The Scourge Of Racism
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People can hate and deny the truth of the Bible’s holy God all they want to, but He says all are sinners by nature and have sinned against Him (Romans 3:9-18, 23)! Because of this, all are born into the world condemned by Him who had warned and judged our progenitors (Genesis 2:7-3:13). Even in that time of judgment, out of His great love, grace and mercy God announced a “Seed” to come forth from the woman as a Deliverer (Genesis 3:14-24, NKJV). He kept His Word (Galatians 4:4)! Meanwhile, up to and through the Deliverer’s appearing until the end, sinners as defiant rebels will have sought, but failed to create a perfect world for themselves (Genesis 11:1-9; Psalm 33:10).
The historic folly of sinful human beings believing they are so superior they can create a perfect utopian world is well presented in many fiction film classics. In my estimation, one of the best films ever in this vein is Steven Spielberg’s original 1993 Jurassic Park in which a man exploits dinosaur DNA to bring the creatures in their nearly every form back to life with the intent to control them and their ability to multiply. The creatures are confined within a safari/theme park the man hoped people from around the world would pay to visit. He miscalculated. They could not control the natural ferocity of the carnivorous dinosaurs or the ability of any to breed due to a DNA oversight.
The film dramatically ends with an unbowed T-Rex inside the park’s destroyed main pavilion sounding his triumph while a banner that reads “When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth” falls from over his head to the ground. The creatures had prevailed over man’s unbridled arrogance and greed. In a similar manner, the kingdoms of arrogant men down through history have collapsed; their ruins displayed wherever they have been all over the earth. And now, even in the face of such sobering tangible evidence, we have a generation of sinners in our nation that believes they can beat the historic odds against them and create a perfect and enduring world that fulfils all of their evil lusts.
The natural rebellion of sin is in the spiritual DNA of our citizenry as the people of all other nations. However, our nation was created by breaking away in rebellion from the king of England whatever all of the noble reasons proffered to justify it. Consequently, the national spiritual DNA of our citizenry also contains rebellion as a patented right of action whenever it is desirable to resist even righteous laws, morals and ethics. Such has clearly been the case over the past sixty years with the efforts of humanistic science and social engineers particularly among feminists and the sexually immoral as they seek to throw off what they see as the yoke of the Bible’s God (Psalm 2:1-3).
In the place of God’s transcendent spiritual truths, righteous laws, morals and ethics the arrogant sinners as rebels in our nation are establishing their own believing them superior and more adequately suited to the way they want to live. Their rebellious onslaught is seen in the culture at large as they press their wicked agenda through the media, all levels of government, education, business and false Christianity. With only a relative few standing against them,1 for all practical intents and purposes it appears the creation of the world they want is immovably established and will endure. Not! Already their banner of rebellious self-assertion is falling down to the ground in tatters.
Instead of a utopia, the world the rebel sinners against God have created and are attempting to uphold is fast becoming a dystopia of great evil! People are so miserable they are killing themselves in unprecedented numbers. Even the rebels have acknowledged the need for more mental health help and particularly among disillusioned youth some of whom have found the bright promise of well being through same sex relations and transgender sex changes contrary to God’s design is not panning out.2 Many families are dysfunctional and in distress. Violence and lawlessness rule the day as folk physically harm and kill one other and organized mobs rob stores. Drugs such as fentanyl are killing many while life ruining homelessness is seemingly intractable and systemic racism persists.
Amazingly, in the face of the foregoing and evident defeat, rather than repent and seek the grace and mercy of God the rebel sinners continue to press their evil agenda.3 Doubled down and hardened in heart, they are coming against the relative few biblically conservative Christians as “ambassadors for Christ” with His message of reconciliation and that dare to call out their folly and resolve to destroy themselves along with our nation (2 Corinthians 5:18-21; Titus 2:11-15, NKJV). For as the kingdom ruins of nations plainly testifies, God has judged and will do so with growing severity until the day of His wrath and removal of sinners from His presence (Zephaniah 3:6; 2 Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 20:11-15). Then He will create an eternal perfect world (Revelation 21:1-8).
1 You can be sure among these are aspiring strong men of God in the image of Christ He leads me to first write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and that also necessarily show up in my recent release, The Scourge Of Racism. Learn about the book and read reviews on the Featured Publishing Resource Page at https://www.opendoorcommin.org/featured-publishing-resource. You can obtain print copies at your favorite internet book seller and in the Strong Man Store. E-books are also available at major E-Book sellers.
2 Read the AP article by Lindsey Tanner which portrays the number of the youth regretting their transgender decision as only a very small percentage. Even so, one is too many and there would be none if such options were not possible!
3 If you have never received the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the message of reconciliation from God to be saved especially as one of our nation’s youth, watch this Ministry’s Strong Man Of God Online Rally, Reconciled To God, on our YouTube channel. Read the July 31, 2022 post introducing the rally, God’s Message Of Reconciliation Pro- claimed, under the category, The Cause. If you are professing to be a Christian, but know you have strayed far from the Lord in rebellion with the world against His will, way and Word, hear His merciful call to return in the Online Rally, Return To The Lord.
