For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; Philippians 3:20
There is a widespread misunderstanding in the body of Christ today related to our responsibility to live in this world while maintaining an attitude of not being of this world. This misunderstanding is based on seeing these seemingly opposing truths from an either/or perspective. In other words, some people seem confused as to what role Christians should actively play in the affairs of this world since heaven is our true home.
In the Scripture cited above, Paul rightly reminded the believers living in Philippi that their citizenship was in heaven. Some have taken that to mean that they should not be concerned about anything in this world beyond their own comforts and well-being.
What Paul meant by his exhortation to the Philippians was that their ultimate loyalty was to God and His kingdom, not to the earthly realm of dictators and despots. Paul was speaking about priorities. What Paul did not mean was that Christians bear no responsibility to influence and direct the affairs of citizens of this world.
The same is true for us today. As a matter of testimony and doctrine, eternity is our ultimate destination. However, having the assurance of heaven as our true and final eternal home does not release us from the obligation to speak the truth of who God is and what He requires from His creation, to every man and woman in every context, day, and age.
Nobody
has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I
have ever read.[1]
Many Americans have been propagandized to the extent that
they now form an entire subclass – the perpetually offended. What are the
signs? One of the most glaring signs of this new genre of the walking infantile
is the belief, often expressed by aggressive and even violent behavior, that
anyone or thing that offends them ought not to be allowed to exist.
People that think this way apparently believe that the universe
operates according to their ideology. They have no real justification for
believing this way. They can’t point to any standard of moral reasoning,
logical analysis, or time-tested system of thought that supports their
viewpoint. They further demonstrate their ignorance by believing everyone would
be better off believing like they do. Remarkable, they think they are the
modern equivalent of the knights of old, riding in to rescue the damsels in
distress, in this case culture, civility, and the American way. The truth that
these individuals cannot grasp is something much different.
Here is a case in point: Two University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill students were recently arrested and charged with assault. What
led to their arrests? They were arrested after they physically and violently
attacked a pro-life activist who was on the campus with Created Equal, a group
that uses dialogue to attempt to persuade people that abortion is the murder of
unborn human beings. One of the strategies that Created Equal uses is the
prominent display of actual pictures of the dismembered bodies of babies, the
result of “choice” as abortion is euphemistically called by those attempting to
disguise the barbaric truth of what abortion is and does to the preborn human.
Pictures of babies who have suffered the cruelest fate
imaginable are a powerful reminder of the truth of what abortion really is.
Pictures leave no room for debate about abortion being “women’s reproductive
healthcare” as the brainwashed like to call it. Abortion ends the life of the
baby and therefore trying to obfuscate this truth by calling it “reproductive
healthcare” is idiocy.
The university students mentioned above were shocked when
law enforcement officers arrested them. They could not believe that their noble
cause of violently opposing and assaulting pro-life individuals resulted in
arrest. One of the students said, “I cannot believe this is happening,”
referring to her arrest.
Another example of the same mindset demonstrated by the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill child murder supporters is the now
infamous behavior of Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims. Sims, the
self-proclaimed champion of a woman’s right to murder her unborn child, thought
he was valiant and courageous for demeaning, belittling, and verbally
intimidating an elderly woman outside a baby murder facility.
What was the crime that set Sims over the edge? This
grandmother was walking in front of the murder mill while praying silently. For
this gross offense Sims took it upon himself to video the woman, demanding her
name and address, offering a money reward to anyone who would identify her and
where she lived so that he and others that think like he does could go harass
her at her home.
In the least Sims demonstrated that he has no business
making decisions that affect citizens of the state of Pennsylvania in his
capacity as a State Representative. More troubling than that however, is the fact
that Sims thought it perfectly normal to call for a mass turnout of like-minded
baby murderers to intimidate an individual for having the temerity to be at a
place where women murder their children and pray that they would change their
minds.
Then there is the recent case of the morally bankrupt young
women celebrating the act of murdering babies by dancing through a graveyard of
crosses representing aborted babies. This publicity stunt was noteworthy for
the callousness with which these young women were exulting child murder. Here
is one report of this incident:
Planned Parenthood supporters at the University
of Texas at San Antonio protested at a Students for Life symbolic cemetery for
the unborn.
The incident occurred on April 9 as Students
for Life commemorated aborted babies through a cemetery display, the
pro-life nonprofit group revealed in a press release Wednesday.
