08/22/22 A BAD DEAL FOR EVERYONE

08/22/22 A BAD DEAL FOR EVERYONE

I REALLY ENCOURAGE PASTORS AND CHURCH FOLKS TO READ MY ARTICLE. YOU ARE NOT LIKELY TO HEAR THIS FROM VERY MANY PEOPLE.

Texas Democrat, Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson spear headed State licensing of US Churches in 1954 (subjugating free churches to destructive State authority through financial promises; ten years later, Democrat President Lyndon Baines Johnson enslaved (what he called N word) in 1965 for decades with welfare promises.
There goes Pastor DLG again, mixing politics with religion.

OH REALLY., God said that the love of money is the root of all evil. Look at the evil accomplished by the State bribing pastors and churches and look at the evil accomplished by buying the souls and morals of the American Black community. 

1 Timothy 6:10
(10) For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

The cost to American morality, spirituality, freedom, exceptionalism, family is inestimable because of churches selling their birthright and abandoning the Lordship of Christ, which has resulted in rejecting Biblical Christianity and moral principles, in Biblical terms ERRING FROM THE FAITH.

Likewise, the cost to the Black community, which sold its soul for a mess of pottage and have been casting their lot with anti-family, anti-faith, anti-freedom Democratic Party, advancing welfare and destroying family life among Black Americans, promoting warped social policies and destructive ideas concerning family unity, and family composition, work ethic, racial relations, in Biblical terms PIERCED THROUGH WITH MANY SORROWS. 

America has erred from the faith and has been pierced through with innumerable sorrows because it has traded the treasures of God for the trinkets of the devil.

It took love and courage for those secret believers to step forward. It also took loving and tender care for the women who intended to prepare His body.

The disciples were in shock and disarray, not knowing what to do after His death and burial. After all, they were the ones who would need to give answers.It was not until the women brought them the message that He was raised from the dead that the disciples took action.

There were those who had a love for Jesus, but did not have the expectation of resurrection. It is commendable that Nicodemus and Joseph or Arimathaea were willing to identify with Christ and provide the dignity of a burial place. It is also a great observation concerning their station in life, as public figures.

The action of these people were loving and commendable, but they were also the actions of individuals. Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea were personal actors not politically motivated. As you pointed out, they put themselves in legal, political and religious jeopardy by stepping up. The State had falsely accused, tried, executed, sealed and set a guard to make sure Jesus would not be declared alive.

It was the announcement and the encounter with the resurrected Christ that produced resurrection faith in the 500 believers mentioned in Acts.

I believe the problem today with believers and churches not stepping up to the ungodly State has more to do with being uninformed than being secret believers. Pastors have not understood or they did not care that the 501c3 actually is an attack on the Lordship of Christ and the faith level of the church.

As the Scripture says, when the righteous lead the people rejoice. But of course this has to do with personal righteousness, not political movements. As in the early days of the church, it is coming to a point where believers will not find a place in the social strata (medicine, education, sports, politics, policing, jurisprudence) because of official prohibitions and pressures. We are brought back to the directive, "come out from among them and be separate," and the principle that light and dark cannot walk together.

I appreciate the good that is accomplished by political and legal action, but Christians must come to know and then follow through with the conviction that we do the will of God, regardless the price. Christians need to be aware that State opposition, intrusion, persecution and overthrow is already taking place. The longer we ignore it the worse things will be for believers, the church and (as we have seen in extreme form in the last couple of decades), the world around us is moving further from the possibility of salvation than ever before. The western church has failed miserably in the realm of love, conviction, knowledge, understanding, commitment, and sacrifice.

The Apostles believed they were on the cusp of the last days, how much more obviously oppressive is our world today, including and especially the western world?