If Our Nation Is Dying, Then J6 Was Not The Day It Began To Die
If our nation is dying, it did not begin
with J6.
It did not begin with a coup against a legitimately
elected President.
It did not begin with that duly elected
President from being cheated out of would otherwise been a second term by very
sophisticated and widespread electoral fraud.
It did not begin with the indefinite
incarceration of innocent peaceful protesters at the J6 rally.
It did not begin with attempts to censor
content by big tech challenging the favored narratives they would have everyone
believe.
It did not begin with rioting and an inept
law enforcement.
It did not begin with corporate greed or
government corruption.
I did not begin with a dishonest media,
deceptive academia, nor with a politically correct and depraved entertainment
industry, nor with racial division, political polarization, nor with a gender
or generational gap.
Nor did it begin with the imposition of
civic double-standards or a two tiered-justice system.
It did not even begin with the likes of
Obamination, the Biden creature or his spawn, the anti-Christ party or its
allies such as the anti-Christ legal Union (ACLU) or Anti-Christs United for
the Separation of Church and State.
Nor was it brought about by foreign
hostiles such as Iran, North Korea, or China or by an insecure border, nor by
the infiltration of terrorists, drug smugglers, human traffickers, and other criminals.
Its slow death began long before all of
that; the aforementioned being among the many signs and symptoms of that slow
death.
It began, not with the economy, academia,
the media, the entertainment industry, nor with any of our trusted institutions,
nor with any political party, or any persons, movements, or organizations of
influence, and it did not begin with our government.
It did not begin with things that we can
see with our eyes or engage with our physical senses, but it began with that which
is not seen; the evils and dangers we see being but symptoms of that which is
not seen for that which is seen in this present life is made manifest by a
cause unseen and that which is unseen consists of forces and powers that can
either bring life or death, that can build up or tear down, that can bring
greatness and prosperity, or shame, ruin, and eventual destruction and whether
or not a nation is made strong or weak, and whether or not a nation lives or
dies depends on what its people embrace.
If they embrace those powers that bring
life, will not then the nation live? But if they embrace the things of death,
will that not bring about the death of their nation? If they embrace the things
of light, will not then that nation be filled with light? And if they take
pleasure in darkness, will not the nation be plunged into darkness? If they
choose what is good and right, will not goodness and uprightness abound in that
nation? But if they choose evil, then shall not that nation be consumed by the
evil that its people embrace?
And that is the very question that every
man, woman, and yes, even every child should ask themselves. It is something that we should all humbly
examine within ourselves: Are we embrace, life, light, and goodness? Or are we
taking pleasure in the things of death, darkness, and evil? Will we count as coincidence the rise and
fall of a nation? Or do we take time to examine the reason for why a nation
rises and endures or is eventually destroyed? And to do this we must take into
consideration not that which we do see, which are the end effects, but we must
all take just as much into consideration that which is not seen, which is the
cause behind the effects that we do see.
Any good physician will not merely treat
the symptoms of a disease or sickness, but they will also attack the sickness
at its very source, but in order to do so, he has to know what is causing the
disease in the first place and once he knows what is causing the disease, he
can then attack it at its source and if he can succeed at destroying the source
of the ailment, then symptoms of that ailment will also disappear, but if he
only treats the symptoms of the disease but not the cause of the symptoms, then
the symptoms will only keep returning.
In the same manner, if we only address
that which is seen, being the effects of that which is not, then the manifested
evils will only continue to return which is why it is impossible to drain the
swamp from the surface of its waters but instead, it must be drained at its
very bottom, the breaches from which the filthy water pours in must be located,
and filled in, and the fountains out of which those waters pour must be
identified, pulled out, and replaced with fountains that produce better waters
for what fountains are established determine the sort of water that comes
forth; the effects of which begin not from the top down, but always from the
bottom up and the effects of that which takes place at the bottom may not be
felt at the higher levels immediately, but as they rise, their effects will
eventually be seen and felt even in the halls of government itself and these
waters come in the form of philosophies, ideologies, doctrines, creeds, and
even religions which themselves spring forth from a fountain which cannot be
described to be anything more than spiritual and it is that very spirit that
determines the doctrine, creed, philosophy, and ideology by which the course of
a life and society are influenced and directed.
This observation was made by an Alexis De
Tocqueville, author of Democracy In America, in a letter to his
superiors stating:
I went at your bidding, and passed along
their thoroughfares of trade. I ascended their mountains and went down their valleys.
I visited their manufactories, their commercial markets, and emporiums of
trade. I entered their judicial courts and legislative halls. But I sought
everywhere in vain for the secret of their success, until I entered the church.