Students for Life set up pink crosses and talked to students
about pro-life options as part of a spring Planned Parenthood Truth Tour
throughout college campuses.
Young women from the university’s Students
United for Planned Parenthood group interrupted the memorial activity. The
protesters strode through the assembled crosses, shouted and waved signs,
according to video footage.
“Look, there’s mine right there,” one Planned
Parenthood supporter shouted in the video, pointing at a cross and pretending
an aborted baby lay beneath it. A student shouted across the cemetery
that she loves having sex and aborting babies. “My number one kink,”
she can be heard saying in the video, as noted by Students For Life.
“I love advocating for abortion! My uterus
loves advocating for abortion,” another girl shouted, waving her sign. “When I
say Planned, you say Parenthood. When I say aborted, you say fetuses!”
“It’s a fetus graveyard!” another protester
said.[2]
What has happened to a great number of men and women in
America is that their conscience has become seared. Their mind is in a state of
depreciating ability to grasp morality personally and interpersonally. They
have become incapable of moral reasoning and logical analysis that lead to
guilt or shame related to their thinking and behavior. They are being turned
over to the darkness they crave and prostitute themselves to and on behalf of.
Depending on the severity of the behavior, psychologists
call this psychopathic or sociopathic behavior. The difference between the two
is that a psychopath has no conscience remaining. The psychopath’s conscience
is completely seared and devoid of any emotion of shame or guilt associated
with their behavior. Ironically, Hollywood glamorizes this behavior, giving
tacit approval to the violent and murderous results of psychopathic people.
The sociopath has a small amount of conscience remaining.
This person might still feel a twinge of guilt but not enough to stop their
evil behavior. Both the psychopath and sociopath are dangerous to others with
which they interact and especially those with whom they disagree. Courtrooms across this nation are filled with
cases involving the egregious behavior of people with little to no functioning
conscience.
All of the examples above demonstrate varying states of the
inability to reason morally. America is well down the path of being wrested
from its moral foundations by psychopaths and sociopaths whose faculties have
been impaired by evil. What can be done to correct this development? We must first
understand what we are dealing with.
J.I. Packer* said concerning conscience that:
An educated, sensitive
conscience is God’s monitor. It alerts
us to the moral quality of what we do or plan to do, forbids lawlessness and
irresponsibility, and makes us feel guilt, shame, and fear of the future retribution
that it tells us we deserve, when we have allowed ourselves to deny its
restraints…Satan’s strategy is to corrupt, desensitize, and if possible kill
our consciences. The relativism,
materialism, narcissism, secularism, and hedonism of today’s Western world help
him mightily toward his goal. His task
is made yet simpler by the way in which the world’s moral weaknesses have been
taken into the contemporary church.[3]
Packer identified the real crux of the issue. Conscience is
a God-given warning system that has been deliberately turned off today in a
large number of Americans. An alarm cannot warn of danger if it is not
connected to a power source.
Slowly and over time the innate ability of Americans to
determine right from wrong has been strategically and with malice corrupted.
The constant drive to remove and even erase Christianity from the public mind
and memory has borne the rottenest of fruit culturally speaking.
How can a culture sustain moral uprightness from generation
to generation when even the Church, that instrument of God meant to inform and
when necessary, correct culture, begins to emulate the culture? When a society
becomes seared in conscience, when a critical mass of people begin to think and
advocate for evil under the guise of good, and exchange light for darkness,
their minds become seared as with a branding iron and the resultant scar tissue
renders them incapable of returning to correct thinking and behavior absent a
radical surgery.
The Church is meant to be God’s scalpel, guided by His hand
to make perfect incisions to remove the cancer of evil, the scar tissue of a
seared conscience, and in so doing, restore right thinking and behavior to all
individuals. When the Church refuses to do that mass deception is allowed to congeal
and that environment creates hostility toward the truth of man’s precarious
condition and toward the only solution to his dilemma.
The answer to this predicament is not for the Church to go
with the flow, to seek the path of least resistance, to affirm inclusiveness as
that term is meant today and throw open the doors to culture. The only answer
that will turn America around is a full-on biblical revival that must start in
the pulpits of America and sweep through the local bodies of Christ spread out
over this nation. That kind of revival cannot be contained and it will spill
over into local school boards, city councils, college campuses, businesses,
state representatives, and finally our national leadership. When God’s people
once again bow their knee to Him alone, then revival will come, minds will be
freed from the bondage of the demonic slavery imposed upon them from God-hating
miscreants who have secretly snuck into our churches, communities, and
governments at every level.
