Flip-Flopping Christians 2 - Part 2

He is guiltless. Now, you see, few voices, if any, were raised at all when Pilate passed his judicial his sentence, which amounted to a judicial murder. Go and crucify him, for I see no fault in him.

There was nobody to say, hey, how can you say that, standing in the place of justice? How can you say that? There was not one voice raised. All right, my dear friends, I wonder if we were in that crowd, if our voice would have been the lone voice raised in the defense of our Savior. You know, it's all the popular crowd.

As long as we are with the popular crowd, we feel we are making it pretty well. I want to tell you good people, you know. Now, if you turn to Psalm 78, we see here a narration of the works of God, and an analysis given about what really went wrong.

Psalm 78, that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but kept his commandments, and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God. You see, look at that. They set not their heart aright.

So, when he did the marvelous works, 11th verse, they forgot his works and his wonders that he had showed them. So, 22nd verse, and they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation, though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, and had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. You see, still they were flip floppers.

That was it. They put not their hearts right. 37th verse, for their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

You see, it's a covenant. When you turn to the Lord Jesus, it's a covenant that you made with him, that you will not turn to your idols. Now, look, my grandfathers worshipped idols, and I do not know how dear some of those idols were to them.

Suppose, my friends, I chose to go back to those idols, what would you say of me? What an undependable person this is. What a flip flopper. So, he followed the Lord Jesus Christ only for a bunch of advantages, some blessings, some money, maybe, or some health issues, whatever.

That's all the fellow served him for, is an undependable flip flopper. Suppose, your marriage covenant also stood in that flip flopping state. How secure would your wife be? How happy would your children be? My, they would say, hey, dad is a big flip flopper.

You can't depend on him. He's a flip flopper. Everything is going fine.

He's okay. He's a fair weather man. Rough weather, he can't handle.

What's the good of such a father, really? I'm sure children of such fathers will have very weak nerves. In other words, you are the person who weakens the nerves of your own children to find a father flip flopping in his covenant with God. What a dreadful thing that is.

When all the crowd or the majority is shouting a bunch of nonsense, democracy says, that's it. That's how it should be. So, you know, when I was reading the life of missionaries to Morocco, they knew, and way back, they knew that people around there were taught, if you kill an unbeliever, you will certainly go to heaven.

Now, it took us so many centuries to rediscover this thing and say, hey, if that is how you're being taught, this land is going to be full of suicide bombers in a very short time. Because you're teaching people that to kill everybody who does not think like them is a sure guarantee to go to heaven. Whoever taught you that, wherever does it say that? You say the majority thinks that's right, so it is right.

Is there any morality in it? Is there any truth in it? Who said it in the first place? Is that person or that writing dependable? No, we don't think at all in those terms. The crowd says it, so I'll say it. The crowd says crucify him, so I'll say it.

Today I say Hosanna, tomorrow I'm going to say crucify him. Hey, my dear friends, if that is all the Christianity that we can produce in our churches, better lock them up.