Micah J. Sturm

It’s happening at a rapid rate.

In the name of love, progress, and unity we’re diluting the truth to suit ourselves and society.

To dilute means “to corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.”

We dilute love when we delete the Source of love—“God is love” (1 John 4:8)

We pollute purity and vainly call it progress when we add to or subtract from the biblical standard of holiness.

We destroy unity when our definition of truth differs from “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” and popularity becomes the barometer of oneness.

Sin separates us from God.

Always has—always will.

Sin makes us less than who God created us to be.

Yet, it seems the Church is intoxicated with popularity.

We embrace what we should release.

We gloat when we should grieve.

We converse where we need to confess.

Inclusion in the family of God without transformation by the grace of God is a total delusion.

A delusion is “a belief that is not true; a false idea.”

The issue is not sin in the Church—we welcome those bound by sin—where else can sinners find freedom?

The delusion is that sinners are changed by a church in sin…or even worse, that there’s no transformation needed at all.

Delusion begins with distraction, leads to dilution, and ends in destruction.

It’s the way it always starts—

“Did God actually say…?”

“God didn’t mean what He said…”

We take the enemy’s bait and suffer because of it.

A humbling of ourselves in repentance and a hunger for a renewal of holiness is our only hope.

“I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me. For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.”

(2 Corinthians 11:1-4, 14-15 NASB1995).

If your pastor opens the Bible and refuses to dilute the truth, then know that a target is on your pastor’s back.

Devilish forces are at work determined to defeat us with damnation in disguise.

The fact is that the truth triumphs!

The precious blood of Jesus cannot be diluted! He still cleanses from all sin!

Jesus can take us from diluted and less than to distilled (purified) and more than conquerors!