Can Purity come from Impurity?

I came across a flask on the ground the other day.  It was a empty water bottle in the shape of a flask by a Lake Tahoe company called "Liquid Salvation."  The company slogan grabbed my attention:  "Pure Water for an Impure World."  On the bottle was a "she-devil" or succubus, a female demon.  When an order is placed for water online, you can choose between the "horns" or "halo" packaging to suit your taste.  The whole thing is in bad taste if you ask me, and is a further sign of the moral erosion and perversion of what is good.

The devil loves nothing more than cheapening the goodness and grace of God.  He will stop at nothing to pervert the straight way of the LORD, and the world loves it!  Halo or horns, it doesn't matter!  But I am confident that the horns are much more popular.  These are the days when wickedness is called good the prophet Isaiah spoke about. Isaiah 5:20 says, "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!"

The rainbow in the heavens was a sign of a promise God gave to Noah and all the inhabitants of earth, that He would never destroy the earth with a flood again.  The homosexual community has taken the curved rainbow and made it straight, perverting God's creation.  God instituted marriage to be monogamous between one man and one woman, yet countless websites are dedicated to enabling and teaching people to cheat on their wives and husbands without being caught.  Their catchphrases are "Have an affair - life is short."  and "Married but looking?"  On cnn.com there was an article today about if monogamy is realistic in our modern culture.  More and more people are convinced it is not a moral decision if you swing or have affairs, but a personal one that no one can say anything about.  Pornography is no longer seen as a vice or dirty but a healthy way to spice up lovemaking and is an acceptable rite of passage for today's youth.

Is salvation to be found in a liquid?  Is there any purity to be gained from this impure world?  Is forgiveness no longer necessary?  Is the brazen attack by Satan upon the family God instituted and designed certain to succeed?  2 Tim. 3:13 warns us, "But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."  God has given us His perfect law which does not alter.  The pure message of the Gospel did not originate from the earth, but from God in the heavens.  Deceived people have suggested that God does not exist, there is no absolute truth, and even if there was truth it is outdated and does not apply to us!  The culture of today is primarily humanism, hedonism, and heathenism.  Anyone who thinks that technology has made humanity more "advanced" is a fool.  Modern technology enables man to pursue the basest of sexual sin with more reckless abandon than ever before in his history.  His pride and arrogance in this pursuit will be his destruction.

Now is the time for Christians to make a stand for Christ.  I do not mean that we should write television producers, set up picket lines, stand in front of abortion clinics with tape over our mouths, sign petitions, or put our faith in politicians.  We must be personally right with God first, walking in righteousness.  Could you imagine a world where the Christians could never be rightly accused of hypocrisy?  Can you imagine a world where Christians never looked at pornography, did not cheat on their wives or husbands, had the lowest rate of divorce, were sexually above reproach, were never closet alcoholics or drug users, and were the hardest workers, the best soldiers, the most courageous, bold, loyal,  honest, and upright citizens?

We all have sinned and made mistakes.  1 Cor. 6: 9-11 says, "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, [10] nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. [11] And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God."  This is the true message of the Gospel today, same as it has been since the beginning.  All men have sinned and the wages of sin is death.  But now that we have repented and been converted by the blood of Jesus by grace through faith, let us walk uprightly.  It is not for us to point fingers and complain because the lost are lost, the spiritually blind are spiritually blind, fornicators fornicate, or drunkards drink.  Will you show them the way to Christ through your righteous conduct?  How shall they hear the Gospel unless they first see a person demonstrate the power of God through a sanctified life?

There is nothing pure in this world.  Even bottled water has been tainted by the appearance of evil and lies of the devil.  But our hope is found in Jesus Christ, and the promise of the Holy Spirit now without measure.  He will make us fountains of Living Water, and all who thirst Christ will satisfy with eternal life.  Allow me to conclude with 1 Thes. 4:3-7:  "For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; [4] that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, [5] not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; [6] that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. [7] For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness."