Servant of Messiah Ministries

Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.

Fourth of July – Independence or Slavery

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At Toastmasters we start our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, standing at attention with our right hand over our heart and face the American flag hanging in the corner.

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”,

Not being raised in America, gave me an opportunity to hear the pledge with adult ears and think about the words….One Nation under God……Liberty…. Justice for all…..

Does God see “One Nation under God” when He looks at America?

Do you think He cares that we are:

  • The world’s largest arms dealer
  • Largest consumer of illegal drugs
  • We lead the world in incarcerated citizens. We are 5% of the World population and we have 25% of world prisoners.
  • One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001 and African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population.
  • We are number 1 in defense spending and outspend the next 15 countries combined despite the fact that 13 are our closest allies.
  • We send more missionaries preaching the “word of faith”  RIPOFF  to the poor in Africa and South America.
  • We destabilized the Middle East – and then went home leaving 6 countries in ruins and millions dead. They have reason to hate us…..
  • We are the largest creator and exporter of PORN to flood every smart phone on the planet – with a target age now of 10 years old….25% of all net traffic is porn.
  • We kill more unborn than any other nation and promote and fund abortion here and overseas. The number of legal abortions performed in the United States is about 1.5 million per year. In the United States, we deliberately kill one of every four unborn babies.
  • We  allow the sale of human body parts, despite its laws that are supposed to protect against it.
  • We promote the homosexual agenda, both domestically and internationally.
  • We lead the advertising and media industry, to mislead consumers.
  • We produce and promote poisonous food (banned all over except here) harming people and the environment.- G.M.O.’s and other poisons leading to an obese and undernourished nation.

We are not the greatest country in the world in any of the measures that matter.

  • We are
  • 7th in literacy,
  • 27th in math,
  • 22nd in science,
  • 49th in life expectancy,
  • 178th in infant mortality

 

America isn’t number one in:
The U.S. ranks 47th in press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders.
The U.S. is 25th among 43 developing countries for the best place to be a mother.
The U.S. is only the 11th happiest country in the world, according Columbia University.
There are 21 countries better than America in freedom from corruption, according to Heritage.org.
The U.S. was ranked 24th in perceived honesty, according to Transparency.org.
The U.S. is an embarrassing 142nd out of 150 countries in infrastructure investment, according to the CIA World Factbook. Our infrastructure is old and falling apart.
The US growth rate of industrial production is ranked 79th,according to the CIA World Factbook…..It seems we shipped all those jobs overseas.
The US. is ranked 192nd, dead last, in the net trade of goods and services,according to the CIA World Factbook.

Personally, I think God cares less about our failing industrial production and being the greatest debtor nation in history.

He does care about a  corrupt society, satiated in blood, drugs, and immorality. 

Ezekiel 16:48-50 God compares Jerusalem to Sodom, saying “Sodom never did what you and your daughters have done.” He explains that the sin of Sodom was that “She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me.”

He further explains Jude 1:7…”Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange (Greek: different, other) flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of fire.”

If God is God,  who changes not …He has three choices….

To remain Just and Righteous…God must…

  • He has to destroy us.
  • He must change Us (Revival).
  • He must apologize to Sodom.

“Afraid” by Betty Stam

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Afraid

Afraid?  Of what?

Afraid to see the Saviour’s  face,

To hear His welcome, and to trace

The glory gleam from wounds of grace?

Afraid  –  of THAT?

 

Afraid?  Of what?

A flash  –  a crash  –  a pierced heart!

Darkness  –  Light  –  O Heaven’s art!

A wound, of His a counterpart!

Afraid  –  of THAT?

 

Afraid?  Of what?

To do by death what life could not –

Baptize with blood a stony plot,

Till souls shall blossom from the spot?

Afraid  –  of THAT?

While students at Chicago’s Moody Bible Institute in the early 1930s, Americans John Stam and Betty Scott individually sensed God’s call to serve as missionaries in China. The country was enslaved by idol worship and torn apart by a violent Communist uprising. After leading them separately to China, the Lord brought their lives together in marriage and a shared ministry.

But just three months after the birth of their daughter, Helen Priscilla, John and Betty were captured by Communist rebels.  Helen’s remarkable deliverance led to her being dubbed “The Miracle Baby.”

This poem was written by Betty Stam,  just before being martyred together with her husband in December, 1934. They were paraded through the middle of town naked, led to the town square where the Communist regime forced everyone to watch. 

There they were decapitated for the whole world to see.

