We hear much about the problems of America and feel the daily bombardment of the pagan victories of the NWO and their control over Washington, D.C., particularly, the Obergefell Sodomite civil union legislation passed by the Godless Supreme Court.
Judicial activism over the last forty years changed American into a dystopian state from which the nation may never recover.
Because America’s problem are moral, the remedy is not at the ballot box, but spiritual transformation. The Republican Party cannot save us. The Tea Party is not the answer. More legislation will not reverse America’s downslide into the graveyard of nations.
Repentance
The answer lies in a grief-stricken, repentant church begging God to grant the gift of repentance and to implore Him to avert judgment upon the nation (2 Timothy 2:25).
“Judgment must begin at the house of God,” (1 Peter 4:17).
The nation can’t repent until the church repents; the nation can’t change until the church changes; and, the nation can’t overturn dystopian laws until the church demands it. As long as the church is casual about morals and ethics, the nation will enthusiastically embrace paganism. Deep sins call for deep repentance. A shallow casual, “We are sorry” repentance can’t slice through butter. God is calling the church to profound, sustained repentance and its visible manifestation: Protest and Civil Disobedience.
Practically, the answer lies in Americans organizing public remonstrance. Public protest is the physical, visible, political manifestation of spiritual repentance.
Christian communities must become the church militant. Salty Christianity must replace sugar-coated, cream-puff, nice Christianity. Holiness must overcome the American drive to be happy. A cross-centered Christianity must displace a self-centered, health and wealth gospel; prophetic pastors must challenge the non-prophet church; and, a kingdom-centered, Lord-obeying church must succeed over a comfort-based, casual, seeker-friendly church. Christians must proclaim Christ as King; and, the government His servant.
Reformation
The church must reform its view of law and see the Ten Commandments, not as a means of salvation, but as God’s means for a civil society. Christians have not insisted on civil servants obeying God’s law-order. Thus, public officials lie and steal. The rallying cry for conservatives has been a return to the Constitution, but the Constitution does not provide, nor was it ever intended to provide a moral-base for the People.
The failure of Christians to defend the posting of the Ten Commandments in public places has been shameful. The Bible-church movement has been totally antinomian by pitting law against grace. The opposite of law is not grace, but lawlessness. Instead of fighting for God’s law as the basis of American law, Christians have retreated toward private pietism. The results are axiomatic. However, God’s law is not only good for Christians, it is good for all men and all of man’s institutions. Grace saves; the law restrains. A Christianity that does not present God’s law as the foundation of its civil order commits social suicide. As long as Christians are ambivalent about the place of God’s law in society, politicians will waffle under pressure and bow to a pagan agenda. And, this is what the Supreme Court did in Obergefell. Queers and faggots shouted louder than God’s sweet sheep could bleat.
Thus, the remedy is repentance and reformation; deep repentance of the church toward national sins; and reformation, the development of a Christian world view that calls government officials to surrender to God’s law-order.
Posted 7/14/2015
By Pastor Brook Stockton, PHD
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