By Dennis Abernathy
Synopsis: Although civil authorities and human courts may legalize sin and outlaw righteousness, such travesties do not overturn divine precepts that will judge us on the final day.
Many people will equate conduct that is declared legal by civil authority with having God’s approval. Evidently, they believe human law overrides God’s law; that man is in a better position to determine right and wrong than is Almighty God; that a mere stroke of the pen can turn that which is sinful and wrong into that which is right! Regardless, God will not have fellowship with wickedness (1 John 1:5-6), and neither should we (Eph. 5:11). Will God approve of laws that legalize and advocate a sinful way of life? No, He will not!
Think about churches and religions that make religious laws that condone sinful conduct. Civil governments, and more and more religious bodies, have compromised and capitulated in matters of morality, but God has not! Governments can declare legal, and churches can approve religiously, the sale, and drinking of alcohol, gambling, adultery, cohabitation, recreational use of drugs, homosexual marriage, transgenderism, abortion on demand, etc., but that does not give such sinful conduct God’s approval.
We are living in perilous times, where Bible truths are declared hateful and unloving, and sinful conduct is declared good and loving. Long ago, the prophet Isaiah said: “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” (Isa. 5:20). Ours is becoming a topsy-turvy world.
We have come to dwell in Topsy-Turvydom!
Where vice is virtue—virtue, vice,
Where nice is nasty—nasty, nice,
Where white is black and black is white,
Where right is wrong and wrong is right!
Psalms 94:20 says: “Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by a law (decree)?” Think about these things.
