The Battle Belongs to the Lord - Part 1

2 Chronicles 20:15-17 “Listen, all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: thus says the Lord to you, ‘Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God’s. Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel. You  need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for the Lord is with you.”

Michael Low writes this week: There is always good news and bad news. Today, some bad news is that Christians in America are loosing the culture wars. The good news is that when you're surrounded by enemies in the battlefield, you can shoot in any direction and hit an enemy. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness from on high – Ephesians 6:12. Though many Christians are disappointed by the recent Supreme Court rulings, “the world” doesn't define who we are, “the Word” does. We are Christians first, who would rather obey God rather than men – Acts 5:29.  Ours is not the first nation to remove the right to worship God freely and conduct our lives according to His righteous statutes.  We know from whence we came as a Godly nation and the biblical foundations for which our forefathers fought and died. God has blessed our nation with prosperity and abundance. However, our greatness is not in America's prosperity and materialism. Rather America's distinction has been her liberty in law to seek the Blessor and not the blessings. We who have lived through the destruction of this liberty, find it difficult to separate our values as citizens of Heaven and citizens of America. 

1 Kings 18:21 Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”

Historically these values were one in the same, with unity of purpose as one nation under God. Our historical constitutional liberty of the "free exercise of religion" is being lost in the name of personal freedom to do what "feels right" and the "right of the individual not to be offended." It's no longer about biblical virtues that underpin the constitution, rather it's about the fleeting feelings of popular secular carnal opinions void of God. The world view in America has changed over the last 70 years and American values have been decoupled from God and his Word. As Americans, we are now polarized and cannot tolerate opinions that do not agree with our own polarized views. The free exercise of religion according to God's righteous standard has been redefined and restricted by the Supreme Court who has acquiesced to “the god of this world”, who is the author of the prevailing religion of secular humanism.  America used to acknowledge itself as a “Christian nation” founded on biblical precepts. Look at the 1892 US Supreme Court decision in the “Trinity Decision” where after years of examining the evidences of this nation’s heritage the Justices concluded: “These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.” But now, we may have just witnessed the death knell of our historical biblical freedoms and the birth of Secular humanism as the prevailing religion that underpins American justice.