The Scourge Of Racism
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The earth is the field of play in a game that started millennia ago in Eden and as a result, has been the longest ever in existence! In that first quarter of four, Satan scored first by enticing Eve to sin, then, through her fatally for all, Adam; bringing on them and their progeny God’s promised penalty of spiritual and physical death. But God promised a Deliverer to come that would crush Satan. The quarter ended with a cataclysmic flood as judgment, though, a godly line was preserved through Noah. In the second quarter, God called a man of faith He named Abraham into the game and through him brought forth a special people from whom His Anointed would come in a future day.
The children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were enslaved 400 years by Satan in another stunning score and what appeared to be a knockout blow to any divine redemptive plans. But God came down and with mighty wonders and judgments brought His people, Israel, out of bondage. He gave them His Law and brought them into the land He had promised Abraham. However, they were not faithful and the second quarter ends with their being sent into captivity as judgment. While dispersed from the land in the opening of the third quarter, God reiterates His promises of salvation and good toward the people and their land even giving them a timeline through the prophet, Daniel.
God the Son and Word took Human form in the seed of a Jewish virgin named Mary and was born in the time, manner and place His prophets had foretold. As a Man, Jesus Christ preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and offered Himself to the people as God’s promised Deliverer. He was rejected and put to death by crucifixion in what appeared to be another satanic score impossible to overcome. But God raised His Son from the dead after three days! Before returning to Heaven, the Lord commissioned His immediate disciples and all to come after them to preach Him and restoration through the forgiveness of sins in all the earth beginning at Jerusalem first, Israel’s eternal capital.
As He had promised, the King sent the Holy Spirit down to His chosen apostles and disciples and they immediately commenced the Kingdom cause, work and warfare in the Gospel at Jerusalem as He commanded. Many in Israel were restored. However, as foretold by the Lord, within forty years Jerusalem and its second Temple were destroyed and the people scattered to the nations because the majority that included religious leaders, rejected the Gospel. This ended the third quarter. From His throne in glory, the King continued to oversee, direct and give revelation to the work and warfare of His cause through His apostles as the fourth and final quarter opened.
In spite of great opposition, persecution and adversity from Satan and the world system he rules especially in the first three hundred years, many were restored among the Gentiles. Indeed, the spread of biblical Christianity on offense along side of Satan’s strategically initiated corrupted religious forms of it was in dominating fashion throughout the whole earth as the centuries rolled by. In fact, at this very hour generically speaking, Christianity is the largest religious group on earth! Even so, after nearly two millennia and now, clear biblical prophetic signs given by Israel’s prophets, the Lord and His 1st century apostles, we are in the final two minutes of the game.
The greatest of these signs has been the return of the Jews to their ancient land and the re-establishment of the sovereign nation of Israel in 1948. On cue, Satan’s team of demons and deceived mortals went on offense and launched another hateful uptick in violent hostility toward Jews and the Jewish nation (Hitler’s Holocaust had only ended three years before its rebirth). Also, violent persecution of Christians and destruction of church property was intensified until now, it has reached unprecedented proportions especially in non-Western lands. But from all societal sectors in the West too, enmity toward biblical Christianity and all the religious forms retaining its morality is increasing; riding on the foretold rising tide of rebellion that mushroomed in the 1960s (Psalm 2:1-3).
Truly, while here in America the 2016 national election swept an administration into power friendly toward Christianity, this will prove to only be a temporary interruption to what has been the openly aggressive trend to squash its historic influence on the nation. Governments at all levels across the land as supposedly non-partial referees defiantly side with those in education, business, the culture, media and all rebels against the divine order and biblical morality. Siding with them too are many professed Christians who name their faithful, ostensible brethren as being among society’s “deplorables.” In the face of this massive, evil offensive drive, the freshly revived are to join already faithful Christian men laboring to restore men; persevering and standing firm on defense against it!2
2 Our defense is not about attempting to preserve Christianity’s historic dominant influence, values or morality in our nation or world. We are to focus on calling men to re- pentance and faith in the biblical Gospel for salvation as the King’s charge while ourselves holding to all He commands in His Word to the death! Read the September 11 and 18, 2016 two part post, American Culture’s Religion, followed by the December 4 and 11, 2016 blogs, Now Is The Day Of Salvation and Professing Christian Ra- cism Is Sin Too all under the category, Call To Repent.
