July 26, 2022

        The Christians worldwide should be running this earth and everything in it. Jesus told us so. Through his death and resurrection on the cross, he took back all spiritual authority from Satan (previously given to Satan by Adam and Eve in the fall. Read Genesis Chapter 3), and then, once He accomplished this disarming of Satan by way of what He did on the cross, Jesus then gave authority of the earth back to his followers:

Luke 10: 18-20 NIV

¹⁸ He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. ¹⁹ I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. ²⁰ However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Colossians 2: 13-15

¹³ When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, ¹⁴ having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

        But we apparently have forgotten this – the power we have. We Christians live just like the world; we are as sick as the world, as divorced and depressed and as plagued with problems as the unbelieving world. Yet, we’re not supposed to be. And many Christians blame God for this. They think that he is sovereign, so why doesn’t he do something to get us out of the pickle we’re in, at this hour of lawlessness in our country?

        Oh! Whoever thinks this mess we’re in is God’s fault, raise your hand!

(No one sees and no one cares if you did raise your hand because: you are wrong.) Don’t be daft.

James 4: 4-10

 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? ⁶ But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”

⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

God told us what to do when our land needs healing:

2 Chronicles 7: 13-14

¹³ “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, ¹⁴ if My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

Yet, God’s church asks themselves:  

“Mwa? Wicked? What did I do wrong?

Don’t be ridiculous…How am I wicked? I go to church. Put money in the plate. I gave my old, broken-down, crappy furniture to the homeless shelter. How am I wicked? Yes, I voted for Democrats for the last twenty years. But how am I wicked?”

        Wow, church. The hard-to-hear truth is that we are wicked in waaayyy too many ways.

Let’s begin with: Wrong Priorities.

I was guilty of wrong priorities in my own life for a long time. I just wanted to work…at my self-decided, apparently self-appointed career.   I never thought about writing…until God told me to write. And although I have been interested in our government and politics for years, it never occurred to me to write a Political-Biblical Blog. This whole thing was God’s idea. And, quite frankly, many of you don’t want to know what else He showed me. You really don’t. Because it’s uncomfortable. It’s not pretty, and many people who “identify” as Christians, but really aren’t Christians, at all, are about to be told so. Get out of God’s church if you are a “progressive” or “woke” “Christian.” There is no such thing. You are either one or the other.

In fact, and many may not like hearing this…but get out of the church if you are a Democrat and you still think you are a Christian.

You don’t belong to Him when you stand on a platform that is pro-abortion.

Ezra 4: 1-3

When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the Lord, the God of Israel, ² they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, “Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.”

³ But Zerubbabel, Joshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, “You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us.”

You may go to church, but if you are on the left at all, you do not belong to Christ. So, you are an enemy of his and an enemy of the church. You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the LORD, the God of Israel…

Thank you very much.

Anyway, back to me…this whole thing – (what I was doing of my own accord before God shut down my career and I began to obey Him and do what He directed me to do: write this Blog) – is an example of wrong priorities. Not seeking God about what he wants to do through us, and then doing it – is an example of wrong priorities. Doing what you want instead of seeking Him and doing what He created you to do and what He tells you to do…is sin; almost tantamount to outright rebellion. It is disobeying God. This is an example of wicked behavior – just wanting to go one’s own way and, for example, just make money. Or whatever it is you want to do besides what God created you for and wants you to do.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, ² fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”

James 1:22

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

Next on the list of the church’s wicked behaviors: Complacency.

        Who could have ever guessed that by leaving our politicians, our government, our universities and schools alone, that we would see them taken over by craven, demon-possessed maniacs. Who knew we were letting our entire society slide into so much sin, deceit, and corruption that it became a tsunami of chaos. Who ever thought we would see blatant lawlessness like we are seeing now. That our complacency would lead to the enemy taking so much ground; that he pushed us to the edge of a cliff – to the point that we could (and many believe we already have) lose our country.

I never thought I’d see the day…

           Complacency toward Jesus is wicked. Being apathetic; lukewarm. Not making him the highest priority in our daily lives, is…wicked.

Not making him the highest priority in our society: same.

Revelation 3: 14-18

To the Church in Laodicea

¹⁴ “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:

These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. ¹⁵ I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! ¹⁶ So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.”

Pssssssst: Based on the above passages of Scripture, being apathetic (lukewarm) toward Jesus is not only wicked; it is extremely perilous (vs. 16).

Loving money more than God is…wicked.