The Stams’ powerful testimony was carried around the globe by secular newspapers that featured front-page stories about the young couple’s faith, dedication and martyrdom.

As a result of their deaths, many unbelievers turned to Christ and numerous Christians were moved by the Stams’ sacrifice to become missionaries themselves.

Like the Lord they served, John and Betty Stam reached more people through their death than in their short ministry.

 

The USA needs therapy?

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We read of the life changing after effects of a brutal rape and we see the victims predictable efforts to cope with the trauma.

1)     Her feelings are hurt, anger and there is always fear.

2)     Her relationships with men, former friends are now strained as the trauma cast shadows on their friendship. Innocence is lost and it will not be found.

3)     Her attitudes are hardened and there is now no tolerance for offenders anywhere.

4)     Her behavior is always justified, no matter how unreasonable.  She was raped and how could we understand?

5)     Her security is now paramount as she double checks the extra locks on the home and cancels certain activities that left her alone at night.

Could a nation be raped and find itself reacting as any victim?                                 

On Sept 11, 2001 nineteen men took advantage of our open free society and took down our symbols of greatness, exposing our nakedness. The shock and the death toll may have been similar to the Pearl Harbor attack, but the emotional damage and our reaction has been far greater and longer lasting.

We declared war on rapists and told the entire world – you are either with us or against us. Our normal relationships with our European allies became strained as they refused to mobilize and join our wars.

We immediately tore up the Constitution and passed the Patriot Act – marking all men as potential rapists who needed surveillance.  All banking and commerce now required identification. Our need to know has included the private communications of high value potential rapists like Pres. Merkel of Germany, Brazil’s Dilma and Mexican President Enrique Nieto.

We lashed out at Iraq and Afghanistan – and wasted 4 trillion dollars and thousands of lives punishing the innocent and rewarding the guilty. Water-boarding, Enhanced Interrogation, Gitmo,  Enemy Combatant were all new words to sanitize our efforts as we abandoned our own values and ignored constitutional restraints.

We unified and militarized our law enforcement. Our vacation travel now involves long lines to get scanned, groped and fondled enduring one more ignominy after another in efforts to “be safe.”

Fourteen years later those 19 rapists are still winning their war. Their one act has been a gift that keeps on giving. Our response to 9/11 grows and grows consuming more of our liberties, killing more innocents abroad, alienating more of our friends, while consuming more of our budget. Those 19 men were effective at crippling a nation. We gave those men not only the day they took, but we have given them a growing portion of every day since….

A “Costs of War” study group brought together some two dozen academics to account for the wars’ costs that followed 9/11.  The study says an “extremely conservative” death toll is 225,000, with 365,000 wounded. U.S. dead include 6,000 troops and 2,300 contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The final tally of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan will reach at least $3.7 trillion, and could go as high as $4.4 trillion, (add 1 trillion dollars for interest costs) according to a study done by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.

And to remind us of the real threat terrorism poses ….Consider your annual odds of perishing by terror compared to two alternatives:

  • Dying in a car accident:  1 in 19,000
  • Dying in a bathtub:  1 in 800,000
  • Dying in a terror attack:  1 in 3.5 million

I hope the new  Dept. of Homeland Security makes those bathtub deaths a high priority.

“Thanksgiving” or “Feeding Frenzy”

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This nation has a new holiday called Black Friday.  It has slowly supplanted Thanksgiving much as the lifestyle of “Get” has replaced the lifestyle of “Give.” The holidays have been traditionally been associated with “Giving” living out that eternal truth – “it is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35)

Giving comes with its own rewards….Liz Dunn a social psychologist showed that a people’s sense of happiness was greater when they spent relatively more on others than themselves. Dunn and colleagues found that even those with little money reported greater happiness when their proportion of spending on others, relative to the self, was greater.

Giving is birthed in Gratitude.  We can generously and freely give only when we are content with our blessings. Thanksgiving was the day set aside by Abraham Lincoln to honor the God of our provision. Puritan prayer and shared meals marked the day.

Professor Robert Emmons at U.C. Davis has shown that gratitude journaled once a week over 6-7 weeks measurably lowers depression in teens. A moment to pause at the dinner table to invite everyone to mention the things they are grateful for, would center the purpose of the event. Grateful individuals tend to take more time for acts of kindness, and this in turn gives them hope. Thankful individuals tend to be well received in schools, communities, and workplaces, creating opportunities. What is not to like?

This new holiday that is replacing Thanksgiving is aptly called Black Friday. This day means we are absent from work and we also congregate….sort of like congregations for other religious services on other major Holidays.

