02/11/25 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FAVORING WIND

02/11/25 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FAVORING WIND

I use to turn on the morning news to see how far our renegade government has led us into insanity and wickedness overnight.

Now I tune-in to see what wickedness is being exposed, confronted, and corrected by our new Administration.

God instituted human government for two basic reasons: to protect the law abiding and to punish the lawless.
This makes men responsible to live civil and orderly lives, and it makes government leaders accountable to God for the safety of their people.

When a nation and its government moves away from God, they move away from freedom, law and order, and then wickedness, abuse, oppression and every kind of crime permeates all of society.

This has been happening for a long time in the USA, and in recent years resistance and rejection of God has become bolder and deeper seated.

It was good for men to accept Divine morality as standards for lawful human behavior, in the founding of our country, and it is good when men want to return to Divinely established standards of morality. But when men move away from God and they begin to trust in human wisdom, when men become so enamored with their own accomplishments, and when men lust after power and wealth, and when men view themselves too highly, then certain destruction will follow.

God appoints men to lead nations, but He does not appoint any man to lead the world, until Jesus returns. God will give peace to those who submit to His authority, but chaos and upheaval awaits those who grasp for more than God has intended for them to have.

Our nation was built on freedom of religion (faith). Our government is inherently and officially responsible to provide us this freedom by protecting us against oppression. However, the State does not have Divine authority to impose a belief system on the people. Even a so-called Christian party is not appointed by God to rule a nation. Religious and even spiritual men fail and fall. Men are not to sit in judgment of the Christian faith. God has given the final word concerning His truth in the Bible. Man does not sit in judgment of God's word, God's word is the standard by which we will be judged.

When the State has the power to impose judgment on the beleifs of Christian people, then that particular group of interpreters becomes the high priests of a false religion.

It is one thing for a person or a party to disagree with someone's understanding of a portion of Scripture, it is another issue for a person or party to outlaw differing views. I don't agree with all of the interpretations in the so-called charismatic movement, and I don't agree with all of the interpretations of the Reformed or Calvinistic movements. In fact, I staunchly reject some of their beliefs as heretical. However, I would not require that anyone believe what I believe, either by social pressure or by government decree. I would like for all others to agree with me on Biblical issues that I consider to be fundamental, but I do not mind that others disagree with me. We should be allowed to believe differently, so long as it does not violate God given standards of justice and civility. God allows a person to be wrong in this life, but ultimately He will judge us all for our thoughts, words and deeds.

This country was founded upon Christian faith and values. The Christian faith is not contrary to the founding principles of our country, but many of the teachings and practices of pagan religion were forbidden in our country, from the time of our founding and including the un-Christian polygamous practices of Mormonism. Biblical Christianity is not the enemy of our country, it is the foundation of our country,

We do have a problem in today's hodgepodge of teachers and beliefs. This is why it is important for us to be free to believe and practice our Biblically based faith without government intrusion. The problem is not only the ignorance of Biblical truth in society, it is the turning away from historic Christian behavior.

This article does not answer questions as much as it stirs up questions. What I am hoping to encourage is for folks to seriously study Biblical, historic Christianity and then believe and behave in a way that is pleasing to the God of the Bible. Truth produces godliness and strength and love.