Woman of Excellence – Chapter 3

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Most women don’t understand how critical their role of motherhood is – not only to the family but to the world. Every great leader has a great mother.

 

Good mothers see their children as their ministry. I remember talking to God about our four ‘married’ children. The Lord said, “You aren’t done raising them yet.” No matter how old your children are they still need the wise counsel and prayers of mothers and fathers, and grandparents too.

 

As wives and mothers who are “in Christ” we should understand what the Lord’s people will be doing when He returns for His thousand year reign on earth so that we will make, not only ourselves ready for the Lord, but our children ready for the Lord too; ready for our positions with Him in His millennial kingdom. Knowing this, how should we think and live NOW?

 

It is said that Solomon’s mother nick-named him Lemuel which means “devoted to God.” The name Solomon means “consecrated to God.” This implies she was a humble praying woman; a woman who listened to God’s Spirit and trusted in God’s promises for her children. God highly favors a faithful woman’s prayer life and the wisdom behind the teaching she gives to her children – because she sees GREATNESS in each of her children, just as her God does.

 

What makes a woman – a woman of “excellence?”  She has a heart after God’s. She sees herself as God sees her. She conducts herself as one who has worth and advantage from God. She takes her God-given responsibilities seriously. She doesn’t do anything half-hearted because (as my husband says), “If it’s worth doing – it’s worth doing right.” She works to bring out the best in people, especially her family. She does not overlook little things or consider small things insignificant. She is reluctant to give over her duties as a wife and mother to others because her husband, children and home all reflect who she is, and she reflects God’s household. In all she does – she strives for excellence.

 

It will take God’s most-excellent women to raise up their children to be honorable men and women that are prepared and ready to reign with Christ Jesus. When we look out over our chaotic sin-diseased world we should be compelled and highly motivated as wives and mothers to get back to living as the Word of God commands us to live. A marriage, a church or a nation’s blessings from God will only be received by adhering to God’s ways and rules. His standard has never changed because God has never changed.

 

To be a woman of excellence takes courage, and especially in today’s world. Without confidence in God and in His Kingdom a woman will not achieve her true potential of womanhood.  Years ago I had a hotel maid return to my room with a necklace she had worn to work that day, not knowing why she felt the great urge to wear it but sensing that God wanted her to wear it that day for some reason. She had never worn it to work before. As she made up my room and I worked on my computer – we got to chatting and found out that we were both in love with Jesus. She returned an hour later after cleaning my room with the necklace she had worn to work that day. She told me that God told her to give me her “courage necklace.” She was so thrilled to give that special necklace of hers to me. It was hard for me to accept it. As she put it around my neck I wondered what God was telling me in this ‘obvious’ divine moment.

 

This was a time in my life when I was trying to fit in with what the Pastor’s wife wanted me to do for her ministry to the women in the church. There is nothing wrong with helping the pastor’s wife minister to the women in your church, but it is wrong to ‘not’ ask the Lord what He would have you do with the gifts and talents that He gave you to serve HIM with.

 

It takes courage to tell a pastor that you can’t do what they would like you do in the church. It takes courage to do what God wants you to do while everyone else is doing something else. It takes courage to speak the truth in a time or place where truth is no longer important. It takes courage to remain in your anointed place of serving God while being regarded as a divisive person or rebuked for being out of touch with reality. It takes courage to stand on God’s Word and what He says to you personally – no matter what people think of you. God was telling me to “be courageous” with His purpose in my life.

 

If I had brought it to my husband for his thought, approval and direction as to what the pastor’s wife was inviting me to do with her ministry, my time there might have turned out differently.  We are all Eve’s daughters and we all need to understand that the devil has plans with subtle schemes that are not for us but against us.

 

What other people want you to do with them or for them because of the excellent gifts and talents they see in you is normal, but it can keep you from serving God’s most excellence purpose for why He gave you those gifts and talents. It can prevent you from becoming a woman of excellence, and from raising children in the same way.

 

Marriage Covenant – Chapter 2

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Women are ‘capable’ of many things and all throughout history we’ve seen that truth manifested with both good as well as evil. When men and women are living according to God’s design and order the family benefits, communities benefit and nations benefit.

