Lent - Week 5

Lent V - Giving Up Modernity for Lent 

Matthew 6:24 / II Kings 17:41

You cannot serve two masters. When you replace God, you exchange your god for something else and it shapes your thought process. God does match up to man's approval so man thinks he can just swap Him out for another god. Man is seen as innocent and helpless when he chose to sin in Genesis. We are reading God's word in light of our own thinking apart from God's intended purpose. We come up with our own theology after rolling God off the throne. Our Christianity today is very different from the Christianity of our great grandparents and even earlier. You have to wonder if this could still be considered Christianity. The values of this country are long overturned. The values for freedom and liberty for people apart from a tyrannical government have long been forgotten. We came here in a revolution to the revolution there against the people. The French Revolution was what gave way to Modernity. That was the revolution we were revolting against. Modernity has been in place for so long that we naturally assumed that the god of Modernity is the only option left. The Church is now supporting it because it doesn't know any better. Modernity is in everything around us and is the only true influence on us anymore. The success of Modernity (the French Revolution) was not just the fall of the Bastille. It was also in the fall of Christianity. The liberty, equality, and fraternity of the French Revolution do not match up to the liberty, equality, and fraternity of God's law and definition. It was seen as a liberty to escape from God's law rather than to remain comfortable and at ease in His law, safe from fiat law. We are not to just coexist. That is a slogan asking for Modernity to flourish. Modernity had to attack nature  to bring down God's given society for a unified saneness. This is a macro issue of what is wrong with the world and we cannot become aware of or fix the micro issues until we at least realize the macro issues. We cannot serve two masters. We have been serving the god of Modernity for too long and we need to put off the gods of the past and follow God's desire for us. It comes at great cost because Modernity does not allow for any other god to share it's throne.