Like Passover/Easter holidays when there needs to be atoning blood spilled  –  in 2008 a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death as the congregation surged forward tearing the doors off the hinges. Like the incense of Yom Kippur and Mass the sweet aroma of Teargas filled a Los Angeles store when a woman injured 20 people fighting for the same sale items.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday compete for this nation’s heart and it appears the earlier and earlier sales are shortening Thanksgiving. The long lines of shopping squatters who used to wait all night now gave way to major stores opening Thursday– robbing all retail workers of their Day of Thanks. It would be sad were these long lines for a food bank or soup kitchen but it is sadder still when the line is the start of a stampede to get discount junk.

This pursuit of happiness means exhaustion for a lot of Americans. This Black holiday is marked by epidemic of depression and anxiety that now defines the season. Materialism is near collapse and now thousands of psychiatrists are busy medicating younger and younger people who are bottoming out in the cathedrals of consumerism.  Black Friday will be followed by the morning hangover when the bills announce their day of reckoning. Our society built on our materialism cannot last. Who will answer when we call in our time of need?

Thanksgiving will replace Black Friday in the days ahead…..This Babylon is going down…. Rev 18v11 The world’s businessmen weep and mourn over her, because no one is buying their merchandise any more –

Then Abraham Lincoln will be our guide when he declared this day “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Let us return to the old paths ……

What Thanksgiving once was…

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By the President of the United States of America.     
A Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln 1789

WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

Abraham Lincoln.

I wonder if  Lincoln had this in mind…………

Jesus’ unanswered prayers.

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John 17:20-23  “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one — 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity.  

Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

It has been 2000 years and that prayer of the Son – “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one” on the most intense night of his life is still only a dream.  The fantasy is compounded – because Jesus like Paul requests  “unity among his followers”  three times and that thrice unanswered prayer is Jesus only recorded personal private prayer to His Father.

Did Unity cease along with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the First Century,   or did the Gifts cease when the Unity ceased?   Yeshua the “Head of the Church”  has not been able to recreate those conditions ever since.   They gathered in one accord – the ONLY word used to describe the group on Pentecost. Over and over they are described eating meals and meeting together with one accord. God using one description, one clue to the miracle – they did it all in ONE ACCORD  –  Acts  5:12  And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch).

I  watched the “fire of complete unity” yesterday  – when the Reformed contemporary  leaders John MacArthur, Phil Johnson, Steve Lawson, R.C. Sproul, Tom Pennington  warned the church about the Charismatic error in the “Strange Fire Conference.”  These men are champions of Calvinism and upholders of the 5 Solo’s of the Reformation.  Then they focused their attention to their other Reformed Brothers – fellow heirs of God – with identical teachings – who also uphold the 5 Solo’s and proceeded to discredit  John Piper and Mark Driscall.

The world got to see headlines like “Driscall crashes Convention” and tweets like “they confiscated my books.”  Satan just demonstrated what the world already knows…. that Christianity is as harmonious as the politics in Washington.  The leaders are no different.

I might suggest the next Conference be called “Korah – No Fire Needed” and rather than speaker’s only criticizing brothers and fellow heirs of God –  we actually put our faith into action – and go out and just torch each other’s sanctuaries.

The  founders of this nation are to have said  “We must all hang together, or assuredly  we shall all hang separately.” They understood what the early church practiced.  We are like the the besieged people of God  in Jerusalem in A.D. 70 who set fire to each others food stores inside that city….while the Roman armies just waited for starvation to do what their weapons could not. So what can the current 34,000 christian groups be so disagreeable about?  Well, 34,000 different things, I guess.

Meanwhile the Head of the Church just lives to intercede…..but with useless, fanciful prayers like….. I have given them the glory that You gave me, that they may be one as we are one…..

Revival is the Answer

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There are similarities between the dark times we live in now and the dawn of the First Great Awakening. The choices we see now are the same inequalities facing the workers of France and England. France dissolved into chaos and violence…while England had a moral and spiritual revival.

A corrupt and even dead church darkened most aspects of English life. The Church of England leadership was corrupt. Archbishops and bishops lived luxuriously and unashamedly negotiated better positions for themselves and their families. Economically England by now dominated the slave trade with greed leading to brutality. The industrial revolution influenced owners into adopting the same attitudes of the slavers towards the children working in the mines and cotton mills. In London between 1730 – 1750 almost 3 out of 4 children born to all classes died before their 5th birthday. England was going through its Gin Age with 1 out 6 homes owning and operating a ‘gin still’ and almost 20% of all single girls in London working as prostitutes. The sports of the day was bull baiting and cock fighting, while bare fisted boxing matches attracted 12,000 to a fight.

