Blaspheming Jesus Christ By Saying Nothing

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(Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 26:62-63; Psalms 22:6-8; Matthew 27:39-40)
Blaspheming Jesus while Christians say nothing. For many who reject the
Bible as Truth and Jesus Christ as their Savior, blaspheming our Lord is
something they do without conscience or any fear of repercussions.
Entertainers like Carlin, Maher, Rosie, and many others, have openly mocked
and blasphemed Christ their entire careers to the laughs and cheers of those
who listen to them. Others have used their God given gifts and talents to
publicly blaspheme the Lord through books, motion pictures, music, and art.
As the years have rolled by and the nation gets further away from God and
Biblical values, the blaspheming of Jesus gets more frequent, more bold, and
more disgusting. Men have used their imaginations to creatively blaspheme
the Lord in every possible way while Christians sit back in silence.

Paul Verhoeven, the director of “Basic Instinct” and other motion pictures,
will soon be releasing a biography of Jesus where he makes the shocking
claim that Christ probably was the son of Mary and a Roman soldier who raped
her during the Jewish uprising in Galilee and says that Christ was not
betrayed by Judas Iscariot, one of the 12 original apostles of Jesus, as the
New Testament states. Verhoeven, who is Catholic and holds a doctorate in
mathematics and physics from the University of Leiden, was a regular
attendee of the Jesus Seminar. The seminar, something I have warned people
about for years, calls into question miracles and statements attributed to
Jesus in the Bible and rejects the divinity of Christ.

Also on the blaspheming Jesus front is B. Hussein Obama advisor Larry
Lessig, a Stanford University law professor, who includes in his lectures a
video of a ‘gay’ Jesus Christ sashaying nearly naked down a city street to
the tune of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” only to get run over by a bus,
( http://www.spike.com/video/2685131 ). Lessig stated that he used the
video over the last three years in the section of his talks which show
examples of ‘remix’ creativity. In addition to happily showing off
blasphemous images of Christ, Lessig is also known as a digital communist.
He believes there should be no such thing as intellectual property rights,
that patents and copyrights should be tossed.

Let there be no mistake, mocking Jesus is not a new phenomenon. There were
people who lived at the same time as our Lord who rejected Him, just like
there are people who reject Him today. We know from the Bible that in the
fulfillment of Scripture He was mocked and scorned in the last hours of his
life. So many of the supposed “lost books of the Bible” and these new
“gospels” are nothing more than the anti-Christian writings of men who
rejected the message of Christ and who He is. Those anti-Christian writings
have always existed throughout the last 2000 years, right up to today with
the modern day heretics like Dan Brown, the author of “The DaVinci Code” and
Michael Baigent , who wrote the equally blasphemous “Jesus Papers.” People
have mocked our Lord since the days He walked this earth.

What is new is the bold and fearless public attacks on our Lord throughout
the world today. I have told you often that the United States is no longer a
Christian nation. A classic example of that fact is the way those who hate
Jesus publicly mock Him. Just 10 years ago, no legitimate publisher would
print a book full of such vile lies about the Lord. Ten years ago, no law
school professor would be using such disgusting depictions of Christ in
their lectures. Ten years ago, a blasphemous book like “The DaVinci Code”
would have never sold tens of millions of copies like it has today. While
Madonna has made a career of mocking Christ and His church, even she has
taken her blasphemy to a new level by mocking the crucifixion.

I have done many Devotionals over these past 9 years on the boldness of
satan versus the timidity of Christians. Do you believe me now?

The natural question of course is what do we do about it? First, you can’t
blame those who put out these disgusting and blasphemous representations of
Jesus. Oh, don’t get me wrong, God WILL hold them accountable, but these are
people who have clearly rejected God, His Truth, and Jesus, so what do you
expect? They have given themselves over as instruments of unrighteousness so
they are actually only doing what comes naturally to them. How can you
really blame those who hate and reject the Lord from expressing that
rejection and hatred? Hear me carefully. They are not the problem, WE ARE
THE PROBLEM!

Maybe now you can understand why I hammer relentlessly on how Christians
have abandoned the marketplace for the comfort, safety, and oh yes, the
profitability of this Christian subculture we have created for ourselves. In
reality, we are in rebellion to God since the Bible doesn’t say separate
yourselves from the world, it actually COMMANDS us to do the exact opposite!
What we are seeing with the open and public mocking of Jesus is one of the
results of our abandoning the culture of our day and leaving it to the
devil. He operates virtually without any opposition so why are we surprised
that he has taken his hatred and scorn for Jesus to the extremes we witness
today? Let me warn you my friend, it is only going to get worse!

The answer to this blaspheming of our Lord is to get back into the
marketplace and start taking a stand for Christ. Each follower of the Lord
can do their part each day where you live, where you go to school or work,
where you shop, in the recreational activities you are involved in, and with
the people God brings across your path. You take your stand by living a
Godly and holy life. You take your stand by not being afraid to speak up for
our Lord when you are around people who are speaking against Him. You take
your stand by finding ways to serve Him You can’t stop the mockers, but you
can make sure their message of hatred for our Lord does not go
unchallenged!!!

I love you and care about you so much. For anyone who loves Jesus, it has to
break your heart to see how our Lord and Savior is portrayed by those who
hate Him. I have no doubt Jesus is looking down and saying “Father forgive
them, for they know not what they do.” The reality is, Paul Verhoeven ,
Larry Lessig, Madonna, Dan Brown, and all those who blaspheme Jesus will die
one day. At that moment they will be standing before God their Creator to be
judged. If they die rejecting the Lord, the Bible says they will be cast
into everlasting darkness.

I believe the last thing they will see, the picture that will be with them
as they suffer for all eternity, will be that of King Jesus, the One they
openly mocked and scorned!!! Pray for these lost souls. Without the Lord in
their heart, they have allowed their lives to be used as agents of satan.
Don’t forget that there was a man named Saul of Tarsus who persecuted the
early church, killed Christians, yet that same Saul was visited by Jesus one
day and his life gloriously transformed. He became Paul and went on to live
one of the greatest Christian lives ever documented.

I pray that this will be a wake-up call for all Believers today. A wake-up
call that we have got to get back into the marketplace where we live each
day and boldly, without shame or compromise proclaim our faith in Christ. If
this doesn’t motivate you, nothing will. For too long, we have been
intimidated into keeping our mouths shut while those who live in rebellion
to God speak loud and bold without fear or conscience to promote their
ungodly lives and choices. Maybe this will give you some insight into my
drive and passion for what we do each day here at Liveprayer. Our number one
goal is to bring the lost to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Getting
people saved is the ultimate answer.

In addition to proclaiming the Gospel to the lost and bringing the hope of
Christ to the hurting, I am here to bring Biblical Truth back into the
marketplace. I can’t stop publishers from putting out disgusting lies about
our Lord, I can’t stop people from depicting our Lord in the most horrible
ways to make fun of Him, I can’t stop pop stars like Madonna from mocking
the crucifixion, I can’t stop people like Dan Brown from writing
anti-Christian books, but I can go out into that VERY SAME marketplace and
reach those VERY SAME people with the fact that their only hope and their
only answer is faith in Jesus Christ!

Those who hate our Lord are bold and courageous in taking their message of
hate to the masses. I challenge you today that if you love Jesus, you should
be even bolder and more courageous in taking the message of His love to
those same masses! While the world blasphemes our Lord, we have got to
praise Him!!!

In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller bkeller@liveprayer.com
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