The Fall of Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Jerry Falwell, Jr. and his wife have fallen into the snare and trap of the devil. As has been reported, they were both involved in sexual impropriety and without getting into all the hearsay, have now been forced to resign their association with Liberty University. But, before both the Christian and non-Christian worlds start dog-piling on them, Dr. Paul points out that but for the grace of God, there we go too. Moreover, despite the glee coming from the secular world over another fallen leader in the Christian world, to be saying anything amounts to absolute hypocrisy on its part, since as the Apostle Paul points out, it is guilty of the very same sin that the Falwell have involved themselves in. The only different being that the Falwells have been forgiven by God and the degenerate world in abject rebellion against God has not. Therefore, we all need to lay down our stones, quit our gossiping, and pray for the Falwells restoration and healing, as James 5:16 points out. Otherwise, what will we do, should the devil come calling to sift us like wheat one day and we end up committing an egregious act of sin that we boastfully asserted previously could never happen to us?