 

Since the marriage covenant comes from God and not from man – we have no right to alter and change what God designs and institutes. God does not support and honor marriage between two men or two women because God did not design man, woman, marriage and family that way. The vow or covenant two men or two women make is not binding because it is rejected by God. He calls it an abomination and it needs to be treated that way because of its destructive power over children, societies and mankind as a whole.

 

Man may find temporary cures to the diseases that develop from acts of sexual immorality but the fact remains that he can not keep up with all the new strings of diseases that develop out of sexual perversions. The world does not get the connection; that God is warning us by all these diseases to get right with Him.

 

Anyone is capable of remaining faithful to their wife or husband because it’s a choice and God will supply what we lack in faith if we go to Him humbly. I don’t like the wedding vows that I’m hearing today between couples who are afraid to commit to each other right from the start. Clearly they do not like the old wedding vows that state “through better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health – till death do we part.” But this is what “marriage” is all about.

 

Marriage vows are made out of a hope both the man and woman have for their future together. Every marriage starts out confident in some way but very few couples see their hopes realized. Dreams don’t come true without the stick-to-it-work of serving, giving, trusting, honoring, protecting and sharing honestly and openly about the important things in life, and most of all – dreams won’t come true without them both learning how to die to their own pig-headed ways and nasty habits.

 

We don’t hear the words “to love and obey” from brides today like we did in the past. In fact, we hear them less and less as the spirit of jezebel has been overtaking women more and more. The ‘modern’ woman has no intention of letting her husband, or any man, tell her anything let alone lead her. The ‘modern’ man doesn’t want to be responsible for his wife and children to the point of doing what it takes to protect and provide for them; he wants his wife to work and his children put in the hands of hired help.

 

Your relationship should be tested before you get married and begin living together. Don’t fool yourself, sex before marriage is nothing more than self-gratification. You don’t need to see if you both are sexually compatible. Your commitment to each other makes you compatible in that area. Sexual gratification is not the priority in marriage; maturing love is and there is a huge difference between love and sex. The testing of a pre-marriage relationship is about beliefs and faith in God. When you are compatible this way – there’s nothing the two of you can’t overcome in life.

 

A woman whose hope is in God does not break her marriage covenant because her husband isn’t meeting her expectations. Nor when the wife isn’t meeting her husband’s expectations. She (and he) goes to God with it, over and over and over until God has done His wonderful work in the two of you.

 

False expectations will NEVER be met. God tells us in His Word what a husband is to do for His wife and children, and what the wife is to do for her husband and children, but that doesn’t mean we forget what God also says about judging ourselves first, and about forgiveness, patience and prayer. False expectations ruin your marriage and effect your children’s future.

 

To keep secret expectations within the marriage could lead you to break covenant with your spouse. What I mean by a “secret expectation” is something that you want from the marriage relationship and not for the marriage relationship. It would be best to get all known expectations out on the table before the wedding day. There are just some things we should never expect from another person that God says He alone is responsible for as our faithful gracious and generous heavenly Father.

 

Covenant breaking is very serious and will affect all other areas in your life where a commitment is needed from you. The Lord watches over our vows that we make with people because giving our ‘word’ on something to somebody is binding in God’s eyes. God’s word to us is binding and as His children He expects us to make good our word and promises too.

 

A man wants a wife he can trust and confide in. A woman wants a husband who will protect and appreciate her. God made men very different from women and for a very good reason. We would be wise and blessed to leave it alone and just be content with those wonderful differences.

 

God is holding men accountable for what happens to their marriage and family, and God will help any man who humbly comes to Him for strength and guidance. Godly wives and mothers will understand this and purposely do all they can to help their husband with his responsibility from God, especially hold him up in prayer each morning. This makes her a woman of great worth.

 

The Gospel – Part 2

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2 Timothy 1:14 “Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you — guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.”

 

First and second Timothy being part of what is known as the “Pastoral Epistles” or “Letters” has much that we should keep in mind as we serve our Lord and King. However, like the rest of the Word of God it is all written for our admonition. We should all keep in mind that if we have been born-again – we are part of the Body of Christ and all ministers with our gifts and callings from God; we are each part of His holy priesthood. (1 Peter 1:5)

 

One of the admonitions of Paul to Timothy, and I believe to us as well, is to guard the gospel so that we do not water it down or pervert it by the way we live and speak. Sadly, we do not see the Gospel of Jesus Christ as powerful today like Paul expressed in Romans 1.