Matthew 6:24 (also Luke 16:13)

Jesus is speaking:

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

          Not soaking in the Word and in prayer, daily spending time with God is actually…wicked (wrong priorities).

Exodus 20:3

³ “You shall have no other gods before me.

          Self-sufficiency is wicked. (Anything you do that you think you’ve accomplished with your own talents, skills, knowledge and experience, rather than pointing to the Lord and all that He gave you and instilled in you,  is self-sufficiency. And I can tell you this from experience: if you are living even at the highest level that can be accomplished by a person and not at the level God has intended for you; doing with your life what He created you to do; then you are living out of step with and out of obedience to God. And that, my friends, is wickedness.)

        Your whole life (since coming to a knowledge of the truth about Jesus) should be one big testimony.

Isaiah 64:4

⁴ Since ancient times no one has heard,
    no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
    who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.

1 Corinthians 2:9

However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—

How are we doing so far?

Using your words to submit yourself to Satan and resist God (we’re supposed to do the opposite) is wrong. I can’t say for sure that it’s wicked, but I’m going to include it in the list.

Proverbs 18:21

The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

James 4:7

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

          So, here’s the truth, Church: it is our responsibility to humble ourselves and pray, and seek God’s face, as to what it is He created us to do, and then – do it. Anything else constitutes wrong priorities, wrong thinking, disobedience, disbelief, lukewarm hearts and apathy. All these things are encapsulated in one word – wickedness.

If you are afraid of what God is going to tell you – i.e.: that He might tell you to get involved in ministry yourself; He might say, “Go to Africa,” or tell you to get involved in politics, or your schools and local communities, or to speak to your Congressional Representatives and Senators, or to run for office, or to write a political/social, Christian conservative BLOG – or whatever He may tell you to do – if you’re too afraid of what He will say when you seek Him about it, then that is placing fear above the desire to obey God. That constitutes the very definition of “wrong priorities” for every Christian. And that is wickedness. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but it is.

Romans 11:29

^{29 “}…for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.”

So to summarize, here are some of the wicked ways currently infecting his church (this is my opinion, but this is my Blog):

1. Unbelief and wrong beliefs (believing in the world over the Word of God).

• Using our words wrongly (the power of life and death are in the tongue and we, all too often, agree with the devil or the unbelieving world with our words).

• Wrong priorities (we value comfort, including the comfort that money can buy, over obedience to God).

• Apathy toward Jesus. Apathy is far more insidious than hatred. And the church (especially the American church) has been apathetic toward Jesus for decades.

• Complacency toward serving God (i.e.: laziness; I would rather rest).

• Fear.

Fear of what God will tell us to do.

Fear of standing up for God and the truth (fear of man).

        If you are among the masses of Christians who remain silent at this time of whipping, seek God and repent (as he commanded us in 2 Chronicles 7:14). And if you are on the left; a member of the “woke”, have supported a Democrat candidate, or are a conservative but not yet a Christian; you need to repent.

Then (this is the hard part): ask him to help you overcome your fear and tell you what to do to obey him.

Then (and this is the even-harder part):  do it!

Obey Him.

        FYI: God’s command, “Do Not Fear”, is stated 365 times in the Bible. And it is a command. We have got to lose our fear of man. Fear is causing us to be powerless; ineffective; impotent.

This should not be and it is certainly not God’s fault.

If you read your Bible daily (and I always recommend that everyone read it all the way through – front-to-back), you will gain a new perspective on everything. You will gain God’s perspective, and that is a huge thing to gain.  

      Also, as I stated at the very beginning of my book, “Plumb Line…Holding Current Events in America Up to God’s Word,” I recommend that each and every U.S. citizen read the U.S. Constitution. (And if you need teachings about it for better understanding, there are free classes and lessons you can watch at websites like www.patriotacademy.com  and others).

        I mean, you can see that the left hasn’t read our Constitution. And for the few of them, if any, who have, they have no respect for it. They don’t follow it and they don’t want to follow it. When looking at the Democrat Party leaders, I often think – have any of them even read the U.S. Constitution before they took an oath to uphold it? I’m talking about many members of Congress. You can tell AOC doesn’t know the Constitution. She hasn’t read it, or she has and she just doesn’t want it to be true; she just ignores it. Our Constitution limits their power. It gives power to us – the people.

And trust me, they don’t like that.

          Will you seek God and ask him what else it is that he would have you do – then do it? Will you?

Because I believe God wants his church to wake up. His real church; not the pretenders.

Will the real Christian church please stand up?!