Biblically conservative Christians know God in His eternal, spiritually transcendent Word does not shy away from presenting a relational experience with Him that is thoroughly supernatural and insists on our faith to engage in it. The writer of Hebrews at the outset makes this very clear while citing the ancient personages of faith in his chapter on the subject and soberly warns “without faith it is impossible to please Him…,” (Hebrews 11:1-7, NKJV). Thus, if to the unbeliever in and outside of professing Christianity it is hard and not very pragmatic to believe God will fight one’s battles then, consider as I do in this post, Jesus Christ, who did so and teaches His followers to do the same!1
One major reason many professed Christians eschew biblically conservative Christianity is the fact they are focused almost exclusively on and love this passing world as though it was all there is (Philippians 3:17-4:1; Colossians 3:1-4; 2 Timothy 4:9-10; 1 John 2:15-17). Biblically conservative Christians rightly hold that unless indicated by the text, Scripture is to be literally, plainly, objectively read, interpreted and applied. So, in the passages cited at the end of the first sentence in this paragraph not only is it seen worldliness has been a problem among professed Christians since the early days of the faith, but the keeping of a beyond this world heavenly focus which is to dominate.
Indeed, Jesus Christ, the Word and Son of the living God, came into this world from His eternal abode with Him (John 1:1-5, 14-18). He came on mission from His Father ultimately to save willing mankind that believe in Him from our sins, but also to plainly disclose the reality of eternal spiritual life and existence with God who lives in Heaven outside of the physical universe (John 1:6-13, 29-34, 3:1-21, 31-36, 8:21-27, 14:1-6). Christ was fully devoted in love to pleasing His Father and doing His will.2 This included saying only what the Father had taught Him to say and doing those things He had commanded (John 4:31-34, 5:16-23, 6:38-40, 7:15-18, 25-31, 8:28-30, 12:44-50, 14:28-31).
Christ’s total devotion to His Father also involved His seeking Him in prayer for direction regarding the daily course of and decisions about His work and ministry (Mark 1:35-39; Luke 6:12-16). Clearly, the Father who had been protecting and providing for Him from birth was His Son’s faithful Ally (Matthew 1:18-2:15)! The proof Christ was secure in having His Father alone as an Ally is the fact He never aligned Himself with any of the many religious and political factions of first century Judaism to help Him advance His Kingdom cause and work. He did however, call some to become His disciples and join with Him in fulfilling His cause and work (Matthew 4:17-22, 9:9, 16:13-27).
Not only had the Father been fighting victorious battles for His Son protecting Him from the many attempts to take His life (Luke 4:28-30; John 8:52-59), but Christ insisted because of their unique Oneness “the works” He had been doing were the Father’s too (John 14:7-11, NKJV). The works included raising folk from the dead on several occasions which to this day is not among the common experiences of mortal men who die (Luke 7:11-17, 8:40-56; John 11:32-44). In raising the dead or departed, the Lord showed death was not annihilation, but a separation from this natural world of mortality and portal to the eternal spiritual realm. The dead still live (Luke 20:27-40)!
From eternity Christ had trusted His Father in their plans for His entry into and departure in two parts from this world. The plan is seen first in Old Testament prophecy where through the words of David for example, the bodily death of Christ is faced by Him exercising a settled faith in God the Father successfully fighting this battle for Him. The certainty of the Father’s operation in the midst to preserve His body from enduring the natural decay of physical death and not to abandon His soul to the realm of the dead causes Christ to rejoice in hope; hope that is well rewarded in the Father raising Him to life everlasting (Psalm 16:8-11). This is all as the biblically conservative apostle Peter also affirms as fulfilled after Christ’s death, burial, resurrection and ascension to Heaven (Acts 2:22-36)!
If the Lord Jesus Christ could trust God to fight battles for Him, are you, O professed Christian, better than He that you will not? You are in sin since He wills that we follow His example. It is for this cause believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit also from Heaven who helps us and renews our thinking, priorities and focus (John 14:16-17, 25-26; Acts 2:1-4; Romans 12:1-2; Titus 3:1-7). He fights inward battles along with and for us we do not even discern as well as those that are outward with the demonic forces of this world arrayed against us (Romans 8:5-13, 26-27; Ephesians 6:10-18). Now, the Lord would have you repent unless you are intent on destroying yourself by walking willfully in your unbelief to His displeasure and disobedience which are sin (Hebrews 3:7-19).3
1 As an important background for this post, read the March 3, 2024 post, When God Fights Your Battle, under the categories Black History and Glory To God!
2 This is also the heart of every aspiring strong man and great woman of God in the image of Christ He leads me to write about in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics and companion works The Strong Man Of God Men’s Group Study and Great Woman Of God Women’s Group Study at your favorite internet book seller and in the Strong Man Store.
3 Assuming you are a genuine, but backslidden professed Christian, a reversal in your direction is possible through returning to the Lord you have strayed from listening to the lies of demons coming through the many foretold false teachers (2 Peter 2:1-3). Watch this Ministry’s thirty minute Strong Man Of God Online Rally, Return To The Lord, on our YouTube channel.
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