True biblical revival will transform hearts, heal minds,
and lead to tangible action by those delivered from their bondage. True
biblical revival will come on the heels of true repentance, a faith that
demonstrates a changed heart, mind, and life trajectory.
The Scriptures[4]
tell us that: There was the true Light which, coming into the
world, enlightens every man. John 1:9
This means that only through
faith in Christ will people become free from a seared conscience and the
inevitable consequence of that state. Christian, rise up and take your place in
the army of God, and march forward in victory, for our God has given us this
land. Occupy until He returns!
“The beginning of true liberty is Jesus Christ. And therefore, the first
and last target of all subversion is biblical faith. Hence it is that the
Church has been the first target of infiltration and subversion; and is the most
subverted institution in the United States today.”
— Dr.
R. J. Rushdoony
The United
States of America is on the verge of political, social and moral collapse.
While many Christian leaders are diligently praying for America’s Third Great
Awakening, wickedness and immorality seems to continue to spread unabated
across America with no apparent end in sight. How did this happen and who is ultimately
responsible for preventing its demise?
The reversal of
everything that our Founding Fathers stood for politically, socially and culturally
began in earnest in the mid 1900’s, when America was invaded and infiltrated by
a civilian army whose allegiance and loyalty were elsewhere. Their goal was to
destroy the Judeo-Christian Constitutional Republic that our Founding Fathers
created and replace it with a socialist/humanistic state to be ruled by a
handful of judges. Therefore, if we are to defeat this enemy, we must
understand their strategy in order for it to be countered.
Joseph Stalin
shows us the tactic that they would use in order to undermine our nation: “America is like a healthy body and its
resistance is three-fold. Its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.
If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
The first attack occurred on our “spiritual
life” when the Supreme Court invented the fictitious legal doctrine of “separation of church and state” which
removed the LORD from His place as the highest authority in our nation. (See
Romans 13). The second wave began when the Left unconstitutionally began to use
the federal courts to attack our morality. After God’s law was removed as the
foundation for American moral law, the sex / drug revolution immediately
followed. America then began cascading into moral free fall. Abortion,
legalized sodomy and gay marriage were all forced upon the nation by the
Supreme Court.
The last wave
was (and is) an attack upon our patriotism. This is the strategy behind the
Colin Kaepernick protests. I fear if this last thread of resistance is severed,
America will fall on the ash heap of history. Herbert Aptheker, Editor
Communist Magazine Political Affairs, identified whose neglect was allowing
this to happen: “Neglect of parents [and
pastors] to teach our youth Christianity and Americanism has made the communist
talk of deceiving American youth much easier.” Therefore, the course
objective of Americanism: A Course in
Citizenship and Ethics is to restore America’s 3-fold cords of patriotism,
morality, and the spiritual life that has historically made America strong and
great, thus restoring our American Republic.
If we are to
pull America back from the brink of judgment and destruction, this movement
must begin and be led by the churches and pulpits of America. – Charles Finney,
The Father of Modern Revivalism had the following to say in his article The Decay of Conscience (1873)
“Brethren,
our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails in the
land, the fault is ours in a great degree. If there is a decay of conscience,
the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral
discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate
and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest
in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of
legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so
corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the
pulpit is responsible for it. Let us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren;
but let us lay it to heart and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in
respect to the morals of this nation.”
I have interviewed hundreds of pastors over the last 25 years in an attempt to get them to engage the culture and the society outside the four walls of theirs church. My efforts were met with nothing but frustration, as many seemed more interested in building their own little kingdoms rather than advancing the Kingdom of God upon the Earth. I asked the LORD “What would you have me do? The LORD responded: “Write down the 12 lies that you have heard come from the mouth of a Christian leader and then refute that lying spirit.” [See 2 Chronicles 18:21 & 1 Kings 22:22]. From this conversation, the curriculum: Americanism: A Course in Citizenship and Ethics – The Social, Moral, Religious and Political Duty of the Church was born. For the next 12 weeks, join us as we address that 12 Lies that the Christian church has embraced as truth.
