Filth, corruption, immorality, unrestrained fleshly lust: these become more and more "normal" for the cesspool of modern society in which we live. Marriage making and breaking at whim: living together in adultery without marriage. The statistics of fornication among teenagers, and even sub-teenagers, are appalling. It was for these filthy things the Canaanites and Sodomites were wiped out, and God has not lessened His fiery and holy indignation against all such animal depravities. It is a time of great peril for the ecclesias. Without constant vigilance, we are certain to be affected in our thinking by the vast weight of the corrupt world pressing in upon us. True, we see these things as "wrong," but the constant familiarity dulls the sense of outrage and disgust and alarm. Our children are brought into continuous contact with this vile atmosphere in the schools. There are "decent" people left in the world around us, but their numbers and influence and authority are shrinking rapidly before the rising tide of filth. And the teaching class, as a whole, like the media, are in the vanguard of the downward march to bestiality, under the plea of "emancipation" and "enlightenment." What can we do? The very least we can do is to speak out very plainly; to not countenance these vile abominations for a moment; to make our disgust and disapproval very clear; and -- regardless of closeness of relationship -- to faithfully try to protect our ecclesias and our children from any contact with those who deliberately choose to trample God's holy law in the mire of the world's pig-pen. Let us be motivated totally by the Spirit and in no measure by the flesh. Let us stand up for purity and holiness!

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