happened, “they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies”. They also “exchanged the truth for a lie” by “worshipping the things God created rather than the Creator”. Even in today’s world, we can see how people do “degrading things with each other’s bodies”. There are children who undergo sex change operations. There are psychologically ill people who self-mutilate. I’ve seen the picture of one devil worshipper who had a surgery to place bony horns on his head. Another tattooed evil symbols on his chest. Nazis forced Auschwitz prisoners to tattoo their prison numbers on their forearms. Women have breast augmentations in order to better sell themselves for sexual favors. Drug dealers have plastic surgeries to cover up their crimes. On and on, the lies of the world cause humans to worship themselves and their accomplishments. They promote “the worship of the things God created rather than the Creator Himself” (Romans 1:25).
Paul was convinced that Roman Christians needed to keep worldly lies out of the church. He also was convinced that every Christian should keep worldly lies out of his or her own life. When you allow lies to replace God’s truth, all kinds of evil things can and will crop up in and around you. Worldly lies can only enslave you. Your only recourse is, as Jesus said, that “the truth will set you free”. What truth? God’s truth. There is no other truth.