The climate was as ripe as France for a breakdown of social order into chaos and revolution.

But there was no revolution……There was a Great Awakening instead.  Two young men named Charles and John Wesley met George Whitefield in Bristol on April 2nd 1739. Together they started to preach to common folk in the outdoors as the churches were closed to the poor. Wesley wrote a pamphlet in which he declared that “It is the plain old Christianity that I teach.”  He ended up preaching 45,000 sermons; traveled a quarter of a million miles on horseback,  up and down and across England on roads that were often dangerous and sometimes impassable. He composed his commentary on the Bible verse by verse, wrote hundreds of letters, and a daily journal from 1735 to the year before his death in 1791; and he also wrote some of the 330 books that were published in his lifetime.

Thirteen years before the Abolition Committee was formed, Wesley wrote “Thoughts upon Slavery”, a graphic, tract denouncing this vicious horrid trade” as a national disgrace which greatly influenced Wilberforce. He kept up his attack on slavery until the end of his life, the last letter he wrote being to Wilberforce. He deplored the stupidity and futility of war, especially Britain’s war with the American colonies.

He publicly and repeatedly questioned why food was so expensive and he gave the answer: immense quantities of corn were consumed in distilling. He supported fair prices, a living wage, honest and healthy employment for all.

He never raised the dead,  but he raised a dead nation.  And when he died he left a preachers gown, a bible, and six silver spoons for his pall bearers and …………the Methodist Church that shaped all of England for hundreds of years after his death.

Wesley said, “Sloth, luxury and ungodliness are the characteristics of the English nation!”  Is this not a word for our time?

If we as the church set our mind to Revival – to examine our lives and our communities.  Rather than pray for another bailout  our prayer should be for that last Great Awakening.  Could a small outnumbered church – like Wesley awaken the conscience of a dead nation?  It is only when the situation is so beyond repair that God can do what we cannot.  My email for years has been – Ps85v6 – Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?  7 Show us your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us your salvation!   Perhaps things are bad enough now for us recognize our need.

Undoing of the Reformation

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Thousands of Anglicans are expected to defect to the Roman Catholic Church in time for Lent 2011. This started with the Campaign of Father Kieth Newton to leave the church in protest to its stance on the ordination of women and gay clergy.

Father Newton has encouraged the return of Anglicans to the Ordinariate – a special branch of Catholicism established by the Pope – to welcome protestant defectors.   These protestant defectors are traditionalists who oppose the ordination of women and gays into the clergy.

The efforts of the Archbishop of Canterbury has not been successful in preventing the split and defection of married Anglican bishops and their ordination back into the Roman Catholic Church. In any divorce first, comes the separation and incompatibility. Then comes the division of assets.

The Church facilities such as St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wales – a nineteenth-century red-brick church where the poet Siegfried Sassoon was baptized,  is an example of this split.  The Diocese of Rochester has forbidden the protesting priest, Father Ed Tomlinson, to conduct services there when he and his parishioners leave the Church of England. Their meeting place may be undecided but their Spiritual home will be Rome.

They are not alone:

On 3 March 2010, in Orlando, Florida, the eight members of the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America voted unanimously to become part of the Catholic Church along with 3,000 fellow communicants in 120 parishes in four dioceses across the country.

On 12 March 2010, the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada formally requested the erection of an ordinariate in Canada.

The Anglican Catholic Church in Australia (a province of the Traditional Anglican Communion) and Forward in Faith Australia, mostly members of the Anglican Church of Australia, jointly applied for an ordinariate in Australia.

The Church of Torres Strait, another province of the Traditional Anglican Communion in Australia, covering parts of Northern Queensland and the Torres Strait, has also applied for a separate ordinariate.

The Traditional Anglican Church (the TAC Province for England, Scotland and Wales) has also applied for an ordinariate.

The Ordinariate talks of recruiting members in waves with the first beginning training at Lent and they hope many more will follow. A little acorn it may be at the moment, it could grow into a mighty  Oak.

The Question one day may be “Did this begin the undoing of the Reformation?”

Is this kind of polarization not inevitable as the world races to its destiny?  For four hundred years the Reformation has veered from orthodoxy today’s lawlessness.

If times of crisis inspire the desire for stability, in a religious context Rome has all the right credentials: Rome never changes.  Throughout her councils (eg Trent to Lyons, Vienna, Constance, Constantinople, Nicaea) this motto has stood firm.

