Stand for God

Ray Rooney of the American Family Association continued in his article on the current Culture War being fought, asking: Do you really believe something when you allow others to dictate how and whether you live out your belief and faith? 

 

The Founding Fathers of America designed and established “One nation Under God indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all”. The reliance being “In God We Trust” as they wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which directly referencing Creator God four times. (1) the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle [His created humans]. (2) 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. (3) We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions. (4) with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. That is why the very first America Right is the Freedom of Religion, stating that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. 

 

America’s Founding Father President George Washington spoke to this firm reliance on Creator God in his farewell address to his fellow citizens in 1792, saying: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” This principle formed a God-ordained Christian nation because our immutable God’s Moral Law never changes. Freedom of Religion is not freedom from religion. 

 

John 17:17 “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.”

 

We have the Word of God in the sacred Scriptures of the Holy Bible. God tells us what is “right”. Rooney asks: “Why do today’s Christian churchgoers need to be told to stand up for their faith in God?” Why is it a good thing for the unrepentant sinner to stand and unashamedly proclaim loud and proud godless immorality and apostasy against their Maker and this nation’s Creator, while proclaiming that it is a bad or embossing thing for a follower of Jesus Christ and the Word of God to announce how He delivered them from the power and bondage of sin? This Culture War is truly spiritual warfare. The God-rejecting world [those who are perishing] stand for their dark rebellion of God and Country, so why doesn’t the child of God, saved by grace through faith in Christ the Lord and Savior of the world, stand firm wearing the full armor of God, defend their belief and proclaim the Gospel?   

 

We live in a “fallen world” that is in dire need of conviction of sin, repentance of sin, believing in sovereign God, receiving Christ the Savior, and being transformed by the Holy Spirit from darkness to light; from unsaved to saved. On this side of eternity, we cannot stop every sinful thought, word or action, but we can stand firm, as our Founding Fathers did, on the Christian religion [in the belief in the being and perfections of God, in the revelation of His will to man, in man's obligation to obey His commands, in a state of reward and punishment, and in man's accountableness to God] and make a difference in something and/or for somebody. In God We Trust.

 

Stand for God. 

In Christ, Brian