Let's Just Be Honest

In this day of political correctness it is not acceptable to call the proverbial “spade a spade.” The inspired writers of the Bible, however, were not concerned with political correctness. In the book of Leviticus alone the word “sin”, in some form or another, is found 131 times. Some form of “trespass” is used 35 times. The word iniquity is used 18 times in different forms, and the word “abomination” is found an astounding 16 times! We need a good dose of plain spoken honesty in today’s world: let’s just be honest.


Abortion is not an issue of “women’s rights”; it’s murder, and it’s sinful (Lk. 1:41; Gal. 5:19-21). A woman who chooses to have an abortion is not exercising “freedom of choice” but rather her freedom to sin. Homosexuality is not “an alternative lifestyle” it’s an abomination and it’s sinful (Lev. 18:22; 1 Cor. 6:9-11). If one is in a relationship with another’s spouse, it’s not “love”, it’s adultery and it’s sinful (Mat. 19:9). If one parks and “makes out” with someone to whom one is not married, it’s not “petting”, it’s not “affection”, it’s lasciviousness and it’s sinful (Gal. 5:19-21). If one tells a dirty joke it’s not “funny”, it’s foolish jesting, it’s lascivious speech, and it’s sinful (Eph. 5:4, 5). If one says something that is false it’s not a taradittle, it’s not a fib, and it’s not a “little white lie.” There is no such thing as a “white lie.” Every lie from the garden unto this present moment is as black as hell, and it’s sinful (Eph. 4:25). Instrumental worship is not “contemporary”, it’s not “culturally in vogue”, it’s unauthorized and it’s sinful (Col. 3:16, 17).


Let’s just be honest, these things are sinful and they must stop.


Concerning one’s relationship with God, every individual of an accountable age stands in one of two positions: one is either saved or lost. Let’s just be honest about that. There are two ways: “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Mat. 7:13, 14). One is either in light or in darkness: “This is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 Jn. 1:5-7). Either a person is inside of Christ or outside of Christ: “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ” (Gal. 3:27). Either a person is with Christ, or against Him (Mat.12:30); either one is a Christian, or one is not.


Every person of an accountable age is either saved or lost. Let’s just be honest about it.


How can we expect to convince anyone to be saved if we never convince a person that he or she is lost? How can we expect to convince a person that he or she is lost if we are not willing to name sin for what it is? God’s only remedy for sin is the plain straightforward preaching of the gospel of Christ (Rom. 1:16). We must not allow the trend of politically correct speech to water down the preaching of the gospel.


“These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee” (Titus 2:15).