Today's Spiritual/Political War

Note: Dear blog readers: Our country and most basic God-given freedoms, our families and loved ones are heading into grave danger because of national and world events, and because of the increasing impotence – some call it irrelevance – of the church. The classic expression “As goes the church, so goes the nation”, is increasingly evidenced today.

Accordingly, I feel impelled to write a new series in this blog about crucial political and spiritual life-and-death issues which today are endangering all of us and our families; and to offer you biblical solutions to them. After all, the Bible is the greatest book ever written on politics. My discourses will be non-denominational and will be applicable by Americans of all faiths.

This blog series can go on indefinitely but must by its blog nature be brief in each discourse. For readers who care to delve further into any issue, I will gladly direct you to my research sources. The issues are hot, sizzling and contemporary.

For years, I did radio open-phone network broadcasts focused on the subjects below, and many more. My objective, successfully accomplished, was and is to arm listeners to effectively Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made [us] free (Gal. 5:1).

A LIFE OR DEATH STRUGGLE

America’s God-given freedoms are in a life or death struggle with the godless forces of tyranny. Our nation’s survival depends upon militant Christians who know how to identify our enemies and defeat them. This is not a time for tolerance or indecision from want of knowledge about the nature of those who would destroy our God-given freedoms. It is a time for firm Bible-based definition and action.

The Most Intolerant Man

Bear in mind that the most intolerant man who ever walked on this earth was Christ Himself. Not once did He tolerate or compromise with evil. Rather, He set the example for us, confronted it, and won. Before we can take effective action to defeat freedom’s enemies we must first understand the nature of the war and of our enemies.

Military wars are the result of clashes of worldviews which are themselves anchored in spiritual realms. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph6:12).

Dr. Tim LaHaye, in his book "The Battle For The Mind", expressed the above, “In this world there are two basic lines of reasoning that determine the morals, values, life- styles and activities of mankind – the wisdom of man or the wisdom of God (1 Cor 1:17-25). William Penn wrote an undeniable truism:

“Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants”.

Therein is America's crucial decision for us today: to be, or not to be, a militant Christian. First, we must understand the Christian’s starting point in our faith – the fallen nature of man.

What does that fallen nature cause an unrestricted man to become toward his fellow man?

In all of recorded history, the 20th century had no match for barbarity, cruelty, suffering and slaughter of innocent civilians who perished at the hands of their own godless governments. Much of the world was drenched in the blood of millions of men, women and children, not as a result of actual war, but at the hands of anti-Christian tyrants such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Pol Pot, Castro. Like many tyrants today, all of them embraced some secular pantheistic cult religion or atheist-based political theory such as Marxism. In fact, Karl Marx, the father of communism, stated his intention regarding his arch enemy, Christianity:

“My objective is to dethrone God and to destroy capitalism”.

Note the cause and effect: God, then capitalism (free enterprise and political freedom are the antithesis of slavery and bondage under godless atheism).

By direct contrast, the mission statement of Jesus Christ the Author of our American political freedom (capitalism) and of our constitutional republic; and the arch-enemy of tyranny, slavery, human bondage and despots such as those above, was (is):

The Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil
(1 John 3:8).

The blessings of Christ are summarized: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (II Cor. 3:17). He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; to preach deliverance to the captives, and the recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are oppressed (Luke 4:18)

From the above discourse is clearly seen that the underlying nature of the conflict in today’s world is a clash between opposing worldviews. One leads to bondage and death; the other leads to life and liberty. There is no middle road; no substitute for eternal vigilance by those who wish to be and remain free; no substitute for our obedience and duty to God’s mandate that we pass to posterity an inheritance of freedom and knowledge of Him. There can be no compromise, no “live and let live” philosophy toward the workers of iniquity, any more than we can compromise and draw a peace pact with cancer. Cancer cannot change its nature, which is to attack and destroy.

Note: quote references available upon request.

DEDICATION

There is a remnant of great clergymen and millions of grassroots American citizens who have refused, and are refusing, to succumb to the onslaught of secularism and its myriad of freedom-destroying feel-good, positive-only New Age cults. Fearless and with unflinching faith , these gallant men and women fight on today with ever increasing courage and determination as they carry before them the banner of Jesus Christ, the Hope of America and the hope of our children and the world.

WILL AMERICA'S CHRISTIANS LET IT HAPPEN?

Although many fear that America is sinking into an abyss, the question is not, “Will America sink into a global tyranny?” The question is: “Will her Christians let it happen?”

NOTE: Quote sources upon request. Quotes are from more exhaustive writing by author John W. Chalfant (407) 629-5700 johnc@greatness.com www.greatness.com