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As the Lord has led and arising from last week’s blog, I repost this edited 2012 blog to cause professing Christians to fully consider this business of accusing God of being unfair in these latter days. All of the world’s causes are not God’s causes no matter how right they may seem or emotionally appealing they may be to us (Proverbs 14:12; John 7:21-24). Standing with those as a professing Christian that are accusing God of being unfair is not the side you want to stand on in light of His ongoing judgment in the churches and fast approaching wrath.
Originally Posted May 20, 2012
I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to challenge the whole degenerate spectacle today of so many individuals and groups calling for fairness. It is not new to be sure. The ancient Israelites were so bold as to accuse God of being unfair to His face after He laid down His standard for judging the eternal destiny of souls (Ezekiel 18). Souls that sin, die. Righteous souls live. Righteous souls that backslide into sin and do not repent will die. Wicked souls that repent will live! Israel thought that this was unfair and apparently many professing Christians do today that also cannot bear the thought that God would condemn them for willfully sinning without repentance. But God stands His ground then and now (Ezekiel 18:25-32; Hebrews 10:26-39).
Save your rebuttal of protest on my citing Ezekiel 18 as a Scripture reference for Christians since it is from the Old Testament. I am fully aware that the righteousness spoken of at that time was of the law. However, to God righteousness is righteousness whether it is of the law or from faith. None of the Old Testament saints were declared righteous by keeping the law perfectly because they could not. All who have ever been declared righteous by God were--as the apostle Paul makes clear, declared so based on faith in His promises (Romans 3:9-4:25, 10:1-13). Nevertheless, the righteous of God by faith in all epochs obey His Word to include properly dealing with sin guilt or suffer the consequences. Those who do so in love find it easier to obey (Psalm 32:1-5; 1 John 1:8-2:2, 5:1-3).
Thus, living the way God expects is required of Israel in the Old Testament and Christians in the New. God is perfectly just as our Creator to demand that we live as He has commanded. We are His creatures for whom He has set down His will for our conduct presented in the Bible based on His own holy, just and righteous character (1 Peter 1:13-21)! Christians may not have to obey the letter of the law to be saved, but we have been given commandments that actually fulfill the law we are to obey in the power of the Holy Spirit who lives inside of us according to the New Covenant, to help us do that very thing (Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 13:34-35, 14:15-17; Romans 8:1-4; 2 Corinthians 3:1-6).1
Israel’s exile to Babylon for breaking His covenant and law proves God meant business then, and surely He also means it now for those of us ushered into the New Covenant by the blood of Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son (Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:14-22, 11:27-32)! In spite of this very clear warning though, among the rebels calling everything and everyone including God that stifles their desires unfair are professing Christians in no small numbers. But how can this be? Have they not read in the Bible or been taught God and the Son of God is perfectly and eternally just (Deuteronomy 32:4; Zechariah 9:9; Acts 3:14-15)? Do they not understand that they are blasphemously accusing the holy God of sin and will be condemned with the wicked without repentance because His just ones live by faith in Him (Habakkuk 2:4; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 11:6)?
Truly, what began a generation ago as the right thing to do in reversing hundreds of years of inequality and unfairness visited by whites (including a great number professing to be Christians) upon blacks and other racial minorities in our nation has now degenerated into a narcissistic feeding frenzy of souls from every walk of life clamoring for equality and fairness as they selfishly see it. Anything one does not personally agree with is childishly labeled unfair. This state of affairs has turned governments, institutions, churches and families into confused bowls of gelatin afraid to say or do anything lest someone be treated unfairly and trying desperately to be all things to all people.
As a black American, it is painful and deeply offensive to watch since racial discrimination continues as it always has and the just demand of my forefathers for its end is mocked and trampled upon by the present clamor for fairness from every quarter including some blacks with all other immoral sinners simply wanting their way. Talk about unfair; now, the very quest for the divinely displayed nobility of fairness has been hijacked by evil so that those in it are treated as and lumped together with all the other whiners that selfishly only want something for themselves. Alas, it would finally come to this in a world that has been unfair since man’s fall to sin and Satan.
Indeed, the world is not fair because we are sinners and its current ruler, Satan, is completely evil. Violently clamor, march, litigate and legislate all you want to; this fallen, sinful world will never of itself be entirely fair. In The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics as the Lord leads, I teach men how He expects us to live in an unfair world following His example (1 Peter 2:18-23). When there are egregious instances of injustice such as that suffered by my forefathers in slavery, Jim Crow segregation and the continuing “isms” that plainly violate God’s standards, we that love the Lord must rise up even at personal cost to peacefully take a stand to advocate for a righteous correction.
Nonetheless, every aspiring strong man and great woman of God in the image of Christ and peculiar to the world knows full well that the just world we seek will only arrive when the Just One comes in wrath to perfectly give the narcissistic agitators for fairness exactly what they demand, vanquish the present ruler and set up His own righteous Kingdom on this planet (Psalm 2:9, 72:1-4; Isaiah 42:1-4; Matthew 6:9-13; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:1-3). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
1 See the January 2014 posts, God’s New Covenant under the category, Holidays and Party Of The Second Part, Pt. 1 and 2 under the category, The Faith to learn
more about the New Covenant as the one and only covenant from God Christians have to be concerned about.
It was the fiftieth anniversary of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of San Jose, California I had gone to enjoy in October 2015 as a member from 1980-85. Under the leadership of Dr. Willie T. Gaines as pastor, the church had experienced phenomenal growth and was widely recognized throughout the Southern Baptist Convention. It had encouraged and supported the seminary education of as well as sent out many into the Lord’s work. I was among them and remain grateful. My tears flowed as I reflected back on those days seated among hundreds in the sanctuary for the closeout service after a rousing choir performance and introduction of the speaker.
