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As the Lord has led, I have left the original, sad introduction to this now 2012 blog repost intact not only so that readers may have a wider historical context for it, but also see the inescapable reality and steady intensification of prophetic fulfillment in these times revealed in it. So many professing Christians are in denial about the times because in their arrogantly invented, culturally conditioned amalgamation of manmade Christianity the religion and American patriotism God would not allow what He has foretold in His Word to occur in this nation. Ignoring His Word, they fail to grasp the God of the Bible truly “shows no partiality” to anyone (Acts 10:34, NKJV).
Thus, the United States Supreme Court decision handed down on June 26th giving national legal status to same sex marriage is a final repudiation of the selectively created, biblically based Judeo-Christian morality historically espoused by American Christian religionists. It is a day the Lord showed me and I have been warning for years was coming because of the historically demonstrated impotency of manmade Christianity the religion and its centuries long corrupt practice by those in America’s majority culture that allowed for evils such as abusive slavery and the bigotry and discriminations of racism amazingly still practiced in many contemporary churches.
Now that our nation has reached the point of no return to any kind of biblical morality having by the Supreme Court legally excluded God and His Word from public life as well as enshrined feticide and iniquity into law, what is the response God expects of faithful Christians? With encouragement, that is what the Lord from His Word leads me to briefly present in this two-part blog repost and the one to follow. If it is not said plain enough in what follows, let me say here in absolute clear terms, no born again Christian is authorized by Scripture to take up arms to fend off or violently resist our government or the prevailing culture (Matthew 26:47-54; John 15:18-16:4; 1 Peter 2:11-25, 3:8-17, 4).
Originally Posted December 16, 2012
(Note: This past week’s outbreak of violent lawlessness in a mall here in Oregon and elementary school in Connecticut forms a foretold wider context for the following blog as well as fulfills another way satanic hatred for God and mankind that He loves is being manifested in these latter days (Matthew 24:12). This lawlessness and that which is still to come in increasing tragic proportions also clearly demonstrates that sinful men of humanistic philosophies, law, medicine, religion or in churches are not nor ever have been the restrainers of evil: God is (2 Thessalonians 2:3-8; Revelation 6:3-4)! What we have seen happening before our eyes are the natural consequences when a nation rebels against God and forfeits His blessings including the restraint of lawlessness.)
In one day this month Washington State became the legal host for same sex marriages and dope smokers. My reaction of helpless powerlessness is one I have known in various settings all of my life. Most frequently however, I have known powerlessness as a racial minority. This world system under Satan’s rule is bound and determined to challenge and resist God and His moral order in every area of human life on earth to the end (Revelation 16, 19:17-20:3, 7-10). Besides continuing to witness Christ and preach the Gospel that even now some might be saved, praying and laboring for spiritual revival among dying churches and exhorting believers to turn out in numbers to vote biblical righteousness on all issues, there is nothing else faithful Christians as a minority can do about the rising tide of open satanically inspired rebellion against God in the West except patiently endure it.
Indeed, faithful Western Christians from every race and ethnicity should begin to adapt to the new reality of shrinking societal influence, increasing hostility and the overt discriminatory mistreatment that is already in progress when one is the despised minority. Apparently, many professing white Christians in particular are finding minority status incredibly oppressive, suffocating, chafing and infuriating if the talk in Christian media is any indication. Welcome to my world and that of most every kind of racial, ethnic or religious minority in human societies since the days of Noah and Lot who had to patiently endure the evil and oppressive deeds of the majority until God intervened in judgment (Genesis 6:5-18; 19:1-25; 1 Peter 3:18-20; 2 Peter 2:4-9)!
Christianity as a religious force, of course, once dominated the predominantly white nations of Europe and their colonial satellites around the earth. This was so much the case, Christianity came to be referred to negatively as “Christendom.” America was founded by Western Europeans looking for religious freedom and wealth in a “New World.” A nation was built on Judeo-Christian morality and values selectively drawn from the Bible. The result was a cultural Christianity and national religion that cut across denominational lines becoming as it turns out temporarily part of the American fabric of life. For all of its appearance as righteous, the spiritually dead religion practiced by the majority of white Americans has permitted much wickedness including the oppression, discriminatory mistreatment and abuse of blacks, other people of color and ethnicity as minorities (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
Christian abolitionist and later Civil Rights preachers peacefully challenged America’s corrupt form of flesh driven Christianity that oppressed racial and ethnic minorities. Reluctantly, the white majority gave up some of its more egregious corruptions of biblical morality where race and ethnicity were concerned--a Civil War had to be fought to end slavery and the Civil Rights era Voting Rights Act guaranteeing blacks the right to vote still has to be periodically reaffirmed by Congress a generation after it was first enacted.
This reluctance is still evident among many predominantly white churches that call themselves preserving biblical morality and values, but are really only holding on to America’s corrupt, spiritually impotent, manmade “old time religion” of bigotry and oppression as I am a witness. From among these religionists who are either spiritually weak or impostors will eventually come those that take up arms to violently resist the new rebel majority and bring needless suffering upon the faithful who will be wrongly lumped in together with them.