 

How should we guard the gospel? Our text tells us that we guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit that lives in us. But what does this mean in practical terms? I would like to offer several things in this connection:

 

  1. Paul said in 1 Timothy 4:16 “Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.” There is no better way to guard the gospel than to see the gospel being demonstrated in one’s life. John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only.”  When Jesus spoke it was often said that the people were amazed because He spoke with authority. When we speak His words they should have authority as well. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:13 “It is written: ‘I believed; therefore I have spoken.’ With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak.” What does this mean? Paul knew that what he believed was real because of how it was working in his life, and because of that – he could speak with authority. A question that we could ask ourselves: Is the gospel really real in my life? Has it made an obvious difference? Paul said to the Corinthian church in 2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you — unless, of course, you fail the test?” WE GUARD THE GOSPEL WITH OUR LIVES. One of the reasons why the gospel does not have much of an impact is because those who profess to have been saved by the gospel do not live much differently from those who are ignorant of the gospel.
  2. We are to guard the gospel by our suffering. 2 Timothy 1:8 “So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God.”  I think it is interesting to see that suffering for the gospel will certainly come if we guard it with our life. For many of our brothers and sisters in certain countries there is real suffering for the gospel to the point of death. However, for those of us in the West it might be more like a suffering of embarrassment. People will try to shame us for sharing the gospel, but we must rise above this and not cower from sharing our testimony of Jesus Christ. I believe Paul faced this because he wrote in 1 Corinthians 1:23 “…but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.” Here in our sophisticated West culture Christians seem to be ashamed to boldly speak in support of the simple pure gospel; more afraid to suffer the embarrassment when made to feel foolish or unwise. But, like Paul says, we do not come with the wisdom of man, but with the simplicity of the gospel that can change a man’s life and destiny.

 

Reformation will bring us back to the simplicity of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 31 Woman – Chapter 1- Like Mother Like Son

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In Proverbs chapter 31, the first 9 verses are a queen mother’s words of wisdom to her son. In this endearing memorable dialogue we receive the warnings and instruction for raising our own sons to be the head of their family and leaders in society.

 

As children of the King, we are royalty, no matter what physical condition we are in. Christ’s kingdom is seeded in me the moment I turned my heart and life over to Christ my Savior. The kingdom of the world will become the Kingdom of our Lord, and everything will be handed over to His saints, the true sons and daughters of God. (Daniel 7:27, Revelation 11:15, Galatians 5:19-21, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 19:11) This is what we make ourselves and our children ready for, to reign with Jesus Christ.

 

This noble mother (King David’s queen) gives her royal son 2 instructions with her wisdom behind them. “Do not spend your strength on women; your vigor on those who ruin kings.” “It is not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer, lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.” (Proverbs 31:3-5)

 

Women and drunkenness will strip a man of his God-given authority and honor.

 

King Solomon had many wives for many reasons. As I consider what his queen mother meant by “do not spend your strength on women who ruin kings,” I believe she was referring to him not letting his wife/wives influence and lead him, but rather that he be fully responsible for his anointed responsibilities from God. It is a fact that the hundreds of wives that Solomon had were his downfall, but even one wife can bring down a man from fulfilling his purpose. We have Eve with her husband Adam to see this truth.

 

The queen tells her crowned son that there are others who would benefit more from beer and wine. “Give it to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.” (Proverbs 31:6-7) “….because anguish, poverty and misery are not your future, my son!”

 

The life of a true servant of God, whether he is a husband and father, teacher, preacher, doctor, police officer, pilot, developer, organizer, author, law maker, judge, soldier, president or king – is to: “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are needy in any way. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” (Proverbs 31:8-9)

 

I have a plaque that I was given after my grandmother died. It was hers and I believe the Lord wanted me to have it instead of my sisters. The words of this poem are so true because godly mothers raise godly children: “Remember the world will be quick with its blame – if shadow or stain ever darken your name. ‘Like mother, like son’ is a saying so true. The world will judge largely of ‘Mother’ by you.” (Unknown author)

Will You Believe?

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There is no other God, there never has been and there never will be. I, am the LORD, and there is no other Savior. No one can snatch My children out of My hand, because My children are precious to Me.

