Sermon: A Rewired Society (Part One)
The Mystery of Lawlessness
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Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Given 31-Aug-24; 69 minutes
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If we had a Rip Van Winkle experience, falling asleep 20 years ago and waking up today, we would be appalled at the stark difference between our memories and today's reality—a society which has become reprobate with Pride parades, transgenderism, men beating up women in Olympic boxing, homosexual marriage, and euthanasia. The freedoms we had 20 years ago are rapidly eroding. In addition, generation X,Y, and Z have become hampered by addiction to cellphones and video games, severely retarding their growth and maturity, short-changing them on a sense of responsibility. Young boys are forever dependent, have no social skills, and become addicted to pornography, while young girls on social media lose sleep, get depressed, and suffer anorexia or bulimia. Today, people are being rewired changing the way they think, with the social Internet and media dangerously altering thought processes making young and old more susceptible to believing lies. Ideologically, satanically inspired media has undermined the existence of absolute truth and standards and has impaired people's ability to think things through, leading to a post-truth, lawless world. As Charles Whitaker said in his article, "What Restrains the Man of Sin?," we have been temporarily protected from the man of sin rising until the "proper time," but when the lying wonders and unrighteous deception arise, only those who have received the love of the truth will be spared from its deadly power. The mystery of lawlessness has had a long build up since the garden of Eden, and our human nature has a pronounced impulse toward lawlessness. Today, as traditional biblical standards and values decline and are spurned, only the mind of Christ will save God's people.