Tuesday, April 12, 2016

BEFORE THE REVIVAL...HUMILITY AND REPENTANCE

"...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." 
2nd Chronicles 7:14
Have you asked yourself, "Why has this generation in the USA not seen a great revival?" I believe it is closely tied to the fact that we have become too wrapped up in flags and nationalism, in war and warriors, in prideful, unquestioned support of murderous foreign policy.  
The passage I quoted above makes it very clear that for God to bless and anoint, we must first HUMBLE ourselves and TURN FROM OUR WICKED WAYS. And that is something that American believers find so very difficult.
Like so many white churches that sat silently while Jim Crow ruled the day; the church today sits in silent approval of the lies and deceptions that have produced so many wars, including our present Global War of Terror.
Because of cowardice, and an unwillingness to speak for and demand the TRUTH...our country has rushed, over and over again into wars for profit, costing millions of lives and trillions in national treasure.
Only a few, it seems, have the moral courage to speak out that SHOULD come from the knowledge that we are not invested in this world, but the next.
And maybe that's the issue....too many church leaders are overly invested in this world...and this country. They have wrapped their faith in flags and confused service to God with servicing our present government by supporting their calls to war and going along with the glorification of war and the warrior.
For this, they will have to account. And I believe that before any real revival in this country can begin, we will need to humble ourselves and admit our fault in unquestioning supporting wars for profit.
If you want an example of courageous preaching that applies Christian dogma to the practical and real issues of our day, give a listen to the following excerpt from MLK Jr's speech, "A Time To Break Silence", where he talks about the evil of war and why he opposed the Vietnam war...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1Ru2p8OfU
His warnings about where our country would end up, should we fail to learn the lessons of Vietnam, are prophetic and damning. 
We have not learned, and we, as leaders of the church, in our unquestioning support of our governments foreign policy and "diplomacy by other means"...in our failure to apply the truth and love of God to the present problems of our nation and its godless foreign policy...must bear a large part of the blame for failing to be what we are called to be....the conscience of the nation.
The press are the eyes and ears of the nation. They have been made blind and deaf, having been bought off by conglomerates that refuse to let the press speak the truth they see.
But, the church is a nations conscience. Without a conscience, the entity is dark and dead. So our nation has grown dark and is in danger of dying altogether for lack of truth, for lack of love, for lack of moral compass....because church leaders across this land have aligned themselves with American foreign policy, with the New World Order, they have made their message null and void.
Why should anyone want to follow a Christ that approves of drone assassinations; looks the other way at torture and rendition; silently approves of our training and equipping of horrific dictatorships that will make way for American business interests at the expense of their own citizens; and cares little for the children of Muslims across the Middle East that are now orphaned and crippled by our foreign policy?
MLK Jr would roll over in his grave could he see what we've become as a nation today. And I think Jesus' is grieved beyond imagining with the way we have squandered the grace and gifts He bestowed on this nation at its outset.
Do you want to see revival in your church and community? Do you desire the full blessing of God? Then unwrap yourself from your flag. Cleanse your mind of the lies and deception that the media has poisoned you with. Seek the truth! Live by the truth!! And be open and willing to let God use you as the hot iron of a loving conscience in your community.
Detach yourself from our present, pugilistic foreign policy. Speak out against your governments atrocities and call this nation to repentance FIRST. Then, with His grace and mercy and forgiveness applied to us, as a nation, then and only then, will He pour out His blessings in full measure.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

On voting...

I've come to believe that anyone casting a vote today (in light of what I now know about the New World Order, Secret Societies, and the matrix created for us by the military-industrial-congressional-thinktank complex) has either no understanding of the world they live in, or has chosen NOT to know.  


Ignorance, whether deliberate or not, is neither Christian nor patriotic.  Pastors would do well to educate their congregations on the true nature of the world we live in and make sure they understand that their true hope...their only hope...is in Jesus.  And that His Kingdom, yet to be revealed, will not be a matter of majority vote.   


Democracy...even the ideal democratic republic...is still the antithesis of the Kingdom of God.  Any love of country, if it is not God's Kingdom,  is love stolen from that which belongs to God.  To pin your hope on any man, other than Jesus, is sheer nonsense, foolishness and a waste of one's short time on this earth.