Standing For Truth

September 29, 2024
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Reflections From the Heart of Allan Redenius
So, tell me this.  Just exactly when did human thinking go off the rails?  What was once unacceptable is now considered to be normal.  Isaiah 5:20 warns of times like these.  “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”  Doesn’t that describe the days in which we live?
 
Here’s an example of how things are out of whack.  It has been reported that thirty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cut the head off a dead whale.  Well, the news is making a big deal of that action.  Some are even wanting to charge him with a crime.  No doubt, that was bizarre behavior, but come on people, get real, the whale was dead.
 
Here’s a sad thought.  There is more sympathy for that dead whale than for a baby who is killed.  Where is the cry, the outrage when a baby is aborted?  Is it humane behavior to pull a baby apart limb by limb, while it is yet alive?  Where are the news people to report such an atrocity?  They are silent.  Why?  Because such actions are now being disguised as “freedom.”  They too have substituted a lie for truth.
 
There’s more protection for whales, than for babies in the womb.  Something is basically wrong with that.
 
I know, I know that I should be silent.  During World War II, in Germany as the death trains steamed by the churches, the congregations just sang louder.  The Nazis had so intimidated the Christians, that they did not stand for truth.  Consider this.  Dietrich Bonhoffer was a famed pastor, author, and martyr who stood against the Nazi regime.  He recorded this chilling scene during World War II.  A certain country church was set next to the railroad track.  Every Sunday morning the death train steamed by on the way to the Auschwitz concentration camp.  The congregation heard the cries for help from the Jews jammed into the box cars.  What did the congregation do?  They sang a little louder to cover up the pleas for help.  They sang a little louder and 6,000,000 Jews were killed.
 
Who in America is willing to stand for what is right?  Jesus stood up for truth and they killed Him.  I stand with Him.  But this is what I hear.  The silent screams of babies being aborted as too many Christians just keep on singing.
 
Standing for truth…
Pastor Allan
 
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