The Rx Files

I am a pharmacist by trade.  That is my career, evangelism is my calling.

What is humbling and exciting is I see how the two go hand in hand.  The lessons I learned in pharmacy inspired what I see are great solutions for the weak evangelism and lukewarm churchmembers in this final period before Jesus returns.

The Bible says there will be a great falling away before his return and this world is going to get more and more insane.  The world wants to stay in denial, the world wants to live oblivious to eternity, and the world wants to be left alone as they all head in the same direction, like lemmings off a cliff of destruction.  The Bible is the history book of the universe and it is a book to love and a book to be obeyed.  You cannot obey the spirit of it's commands without the author himself, but that is the beauty of Christianity.  The Bible is alive, and if you move toward it's truths and let it judge you, and then just open your heart to it's eternal promises and fear it's eternal consequences of rejecting or neglecting it, then the author himself literally moves in to stay, gives you everlasting life for FREE, and wants to live through you to experience the GOD OF THE UNIVERSE in a REAL and tangible way.  Who wouldn't want it? Apparently most of the world, because billions are trading the true and living  God you give your life to for false, dead religions of man that you sell your soul for.

I am nothing special but my God can beat up your gods!!!  Whether it is the worshipped Popes (who are just the Roman Caesars of old who claimed to be God on earth, but wearing new uniforms), Allah (who is nothing but the moon god idol that Mohammad chose to represent his false religion), the book of Mormons (filled with contradictions, events, and claims easily proven false), the Watchtower of Jehovah Witnesses (which teach that the male, Jewish 144,000 virgins are instead the founders of the JW movement and the only ones going to heaven and the only ones who have the truth to give their members--- yet the 144,000 JW's generation have almost all died off and that means the movement will cease to exist because it's "official members" will no longer be there to teach and direct them!!!), the blind faith of humanism (which teach man is getting better and evolution is true, despite the fact that there is not one shred of evidence evolution is true unless they steal micro-evolution evidence which creationists already believe in! i,e, 2 big dogs came off the ark and "mico-evolved" to all the dogs you see today.  Yet that is not "evolution", ie, soup to dogs and the big bang, and every small dog is a loss of genetic information.  No mutation is ever a gain of information!  Carbon and radiometric dating are flawed and they select the dates that fit their theory!), and so on.

This world has no clue what the truth is.  Americans stopped thinking the day we got the remote control.  The bible says these are the last days, but as Leonard Ravenhill said, "We just don't know how long they will last."  At any moment World War III can break out and at any moment North Korea can send millions into eternity!  Is there not a cause?  The Bible asks, How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?

That is what brings us back to pharmacy lessons.

Here are some things to keep in mind about salvation.  Most Americans (and most of it's converts worldwide) are still lost but have a HEAD KNOWLEDGE and think they are saved.  Sadly, I heard Rick Warren's 27 year old son committed suicide this week.   Rick Warren is a mega church pastor but he is the blind leading the blind.  I think his son was a tormented soul and really is a good example of today's Christianity.  He thought he was saved but he was so depressed he figured he would just end it and go to heaven.   True Christians can get discouraged, but what I see here is he never met the true and living God because his father teaches a false gospel of works and accepts false Christs, and has a shallow easy believism sort of doctrine.  His son tried all kinds of secular treatments and meds and modern methods and none gave him any hope.  That is sad, but that is typical Christianity today.  It does not deliver as promised and when the challenges of life hit, it is not going to get the average Christian to weather the storm.  It is paper fire and the ease of American life has us comfortable around it's false heat.  If you have been inside your house heated to 72 degrees and you have a nice sweater on and a cup of hot cocoa and your latest TV show on, you can sit by your electric fireplace and look at the flames and feel the illusion of warmth.  Someone who has been in a blizzard and had their jackets blown right off of them and on the verge of frost bit, and facing hypothermia has a different response to a fake fireplace.  It doesn't matter how inviting the fire looks, it will not provide any restoring heat and the flame will not help anyone trying to get warm from the storm.

From a pharmacy perspective, here is a bit of what is going on.

Jesus is the cure.

The disease is sin.

The cure saves from hell and sin.

The consequences of neglecting the cure or rejecting the cure are hell and continued sin.

A wrong Jesus won't save just like the wrong medication dispensed won't save.

The wrong duration of treatment won't help.  A 5 hour IV that is stopped after 5 minutes won't do anything.  A 5 minute gospel presentation when during the great awakening heard hours and hours of preaching on the wrath of God and the holiness of God is one reason why men today aren't truly being cured.  They have the head knowledge but they never met the true and living God for themselves because they weren't exposed to the cure long enough for it to do anything.  It takes human nature to really fall under deep conviction to bring true repentance.  Head knowledge is appealing because people think they are now saved but their sins are not dealt with.

Knowing all about the cure but leaving it in the bottle is not going to help.  People all over believe in Jesus, the cure.  They know what he will do.  Yet they never opened the bottle and absorbed it in their lives.  If heart medication never enters the heart it won't do anything.  Most Americans still have Jesus in the bottle in their medicine cabinets.

If not convinced of the disease Jesus becomes an experimental flu shot people get just in case.  The preachers of old convinced of the disease using the law and wrath of God to expose the sinner's condition. 

Wrong route right drug doesn't help.  Someone who swallows instead of injecting their insulin won't benefit because the drug molecule is too large to be absorbed.  Likewise, the right Jesus but not taken the right way won't save.   Jesus saves and give the gift of eternal life to all who repent and believe the gospel.  The wrong "route" is just "Pray and Ask the Lord to Save you."

Right diagnosis but given the wrong drug won't save.   False Christs, like the Catholic Christ, the Mormon Christ, the book the Shack's Jesus, etc are like given the wrong medication.  It will not save no matter the dose.

Getting the right IV but getting one contaminated with poison will give the patient more than likely more harm than good.  Today's mega church new evangelical Rock and Roll churches are doing that.  They have the cure mixed in with a whole lot of poison.  And the poison comes sugar coated as well.

A false gospel and false Christ inoculates someone to the real gospel just like a flu shot.  A flu shot is a false version of the real thing.  When exposed to the real bug, the body is trained to automatically fight off the real thing because they were first exposed to the false.  That is a good way to describe what is going on in America.  Most Americans refuse salvation because "I already did that!"  What did they do?  Simply get exposed to the false Jesus the flu shot.

Folks, we have our work cut out.  The laborers are few but we need to get back to the true gospel and start getting the word out.  And work on the false doctrines that have most of America still lost in their sin and the church asleep in the pews.