Exodus 20:1-17 (quoted at end of article)
If the church doesn’t wake up today, tomorrow it will be too late. We are loosing our rights and freedoms every day to a God hating judiciary, congress, and leadership at all levels and our public schools. They teach our children godless atheism, materialism, worship of man, human secularism and evolution. Our heritage is being stolen, our history is being re-written with lies. Our freedoms are being taken away. Our constitution has been totally ignored and violated by radical judges with an agenda who do not uphold the constitution, who do not interpret law, but make law. We are becoming a nation under the dictatorship of judicial fiat.
It is so obvious that our nation is undergoing a tremendous downward spiral spiritually and morally. Our nation’s courts are making one judgment after another against Christians and Christianity and our freedom of religion and freedom of speech. It is constitutionally protected speech to burn the American flag, but not to mention the name of Jesus or have the Ten Commandments displayed publicly. As I look at the changes our nation has undergone and is undergoing I can only weep for my country that is on it’s way, like a drunken man to destruction.
Let us take a moment to look at the real issues behind what is happening in Montgomery, Alabama in regard to Judge Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments.
This nation began to decline in the mid 60's. That decline continued throughout the 70's. It intensified in the "me years" of the 80's. The decline began to occur at warp speed during the 90's, when even the President became a symbol of our decline. As we are now 3 years into the new millennium, we are in free-fall and I am sorry to say, things are never going to get better, only worse. It will end up as I speak of in the article “The American Uncivil War”.
If anyone would have been told at the time I was a child in school that within a few short years, less than 50, we would degrade to the place we have come, they would have not believed it and strongly disagreed with any such prophecy. If they had been told that there would no longer be prayer in our school, they would have called you crazy. If you would have told someone 50 years ago, that crosses and manger scenes would be banned from public buildings, they would have called you insane. If you would have told someone 50 years ago, that it would be illegal to display the 10 commandments in a courthouse, they would have called you lunitic, after all they are still in granite above the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. If you would have told someone 50 years ago, that there would be major efforts to take "under God " out of the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" off of our money, they would have called you crazy. However, less than 50 years later, these are all reality!"
The purpose of this article is to warn those who are not aware to what extent the pro-homosexual agenda is being fulfilled and to hopefully wake up the bloated, weak, and apathetic church that has to bear much of the responsibility for the moral decay of our culture.
My friend, in case you aren't aware yet, we are in an all out war, a spiritual war that we are watching play out right in front of our eyes each and every day. Satan is NOT playing games, he is deadly serious. That is why in John 10 Jesus told us exactly what his plan is, "to kill, steal, and destroy." If you haven't noticed, Satan is NOT afraid of God's people at all. Why? He knows they are lazy and divided. While we sleep, Satan and his minions are busy destroying lives. While we are focused more on the things we want to do in life as opposed to what God wants to do through our life, Satan and his demons are dedicated fulltime to destroying people. While we argue amongst ourselves about what day of the week to worship, what hymnbook to use, and what kind of flowers to put on the platform, Satan and his imps are 100% unified in their mission to take as many souls to hell as they can. The eternal souls of people is NOT a game."
Most people don't want to think of this life as a war, but that is exactly what it is. On one side we have God, the Creator of the heavens and earth, our Creator that loves us. The Bible says that it is God's desire that all come to repentance and none be lost. It was God's plan from the beginning that man spend eternity with Him. On the other side, we have Satan, a fallen angel that for this brief season we call human history, is working to drag as many souls as possible with him into an eternity of torment in hell. This war is for the eternal souls of every man and woman that is born."
As noble as the cause Judge Roy Moore has undertaken, the reality is, this battle was lost over the past several decades. While this has become a great national story and many in the Christian community have gotten involved in it, the fact is, it is now against the law to do what Judge Roy Moore did and the monument will end up being removed. Even if it were allowed to stay, it would NOT change the fact that there is case law on the books that makes it illegal for such displays in public buildings. And this is going on in state after state, as those who oppose God and His people fight to take even the mention of His name out of all forms of public life.
