The priority of the devil’s doctrine of godlessness is to stamp out the liberties wherewith Christ has set us free. Their purpose is to advance the devil’s mission to separate American citizens from their unalienable God-given rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, based on godly virtue. Ultimately, the devil’s purpose is to separate our hearts from God’s heart.
When we confess Jesus is Lord, we count our own life no longer as our own. As Christians our life is hid with Christ in God, in this earthly life and also in the next. The governments of the world will come to naught. Nations come and go ... According to Isaiah 40 the nations are but a drop in the bucket. Therefore, God’s promise is that no weapon formed against you shall prosper. The devil’s poison arrows and flaming darts are the doctrines of devils. The devil and his minions accuse Christians of being close-minded, intolerant, hypocritical, and holier than thou. The devil takes the word of God and twists it into lies to set hearts and minds against God, His word, His prophets, and ministers of His Word.
Even though we hold dual citizenship as citizens of heaven and citizens of the United States, we are Christians first and Americans second. Having been born-again of God’s Spirit, we are sons and daughters of God, and our allegiance is to our Father and the country of our new birth in Heaven. As Christians not only are we citizens of Heaven, but our Father has given us a mission and an assignment... we have been commissioned, equipped, empowered, and enabled by God as His Ambassadors. An Ambassador is the highest-ranking official sent by his Lord to deliver a peace treaty to a foreign land. Our calling as Ambassadors for Christ is the ministry of reconciliation to deliver the peace treaty, the word of reconciliation from Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. To reconcile is to join together that which has been separated. Our mission and our commission is to reconcile people back to God, thereby bringing peace with God. Therefore, we pray you in Christ’s name, be ye reconciled to God. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Romans says, recompense to no man evil for evil. Therefore, let not your good be evil spoken of. When we stand up for Jesus Christ and the truth of His word, Isaiah 54:17 says, “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.”
According to 2 Corinthians 4:5-10, “For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
A Christian musician ministered in nursing homes. He went into the room of an elderly faithful Christian lady who was paralyzed from the neck down. She was bed ridden and could not move her arms or legs. When Sam arrived to sing for her, her face lit up with the joy of the Lord. The musician asked her, how are you so joyful in your pain and suffering? She used a chopstick in between her lips to point to the letters on a board and spelled out 2 Corinthians 4:17. This verse says, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” The musician thought to himself, I’m not ministering to her. She’s ministering to me. As she approached the end of this life on earth, she understood the meaning of Jesus’ beautiful attitudes ... to glorify our heavenly Father in this life and the next. That, blessed are they who through the trials and affliction of this life, faithfully witness God’s beatitudes through persecution, reviling, and evil speaking, for Jesus said, great is your reward in heaven that as witnesses to our Father’s love and mercy, we may live eternally to the praise of the glory of His grace!
Your brother in Christ, Michael
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