Will protesting erstwhile “reformers”  now return?

Thou anointest our beaches with oil

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We have gone from begging God for a Detroit bailout to now wanting the Gulfs Oil Tap of “blessing” turned off.

RESOLUTION
To recognise and declare Sunday, June 20, 2010, as a Statewide Day of Prayer for Louisiana and for the population and region surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, in particular, those people affected by the environmental and economic disasters that erupted in the aftermath of BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak.
WHEREAS, in times of great distress and need, we, the people of this land, have always turned to private, public, and corporate prayer; and
WHEREAS, a Statewide Day of Prayer provides each of us with a powerful
opportunity to humble ourselves before our Almighty God; and
WHEREAS, the citizens of Louisiana are urged to pray for a solution to this crisis, each according to his or her own faith, to pray for God’s continued guidance and protection, and to join in the observance of a day of prayer, seeking God’s blessings upon both our state and nation; and
WHEREAS, untold millions of people, not only in regions surrounding the Gulf of Mexico but throughout the world, will be affected by this event; a crisis that remains unaffected by the efforts of mortal man; and
WHEREAS, we now turn our attention and our prayers to the present circumstances and humble ourselves before Almighty God.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby appoint Sunday, June 20, 2010, as a Statewide Day of Prayer for Louisiana and for the population and region surrounding the Gulf of Mexico.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Senate of Legislature of Louisiana does
hereby urge the citizenry of the state and all people of faith throughout the United States and the world to give personal thanks, each according to his faith, for the blessings we have received, for God’s continued guidance during these trying times, and for God’s grace to bring an end to the devastation.

  • To whom are we praying? The God of Creation, the Holy One of Israel, was driven from our schools long ago, and prayer was made illegal in good times. Why should He hear in bad times?
  • This is no Act of God. We did this.  We are responsible. Our own greed cut the corners of safety and ignored the alarms of caution. We are only reaping what we sowed.
  • This is the anointing,  our prosperity theology has brought upon us. We have anointed ourselves with oil.

Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

And if our Father allowed the drowning of  His innocent and obedient birds in oil, where will the wicked and the rebellious stand?

“Christian Right” or “Moral Majority”

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The media is full of the Conservative political hand wringing and the Evangelical “crocodile tears”  over the wickedness of this nation.  Blogs proclaim it and the Fox media covers it. Does God buy it? Should He buy it?

Our recent interest in abortion, the hand wringing over homosexual “marriage” are motivated by our own self-interest. The Tea parties grow loud in volume and numbers   protesting taxes – gun control- socialized medicine – bailouts.  We see our financial house of cards come apart as unemployment rises and our homes decline in value.

Churches in Detroit pray for an auto bailout while GM spends 40 days in bankruptcy.

Suddenly we reach back to the morals and values of the founding fathers – Liberty, Justice and prayer in schools. and loudly we protest Government intrusion. Church attendance grows and like the weeks following 9-11,  we suddenly look up.

I have news for you – The Messiah was set up – framed and tried and then murdered by the “Moral majority” of His day! The same voices that protested the Roman occupation and Antiochus attempts at “assimilation and the removal” of the traditional Jewish  faith  cry today over the equal status given Muslim and Pagan religions, in this country. Like them, the “Conservative Christian right”  looks back to the glory days of David and Solomon,  in this young nation.

The moral majority of this day will again murder the messengers of that same Messiah,  as did the moral majority of His.  He looked to Kingdom not of this world, and for those reasons He said my followers do not fight.  He did not choose sides and proclaimed truth to Roman Governors, Zealots, Priests and Harlots equally.  He had no interest in the politics of His nation, and delayed His future kingdom, to eager followers.

Just maybe Yeshua read the scriptures promising that all the kingdoms of this world are headed for destruction,  and all our hand wringing is but changing decks on the Titanic. The same Moral Majority wants to use God to further their end. God will not be used, for any end, but His own. Else He would not be God.

We Christians will not be judged on our health plan, our private gun ownership, or our position on immigration,  but did we live right?  How much filth came into our home via TV and media, as we sat down tired after a long day protesting at the Capitol? Our homes are war zones – our kids abandoned,  but we loudly protest “gay marriage.” Does God see our behavior in our marriage as any more “righteous?”

God sees the hypocritical protestations of the Christian right,  is just that. If a sinner like me can see it – I assume Holiness can. His agenda was and is and will always be
Rev 11 v 15 – The world’s kingdoms have become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and He will rule forever.”

I suggest the “Moral Christian Right” prepare for that.