It was there, as I listened to the soul-equalizing and soul-elevating
principles of the Gospel of Christ, as they fell from Sabbath to Sabbath upon
the masses of the people, that I learned why America was great and free, and
why France was a slave [1]
And again, writing in the first volume of Democracy
In America, he stated:
Religion perceives that civil liberty
affords a
noble exercise to the faculties of man,
and that the
political world is a field prepared by the
Creator
for the efforts of the intelligence .
Contented with
the freedom and the power which it enjoys
in its
own sphere, and with the place which it
occupies,
the empire of religion is never more
surely esta
blished than when it reigns in the hearts
of men
unsupported by aught beside its native
strength
Religion is no less the companion of
liberty in
all its battles and its triumphs ; the
cradle of its in
fancy, and the divine source of its claims
. The safe
guard of morality is religion , and
morality is the best
security of law, and the surest pledge of
freedom. [2]
This being affirmed in our Declaration of
Independence:
When in the course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God
entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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 them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit
of Happiness. [3]
And before then, Puritan leader John
Winthrop declared of the land that would become an independent and sovereign
nation:
We shall find that the God of Israel is
among us,
when ten of us shall be able to resist a
thousand of our enemies;
when he shall make us a praise and glory
that men shall say of succeeding plantations, “The Lord make it likely that of
New England.”
For we must consider that we shall be as a
city upon a hill. The
eyes of all people are upon us. [4]
That there was once a reliance upon a
power and authority not derived of man, but upon that which was credited for
the creation of the universe and also the source of all truth, (Jn. 14:6) the
definer of our reality and from which all moral law and justice come and upon
which the establishment of just government is established; an authority and
moral law that never changes (Mal. 3:6) but remains the same, yesterday, today,
and forever (Heb. 13:8) because the Creator of our universe, being the Lord God
of Heaven and of earth, remains the same and is unchanging and it is this God
that was once credited for the formation and greatness of this nation and for
the liberties for which it is best known and which have served to be an
inspiration to many around the world who themselves long for the freedoms that
we ourselves have been blessed with and yet have so taken for granted because
we have forgotten where our liberty came from and have thought that we might
have more freedom apart from God and it was in the day that prayer, even
voluntary prayer and the elective study of His divinely inspired Word, was removed
from our public schools that the slow death of our nation began:
With the abolishing of prayer and
scripture reading in our schools, came the rise of promiscuity, drug, and alcohol
use, even among our youth, increasingly unstable households, broken marriages
and relationships that need not have ended, an increasing lack of respect for
those in authority which include parents, an increase in hopeless and despair
leading to a rise in suicides, a rise in crime at every level, increasing
government corruption, dishonesty in the media, the poisoning of the minds of
our students within the halls of academia with cleverly crafted lies, an
increasingly depraved entertainment industry that celebrates and affirms that
which is evil, sinful, and perverse in the eyes of our Creator while misrepresenting,
mocking, and vilifying that which is good, right, and honorable.
That which is good is being called evil
and that which is evil is being called good.
That which God has forbidden to us is now
permissible and what God has deemed permissible is being forbidden.
Babies are murdered in the name of
healthcare.
The institution of marriage is being
perverted and made into a mockery in the name of equality.
The same people who filed suit to remove
keep prayer and Bible reading out of our schools are the same people who claim
and insist that we are no more or less significant than a speck of dust and who
dogmatically teach that we descended from single-celled organisms by way of processes
that have never been observed or repeated and insist on calling it science
while ridiculing the biblical account of the origins of life and calling mythology
that which is history because they would have us believe that the universe came
about by way of random processes rather than by an act of creation and in doing
so, they have led many to deny that there is absolute truth, absolute right or
wrong, or that there is such a thing as good and evil, thus going on to corrupt
the minds of even young children with perverse and disgusting lies by deluding
them into denying even the most basic of facts of life and they do everything in
their power to suppress anything challenging their lies and their false doctrines.
They have also gone on to demanding the
removal of crosses honoring our fallen veterans and the removal of displays of
the ten commandments from our schools and courtrooms which have served as the
basis for the establishment of lawfully ordered civilizations and not being
content with that, they demand that everyone, including they who otherwise
would not, affirm and celebrate that which is evil, sinful, perverse, and
wicked in the eyes of our Creator and persecute those who remain firm and
steadfast in their respective faith and principles.
Instead of being united around virtues,
principles, and values essential for a stable life and moral stability, we are
being divided over petty and insignificant things and find ourselves being
increasing polarized politically. Promises
and guarantees are made that are never fulfilled by those making the promises
because they give a word and a promise that they never intended to keep and
fulfill in the first place.
Truth, honesty, integrity, and
transparency no longer matter like they used to. Contracts, vows, and covenants are not honored
and upheld like they used to be.
