The Charlie Sheen Tragedy

The Sad Truth About Charlie Sheen

Many have not followed Charlie Sheen the actor but few have missed the network coverage of a talented man whose mind has gone ballistic. From his self-constructed delusional bubble, Sheen has managed to define himself in a genre without equal. In fact, he is a god. “The Winner,” has shed all inhibitions and rebuked all who have ever tried to enshroud him with the miss-fitting, chafing garments of repression. Thanks to the last seven grams of his favorite substance, he has liberated his superhuman reasoning and verbal skills. Or so he thinks. What presently represents ultimate freedom and power for Sheen appears to most of us to be the last strokes of his delusion and insanity.

  

Before the Sheen antics fade into distant memory as a result from what may be an inevitable nova, we may learn from Charlie and the spectrum of those who are participating in this event.

 

The Chilling Truth About the Media and Hollywood

 The news vultures have already assembled for Sheen’s Armageddon, and have even written his obituary. Charlie Sheen is the novel focus of this instant in news time, that’s all. The media’s cold treatment of a man who needs compassion and prayer comes as no surprise because the media’s role is first to exploit. Neither the media nor Hollywood are in the business of accepting moral responsibility for anything.

 

It also goes without debate that both the media and Hollywood have helped shape the man into the person he is. Nor is he alone in his industry; his Roman candle just happens to be more noticeable in the night sky of a world which loves to make gods and then dethrone them, tossing them off like candy wrappers on the crowded streets of “Celebrityville”. We will seek to make as much money on the Lohans, the Spears, and the rest on their way down as we did following their rise. It is our way with them all.

 

The Real Facts Behind the Issue

 But, there is a more poignant lesson which showcases a much deeper spiritual issue. The observant Christian should not bypass this striking parallel.

 

1. The Word of God associates substance abuse with sorcery and witchcraft. We may rightfully conclude that one “under the influence” of any substance is also more open to the influence of the demon world.
2. The doctrines of demons, antichrist, and Satan himself have never varied. When freebased down to their hallucinogenic essence, they all claim the same thing Charlie is claiming. We are all gods, we can all discover our godhood and our only hindrance to this free self-expression is the repression of those around us who are bound in their moral webs.

We do not accuse Oprah, Shirley McClain, or a myriad adherents to the god-within gospel of using narcotics, but they are, none-the-less, infected with the same contagion. Sheen’s self-aggrandizement is merely accentuated. These dear souls are heading for a similar nova and extreme disillusionment. They are headed for tragedy even as they lead millions of others down their yellow brick path.

 

“Ye shall be as gods.” The lie is as old as Eve and forms a common thread throughout our history. Charlie Sheen is no equal to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Tyre, or other lessors who followed this path. God told the prince of Tyre “Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee ‘I am a god’? (Ezekiel 28:2,9).

  

The Truth About Yourself

 Millions of folks are no less delusional than Charlie Sheen. You are not a messiah. You will never become a messiah. You are not the son of God. You are not a god. You are not becoming a god. You will be humiliated and defeated by death.

 

That is what salvation is about. That is why Jesus Christ came. He came to save you from the delusional fantasy that you are divine in any way. He came to bring you face to face with the stark reality of your sin and how it will destroy you utterly and eternally. Read John’s gospel, chapter three. He came to save you, and to give you new life in Christ. He came to make you a new creation in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. 5:17).

 

The spirit of antichrist has infected our culture. You are either among those who have embraced the truth or one who is being conditioned to believe the lie of antichrist. Your clarity may soon succumb to Satan’s delusion. This is your day to surrender to the authority of Jesus Christ, the one who shed His blood, died, and was raised again to give you the free gift of eternal life. Contact us. We’d love to tell you more!

 

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

 

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

 

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

 

 

 

2 Thess 2:7-12 KJV