This week, Michael asks: How do we view recent events in America from a “right” perspective? Worldviews are important. The most important view of the world is God’s view, from His perspective from on high… from the viewpoint of eternity in Heaven. The “right in the eyes of God” perspective from God’s holy Word of Scripture is the biblical worldview.
Pastor John McArthur says, We as a nation are going down the path that Paul described in Romans chapter 1, that which is known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them… he made it clear so that they are without excuse. Even though they knew God they did not honor Him as God. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie to serve the creation instead of the creator. Therefore he gave them over to defile themselves, They are untrustworthy, unmerciful and although they know the ordinance of God they do that which God condemns, and they approve of them that knowingly and defiantly embrace such perversion of the truth.
God has allowed America to go down the path of Romans chapter 1 to the point that the world in which we find ourselves, makes no sense to anyone who has a glimpse of God’s truth. Reformer John Calvin said that when God judges a people, he gives them wicked rulers who tend to be the architects of this depravity, either overtly or covertly. McArthur concludes that the insanity, disorder, disruption, and perversion amongst God’s people is all a part of God’s divine judgement. The final stage of God’s judgement is a state of insanity, extreme folly, utter foolishness, absurdity of thought, perversity judgement and having no rational or orderly logical relationship to that which is “right” according to God’s clear and evident divine design and His righteous standard. The folly of all follies is to think that man can stop the judgement of God. What is wrong with this country is not fixable it is God’s divine judgement on national sin.
John 3:36 “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” What wrath? God’s just wrath against sin.
Despite the judgment of this world, God protects His people from the wrath of His righteous judgment. The born again Believer, redeemed, converted, consecrated, regenerate and transformed by the atoning blood of Christ has taken on the righteousness of Jesus. As Paul said, For the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation unto the Jew first and also to the Greek.
The enemy (the sinful flesh nature, the God-rejecting word and the devil) has infiltrated every institution of power in America today. No power on earth can stop God’s righteous judgement. God is a God of plan and purpose. He will purge His creation when the ungodly reject the righteous standard of His word. God always tests His people to see if they will praise Him despite the trials and tribulation of this world. He knows our heart. The trial will prove to us whether our prayer is like Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, in the midst of the trouble and tribulation: “Nevertheless, not my will but Thine be done.”
Through the test and the trial, God will hold the born-again Believer up with His mighty right hand. His character within the child of God is proven in the heat of the melting pot and in the fire of the furnace. For the crucible is for trying the purity of silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord assays, tries, and proves the true heart of His people. The war for hearts and minds in America is not according to political philosophies and so-called patriotism. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against spiritual wickedness from on high.
Let's continue Michael's message on God's Perspective in the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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