It seems that the latest craze to sweep our nations is the “Cancel Culture.” This is a mindset that demands that whoever says or does something that someone else does not agree with or it “offends” them then that person must be silenced and even destroyed. So we have seen people humiliated and even had their jobs and lives destroyed for something that they did 15 or 20 years ago — some cases even longer.
Now it is important that when someone does something wrong, especially when they break the law, they need to be held accountable before a court. But in this “Cancel Culture” their motives seems to be driven by some kind of self-righteousness and even hatred. It becomes a mob-mentality that attacks people and new even cartoon characters.
But this is not really something new. It has been around since Cain and Able. In fact, it was this mob mentality that put Jesus on the cross — but Jesus wasn’t a victim. It was planned by God from the beginning. Peter preached this in his first sermon, “Jesus (was) delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23).
So God knew about the cancel culture and what they would do to Jesus. But who was really behind that cancel culture?
The cancel culture of our day doesn’t forget your sins. In fact, they make it a point to reveal the actions of others that they dislike. In other words, it doesn’t matter how long ago, or how obscure your past sins may have been, if they don’t like you, they’ll find that “wrong” or sin and do everything in their power to embarrass you with it and destroy you if possible. For people like that, there’s no forgiveness, there’s no mercy.
They are following the example of Satan. Satan is our accuser; he wants to remember our sins and bring them up to show how we have failed. His objective is to cancel you and destroy any hope and dream that you may have for forgiveness and mercy.
In stark contrast, God wants to forgive and forget. Jesus died on the cross as our perfect lamb so that our sins could be forgiven. Peter remind us that it was Christ’s blood that paid for our sins (1 Peter 1:18-19 and 2:24; Rom. 6:23; 1 Cor. 6:20; Eph. 1:7). God knows your name and once you’ve been forgiven by His ...
