Let that one thought alone sink in. If true, then America is surely doomed.
Thoughts?
What we need are fire and brimstone revivals. Of course, Billy Graham style crusades would work very well too.
There used to be liberaltarian FReepers who would argue that “You can’t legislate morality.”
Thankfully they’ve all gone away.
If our rights come from God, only He can revoke them. If they come from man, man can revoke at anytime.
The inverse is also correct. Immorality is a necessity for the silencing and subjugation of others, the perversion of the many, and for the fiscal mess in which this nation finds itself.
We are speeding toward a secular, pagan society devoid of values that contribute to virtue and civility.
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We are ALREADY THERE!!! Wake up and smell the judgment!
Probably fairly accurate. Still way better than europe and then everywhere else in the world.
As is written....... wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are MANY who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are FEW who find it.
yes, we are founded a Christian nation. a peculiar people and system of gov’t that is designed to restrain the power of gov’t and replace it with the perfect law of Christian liberty (James 1:25). remove the liberty of Christ’s redemption from the compulsion of sin, and of course fallen humanity will immediately return to depravity and run amok, being unable to restrain itself. untold suffering for all must be the result until some sort of order is restored: the devil and tyranny crouches always at the door.
since liberty is the state where men are restrained from injuring or exercising arbitrary and unnecessary control over other men, the Founders knew that this system of radically limited gov’t would fail without the partner of a self-governing man partaking in Christ’s mind and heart, in voluntary and joyful submission to Christ’s Will—living a Christ centered life in service and honor to all his or her fellows: that is the true religion. this is the character of a true Christian man and woman.
Obeying God’s laws is for our own good.
Worshipping false idols is the worst of our sins, in the eyes of God.
I can’t help but think of Taylor Swift and her “Swifties.”
I look at how much people (mostly young women) pay to see and worship this false idol and just shake my head.
The biggest stadium event I ever attended was led by the late Billy Graham, there to speak about what is REALLY important. It did not require my buying a ticket and it was NOT all about him. Billy Graham was there to talk about the Risen Son of God...our Savior...the only path to our Salvation.
Thoughts?
While I wholeheartedly agree with most of this article, I believe the bold statement above is a little misguided. The world is full of believers, Christian or God believers, and they reap the same benefits described in the article.
My point is you don't need to be an evangelist to be a Christian or a believer.
Heck. The Jews are a perfect example. They were God's chosen people, and while a few believed in Jesus as the Messiah, most of them did not and do not. I'm not sure anyone can argue that they have not been a cohesive group for over 2500 years through many, many ups and downs over that time. That's not to say that have not stumbled along the way. But when they did, God seemed to get their attention and bring them back into the fold.
Having said that, we are clearly abandoning the things that made us great, which is a belief in a God up above and for many, his son Jesus Christ.
We are and will pay a big price -- and probably sooner rather than later, with more to come.
Heed these words....
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
Most of the people producing our culture oppose God, Christ, and the Bible.
Yet, while Christians all over the world, and from the early church on, have suffered persecution, many Christians here have gone with the world.
Entertainment isn’t “food.” People justify it on the grounds that we shouldn’t be judged by the “meat” we eat. Yet is it harder to go 30 days without eating, or without TV.
There is reason for mature Christians to be mixed up with the culture — in order to expose it, with love. That is actually caring about the people producing it, too. For example, the “movie stars” and “rock stars”. Will God care and be impressed that they were “successful” in this life, despite their promotion of a Godless and usually God-despising worldview?
It is very hard and getting harder to be a Christian these days, but the place to start is with the easy things, according to God’s Word. And taking it seriously. The New Testament especially. Where we need work and help, we need to allow God to make those changes in us, and that starts with accepting what His Word means, not twisting it, and allowing Him to upset and trouble us with it, in ourselves and in those around us. Ezekiel 9 is instructive. God spared those who mourned over the sin in Israel.
THE GREAT COMMISSION.
If you really believe that God has saved you from a horrible eternal fate, and done so out of His mercy, not your own merit, and HIS WILL for you after that is for you to then help Him, according to desired will for you, in saving others from that fate, and if you believe He has saved you for a wonderful, blissful life after this one, then you will live and allow Him to remake your life accordingly, allowing Him to get more and more control of your life, as Lord, while You work with Him in fellowship. True trust in Him grows more difficult as the world’s power to offer worldliness grows, but He can build that faith in people, if they go to Him troubled about sin, their own and others, and wanting His help, and wanting to do their part in the Great Commission.
And too, as my tagline says, “Willing to die for Christ, if it’s His will.”
Every professing Christian should consider those words, and where their hearts are with them.
If those words, or any in the Bible, especially the New Testament, trouble you, then that is a problem, but a problem that is also a challenge, and an opportunity for God to come into your life in a place where He needs to work with you and on you. He will provide the strength and His presence there, bringing something new, as only as He can, into your life.