 

When My children go through deep waters – I will be with them. When they go through rivers of difficulty – they will not drown. When they walk through the fire of oppression – they will not be burned up. Therefore My children, do not be afraid for I have chosen you to know Me, and to believe in Me, and to fully understand that I alone am God.

 

But, some of My children have grown tired of Me, and have burdened me with their sin of unbelief. Their eyes are closed to My truth, and they cannot see My presence around them. Their minds are shut to My wisdom, and their meditation is on the things of the world around them. These poor, deluded fools trust in what can not help them. Oh how this grieves Me!

 

My children, I alone am the only One who can save you and blot out sins so I never think of them again. Life is a choice which path will you choose? Will you continue to choose the world, or come to your senses and choose your only Savior and hope for a bright and blessed future. My Son has paid the price for you to be free? Will you keep putting it off till you’re out of time?

 

Because I love you more than you will ever know – I will keep coming to you, over and over, while you still have time. It’s not My desire or will that anyone should perish in their own sins!

The Gospel

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THE GOSPEL

 

2 Timothy 1:14 “Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you — guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.”

 

I believe that reformation will bring us back to the real gospel and what the real gospel can do. Paul said in Romans 1:16 “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.”

 

Do we, like Paul, believe that this gospel is powerful, REALLY powerful? Do we believe that it can enter into a man’s heart and change him (or her), changing even the outcome of his (or her) life? Or do we believe that something ‘else’ is needed to bring about the change in a person? Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”

 

It seems that a new gospel has snuck into the church that is being preached today. A gospel where Jesus does all of the dying; a gospel where there is no personal sacrifice, no giving up of worthless things, no dying to self so that Christ can live out His life through our bodies; a gospel where basically – Jesus is absent.

 

I am reminded of the passage in Scripture when Jesus was 12 years of age and he went with his parents to the temple in Jerusalem. After two days on their way back they thought that Jesus was with them, but He wasn’t. He was back in the temple doing His heavenly Father’s business. (Luke 2:41-49) For two days Mary and Joseph did not know that Jesus was absent from them. In the same way the church is not aware that Jesus is absent because of this “new gospel” being preached today.

 

The gospel that Paul was talking about in 1 & 2 Timothy was a radical gospel which called a man or woman to come and then die. Like Paul, the early church realized that this gospel delivered them from their empty self-life. 2 Corinthians 5:15 “And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.”

 

When the gospel came into a man’s life he realized several things:

  1. That he was not his own; he had been bought with a price. 1 Peter 1:18-19 “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ.”
  2. That there was a new Lord or Master in his life. Romans 14:9 “For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.” Self who had been in control has now been replaced by a new King: King Jesus.
  3. That there was a new beginning and direction in his life. “He is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
  4. That this gospel was ‘free,’ but it was not cheap. It cost more to God, but it must cost us for it to be real and lasting. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

 

It was this gospel that went out and changed the course of history in the first century. In the first 60 years the gospel had gone forth throughout the Roman Empire, when churches were planted and lives had been changed with the new hope that had pervaded the world. The world would never be the same.

 

It was this gospel that changed a man by the name of Martin Luther and ushered in the reformation five hundred years ago which changed Western Civilization. It is this gospel that we need to come back to in our preaching and everyday living.

 

From God

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There is no other God, there never has been and there never will be. I am the LORD and there is no other Savior.

 

No one can snatch My children out of My hand, because My children are precious to Me. When My children go through deep waters – I will be with them. When they go through rivers of difficulty – they will not drown. When they walk through the fire of oppression – they will not be burned up. Therefore My children, do not be afraid for I have chosen you to know Me, and to believe in Me, and to fully understand that I alone am your God.

 

But, some of My children have grown tired of Me, and have burdened Me with their sin of unbelief. Their eyes are closed to My truth, and they cannot see My presence around them. Their minds are shut to My wisdom, and their meditation is on the things of the world around them. These poor, deluded fools trust in what can not help them. Oh how this grieves Me!

 

My children, I alone am the only One who can save you and blot out sins so I never think of them again. Life is a choice so which path will you choose? Will you continue to choose the world, or come to your senses and choose your only Savior and hope for a bright and blessed future. My Son has paid the price for you to be free? Will you keep putting it off till you’re out of time?

