Revelation 2:4-5 “Nevertheless
I have this against you, that you have left your first
love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the
first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand
from its place—unless you repent.”
This pandemic virus has
caused a halt to just about every routine and norm of our daily lives. And for
many, removed distractions to allow us to take an account of their live (physically,
mentally and spiritually). With approximately 3.5 million confirmed infected
and near 240 thousand confirmed deaths and rising daily, our mortality becomes
a stark reality and where we are going to go when we die has become a very
serious issue. So many precious souls have passed.
The United States of
America’s Declaration of Independence, in speaking of Nature’s God states: “We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”; acknowledging the God of the
Bible. Our national Motto is “In God We Trust”. Our nation’s Plague of
Allegiance proclaims that American is “One Nation Under God.”
But, Tim Wildmon of the
American Family Association points out that secular progressives have been
working for several decades to convince a large and influential segment of our
society to utterly reject the God of the Bible. Thee Humanistic Atheist are
constantly telling society that unrestrained, selfish, personal freedom is the
path to a brighter future. Dr, Frank Wright of D. James Kennedy Ministries that
there is a dramic departure from Biblical truth and we are now seeing a
wide-scaled rejection of God’s Word as the authority for faith and practice. Along
with a timid, self-censorship by Bible-believing Christians, we are now
experiencing the emerging climate of censorship and even abusive hate-crime
laws to overturn religious free speech and free exercise in this nation. These
laws are not about protecting the freedom of people to live godless lives in
Biblical infidelity, but about coercing everyone else to support, facilitate,
and endorse such actions; drifting into political and theological liberalism
and away from Biblical authority.
2 Corinthians 2:15-16 “For
we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among
those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to
death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life.”
Those who are perishing say,
what’s wrong with abortion infanticide, premarital sex fornication, extra-marital
affairs adultery, same-sex attraction homosexuality, and atheism is not that
they are sinful, but that others are sinfully opposed to them. All these are condemned in the Holy Bible. Rejecting God
has brought deep division and moral decline in America. In 1863, President
Abraham Lincoln recognized that same arrogance in his generation and called for
a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer. His official proclamation said: “We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the
gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and
strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our
hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and
virtue of our own.”
Proverbs 16:18 “Pride goes before
destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
Wright concludes, so here we
are, living in a culture desperately in need of truth and a safe harbor of
Biblical orthodoxy in this desperate time. The Gospel is the only power we
have. Even if some leaders walk away from it, we dare not follow them. Standing
for truth requires standing on
truth with Biblical fidelity. We boldly proclaim the power of the Gospel by
standing on the truth that it alone is our only hope and has the power to
transform lives, our nation, and our culture. People are openly seeking
Biblical truth today as their soul cries out. Wildmon recommends that every Christians do all they can
to challenge the dominant godless culture and convince all who will listen that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness. In God We Trust.
In Christ, Brian
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