Mockery of the Christian faith has been a part of our heritage for 2,000 years. It’s been happening since Jesus suffered on a cross between two mocking criminals. It’s been happening since He hung twisted and dying on two beams of wood before a hate-spewing crowd.
The Paris 2024 Olympics and its mock-filled, hate-fueled drag show depiction of the Last Supper should break our hearts.
But it should not surprise us.
The apostle John reminds us:
Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
I can’t imagine the uproar that would be unleashed if such vitriol was directed toward the Islamic faith. But when it’s directed toward Christians, it seems almost routine to a giggling world.
WHY PRAYER SHOULD BE OUR RESPONSE
How should Christians react? Outrage? Anger? Hatred?
Instead of inspiring reciprocal hatred, it should motivate us to pray for these drag queens who need the salvation offered by the one they so openly defy.
It should call us to intercede on behalf of the Olympic officials who allowed such hatred spewed in the direction of the historic Christian faith.
Why pray for them? Because there’s another ship floating down another river. That river is called eternal judgment, and that boat is named the brevity of life.
One day every mocking drag queen, every dismissive Olympic official, every cheering spectator, every sinner of all stripes who has rejected the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, will eternally dock their boats at their final destination, the Lake of Fire.
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from His presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
There will be no mocking on that terrible day, only relentless screams and tears.
JUDGMENT IS COMING
May our hearts break now for what will happen to them unless they turn to Christ alone for the salvation of their souls.
In the meantime, we must not only gladly receive the mockery of the Christian faith from the world; we must also pray for those who persecute us and ask God to save them from the horrific place they are headed.
The river is flowing.
Judgment is coming.
Let’s reach them all with the hope of Jesus before it’s too late.