Dr. John Diamond
Dr. John Diamond is a nationally recognized teacher,
motivational and inspirational speaker, author, theologian, and Christian
apologist. He is the Founder and Director of Peacemakers Outreach, a non-profit, faith-based organization that is dedicated
to pursuing reconciliation through video, social media, and biblical education. He is passionate, high energy and dynamic speaker
whose subjects makes him relatable to both young and old, from the new believer
to the most seasoned pastor. His teaching style makes him able to communicate
the most complex issues in a way that is accessible to even laymen in the
faith. John’s sermons, teachings, and speeches have made him known as an
articulate defender of truth and biblical morality.
He is a seasoned
author who has written several books including An Appeal to Heaven: A
Cry for Divine Justice and the 3-part discipleship series titled Unifying
the Body of Christ. He is now being recognized as one of the nation’s
experts in the areas of Christian Unity, Discipleship, Outreach, and Biblical
Citizenship. This has made him an increasingly sought-out church and conference
speaker as well as radio show guest. He travels widely across the nation
working with a variety of evangelical churches and Christian organizations. His
newly created educational materials and curriculum include several small group
DVD studies such as Faith Training and The Mystery of
Christ that educate, emphasize and expand upon the four-basic doctrine
of the CM&A doctrines of Jesus Christ as Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and
our Coming King.
His 14-part DVD series titled Americanism: A Course
in Biblical Citizenship and Ethics has made him known as one of the
leading experts in the relationship between the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms
of men. His book An Appeal to Heaven is being widely
recognized as the only biblical solution for the restoration of legitimate
biblical government by emphasizing the 3-fold role of Christ as King,
Lawmaker and Judge. (Isaiah 33:22).
Dr. Diamond is
presently the Executive Director of Peacemakers Outreach. He holds a Masters in Theology and a Doctorate in Christian
Education. In January 2013, he created the first American Citizenship School
which led to the forming of the American Christian Leadership Alliance (ACLA).
He has served as the Director of Discipleship at Bible Community Church in
Columbus, Ohio. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force.
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In one of the apostle Paul’s last letters — the one he wrote to Timothy — he gave some vitally important words of caution and warning. 2nd Timothy 4, starting at verse 2: “Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts, shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned to fables.”
Then, he added, “But watch thou, in all things, endure
afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.”
I have been working in full time ministry for nearly 20 years now. I remember when I began, I was astonished at the many churches that were no longer enduring sound doctrine. The “seeker friendly” movement, which morphed into the “Emergent Church” movement was on a “fast track.” Mega churches were springing up with massive buildings. So large, in fact, they call them “campuses.” And many of these mega-churches have MULTIPLE campuses in various areas of their cities, because one building will not hold all those who want the feel-good, false “love gospel” message that is preached there.
I was saddened in
those early days of this work, to see so many formerly rock solid, Bible-based,
Scripturally sound churches DEvolve into nothing more than “happy fun
time.” A “feel-good experience,” where
one could go and see a show, lift their hands in mock reverence to God, dance
and sway, while being promised all manner of prosperity, health, wealth, and a
life of abundance. “Your BEST life
NOW.” This is just SO contradictory to
everything God’s Word says about the Christian life. Sin is no longer a word allowed to be spoken
of in many churches, and if it IS spoken of, it’s only to say that once we
simply say a prayer or walk an aisle (or worse yet, just raise our hand “with
all eyes closed and all heads bowed”); we are “good” with God.
We can then go
about our normal lives as usual. Except
now, we are told, we are assured of heaven… just because we repeated a few
words and sheepishly raised our hand while no one was looking. COME ON folks! Talk about biblical illiteracy. Talk about wolves in sheep’s clothing….
HIRELINGS lulling fat and happy fools into a false sense of eternal
security. This is so sad.
But you know, we
cannot put all the blame on the pastors.
They’re just giving the people what they want. Look again at the Scripture from 2nd
Timothy: it says THE PEOPLE will not
put up with sound doctrine any longer, and so THE PEOPLE heap up for themselves
teachers to tell them what they want to hear, to soothe their itching ears.
It is the great
apostasy, the great “falling away.” And
I have watched it begin as a tiny sprout many years ago, and I’ve watched it
grow, blossom, flower and then re-seed itself many times over the years… Today it is so prevalent in Christendom that
one is hard-pressed to find a faithful congregation of true believers
anywhere. I guess that’s why God’s Word
says there will only be a small “remnant” that stand firm to the end.
