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Isaiah 5:20-21
20 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!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight! ESV

It's really sad, but that's what I see going on in our world today. We live in a post modern society, and while there is nothing wrong with that per se, one of the hallmarks of post modernist thinking is that there are no longer any standards of truth. The truth is actually made up of what each individual brings and the truth can change depending on who is around.

That is an open door for the deceptive human heart, which the Bible calls "desperately wicked." One of the ways the human heart has responded to this lack of real standards of truth is to do a switcheroo. Suddenly now if you stand up for a ultimate truth apart from the opinions of the collective you are wrong. Suddenly those values taught as right are now wrong and if you believe them you are labeled as an outcast. And it will only get worse.

I think we are wandering down a path of destruction. No wonder Isaiah said "woe." We need to stick to the ultimate truth revealed to us from God's Word, the Bible. There is such a thing as right and wrong and it is spelled out clearly there. There is such a thing as heaven and hell and there is such a thing as salvation and damnation. And there is a real Savior who loved us so much as to provide that way of salvation free of charge to us all. His name is Jesus.

Let me finish by quoting a famous passage not from the Bible. "A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet." And sin by any other name still stinks.

Pastor Tom