“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them” Romans 1:18-19.
Mankind has always struggled with ethics and morality since we gained individualism in the Garden at the Fall of Adam. Its origin lies in the struggle between the unrighteousness of the flesh and the righteousness of the Holy Spirit. In this struggle the devil’s plan is to convince men that the spiritual world and God’s existence are not of any importance but rather just a crutch upon which men lean in order to justify their psychological guilt concerning things in this life. This is the great deception!
The deception is a spiritual weapon the adversary uses to turn men’s thinking in other directions when seeking truth. It is of great convenience for men to turn to science for the answer’s they seek while ignoring the truth of the Living God. Even in these actions, mankind has an internal system of ethics and morality that govern their thought process. The great debate lies in where these processes have originated and developed in the mind of men. Science proclaims an evolutionary development over millions of years has brought about the ethics and morality in us while justifying that the evolutionary process, in theory, believes mankind will continually evolve into higher intellectual beings.
This type of developmental belief gives the individual the avenue to pursue their own desires without regard to the establishment of God’s laws and His redemptive act in the life of Jesus Christ. In their world, the higher power is no longer an eternal God who sets the standards of ethics and morality but rather they have become the god of their own life. They are in complete individualism. Whether knowing it willingly or not, they have adopted as their creed the same attitude and desire as Satan; “I will ascend in heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mount of the assembly in the recesses of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High” [Isaiah 14:13-14].
Their thought process becomes enveloped in a system of situational ethics. There is no constant moral bar or ethical plum line that establishes God’s truth even though it is in them to know God. They sever their consciences to the Laws of God and put in its place their own justifications for their actions. “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations [science], and their foolish heart was darkened” [Romans 1:20-21].
Placing their false ideologies in several categories of individualism that defy the Laws of God we can see that they are without excuse to God’s eternal order of holiness. Consider the following:
Abortion— God’s Law: “There are six things which the Lord hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him…hands that shed innocent blood” Proverbs 6:16-17. In this case, God’s Law sets the standard of ethics and morality.
Individualism states: Their body takes precedent over the Law of God. This is rebellion which is derived from a witchcraft spirit. It is the epitome of evil! It is derived from a mind of depravity and deception.
Homosexuality—God’s Law: “…and they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator…for this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error” [Romans 1:23-27]. This lifestyle in God’s eyes is idolatry and stems from a witchcraft spirit of rebellion to God.
Individualism states: From the standpoint of scientific study, there is theory [not evidence] that a genetic footprint shows this lifestyle to be developed from birth. So deceived is society on homosexuality that it has placed political activism above God’s law to give this deviant lifestyle civil rights. The movement has grown to extend to transgenderism, lesbianism, and various deviations of this life. It is protected by ungodly laws and deceived leaders who have ignored God’s truth and placed unrighteousness at the forefront of all other things concerning God’s word. This deception will continue to move into other deviant lifestyles that are already knocking at the door of America’s psyche such as, pedophilia, bestiality, and the like.
We have already experienced movements of picking our own gender, sex change operations, and gay marriages that are now civil law in direct defiance to God’s moral and ethical commandments. The deception is on such a grand scale that the devil has succeeded in getting these ungodly beliefs to enter the mainstream of church thought. We have become like the Laodicean Church in Revelation, lukewarm and without conviction.
The Lord is going to clean the house!
There was a Messianic purpose in Jesus overturning the money-changer tables in the Temple [Matt. 21:12-13]. His statement that “It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer”; but you are making it a robbers den” v13. The temple location has been moved into our bodies at the day of Pentecost, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you [Pentecost], whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” [1 Cor. 6:19].
Christians who walk in individualism are denying the work of the cross and the power of the Holy Spirit that dwells in them. The Lord will cleanse His temple [you are not your own] and His holiness in the lives of the Church will abound. It is our responsibility as men and women of God to walk in a manner worthy of this act; “Be ye holy, as I am holy! [Leviticus 19:2].
We must put our best Spirit filled lives forward in demonstrating to the woke culture of individualism that Jesus is the answer to societies woes. The change that must take place is not a woke culture in our society but a change in the heart of mankind that only comes through the Lord Jesus Christ.
The ethics and morality of God will always trump individualism no matter how hard the devil uses evil men to push against it. In response, the church cannot be lulled into a sleepy stupor and become complacent in our testimony of the power of Jesus Christ to change people’s lives. Eternity is at stake in the lives of the lost and it is still God’s commandment that we, the church, preach the gospel to a lost and dying world [Matt. 28:19-20].
Always in Him,
Dr. Steve Rocco
Apostle/Prophet
Dr. Steve Rocco Ministries 