To say that the entire
world has gone crazy is the understatement of a life time. We have
come to expect insanity from certain parts of the world, and even
certain parts of our own country. Liberals, atheists, socialists, and
even worse have propagated an amoral society for better than fifty
years now. It would appear that at least for a season they have won
the fight. While I loathe our current government administration, I do
agree with President Obama when He said that America is no longer a
Christian nation. As a majority we have lost sight of where we came
from. Christian business owners are sued for not wanting to endorse
homosexual marriage by providing their services. Bruce Jenner is
hailed as a hero and the epitome of what courage is. He is a “hero”
while men like Chris Kyle are held in disdain by the very government
they fought to serve. Planned Parenthood is allowed to traffic in
aborted body parts, while the folks who are brave enough to expose
their murderous debauchery are charged with criminal activity. Edward
Snowden is called treasonous for blowing the whistle on serious
government overreach and yet our own officials (past and present) are
allowed to get away with alleged acts of criminal behavior, and any
attempt to get to the truth is blocked by party politics. Our
government has for most of the Obama administration been embroiled in
controversies and scandals that make Watergate look like a Sunday
school picnic. Racism was on it's way to the death it deserves, until
this current administration began to divide us with it's over the top
responses to crisis situations. As we just witnessed in Oregon among
other incidents of the recent past, those who are supposed to protect
and serve us, have been militarized against us. Meanwhile we cannot
seam to protect ourselves from terrorism because our government
refuses to call it what it is. Any reference to Islam in a negative
light is met with accusations of racism. Let's be clear about some
things. We are in a holy war, and Islam is not a religion of peace.
The Koran teaches evangelism by force, and that infidels should be
killed. Those moderate Muslims (so called) are no better or different
than liberal Christians. They simply do not take their own scripture
seriously. As loathsome and detestable as terrorists are, we cannot
defeat them until we first respect the fact that they are only living
out what their belief system demands of them.
Christianity has been
under attack from the outside from it's inception, however the
greatest challenge of recent days is the attacks from within. When I
refer to the Christian community I must do so lightly. Without
judging a particular persons salvation experience, it is also fair to
say that a large amount of those professing Christianity do not take
the truth of Scripture seriously. When Larry King questioned Joel
Osteen about salvation He waffled saying that he believed that Jesus
was the way, but that He could not judge others hearts. He finally
said, “Jesus is my way.” When Proposed the same manner of
questioning from Oprah Winfrey He clearly said that Jesus was the way
to God, but that their were many paths to Jesus. Later He even had
Her in His church and home, knowing the entire time that she embraces
pantheism. T.D. Jakes has said that there are many paths to God, and
recently He has come out in support of gay marriage. So, what is
being propagated from many pulpits is that we can be anything we want
to be, and we can do anything we want to do and still go to heaven.
All this is cloaked in the idea of nonjudgmental love and
acceptance. It is staged so that those of us who accept the truth of
Scripture, can easily be tagged, as UN-loving bigots. We must
remember that Satan's oldest and best trick is to disguise evil for
something good. In the Garden He extolled the virtues of the fruit,
and covered it with half truth's. It would seem to me that to know of
impending doom and not warn a person of it would be the most
UN-loving thing we can do. The truth may be uncomfortable but it is
the most compassionate thing we can say.
What then are Bible
believing Christians to do? How are we to do what Christ has called
us to do?
There are few things to
remember on our journey through this life. The first is that
Government and it's authority has been established by God for our own
good. Jesus
answered [Pilate], “You would have no authority over me at all
unless it had been given you from above.” (John 19:11)
Paul Said, “There
is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been
instituted by God. (Romans 13:1b)
We should wherever We can find a clear conscience submit to the
authorities above us, however We are always to place our relationship
with Christ first. When being tried for preaching the Gospel Peter
declared, “ We ought to obey God rather than men....” (Acts 5:29)
Simply put when we see a law that is burdensome and unfair we should
make every reasonable attempt to submit unless it requires us to take
part in something that is in direct contradiction to Scripture. We
must continue to preach and teach the concepts of genuine faith,
confession, repentance, Heaven and Hell, whether society and the
government likes it or not. We cannot condone nor participate in
abortion, gay marriage, and the like, whether society and the
government like it or not. We are commanded to pray for those in
authority so that we may live peaceful lives. (I Tim. 2:2) This gives
us the idea that being Christian may not always be peaceful. In fact
Jesus told His disciples to sell there cloaks and buy swords. (Luke
22:36) The second thing to remember is the most exciting to me. All
this is necessary to usher in the coming of our Lord. Contrary to
popular opinion Jesus did not come the first time to bring peace. He
was not a uniter, but a divider. ( Matthew 10:34) His coming in the
rapture will divide lost humanity from His children. (Matt. 24:40) In
Luke 21 Jesus describes a grim picture of the world prior to His
coming. We must keep in mind that in II Cor. 2 Paul describes a great
apostasy must happen prior to the coming of the Lord. Take heart that
while the world goes crazy, we are just preparing to go home.
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