J.A. Matteson
Many young Americans who came of age in the 1960's have been been labeled by sociologists as the counter-cultural generation. And yet debauchery and lawlessness resulting from sin yields bitter fruit. There is a counter-cultural lifestyle that is pleasing to God but despised by the world; viz, obedience to Jesus Christ. "Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" (2 Tim. 3:12). Rejected by the world is the Way of salvation which is narrow and exclusive. Rejected by the world is the biblical premise that all men are inherently evil and not good. Rejected by the world is absolute truth and righteousness found in none other than Jesus Christ. Rejected by the world is God's condemnation of sin and the vices that hold prisoner men of depraved mind. Rejected by the world is God's ambassador of good news, for the light of the Gospel reveals sin which the stiff necked resent, persecuting the messenger of salvation. May the saints of God in this generation be unwavering, salt and light as counter-cultural revolutionaries, useful tools in the hands of the King of glory, Christ Jesus.
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