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"Though the wicked bind me with ropes, I will not forget Your law." Psalm 119:61, NIV)
What would have happened in Germany if the Church of Jesus would have walked out our text? Rather, the majority forgot the Law of Jesus when bound, "with ropes." They folded in the face of terror, yes, unspeakable terror, threats, torture and death. I don't know what I would have done; therefore, I am not of those who point fingers, and, as I saw at the Dachau Camp, people wrote such things as, "Have you no shame?" That is arrogance, presumption, and a self righteousness of which I want no part. But I will not, however, excuse what happened in Germany from post WW I to 1945. The German "Church" was busy being "church." It was not busy being a prophetic voice, "The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, 'Prepare...the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.'" (Is. 40:3)
This is and has been the case in the American "Church" for way too long. A Christian Statesman said recently that over half of professing "born again Christians" in America never vote. We have what we have in America because of the failure of that part of the populace which calls itself "Christian." Nothing seems to change. Yet this "business as usual" can change, but it will take an obedient Church, not a worshiping, praying, preaching Church. If the 50% of "worshiping," "praying," preaching Evangelicals/Pentecostals who refuse to be rather than just say, will be the, "doers of the Word," America and any nation can change.
What is in your heart today? Do you read the Scriptures with the intent of "discovering" obedience opportunities, or just feel-good opportunities? Yet just as in doing good to others gives us a better "feeling" than living a life of consumption, so the effect of obedience is greater that the effect of "feeling" religion. We are moving at an ever increasing speed toward the Biblical literal, "Armageddon." Only the obedient to Jesus will survive. No, we will not "save" everyone. But if we do the will of Jesus, we will see many more come to Christ than we would otherwise.
Father, in Jesus' Name, as I look at the world, I thank You for Your "Sorrowful Passion," Your Death, Resurrection, Ascension, and Soon Return. Help us all to be prepared. Amen.
"Though the wicked bind me with ropes, I will not forget Your law." Psalm 119:61, NIV)
What would have happened in Germany if the Church of Jesus would have walked out our text? Rather, the majority forgot the Law of Jesus when bound, "with ropes." They folded in the face of terror, yes, unspeakable terror, threats, torture and death. I don't know what I would have done; therefore, I am not of those who point fingers, and, as I saw at the Dachau Camp, people wrote such things as, "Have you no shame?" That is arrogance, presumption, and a self righteousness of which I want no part. But I will not, however, excuse what happened in Germany from post WW I to 1945. The German "Church" was busy being "church." It was not busy being a prophetic voice, "The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, 'Prepare...the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.'" (Is. 40:3)
This is and has been the case in the American "Church" for way too long. A Christian Statesman said recently that over half of professing "born again Christians" in America never vote. We have what we have in America because of the failure of that part of the populace which calls itself "Christian." Nothing seems to change. Yet this "business as usual" can change, but it will take an obedient Church, not a worshiping, praying, preaching Church. If the 50% of "worshiping," "praying," preaching Evangelicals/Pentecostals who refuse to be rather than just say, will be the, "doers of the Word," America and any nation can change.
What is in your heart today? Do you read the Scriptures with the intent of "discovering" obedience opportunities, or just feel-good opportunities? Yet just as in doing good to others gives us a better "feeling" than living a life of consumption, so the effect of obedience is greater that the effect of "feeling" religion. We are moving at an ever increasing speed toward the Biblical literal, "Armageddon." Only the obedient to Jesus will survive. No, we will not "save" everyone. But if we do the will of Jesus, we will see many more come to Christ than we would otherwise.
Father, in Jesus' Name, as I look at the world, I thank You for Your "Sorrowful Passion," Your Death, Resurrection, Ascension, and Soon Return. Help us all to be prepared. Amen.
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