The rebellious white children of the sixties have come along and rejected most aspects of the American Christian morality of their fathers including those that were biblically sound and introduced their own system in the form of political correctness, tolerance and multi-culturalism. They are joined by many racial and ethnic minorities that are secularists, biblically and politically liberal religionists (including our current President) and Christian apostates seeking to correct all perceived past inequities. The morality and values that have grown out of their humanistic approach have now led to the current state of affairs where those faithful to Christ and God’s Word regardless of race or ethnicity are being marginalized as religious minorities with worse still to come as we have been warning.
One of my favorite sports related “persistent man versus all obstacles to reach his goal” films is Rudy. The 1993 film featuring Sean Astin as Rudy, Ned Beatty and Charles S. Dutton tells the true story with Hollywood embellishment of a boy from the blue collar Ruettiger family that dreams of playing football for Notre Dame. Obstacles to this include his small size, limited athletic and academic ability as well as the ridicule of a brother and pressure from his dad to follow them into the steel mill. Against all odds, Rudy is admitted to the school, makes the practice squad and gets to play at the end of one game. His teammates carry him off the field for his “heart.”
The film, Rudy, has been a tremendous source of encouragement to me over the years since its release as an aspiring strong man of God in the image of Jesus Christ particularly in my role as a servant to Him in the churches (Ezekiel 33:1-9). Going into the New Year, I want to share that encouragement with men who likewise aspire to be a strong man of God in Christ’s image. Without a doubt, the road to becoming a strong man of God is the most difficult, painful and lonely of any named among men (Matthew 7:13-14). Yet, God has called us to it! The obstacles (not the least of which come from within) are many and the odds totally against us in our own strength.
Praise be to God He calls us to mission impossible not to be accomplished in our own strength, but His alone (Ephesians 6:10)! We supply only the willingness in faith and obedience; following the example of our Lord Jesus Christ in everything and being made over into His image as we go to Him even “outside the camp,” (Luke 9:23-26; Romans 8:29; Hebrews 13:8-15, NKJV).1 Literally, to go outside the camp refers generally to the assembly of Israel anywhere, but most powerfully and in prophetic application to Christ, Jerusalem as the holy city when He was crucified for our sins on a hill outside of its gate (Leviticus 16:27-28; Numbers 12:14-15; John 19:16-20).
Outside the camp is a place of suffering and shame. Christ was willing to go there out of love for God the Father as a devoted Son, Disciple and Servant; as the Strong Man of God with a heart to please Him and do His will (Psalm 69:7-9; Isaiah 50:4-9; 53:3; Romans 15:3)! Spiritually, He was driven outside the camp by religious men claiming to know God as were His apostles who also left us an example to follow (1 Corinthians 4:6-17, 11:1). We go to Him outside the camp in the sold out heart of an aspiring strong man of God in His image driven there too in suffering and shame for His Name sake and Gospel cause by outwardly religious men--many as false and others willfully disobedient brethren--along with a rejecting world (2 Corinthians 11:22-26; Philippians 3:17-19).
The practitioners of manmade Christianity the religion from all backgrounds share commonly unbelief in the resurrected, presently living reality of Christ and the continuing veracity and power of God’s Word as it is written. They outwardly profess allegiance to Christ and His cause in the Gospel while denying both through their deeds (Titus 1:15-16). Truly, they are more loyal to their powerless, invented form of Christianity than the Lord Jesus! We are well warned to turn away from them since jaded by their corrupt and empty form of the faith, they do attempt to dissuade the sincere devotion of men freshly saved and discourage the faithful caught off guard (2 Timothy 3:1-9).
I have encountered these religious men and women all of my journey with Christ since 1977 and can readily testify that what is recorded in the Bible and nearly two millennia of history about them is true. As though my own weaknesses in the flesh have not been enough as painful obstacles to my goal of becoming a strong man of God in the image of Christ, professing Christian religionists like Rudy’s brother have sought to douse the flame of sincerity in me. In ministry, my “fellow yoke men” as Rudy’s father have urged conformity to the religious status quo while shown up teammates openly question whether serving Christ requires “all that” and not so subtly suggest I “dial it down a notch.” Of course, my years of failure to attain “success” in their eyes certify their counsel.
Even so, in the ways of unregenerate men, they have penalized me variously for not playing ball with them. From not inviting me to preach or teach in their churches to refusing to support our Ministry or purchase resources that will greatly help them and the men they supposedly care about the message is clear: you are rejected unless you do it our way. I made up my mind long ago and encourage you who would also aspire to become strong men of God in the image of Christ to do the same going into 2015 (Philippians 2:12-13). I will serve the Lord following Him outside the camp now, that I may also be with Him in the city He has prepared for those that serve Him (John 12:25-26, 14:1-6; Hebrews 11:8-16, 12:1-2, 18-24, 13:14-15)! In the day I faithfully finish my course, by faith I see the angels carrying me on their shoulders into glory with cheering from the saints that have gone before welcoming me home (Psalm 116:12-19; Luke 16:19-22).
1 I joyfully acknowledge being greatly inspired by the Lord through a message preached May of 2014 in a Portland church by Josh Sofaer with Jews For Jesus, Los Angeles that included instruction on Hebrews 13:13 cited in this blog. Happy New Year!
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