While I had already come to grips with how much the church had changed since I was a member complete now with a staff of women associate ministers outnumbering the men, I was still surprised by the male speaker’s opening remarks condemning sexists in the church (this was not his topic). The alleged sexists, of course, would be mostly men and preachers like me who hold to God’s program for mankind to include His order of authority in the home and His house as it is written in His Word! Truly, as the church son never invited back to preach or teach for fear biblical truth in love would be declared as it will be in this blog, I marveled at how unabashed the speaker and the church among the many falling away from God’s Word were standing in what is obvious rebellion.
Happy Mother’s Day to all of the faithful Christian women married to male husbands who still appreciate what an awesome blessing God has bestowed upon you through your natural body to conceive and bring forth new human life! On this Mother’s Day 2016, as the Lord leads I want to commend you for submitting to God’s will for you as a female in this present, mortal age. This divine will is clearly seen in your natural body with the roles, corresponding order of authority and responsibilities He has assigned consistently taught throughout the whole Bible and upheld by me in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics. Rightly, with all else the celebration of Mother’s Day is, it is unavoidably also a celebration of God and His handiwork in the natural body of women!
Indeed, proponents of evolution should just give it up because in order to make your theory work with the intricacies involved in the reproduction of all earth’s creatures down to the cellular, you must ascribe to the supposedly non-sentient creation, the attributes of deity which is idolatry. Why foolishly do this when the living God has already revealed Himself to you through billions of proofs in the cosmos and your own natural body (Psalm 14:1; Romans 1:18-25) as well as declared in His Word He is the Creator of all along with man, His chosen ruler over all (Isaiah 40:18-26, 45:12; Hebrews 2:5-8)? As Creator, it is written and confirmed by the Son of God that God made mortal man male and female (Genesis 1:27; Matthew 19:4).
In creating the female gender or sex if you will, God makes human motherhood possible as the first woman’s husband commemorates in the name he gives her (Genesis 3:20). So, now, is God sexist because He is the originator of the physical sexes? Being a mother is the central and noble work of help a woman gives to her husband in God’s purpose of human procreation right down to this hour and the reason He created a female in the first place (Genesis 1:28, 2:18-20; 1 Timothy 2:15). Is God sexist for assigning roles with the corresponding order of authority and responsibilities to His creatures in accord with their sex? Secular atheist feminists boldly say yes on all accounts!
Ah, but the professing Christian accusers of God rightly fearful of His Person, dare not accuse Him directly of being sexist. Instead, they turn their demonically spun accusation on His faithful messengers claiming that in upholding His Word on male and female roles as it is written, we have somehow missed Him or more wickedly, missed their fabricated assertion the immutable God has changed His program from ancient times in favor of this more so-called progressive day. Please; the absurdity of both of these suppositions is beneath the presentation of anyone claiming to intimately know God and fully exposes the demonic origins as foretold of such doctrines in these latter days (1 Timothy 4:1-2).
Either God has established the roles of males and females in their natural bodies with the corresponding order of authority and responsibilities in the home for all mortal time, or He has not. His Word plainly establishes that He has! Therefore, all men or women that are disgruntled about the way they are made have a complaint and are ultimately striving against their Creator in arrogance and rebellion (Isaiah 29:15-16, 45:9-10; Romans 9:20)! For God has established the foundation of male, female, marriage, procreation, family and yes, His order of authority in the home and His house in accord with His sovereign will to bless and give mankind stability quite apart from the growing chaos of rebellion unfolding today.
As it concerns His house--the Church too is the creation of God (Matthew 16:16-18; Ephesians 2:8-22), while the eternally just God calls and gifts women to serve with spiritual gifts, we are taught that those gifts do not dismantle His order of authority from the beginning. Thus, in consistency with God’s order of authority from creation, the apostle Paul instructs the men as leaders and women in the churches in conformity with it (Genesis 3:16; 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, 14:26-40; 1 Timothy 2:11-14). Every soul professing to know and love Christ honors that instruction with obedience (John 14:15, 21, 23; 1 John 2:3-6). Otherwise, your disobedience is understood by Him as nothing but what it is: rebellion which God is already judging in the churches (1 Peter 4:17-18)!
For the record, are there sexist men operating outside of divine instruction to their destruction without repentance? Yes! Sinful males have historically oppressed, mistreated and dealt unfairly with their female counterparts in wages, for example. However, all this truth shows is the equally true reality that the problem is with men as sinners; there is nothing wrong with God’s program and order of authority! God’s remedy in Christ and the Gospel is salvation with heart change. But like Eve in the garden, Satan has deceived even many professing Christian females today into resisting God’s will because they assert, it is unfair to keep them from having something; namely, the same level of authority and responsibility as males in this present, mortal age (Genesis 3:1-6). Truly, this selfish, maniacally defiant and eternally destructive ambition is very familiar (Isaiah 14:12-15).
Neither God nor His faithful preachers are sexists! All women with compliant men making this satanically inspired and worldly aligned accusation have placed themselves in great peril without immediate repentance since you contend with your Creator as a rebel. The world in philosophy guilty professing Christians have forsaken the righteous way in Christ to follow will not be able to deliver you from the Lord’s judgment in progress among the churches or the coming Day of His wrath to put down the rebellion of all rebels, for there is no place for rebels against the divine will in His Kingdom (Psalm 2:4-12; Isaiah 30:1-14; Ezekiel 20:33-38; Matthew 7:21-23; Hebrews 2:1-4, 12:25-29; Revelation 6:12-17)! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
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