Only 4 percent of America's young adults live by Biblically based values. The remaining 96% are deceived and buying into pop culture values believing themselves to be Christians.
Consider these statistics of Christianity in America: Eighty-four percent of the inhabitants of this nation say they believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, according to Barna Group, and 45 percent claim to be born-again Christians. Other studies show it is closer to 33 percent.
Either way, these numbers are high. Seventy-seven percent believe their chances of going to heaven are excellent. Thirty-three percent believe one day everyone will go to heaven. Yet America has the highest percentage of single-parent families in the industrialized world, the highest abortion rate, the highest rate of sexually transmitted diseases, the highest rate of teenage birth by far, the highest rate of teenage drug use and the largest prison population per capita than any country in the world.
In fact, the results of a survey among young American adults showed that the percentage who follow biblically based values for living has now dropped from 65 percent to a mere 4 percent since World War II.
Are you in touch with your true spiritual condition? Or are you allowing the pop culture around you to dictate your standards? Are you conforming to the world's standards or to the Bible? Are you deceived? How can a nation of people among whom a large percentage claims to be born-again Christians experience the kind of degradation the above statistics reveal? Such deception is the state of America today, and the above statistics reveal the fruit of it.
America's mega churches have become a pop culture meeting place filled with people all believing they are saved and headed for Heaven. An example would be Rick Warren's Saddle Back Church, he supports Chrislam and is at the forefront of global politics rather than preaching the true Gospel of Christ.
Many young, claimed to be born again believers, are living together and having children outside of marriage. Folks that is an adulterous relationship without real commitment. You are committing adultery if you are in this kind of relationship.
Matthew 5:31 “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.
When Jesus walked the earth anyone caught in adultery was sentenced to death, usually by stoning.
2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.
7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."
What else does God's Word say?
Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled.
King James Version (KJV)
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
King James Dictionary
1. Lewdness fornication practice of unlawful commerce with the other sex. It is applied to either sex, and to any kind of illicit commerce.
WHOREMONGER, n. The same as whoremaster.
WHORISH, a. Lewd unchaste addicted to unlawful sexual pleasures incontinent.
1. Violation of the marriage bed a crime, or a injury, which introduces, or may introduce, into a family, a spurious offspring.
In common usage, adultery means the unfaithfulness of any married person to the marriage bed.
ADUL'TERER, n. L. adulter
1. A man guilty of adultery a man who has sexual commerce with any married woman, except his wife. See Adultery.
2. In scripture, an idolator. Ezekiel 23 .
3. An apostate from the true faith, or one who violates his covenant engagements a very wicked person. Jeremiah 9,23
Fornication
FORNICA'TION, n. L. fornicatio.
1. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
2. Adultery. Matthew 5 .
3. Incest. 1 Corinthians 5 .
4. Idolatry a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols. 2 Chronicles 21 . Revelation 19.
Politics won't fix America, we have a spiritual problem, one that only true repentance will begin to mend.
We must all go to the cross
And sin no more once forgiven.
Where there is forgiveness there is hope, His name is Jesus, get right with Him today.
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