Buy Me

There is a virus out there that will infect your computer and then try to get you to purchase your way out of it. You won’t be able to do anything else without purchasing from them. They do this by faking that you have a virus on your computer and they are there to save you from them, but in reality they are the virus. They figure fear will drive you to give them your financial information. Once you do that they will start charging your card on a regular basis. I have labeled this the “buy me” virus.

This is the same thing that many fakes within Christianity will have you believe. Take the recent ‘end of the world’ campaign that just happened a couple of weeks ago. They call themselves a Christian organization, but when you truly look at what they believe they are far from it. They are more like a virus, because they act like they are when in fact they are not.

They try to get you to buy what they are selling, and this particular movement they had some invest their life savings to publicize that the end of the world is near, and these people were from all walks of life (the very successful to the average joe). A virus has no prejudice of who it will attack, just as false religious movements will have no prejudice. They will latch on and suck you dry and make you physically and spiritually sick.

The goal is to not fall for it. Just as I can take my computer to a technician to get rid of a virus, I can go to the Bible and see if what they are teaching is correct. 2 Timothy 3:16-17, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” Learning to take precautions and to be skeptical will protect us from falling for false ideas.

Faith is not blind, but built upon the evidence of things unseen. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Test everything and make sure what you are hearing, reading and following is true. 1 Thesselonians 5:21, “Test all things; hold fast what is good.” Don’t get caught by a virus in your faith walk, strive to be prepared through study of Scripture and learning how to discern the truth from error before it makes you sick.

2 Timothy 4:3-4, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”