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A DEFEATED CHURCH
"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not
your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates." 2 Corinthians 13:5.
Reprobates or counterfeits don't care if they live in a death culture. Jesus Christ, who lives in you, if ye be of the faith, produces an 'abundant life' culture. Let us examine ourselves to see which culture we are supporting.
There are some 70 million evangelical Christians in America. Although they are the
largest, wealthiest, most educated generation in the history of America, this group of people, the American church is a defeated group of people.
Here's why. Does the school that you support with property taxes teach your children the values you teach them at home? If not, then you're a member of a defeated church.
Are you in charge of what you see on TV? Does that programming reflect your values, and your hopes for your children's future? If not, you're a member of a defeated church.
Are you able to run your business in a manner pleasing to your God? If not, you're a member of a defeated church.
Does the money you earn have a long-term store of value or does it decrease over time, thereby discouraging savings and encouraging gambling and a speculative lifestyle? Fraudulent money robs the worker of his labor by making the value of this labor and his savings worth less over time. The Bible says the good leave an inheritance to their children's children. An inheritance of worthless fiat money is no inheritance at all. Moreover, it symbolizes the inheritance of a church diluted of its power. A worthless currency is a lot like a defeated church.
Do you retire at night secure in your home, neighborhood, or country, resting in peace with the idea that all is well and God is in his heavens? If not, you're defeated.
Are your Christian values and God's ultimate purposes being advanced through the halls of Congress or your local legislative body? Or are the ideas of Karl Marx being advanced instead? If so, you are a member of a defeated church.
All of the above questions are within the right of citizens to change and the duty, for a Christian, to change them in a manner pleasing to the glory of God. The government we have and will continue to have, save that God's judgment does not turn catastrophic, is the government we voted for. "Who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worked righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart." Psalms 15:1-2
Does your church on give you a Cappuccino buzz on Sunday and leave you wondering what your supposed to be doing by Tuesday? Then you're defeated.
"Now thanks be to God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place." 2 Corinthians 2:14
If your dominant attitude and understanding is not one of Protestant Church triumphant, now and throughout time, then you don't know your God or His plans and purposes, and you do not walk in victory. You are part of a defeated church and not in God's will.
"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that one point." Martin Luther
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A piercing article, David. We all have to get out of our holy huddles and begin to speak out and stand up for Christ and Christian values.
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