 

Because I love you more than you will ever know – I will keep coming to you, over and over, while you still have time. It’s not My desire or will that anyone should perish in their own sins!

 

 

 

Needed: An Awakening

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Psalms 74:2 “Remember the people (NATION) you purchased of old, the tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed —Mount Zion, where you dwelt.”

 

In every society or culture we have what we call “opinion makers.” These are people who use words to make a living. We see how God used George Whitfield who came in with a message from the Lord and brought in the right opinion which led into the great awakening and the American experiment.

 

A similar thing took place in Europe over 500 years ago when Martin Luther stood up with a message from God and we have the Western civilization we have today.

 

However, in the Western world we are in the process of losing this connection with the Lord. Consequently, we are in need of more George Whitfield’s and Martin Luther’s.

 

Isaiah 60:1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.”

 

There are three words that we are hearing quite often and they are: reformation, revival and transformation. Reformation is the ministry of John the Baptist preparing the way for the Lord; revival as Martin Lloyd Jones says is God passing by; and transformation is the result.

 

 

This past July 4th we celebrated our 241st year of when we (USA) declared our independence. God has been reminding me that before we had our independence the Lord sent a powerful preacher to our shores called George Whitfield. He had a powerful influence upon our country and there was a spiritual awakening. One could say that before our independence we had a reformation – a calling back to God and the things of God.

 

A war of independence was fought and through the revolution we gained our independence. We were set free and through that freedom a new experiment was undertaken that never had been done before in the history of mankind; that man could govern himself.

 

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE says “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The references to God in the Declaration of Independence provide a foundation for a moral argument within civil society that has brought the transformation.

 

One can Google and read the rest of the declaration, but what the Lord was showing me was the pattern that was laid down that I mentioned above about reformation, revival and transformation. In this case with the birth of the United States we had George Whitfield (reformation) calling us back to the truths of the Word of God and our responsibilities.

 

Thomas Jefferson said to Richard Price, 1789: “Reformation in government follows reformation in opinion.” George Whitfield in his powerful preaching was bringing in the opinion of God. This was the forerunner of what was to come. It was said about Whitfield in his biography: “More than any other preacher of his day, he made the Great Awakening a vital, far-reaching force, religiously, socially, and politically, in America.” In America he preached a series of revivals that came to be known as the Great Awakening of 1740.

 

Revival, but in this case revolution where we were set free and with the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE a document for the law of the land – brought in transformation or reconstruction. Yes, there are many things wrong that need fixing in our country, but there is no doubt about the transformation or reconstruction that has taken place in our country over these past 239 years to be a free society – freedom of religion, freedom of the press, habeas corpus (this is a legal action through which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention. It is an important legal instrument safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary state action), trial by jury, and a representative legislature.

 

Thomas Jefferson said: “Every generation needs a new revolution.”  In reading the first paragraph of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE the thought that comes is that God wants to raise up tens of thousands of pastors who from the pulpit will be calling the people to exercise their responsibility and come back to the fundamentals that our country was founded on. Gary Bauer said: “Pastors were instrumental in America’s founding. The Church has long been a pillar of strength in our society. We need their leadership in turning the tide and once again making America a shining city upon a hill.”

 

Through this ‘reformation’ we will see a ‘revolution of love’ (God is love) in the hearts of millions that will spark them into a labor of love in every aspect of society; which in turn ushers in ‘transformation.’ 1 Thessalonians 1:3

 

Chuck Colson said: “We need to confess our moral failures and our national sins. We need to repent of the lies that justify killing innocent babies and the elderly. The road to renewal begins on our knees. And it’s there that we hear soul-searching questions from God himself, asking: ‘How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked? Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.'” Psalms 82:2-4

 

 

 

God or Man?

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Proverbs 8:12-16 “I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion. To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have understanding and power. By me kings reign and rulers make laws that are just; by me princes govern, and all nobles who rule on earth.”

 

My article’s title, God or Man, could be stated Christian vs. Humanistic Worldview. When we think of the battle that we are in it is really a war of worldviews. This is what we are faced with in the United States and the West, and in the rest of the world – although it takes a different form in each country depending on its dominant religion. But here in the West it is either Christianity or humanism that make decisions for the nation. It is a battle between man and God as to who will make decisions for us all.