My concern in all of this is that the Christian community is investing an incredible amount of time, energy, and resources into a battle that was already lost years ago. Instead, we should be using our efforts to deal with the ongoing agenda of those who oppose God and are working tirelessly to eliminate Him from our culture. There are still many battles to be fought on that front, and that is what we should be paying attention to. While some Christians occasionally get involved in small battles like this, we have for many years been sitting on the sideline and loosing the big battles for the minds and hearts of the people and the culture. Those who hate God and hate Christianity have been winning the battle for years because the Church has not been fighting the good fight of faith and have not been standing for the truth and doing what is right before God. Christians have NOT been running for office and NOT voting according to morals and by the influence of the Word of God. How in the name of God can one who claims to love Him, believe the Gospel and follow Jesus; even consider voting for a devil inspired person who is fighting will all the energy they have for homosexual rights and abortion.
What kind of battles are we losing that I am talking about? Beyond the moral battles of abortion and homosexual rights, how about the right to assemble as a body of believers in our local churches. How about the right to freely proclaim the TRUTH of the Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ and practice our faith. How about the right to publish and broadcast the message of the Christian faith and enjoy true freedom of speech. If you don't think that there are forces in our nation that would like to take these rights away, you have not been paying attention. All of our rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom to peaceably assemble are being attacked. I believe they will also attack the tax-exempt status of churches before it is over. Some have already tried to push this idea, but the time was not yet ripe for it to go through the congress.
Already in this country, once considered by the world as a Christian nation, any religion is acceptable accept true Christianity. Any religion can be taught in schools, except Christianity. Any demonically inspired religion is acceptable an not a violation of their communist inspired “separation of church and state.” The only constitution in the world to have those words was the old U.S.S.R.. It is NOT a part of our constitution, bill of rights or any other constitutional document. Those who hate our God are out to destroy our culture and we are already the only nation on the face of the earth without a culture of it’s own.
Just a few years ago, could anyone have ever imagined prayer in school being against the law? Could anyone have ever imagined the Federal government would legalize the slaughter of millions of innocent babies each year? Could anyone have ever imagined that it would be against the law to display the Ten Commandments in a public building?
As much as I pray for Judge Roy Moore and support what he is doing in Montgomery, Alabama, I pray that this will be a wake-up call to the Christian community that we can't take for granted any longer even the most basic freedoms we enjoy. Now is the time for those that God has called as spiritual leaders to stand up. It is time for the men of God that stand in the pulpits of our churches every Sunday, to preach the uncompromised Word of God and deal with the issues of the day. You do not have to advocate a political party to challenge those in the pews to get serious about electing lawmakers and judges that will be led by the TRUTH of God's Word. While the battle over the display of a monument like in the courthouse in Montgomery has already been lost, there are battles being fought right now that will decide what rights we have tomorrow.
God did not call me to be a political advocate, but a spiritual one. Real change does not come in books of law, but in the hearts of men. We have been blessed in this nation to enjoy so much freedom in sharing the message of Christ, that we have taken that freedom for granted. The one thing that I pray that does come out of the incident in Montgomery, is that the Christian community will no longer take even our most basic freedoms for granted. One way we can do that is by making sure we are active in exercising our right to vote, and working hard to elect at all levels, men and women of God that will uphold the truth of His Word.
This is a spiritual battle. The fact is, Satan and those who follow him have been working harder than we have. Never forget that this is about the eternal souls of people. Even though he is a defeated foe, Satan’s goal is to take as many into everlasting darkness with him as he possibly can. One way to make that happen is by limiting the voice of God in our world, and trying to stifle those who want to share the hope of Jesus Christ with the lost. That is why we MUST be involved in the political arena to help insure we have the freedom to share with this lost and hurting world that Jesus Christ "is the way, the truth, and the life."
Exodus 20:1-17 “And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.”