During my time in
ministry, I have seen the old timers, the pastors who were faithful in teaching
the WHOLE counsel of God’s Word grow older and retire from the ministry… or
in many cases, be FORCED OUT of their ministry by church boards and elders —
only to be replaced by somebody younger, more “hip,” more “in step” with the
culture and times we are living in. In
other words, a more CARNAL “pastor.”
These “cool” new pastors often use Hollywood films on their big
projection TV screens to illustrate their sermons… they make off-color jokes
from the pulpits. They wear t shirts and
ripped blue jeans as they speak, to appeal to the average “Joe six-pack” in the
audience. They have a “hot” worship
team, complete with electric guitars, drums, smoke and mirrors and in some
cases even laser light shows. “It’s all about the EXPERIENCE,” they
say.
Friends, I’m not
some old fashioned stick in the mud.
I’ve been around. And I can tell
you, this ain’t “church.” At least not a
biblical church. It MAY be a “synagogue
of Satan.” But it’s not church, and it
most certainly is not God-honoring.
There is NO reverence for Him; no fear of God there at all. I have seen youth leaders take their group
of kids to R-rated movies as their Youth Group “activity” for the week; I have seen pastors hold community events
called a “car smash,” which apparently the kids love… they get an old car,
put it in the middle of their parking lot, and let the kids destroy it with
baseball bats, spray paint, and tire irons.
This is their “entertainment” for the evening — a way to get kids to
“come to church.”
I’ve seen pastors
dress up like Hollywood movie characters, or the Easter Bunny or Santa
Claus. I’ve seen the bounce houses and
carnival games and rock concerts… nowadays, they will do ANYTHING to get kids
— AND ADULTS — to come to church, and KEEP coming to church… KEEP RIGHT ON
filling those collection plates. Just
don’t DARE tell them what the Bible REALLY says…. are you KIDDING? That’s MUCH too harsh. That’s no fun. Who would want to hear THAT?!
So when it comes to
doing things of any real significance; when it comes to being SALT AND LIGHT
and IMPACTING our society and culture with what our society and culture is
in DESPERATE NEED OF — the TRUTH, for heaven’s sake — they are all
AWOL… oh NO! They CAN’T “go there!” People don’t want to hear about sin and evil,
or the consequences of sin and evil in their lives. They don’t want to be CONVICTED in their
hearts. They want to be COMFORTED and
entertained. And they call this “going
to church.” Preach the WORD? Are you kidding? Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all LONGSUFFERING
and DOCTRINE? WHO in the world wants
THAT?! Endure afflictions for the sake
of the Gospel? “NO, thank you. I’ll take a
large coffee, please, and if it’s not too much trouble, please make sure the
service is over with by noon, because we need to get home to watch the game.”
If you want to know
why our world is the way it is, it’s because professing Christians have given
up. It began at least a generation or
two ago — and maybe longer. But at some
point, we stopped taking God and His Word seriously. And the Great falling away began. Instead of serving CHRIST and HIS KINGDOM, we
began seeking after things we perceived to be “good, fun, enjoyable,
entertaining.” Instead of afflicting the
comfortable and comforting the afflicted, we BECAME the comfortable,
…and we like it that way. So as for
those old time preachers who just want to preach the “hard stuff,” “hit the road, Jack, we’ve decided to go a
different direction.” Yes, indeed,
they have.
Over the years I
have known countless faithful men of God who have been run out of town by these
congregations that no longer wish to hear the truth. I, myself, have been “disinvited” from more
churches than I can count. But let me
tell you about a friend of mine who has recently experienced this at his church
in California. His name is Pastor Justin
Hoke, and he is a faithful truth-teller, a watchman on the wall. He doesn’t allow political correctness to
dictate his message. He speaks the WHOLE
counsel of God’s Word — out of love for the lost, and to inform those who
profess Christ of the spiritual culture war we are SUPPOSED to be fighting
— as we stand our ground against the enemy and his demons.
He recently put a
message on his church sign stating common sense, simply TRUTH. The sign read: “Bruce Jenner is still a man.
