Continuing Michael’s message
from the last post, he writes that today's culture encourages and celebrates
narcissism (excessive interest in or
admiration of oneself). The original lie that the devil told Eve
still holds true: "Go ahead, doubt and disobey God. Eat of the forbidden
fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and you will be like God
knowing good and evil." The lie is that you can worship
yourself: that God is not God, you are. The devil repeats this lie by
indoctrinating our culture through the God-rejecting world's
systems. Satan bombards our minds through immoral entertainment and the unbalanced
secular news medias, our godless educational system, the materialistic workplace,
and false religions.
In years gone by, as documented by popular consensus, most Americans thought that the United States
was a Christian nation following biblical principles. After all, In God We
Trust is inscribed on every US coin and piece of currency. In a long standing
Disneyland exhibition is called "Great moments with Mr. Lincoln. President
Abraham Lincoln's audio-animatronic figure says, "If America shall fall, it shall not be from a great power from
overseas. No foreign giant could step across the ocean and drink from the Mississippi
in a trial of a thousand years. If destruction be her lot, America will die by
her own hand. She will destroy herself from within."
In the Bible, Ephesians 6:12
tells us that we wrestle not against
flesh and blood but against spiritual wickedness from on high. For the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal (of the flesh) but spiritual to the
pulling down of spiritual strongholds. In some God-hating circles, if
you quote scripture, you are guilty of "hate speech" and of
committing a “hate crime”. However, the Holy Scripture says, men call evil good and good evil. As
Joshua said when he entered the Promised Land, "Choose you this day whom you shall serve, as for me and my house we
shall serve the Lord." What's happening today in America?
2 Timothy 2:24 says, the man and woman of God must not strive, but
be gentle unto all people, apt to teach, patient. After Peter was arrested
and thrown into prison by the religious leaders for speaking the Word of God,
he said, "whether it's right to
listen to you or to God, you yourselves judge. But we cannot but speak
the things that we've seen and heard." It's not what we're
against that's important, but rather what we stand for. Therefore, stand
up, stand up for Jesus. Stand in His strength alone. The arm of flesh will
fail you. You dare not trust your own. As the Apostle Paul said, I know whom I have believed and am persuaded
that he is able to keep that (spiritual deposit) which I've committed to him
against that day (of righteous judgment.)
God has made us able ministers
of the New Testament. Paul said, "I
am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto
salvation, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." Jesus said,
"the works that I do shall they do
also, and greater works shall they do because I go unto my father." The
greater works is to lead others to salvation. He has given us the ministry of
reconciliation and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation. By the
Christian life, we're the only bibles that some people will ever read. God has chosen the foolish things of the
world to confound the wise... For we have this (spiritual) treasure in an
earthly vessel (our mortal bodies) that the excellency of the power (of the
Holy Spirit) may be of God and not of us.
John 3:16-18 “For
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did
not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world
through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but
he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
God has called us not unto condemnation
but unto salvation. For by grace are you
saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of
works lest any man should boast. For
Jesus Christ who was without sin was made the perfect sacrifice for sin on our
behalf that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. God has called
and empowered us to do “the right thing”, (that which is right in the eyes of
God). Philippians 2:13 says,
“for it is God who works in you both to will and to
do for His good pleasure.” And as we "put one on the
scoreboard for Christ," may we ever live to the praise of the glory of His
grace!
Your brother in Christ, Michael
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