Posted on 12/19/2020 9:49:10 AM PST by OneVike
Who of you have ever even cosidered to putting everything you hold dear on the line for Christ? I ask, because every time we are in a pickle, the same bold individuals start talking about putting everything they hold dear on the line to fight die for America and freedom. So be honest with me, and with Christ, who is willing to sacrifice everything for Him?
This is a quote from Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus. Simply kowm to most Christias as Tertullian. He was a 2nd century prolific Christian apologist. He defended the Scriptures at a time when death, under excruciating terms, was a common end for outspoken Christians in the Roman Empire. Yet today I see the church in America dying a slow death due to the fact that the Saints in America like their blood too much to offer it as a sacrifice for Christ. So many are ready and willing to bleed out for freedom from political persecution, but would never even consider bleeding a drop of their blood for Christ.“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church,”
"If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it."(Matthew 16:24-25)At the time Jesus told them this, the desciples were clueless and could understand that Jesus was going to die on the cross. Mind you, 85% of those lived in the Roman Empire were slaves. It is true however, that it's easier to look to Christ and His promise of eternal salvation when you haven't got a chance of freedom in the World. Yet, what is freedom? What good is it to gain the World, just to lose your soul?
I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little. What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. For you put up with fools gladly, since you yourselves are wise! For you put up with it if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face. To our shame I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.(2 Corinthians 11:16-33)Remember, if your doing the Lords work, He does not promise that you will succeed at your task unmarked or even alive. What he promises, is eternal existence in a place He has prepared for you in one of His Fathers mansions. If you die in the process of carrying that cross, then the Lord is saying your work in the World is complete and it's time to take up residence in your new home in Heaven.
However, when I hear so many Christians using the same language as I know non Christians use when it comes to fighting tyranny in a war, I am taken aback. Why? Well I never hear these same Christians stating they are willing to go where to places where death could be a result, just to save the lives of those lost in the grips of sins.
These destinations do not have to be in far away places like the Middle East or Nigeria, they could be a place in the United States, maybe just down the street from where one lives. There are people living right next door to Christians, who are dying in their sins as I write this.
I see Christians willingly hide in their homes afraid of taking on the Government over Civid restrictions. Can you imagine if the Jewish leaders told the Apostles to stay home and do nit go out Duse to COVID restrictions?
Heck we know for a fact that the Jewish Religeous leaders threatened them with violence if they didn't stop speaking of Christ in the public squares. Well, it sure did not stop them.
So if you wish too fight my brothers and sisters in Christ, I advise you to begin in your own town with sharing the truth in stores and businesses in pure defiance of Government edicts.
I pinged you seperately after I realized I never added you to my list as you asked. I truly thought I did, but going over my list I realized I did not.
You are now added to the list.
The Supreme Court comprehends that its reach does not extend to felony and larceny in the voting precincts.
That job belongs to the citizens of those states and residents of those neighborhoods to police their vote properly. And not to complain if they haven’nt. Not sayin’ that’s right or wrong. Just the way it is.
Allowing things to deteriorate into a “near Civil War” status and then expecting the “mother of all kraken” birthed in the US Supreme Court to save the day just isn’t about to happen. Neither is some magical EO about to save the day.
A massive revelation of foreign intrusion upon the integrity of the vote could possibly invalidate the election. But it will need half the House and Senate to be uncomfortable enough to do so. We the People do have the capacity to make them uncomfortable.
We-all 74 million of us- have to knock on their doors 24 hrs a day about it for the next 4 weeks.If we do so the Insurrection Act can be enacted successfully. Otherwise PDJT will be impeached if he attempts to.
Can’t leave it up to Sidney Powell and Lin Wood
PDJT deserves this
We create THIS country to get away from the garbage in the other countries. We have no need to go there to fight. We came here to get away from those fights.
Make no mistake, we will fight here.
Well said, OneVike, I agree. Welcome to Laodicea. Keep looking UP, it won’t be long.
Thanks for the ping! It was a very worthwhile read. To me it seems that as a nation, collectively, we’ve thrown off God now, moved outside His mercy, and passed into Hell. Of course there is a remnant of sincere Christians and people yet to be saved, but on the whole the nation has severed itself from the Lord and has gotten so far away from Him that His ways don’t make sense to most people.
And in the midst of this, the church has largely become more worldly in order to comply with the world’s demands, out of fear of persecution, which it must not have. It separates from the actual Body of Christ by doing that, preferring to try to have peace with God and peace with Satan in this world. When it can’t just keep Jesus out, it tries to force Him to be the tail and not the head, and there’s rejection of Him because He smells like death instead of life.
Thankfully, though, I do know a great many Christians here are disturbed by this. We may be scattered, but the Lord is sure to use us in the next part of His plan.
Yes, we are truly in the end times. Well. at least at the precubice of the beginning. So many Christians are so wrapped up into what the World has to offer, they have forgotten of what they give up to gain it.
You said it very well. We have many on our side, even if we are few in number by comparison. However, we must endeavor to fight the good fight.
In the past few years or more I have suffered greatly from writers block as I found myself mired in a swamp of despair and anger. In the past couple of years I kept regurgitating things I wrote and doing small changes just to share them, but nothing new was coming out of my grey matter.
However, the Lord woke me up from my stupor, and reinvigorated my mind. I am again on fire as the block God put on my writing abilities has returned with a vengeance.
I have rededicated myself to the Lord’s work and am in the process of following HIS lead as I allow the Holy Spirit to guide me instead of my own selfish desires.
God bless you sister.
Chuck
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