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The times are more than changing, they are degenerating toward such evil that if the people of Noah’s generation could see it, they would put their hands to their mouths in horror (Genesis 6:5-7, 11-13; Luke 21:10; Romans 1:18-32; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; Revelation 6:1-4, 9:13-21)! These are days of decision about where a man will stand; days when it will be finally impossible to cloak where you stand on the issues of identification with Christ, biblically defined righteousness and good or the world’s redefinitions that are wrong and evil. The day of the silent endorser of evil is drawing to its close. A man is either fully in or out, for or against; no longer able to hide in the anonymity of silence.
Much evil has been carried out in secular and church history because of the silence of the silent majority. American history is no exception and in today’s 2013 blog repost, I am led by the Lord to challenge professing Christians in our nation to examine their souls and prepare themselves for the consequences of being a Jesus follower in these ever darkening days. Pastors stuck in the ego driven mindset of building the largest possible church whatever evil it takes including willfully being silent on the truths of God’s Word beware. Faithful undershepherds of Christ laboring in churches small and large: keep fighting “the good fight of faith,” (1 Timothy 6:11-16, NKJV)!
Silent is not one of the accusations that have been attached to me as the Founder/President of Open Door Communication Ministries, Inc. Too serious and strict, yes; silent--never, though some who claim to love the Lord have wished it to be so! Yet (Ezekiel 33:1-9), the Ministry will celebrate the thirtieth year since its founding with the roll out of its new informational Web Site, www.opendoorcommin.org this Wednesday, August 12th at Noon PST. I extend a personal invitation to our readers to visit the site and have most of your questions answered about the Ministry the Lord brought into being through me to fulfill His will. I hope you will also let the Lord speak to you about helping us as a prayer and financial partner to keep His voice through us active as long as possible (1 Corinthians 16:9).
Originally Posted March 10, 2013
The national crisis created by the vocal abolitionist movement which eventually led to the Civil War had much to do with forcing everyone in America with a stake to finally declare where they stood on the issue of slavery. Up to then, sympathizers from either the North or South could pretty much go along silently with the status quo as it was with no fear of trouble. This was especially true in the churches where the silent many had gone along with the cruel enslavement of blacks seemingly without a twinge of guilt.
In his Letter From A Birmingham Jail during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took note of this silent many in America’s conservative white evangelical churches that by their silence, were complicit and in point of fact endorsing the legal but biblically immoral oppression of black Americans; a great number of whom were fellow Christians.1 The silent endorsers of evil, of course, are from many diverse backgrounds and circumstances as well as everywhere in and all throughout history. These are persons that mostly from fear of some form refuse to speak up or act to support what they know is right or challenge what is wrong.
Such persons are well represented in the Bible narrative and no where therein more sadly than the account of how the many among the Jewish rulers dealt with the issue of being publically known as a believer in our Lord Jesus. John writes, “Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God,” (John 12:42-43, NKJV). Out of fear of what other men would think, say or do to them, most of these many rulers who believed in Christ, held their peace right up through His crucifixion and became silent endorsers of evil.
All throughout my journey as a Christian I have met such men as denominational workers, seminary professors, pastors and church members. They know that I either spoke or wrote the truth from God’s Word, but because of fear of what standing with me might cost them, left me standing alone. They fear the loss of prestige, jobs, 401ks, homes, material things etc. because their priorities are tied to this present world (Psalm 17:13-14).
They remain silent when others around them assail my motives and character failing as they do to appreciate that as an aspiring strong man of God in the image of Jesus Christ, I have genuinely found that “pearl of great price” and set my mind as all of them should likewise on what is above and eternal (Psalm 17:15; Matthew 6:19-21, 13:45-46; Colossians 3:1-4, NKJV)! While there have been exceptions, most notable for me was the courageous effort Ed Malone, a white, Southern Baptist radio executive made to help me produce the Lord’s sobering broadcast call to repentance, From Slavery To Victory: One Man’s Journey in 1994.2
Christianity the religion in all of its cultural variations in the churches and related entities makes it easy to be a silent endorser of evil. Conformity with the status quo in its ranks is a valued and well rewarded virtue. This would be good if in fact, what men were conforming to was purely of God and His Word. But instead--just as the Lord Jesus encountered among His people in the 1st century, what men are expected to conform to are the expectations, doctrines, rules, traditions, thinking and attitudes of sinful men overlaid with the outward veneer of religiosity; among the most wicked, men who corruptly use Scripture to support their own ends and of those more nobly minded but no less deceived, men attempting the impossible effort to please God in the flesh (John 6:63; Romans 7:14-8:13).
In the end, only two men stepped up publically from among the silent many rulers of Israel to identify themselves as supporters of Christ: Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus (Luke 23:50-51; John 7:45-52, 19:38-42). Now, the world’s hatred for professing Christians is increasing and the foretold days of severe persecution draw near (Matthew 24:9). Who will step from the shadows among the silent many in the churches today (that by their silence are endorsing much evil) to publically identify with Christ and suffer with their brothers that do likewise in those days (Mark 8:34-38)?
1 Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait, (New York: Signet Books, 1964), 90-92.
2 Get your copy of this historic and award winning Radio Special at https://fromslaverytovictory.org/Commemorative-Cassette.
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