 

In the U.S.A. as well as Western Europe we see the great divide between these two worldviews. Here in the U.S.A. we saw this in our last election and see how it has become even more distinct today. This divide centers around issues of life, family, morality, property rights, the role of government in business and as well as our Constitutional laws and liberties.

 

What are some of the differences between these two worldviews? A biblical or Christian worldview has truth rooted in God and His Word; it will embrace limited government, support and defend its borders and the freedom of religion and property. This biblical worldview recognizes that laws cannot change man’s heart or behavior, but can only restrict his unlawful actions by the fear of punishment. (Romans 13) Law from a Christian or biblical worldview, the way our Founding Fathers viewed, originates with God and not man. This laws rooted in truth are reveal to us through nature, through our conscience and through the clear revelation of the Holy Scripture. For the biblical worldview, man’s ‘law(s)’ can NOT change the heart nor the attitude of man. No law or set of laws can make man moral. A Christian worldview recognizes the moral basis for all laws to be made. We see this with the Ten Commandments. In other words, all law must have a moral concern for the good of its society, but for the Christian worldview the question is: Whose morality does ‘the law’ legislate?

 

Law from a humanistic view point originates with man and not God; it’s executed through the state and based on what the majority says, or of a powerful minority-judicial system.  For those who operate from a humanistic worldview they see the evils in society but arrive at different solutions because there is no higher authority than man. There is no savior, there is no hope of internal regeneration or transformation in man. So if changes come – it must come from man himself. To carry this out to its logical conclusion: man relies on government with its laws to eliminate evil and bring about utopia; man becomes god and government is his instrument to bring about salvation. This is one of the reasons why there is such a divide right now in the U.S.A. The ones who advocate the humanistic worldview fight to have the power of the government. The Christian worldview sees the role of government not trampling on the unalienable rights of man. Government is not the main source for what we need, for we have a higher source that we can go to; we have the Savior. Our Founding Fathers believed this.

 

By contrast the biblical worldview sees that ‘laws’ can only restrain man from doing evil deeds, but cannot change the heart of man, and because of that there will be no advancement towards a better society. Thomas Jefferson’s pastor, Charles Clay, said: “The sacred cause of liberty is the cause of God.” John Adams said: “The world, the flesh, and the devil, have always maintained a confederacy against liberty, from the fall of Adam to this hour, and will, probably continue so until the fall of antichrist.” Stephen McDowell was right when he said: “Every nation is built upon some set of presuppositions, some basic ideas of right or wrong, which are ultimately rooted in the religion of the people. With the humanistic worldview there are no absolutes. Right and wrong are based upon what the majority says or what a minority power says, therefore, law is always evolving.”

 

We see that ideas have consequences and this is being played out in the world today. Although I have concentrated mainly on the Western countries those of you in other countries are faced with the same situation of a biblical worldview versus whatever your dominant religion is. Eventually these other worldviews will fall, because they are not rooted in God’s truth.

 

Proverbs 29:14 “If a king judges the poor with fairness, his throne will always be secure. When the wicked thrive, so does sin, the righteous will see their downfall.”

 

 

 

Before It’s Too Late!

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What is it about the Bible that scares people? Is it what is said that will happen to those who refuse to believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord; that they are sinners in need of being forgiven? Is it that Jesus is coming again? Is it the fear of persecution if you follow Jesus and obey His instructions, and stand up for the truth?

 

God’s children need to understand that Jesus will never grow weak or weary to protect and provide for His disciples; no one can measure the great depths of His love for His children. Those who stand with Jesus in truth and righteousness will be given power and strength so they can walk in this wicked world and not get tired or afraid of living for the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

But for those who do know Jesus Christ as their Savior and yet compromise His truth so that they can feel safe and secure in their own lifetime will lose what they thought they had with Him, and they will lose their children to the god of this world, to the enemies of Christ and evil workers of inequity. The children of those who shrink back from walking with Christ will reject Jesus Christ and His Word.

 

Jesus is calling to those who have already compromised the truth, to return to Him in true fellowship and to obeying His Word; to ask for His wisdom and power to live the life of faith, hope and love in Christ Jesus before it’s too late; for He says there is a time when the door will be shut.