Obama is us.
Evil.
Excuse me? You serious?
Yes.
But, he isn't our biggest problem. You are.
So am I. We are all flawed and
with our inbred sin nature we repeatedly show we need a savior. In our
early colonies, when people read the scriptures, we found the
direction that guided us through many problems. Yes, there were mistakes
but for the most part, people seriously tried to please God and to credit God
for our successes.
Today, we willingly choose to kick Him out of our lives and our government.
Therefore, we find ourselves under His judgment.
Consider this. Let us begin with simple, 100% biblical truths.
God loves us. God wants us to be saved from eternal damnation in hell.
There is only one way to accomplish salvation, through Jesus Christ and His
sacrifice. Nothing is more important to each of us than our relationship
with Christ.
Let us reason, using these truths. Our founders recognized the absolute
importance of the citizens of our nation to be Christians, (a moral and
religious people). Without this background, we cannot be self-governed as
our father's and earlier generations were. As Benjamin Franklin said,
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and
vicious, they have more need of
masters". As we fail to use our self
controlled freedom to do what is right, we find the void from the lack of our
self discipline becoming filled by tyrants and
tyrannies with increasing oppression as they attempt to control us.
For example, today crime is increasing. This can partially be
attributed to the economic trials in which we find ourselves. As we
undergo difficulties, today we lack the self-control necessary to keep many from
crime. Therefore the government becomes our hope of protection, despite
the expansive cost and unintended consequences that accompany such control. This too is judgment. The costs of fighting crime. The pain and
suffering and death of victims. Even our economic struggles are within
God's will, likely more judgment.
Police tactics inevitably will
affect even the law-abiding citizens. All of these things are exacerbated
by neglecting God. With a moral citizenry, we need not lock our doors.
We help each other out, not waiting on the government and the added overhead
that goes with supporting a bureaucracy. Each of these are attributable
to God's judgment as His direction was ignored.
So, shall Christians revolt and fight the tyrannical rule now being thrust
upon us by Marxists?
According to the Declaration of Independence when the people are sufficiently
oppressed by illegitimate rulers, not only do we have the "right" to overthrow
such oppression violating our God given rights but also we have the "duty" to actually
war against those who take our rights.
We have a problem. Based on the Declaration, we should rid ourselves of
such rulers (of course, hopefully, through non-violent ways, voting out the scum
bags and replacing them with those who truly fear God). Yet, is that where
we should concentrate our efforts?
The people of this nation have willingly left God. Today, even the best
of us only have a superficial knowledge and appreciation for our Almighty God. Our
churches feed our lust for entertainment. We seek approving, undeserving,
self-esteem building acknowledgment from what we mistakenly consider worship.
We are
not ready to overthrow an evil government. Today, unfortunately we have a population that
requires a heavy handed power to keep us in line. It is our own fault.
We have accepted horrible behavior by those who deserve and require incarceration or capital
punishment.
Pride is not deserved yet is demanded by immoral individuals when, in fact, we
are called to humility. The streets are not safe. Prison's revolving
doors has threatened those who play by the rules by unleashing the worst
offenders at us
over and over again.
Policemen concentrate their efforts in revenue raising
through tickets for insignificant traffic violations only for those who are
citizens. Illegal aliens cannot be ticketed. They get off when the
citizens who truly are law abiding are nailed with fines. Going after the
dangerous criminals is often neglected when police feel they have insufficient force to rid the area
of criminals. This, again is judgment, both with the increased costs of
law enforcement and increasing victimization of us by growing crime.
Attorneys have twisted justice. As in Old Testament accounts,
God judges His people (and others) by confusion. Thinking we
are wise we became fools, most deceived. New Testament
too-(Romans 1)
Back to the truths. If God loves us, then He wants us saved.
Since that is most important, our comfort and blessings are appropriately less
important than our
salvation. As we have removed God from our government, schools, our
personal lives and we carry on the holocaust of abortion and acceptance of
immoral life styles, greed and pride, never falling before God in humble
repentance, what should we expect? God saves us through the Holy Spirit
and He may be invited through biblical preaching for our repentance and the fear
of God. If the pulpits (as they have) refuse to emphasize this, the people
fail to understand God's jealous nature, including righteous anger and impending judgment with weeping and
gnashing of teeth. They fail to realize just how good we had it with
God's protection. Our actions have been asking God to judge us.
This leads to the inevitable conclusion. Since the pulpits have failed
us. God must take away our blessings and punish us in order to save some.
As God punishes us, we become more aware that we need help and some will ask for
help and salvation. This has been the nature of previous biblical history over and over with
primarily the nation of Israel. God knows how to do this and has shown His
propensity to do this when a people turn away. It is
never pretty and often almost completely destructive of the nation. He
must do this to refine and cleanse the Christians and to call others into His
fold, especially since the churches have failed us.
Without the absolute necessity of repentance and reawakening of our nation
through the church's efforts,
all the forms of oppression we find ourselves under are
evidence of God's judgment. Yes, it is us. Not Obama.
Narcissistic, arrogant and deceived Obama is
merely a
sad reflection of our nation's desperately condemned place at this time.
Those terms reflect us as well.
Each of us must repent. Put on sack cloth, put ashes on our heads if
necessary. Without God's acceptance of each of us having a visceral begging for forgiveness,
no matter how much we want it, our efforts will not save this nation.
Sorry to say,
efforts centered on reforming our government to constitutional limits simply work against God's will to save some
though judgment. If we try to take a short cut and skip the most important
part of reawakening our nation to Christ's truth first, at best we will
eventually find
ourselves in a bloody revolution, similar to the French revolution years ago.
We are in a desperate situation that is not recognized by the vast majority.
We will not prevail if God is against us. He is our only hope and this
requires revival of our nation. Without that, we Christians will be
further marginalized as the country implodes.
Therefore, as Christians (especially preachers), we should redouble our
efforts to reach the lost (using the biblical fear of God, etc.) and do Christ's command- "go and make disciples".
Otherwise, we can stand for excellent principles held to by those who want to
take us back to constitutional government but to entertain the notion we
will win the country back to previous days is foolhardy. We would find
ourselves opposing God's will. Let us get the horse before the cart, it is
our God given role to repent for our own failures and to reach others for Christ, commanded
by God Himself. We must teach others the fear of God
before He brings this to them, showing true love through fearful and painful
punishment. Condemnation to hell hangs in the balance.
Let us each read the scriptures to understand what God expects from us, pray for forgiveness and pray for God to send revival to our
land. This is our only hope. This is change we need.
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