Homosexuality is still sin. The
culture may change. The Bible does not.” According to a news story by
PulpitAndPen.org, LGBT activists swarmed the church recently, claiming the sign
was “hateful.” They later vandalized the
sign. And less than a week later, Pastor
Hoke made the following announcement on his Facebook page:
“As of today, I am no longer the pastor of
Trinity Bible Presbyterian Church. After
much prayer and counsel, I have decided that it is best to briefly communicate
what has taken place. 1) I was informed by our other elder that he
felt he could no longer follow my lead as pastor. 2) I
was informed that essentially all but one couple in membership would leave the
church if I continued as pastor. 3) Our
other elder and the couple felt that those who left would likely return if
I would leave.”
Pulpit And Pen
commented, “Apparently, the public
outrage was enough to cause discontent within the local congregation, which
appears to value the opinion of men more than the Word of God. May it not be said of us.” I should note that this came after the pastor
gave one of the most powerful sermons I’ve heard in a long time, entitled “Love Warns.” In his sermon, Pastor Hoke noted that to
“accept and affirm” what the culture embraces, but which God’s Word calls
abomination is NOT to love those trapped in sin; but rather WARNING the
wicked of their need for repentance and forgiveness by the shed blood of Christ
is the definition of truly LOVING your neighbor. It was an incredibly powerful message he
gave. And then he was immediately
tossed out of his role as pastor. For
simply telling the TRUTH, straight from God’s Word.
I’m reminded of the
prophet Jeremiah, known as the “weeping prophet,” because he wept for the
nation of Israel. God sent him to
declare His Word and Truth to the people, and sound the warning regarding all
their iniquities. But the people did NOT
want to hear. Instead they demanded, “Jeremiah, tell us something GOOD for once…
tell us what we want to hear!”
Let’s read just a
little bit from chapter 7 as God explains things to Jeremiah: “But
this command I gave them: ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall
be My people. And walk in all the ways
that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ But they did not obey or incline their ear,
but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and
went backward and not forward. From the
day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have
persistently sent all My servants the prophets to them, day after day. Yet they did not listen to Me or incline
their ear, but stiffened their necks. They did worse than their fathers.”
And so God
continued, “So you shall speak all these
words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but
they will not answer you. And you shall
say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their
God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from
their lips.”
Does that not sound
like America today? Truth has
perished. It’s DEAD! Evil is called “good” and good is called
“evil” and we LIKE it that way.
And anyone who DARES defy the celebration of sodomy or speak TRUTH on
this matter is virtually crucified by all — even those you would THINK would be
on your side — the “church” people.
Indeed, we are at a place and time now where even those who profess to
be people of God will no longer endure sound doctrine. Instead, they heap up for themselves teachers
who tell them what they prefer to hear.
I can tell you,
from PERSONAL experience, being a watchman on the wall puts a target on your
back — for Satan to aim at, AND, sadly today, for many church-goers to aim at
as well. You WILL be persecuted for
speaking truth. It is SO SAD realizing
just how many — I dare say, the VAST MAJORITY of regular church-goers today —
have NO IDEA what the Scriptures actually say; nor do they have any intention
of finding out, of “studying to show themselves approved.” They would rather just attend the weekly
meetings at their local “Religious Service Provider” … as long as it’s a
message that makes them feel good about THEMSELVES.
In the Gospel of
John, Jesus said, “IF YOU HOLD TO MY
TEACHING, you are really My disciples.
THEN you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” You see,
every church-goer claims to want to follow Jesus — until they find out
where He’s taking them. If the truth be
told, they don’t really want Jesus, nor do they want His TRUTH. They just want the benefits. They just want to feel good. But apart from Jesus you can’t even know the truth… and unless you HOLD to His teaching,
you are not His disciples at all. So if
you’re not serious about being His disciple, then by calling yourself a
“Christian” — you are actually taking the Lord’s name in vain. So stop it.
America is in the midst of serious judgment. We are a nation of depraved minds. God has sent strong delusion upon our people
because we refused to hear and heed His Word.
If you want to know WHY the world is in such a mess, I can tell you. We have deserted our Heavenly Father, and shunned His Son. America will never be great again, unless we turn back to God, — who promises if we do, THEN He will heal our hearts and our minds, and our land. America needs Jesus. And men and women of true faith and courage, willing to preach the Word — in season and out. Reprove, rebuke and exhort with all longsuffering and SOUND doctrine. Unfortunately, in our world today, TRUTH sounds like HATE, because our people hate the truth…