The repentance and revival of guilty professed Christian men (includes leaders) in and out of the churches is urgently needed to get them off the bench and into the King’s game during these final two minutes! From revival will come the fresh fire, zeal and power through the Holy Spirit to engage in the Kingdom cause, work and warfare to restore men on an increasingly hostile field of play and referees that unashamedly cheat as agents of the other team! All of what biblical manhood entails and the whole armor of God will be required. As in days of old, our God will also soon do more to support us in foretold, undeniable wonders only He can do in the sky and on the earth!
As the Lord has led, in other recent blogs I have already written in summary form the primary reasons guilty professed Christian men are in sin before Him.1 The bottom line is they want to do their will and not His. The consequences are many; not the least of which is men as God’s chosen leaders are being destroyed taking families, churches and communities out with them! Too, the catastrophic swirl of the foretold, latter day global rebellion as an unstoppable offense is pushing the spiritually weak and constantly compromising defense of professing Christianity backward. Our team bench is spiritually dehydrated and distracted in many ways including by religion.
Repentance and revival among professed Christian men is God’s righteous and only remedy for those seated on the bench and sinfully not in the game! In their present sinful state, they are as the “old wine skins” in the Lord’s famous parable (Matthew 9:14-17; Mark 2:18-22, NKJV). He teaches that new wine cannot be put into an old wine skin lest in the fermentation process, it bursts, is ruined and the wine spilled out. But new wine is put into a new wineskin so that both are “preserved.” Moreover, He adds in Luke’s version, having tasted the old wine, one does not want any new wine right away because it is felt, ‘“the old is better,’” (Luke 5:33-39, NKJV).
Like Israel--the Lord’s first audience of application for old wine skins, professed Christian men active in and spiritually deadened by unbelief, disobedience and sinful distractions cannot without repentance receive the new wine of Jesus as Lord and the Holy Spirit’s fresh fire. They must first become new wine skins through repentance and all brokenness before God as He has plainly and graciously taught in His Word (Psalm 51:1-17, Isaiah 57:15; Hebrews 4:14-16; 1 John 1:5-2:2)! By the way, as with individuals, so, churches! No professed Christian or church can get right with God and become new wine skins ready for new wine without heartfelt repentance (Revelation 3:1-3)!
Remaining in sin is not an option. For unless professed Christian men on the bench do repent, hardness of heart sets in. They are finally destroyed in God’s judgment because their sinful way is better to them; living in the deceit God’s love will sweep them on into Heaven anyhow (Ezekiel 18:24-32; Luke 6:46-49, 12:42-48; Romans 2:1-11; Galatians 5:16-21, 6:7-8; Hebrews 3:7-19, 10:26-31). However, after heartfelt repentance and God’s forgiveness, the repentant gladly welcome Christ to reassert His Lordship in and the Holy Spirit to freshly fill their hearts as new wine in all personal spiritual revival (Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 7:9-11; Revelation 3:19-20)!
Hungry for God, revived Christian men immediately return to such disciplines of the faith as daily Bible study and prayer. They also leap up off the bench ready to get in the game and testify about their revival! As the Lord leads, they tell what great things God has done for them and witness Him in all grateful joy to saved family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and anyone else including fellow men the Holy Spirit brings near (Mark 5:18-20). In such encounters, they find themselves not only testifying to what the Lord has freshly done for them in repentance and revival, but about Jesus, the Savior and Gospel of Him whose sacrifice has made it all possible! Finally, with the Spirit’s fire burning freshly in their bellies, they yearn to serve the Lord as when they were newborn in Him.
Surely, revived pastors are eager to once again stand to lead by example in testifying of and proclaiming the grace and mercies of God to His flock; urging all to follow in their footsteps. They fast; they pray, enlisting other leaders and whoever will to join them in calling on the Holy Spirit to fall fresh on that local assembly of believers as repentance is urged of all. New vision comes to them from the Lord and they are ready to abandon the dead works of selfish ambition and the traditions of religion. In their new Kingdom vision, revived pastors see the value and the Lord’s priority of restoring men; men that after proper instruction in biblical manhood will restore their families and lead the way in restoring other men that will shore up a faltering defense on the field of play.
1 Read all the July 2017 blogs, but especially Pastors In The Two Minute Drill and Churchmen In The Two Minute Drill under the category, The Cause.
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