Thread by @2runtherace

Apathy 🧵

Is your heart grieved when you see the wickedness around you? If not why? Have you become hardened to sin because it has become so common?

The Word of God tells us that in the last days, “The love of many will grow cold.”

Beloved, has your heart grown cold? We should weep when we see moral degradation — not only in the world around us, but in those who are called by the Name of Christ.

My eyes run down with tears when I think about the innocent children being brought into homosexual unions, for I know they are destined for lives of confusion, and unimaginable pain.

I grieve when I see innocent babies in the womb — who have no choice, being murdered by abortion in the name of choice.

I grieve when I see the church of Jesus Christ has been turned into a place that appeals to every desire of the flesh, instead of what it was meant to be — a gathering of the saints of God for encouragement and strength to go out into the world to be salt and light.

I grieve that believers turn a blind eye to every sexual sin and immorality in the world and in the church — fornication, adultery, homosexuality, pornography, and every lust of the flesh.

These things are not to be tolerated in the church, yet the church doors are open in the name of tolerance and acceptance. If one speaks out, they are called unloving and intolerant.

I fear that today, the apostle Paul, and even Jesus Christ Himself would be ostracized from most churches for speaking as they did and as the Word of God does!

What is apathy? “Apathy is a quiet, dangerous condition of the heart often referred to as spiritual indifference, complacency, or lukewarmness.”

Jesus spoke these Words to the last church in Revelation — a church that had grown apathetic, “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot…

…So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:15-16

Apathy often manifests as knowing what is right but simply choosing not to act because of indifference. James speaks about it here when he says, “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” James 4:17

Spiritual apathy masquerades as Christian love, leading directly to moral compromise and the breakdown of the Biblical community of believers.

An unbothered, indifferent attitude toward persistent, unrepentant sin within the church should never be labeled as "grace" — but is to be fiercely condemned.

Yet this call for “grace” is seen everywhere, even though the Word of God tells us we are not to tolerate sin in the church — but the sinner is rather to be, “taken away from among you.” We are told to grieve over sin — not to be proud and puffed up because we are tolerant.

1 Corinthians 5:1-7
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife…

…And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I verily, as absent in body, And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you…

…For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, In the Name of our LORD Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our LORD Jesus Christ…

…To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the LORD Jesus. Your glorying is not good…

…Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.

Jesus directly confronts this sin of tolerance in His letters to the churches.

Revelation 2:20-23
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess…

… to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not…

… Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds…

… And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am He which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

True Biblical love, as modeled by Jesus and Paul, is never a passive, unbothered emotion. It requires the courage to practice discernment, hold fast to truth, and actively pursue restoration — even when it breaks the peace of lukewarm complacency.

We should be mourning — but are we? Are you beloved?

Jesus prophecies and warns us about the last days — those days are here. Search your heart today. If you find you are apathetic, or that your heart has grown hardened and cold — repent!

We must be found in faith, speaking to warn, because we love, and not sitting idly by while those around us perish in their sin. Jesus says, “he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”

2 Timothy 4:2-5
Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine…

… For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables…

… But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Matthew 24:12-13
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Draw near to the LORD with your heart and not just your Words. Ask Him to give you His heart for what you see around you. The world does not need more religion and rhetoric — it needs the people of God to repent and return to Him with their whole heart. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Father, may we grieve for what grieves You. May we see those around us as You do, and rather than becoming apathetic — may we mourn and cry out to You for mercy over the church and over this lost world in Jesus Name.

James 4:8-9,17
Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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