To hell with the world
Who cares about the world? The world knows enough to know which way is up. If God has set up their environment in such a way that if they find the truth they're immediately threatened with having their head cut off, or if Christian missionaries can't go into their domain without being threatened with being set on fire then to hell with them. Jesus didn't say: "Preach the word to those who will cut your heads off and light you on fire and things like that!" He said, shake the dust off your feet.
The world has been made known of the Gospel. The world has been convicted a thousand times over.
We're pilgrims in this world. We have to go amidst the world [though, now,] like walking through a neighborhood filled with unchained, unfenced pit-bulls [because the devil has been unbound, i.e. we are now at the end]. "Nice dog." I say, to hell with the pit-bull neighborhoods [not out of delinquency to evangelize them, they have been evangelized]. If God allows people to live in such places, then to hell with them. They hate God. If any among them don't they'll either get out or be martyred, so be it. God doesn't call for His elect to be martyred for devil-worshipers.
Note: words added in brackets to clarify the original hastily written paragraph.
Update: Some reactions to this post can be found here:
http://www.puritanboard.com/showthread.php?t=16734
Notice how they have to misread it to kneejerk their desired take on it. I said, the work of evangelization has been done in the world (and oh, yes it has, don't give me your little maps of 'unreached areas'...those so-called 'unreached areas' have little kids wearing Nike shirts and who mock Christian Americans with a sophistication that impresses the devil himself). Jesus said: shake the dust off your feet.
This is the end. The world has been evangelized. Tell the world now to go to hell. If anything, the reverse psychology of it will do the trick better than the current politically-correct, multicultural worship and style - begging for the Gospel - that is going on.
And notice I'm referring specifically to 'the world' in the post. The world has been convicted by the Gospel a thousand times over. Time to shake the dust off your feet. If God allows someone to be born into such an area that has refused the truth to such an extent as the world has done so then He does it for a reason.
And, no, God doesn't say martyr yourself for devil-worshipers. He says take care not to even touch their garment so as not to be spotted by them.
Evangelizing is EASY. Why? Because God does it. You give fallen man the message and God does the rest. In your vanity, establishment christianity, you think YOU do the work. (At this point you're too lukewarm and fearful to even preach the message boldly in fear of 'insulting' or 'showing disrespect' to the 'people of the earth', in all their "nobility" and the "dignity and nobility" of their wonderful cultures). Well, the world has received the message. A thousand times over. To hell with the world.
Update II: Amid responses like this ("This person is just clearly afraid of going into Yemen and Somalia and proclaim the Gospel! Anybody download the new Firfox 2, by the way? My video card is blinky now, any suggestions?") - amid that (and I think some of them actually still agree with what I wrote, if with their necessary caveats) - this guy sees some of what I was hastily trying to say:
We are indeed to take the gospel to every creature and while we must be earnest in our proclomation, I think that there is a time in which we do wipe the dust from our sandals and keep our pearls in our hand, rather than casting them before the swine.
God does all things for all His glory, including damning those who die in unbelief. I think there is a manner in which the saints of God can rejoice in the fact that God is glorified in damning His enemies and consequently the enemies of His church. Even those saints that were led like lambs to the slaughter are spoken of in the book of Revelation as saying; " How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"
I think then then the godly man can indeed be filled with a strong indignation and a holy wrath against those that trample and defile the holy things of God without being moved to hate those that are in need of the saving grace of God. Such righteous indignation never loses sight of the fact that we ourselves our debtors to the grace of God and but for God's gracious dealings with us we would be as one of them.
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