Stand With God, Or You Are Doomed

Today, at Townhall.com Scott Hogenson tries to explain why church bodies are bending and caving to cultural and political ideologies in an article entitled, appropriately enough, Why Are Churches Caving To Cultural and Political Ideologies? The short answer is that they fear the combined pressure and oppression of the government and media. They fear for their livelyhoods and in some cases for their very lives.  This is understandable, and a very human response.

But Christ tells us in Matthew 10:28 " Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." We need to stand up to the opperssion now, while it is yet not fully developed, or we will later be in the same situation as in Nazi Germany, in the Soviet Union and in Communist China to name just a few. We need to proclaim Christ, and him crucified, and do as He commanded.  Otherwise, we risk losing the protection of our Lord, as the Israelites did so often in the Old Testament.

Religious persecution in outright tyrannies is terrifying and not likely to reach such extremes in the United States anytime soon. But when the basis of a 2,000 year old faith is denounced as hate and churches are suspect over the language spoken in their liturgy, we all should be very concerned about what happens next.

Mark Twain observed, “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,” and the lessons of history are clear; bad things can happen to churches that push back against the state. To paraphrase Made Guys in the protection racket, “That’s a nice little church you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.” Small wonder churches are secularizing their doctrine.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote about “building a wall of separation between the church and state,” he was not talking about keeping religion out of the public sphere as leftists and atheists claim. Jefferson was referring to a wall that protects the church - in this case, the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Association - from persecution by the state.

It is obscene when American churches are pressured into altering doctrine to ingratiate themselves to the state or the culture, or to protect themselves from government abuse. When churches have to ‘go along to get along,’ it’s a corruption of faith. Scripture instructs Christians and Jews to fear God but it’s a travesty when they must also fear government and the culture it promotes.

So, let me just say, right now, that the various homosexual behaviors, including cross dressing, drag queen behavior, so called "transexual" behaviors including both hormone treatments and so called "gender affirming care" all fall under the definition of sexual immorality. Along with these of course are adultery and fornication. All these things are sins against God and our fellow man.

 But Critical Race Theory is also a sin, for God created man in his image. He did not create one race and not another, but all races of men are the same, inheriting the image of God.

Communism is a sin, in that communist seek to force people to give up their property to the state. But God recognizes private property in the Ten Commandments when he issues the admonistion to not covet your neighbors things. God also admonishes us to not kill our chidren even in the womb. This is one of the things that got Israel into trouble, when they fed their children into the fires of Moleck. I could go on, but you get the idea. You can read all about it in the Bible.

Now in saying all this, I must also say that we all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.  We have not only sinned by what we have done, but by what we haven't done as well.  But God has a plan of salvation, which you can also read about in the Bible. The plan was fulfilled with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We have sinned deeply, and we all deserve God's punishment.. But we can repent, indeed it is what we must do, and be saved. But it means we must abandon what we have been doing, including bowing down to the government and the culture. 

 The fact is that God has already won. We just need to jump on the bandwagon. The fact is that those churches that are standing firm on God's side are continuing to grow. Those that are caving are dying. There is no neutral position. You must pick a side. Either you stand with God, or you are doomed.

As an aside, if you want to find out what is really going on with the LGBTQ+ad nauseum, check out the book by Jonathon Cahn The Return Of The Gods.