The acts of criminals are excused and
justified while the innocent and law-abiding are condemned.
Our economy is being weakened by a
declining currency, overregulation, excessive taxation, massive debt and
unrestrained spending that threaten its ruin.
We are now in danger from enemies from
without and within, our God-given liberties which our Constitution was designed
to protect are under constant assault and as written in the cited Liberty
One commentary item, a duly elected President having the best interests of
this nation at heart, respecting and upholding our rights to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness, who sought to restore integrity and honor to the
halls of our civic institutions, and restore strength and prosperity to our
nation, was barraged by attacks on his character, political witch hunts, impeachment
attempts, and cheated out of what might have been a second term by an elaborate
widespread poisoning of our electoral integrity and those who came to Washington
D.C. to protest possibly fraudulent electoral results were treated like
criminals and terrorists by a corrupt DOJ; most that have been arrested did not
destroy any property or commit any acts of violence but were nonetheless unjustly
incarcerated indefinitely and when brought to trial, were wrongfully sentenced.
Any violence and property destruction that
took place at the Capitol was nothing in comparison to the widespread
BLM/ANTIFA riots that left entire neighborhoods in ruins and several people either
injured or killed and what is even worse, even any possible offenders are being
punished for far more for much lesser offenses than those of the BLM/ANTIFA
rioters who, for their crimes, received little more than just a slap on the
wrist while those who entered into the congressional chambers and offices risk
years of imprisonment for nothing more but buffoonish behavior but anyone, just
simply for being there, risks being investigated, arrested, incarcerated, and
even sentenced by a corrupt DOJ and D.C. justice system.
The cited Liberty One item shares
the account of one man who had been arrested and jailed for virtually no reason
at all and how it has affected his life and family:
I am a husband and father who has zero
criminal history…. And I am looking at years in prison AFTER I took a plea.
You may ask why would people take a plea
if they are innocent? Innocent has nothing to do with this as my lawyer has
told over and over again. This is payback. There are only a handful of
representatives in DC that care about us. The vast majority couldn’t care less.
So I went to DC to support the way I
thought best. I wasn’t violent, I didn’t break anything, I didn’t steal
anything and that doesn’t matter. I lost my 6 figure income, friends, and my
family is a wreck. I had the FBI in my home, I was brought before a judge in
shackles.
And I am a lucky one. I got to remain free
till sentencing. So this is the country that I now live in. Where the powerful
few can attack an elected president attempting to removing him for 4 years and
where elections no longer matter.
I am now barely making a living doing
manual labor for just over minimum wage until my sentencing is over. I was
threatened with 20 years in prison, something only murderers face. We couldn’t
change the venue and none of the motions to dismiss were accepted.
So, at the pleading of my wife, the
extreme bias of DC and it’s “jury pool of my peers” and advice from my lawyer,
I destroyed a part of me and signed a paper full of exaggerations, lies and
more importantly a narrative that fits what they want.
I am a Christian and somehow I feel
damned. I lied to save my family. My pastor tells me about rehab but it doesn’t
help. I don’t look at myself in the mirror anymore. A part of me is dead now. I
now wake up longing for the Lord to take me. [5]
In his hopeless and despair, he also
stated:
There will be no reform of this
government. There will be no going back. All there is now is the path ahead.
But that path will never lead back to the country we once were. [6]
And I hate to admit it, but he is sadly
right. This government has become so
corrupt that it cannot be reformed by just an electoral process. I am not saying that we should quit voting or
stop participating in the political process.
We need to be actively participating in the political process. We need to continue our attempts to vote in
the most principled and God-fearing candidates at every level of government we
can find and whose platforms are the most like-minded with what we believe in
and what matters to us most because if we stop voting and stop participating in
the political process, then that is the day that in which we WILL be defeated. It is not the prisons, the fines, riots, threats
of civil war, foreign attacks, nor the dangers of economic collapse, nor the
threats against our lives or even the lives of those who we hold dear that are
going to defeat us. It will not be a “woke
military” that will defeat nor will we be defeated by a corrupt presidential
administration or by a compromised electoral system.
What will defeat us is if we simply surrender
to the forces of evil, darkness, corruption, and oppression but if we are to
have any hope of prevailing, it will not be in our own power, our own
understanding, by the mere use of force, or by our reliance upon the political
process nor will it be by the hand and wisdom of any affluential political
figure or pundit. It is going to take
something much more and it is going to take a power greater than that of any
man and greater than ourselves and it is a power that is going to demand of us
a change from within ourselves, an inward reformation which cannot be described
as being anything more than a spiritual reformation. We often look for and attempt to preserve a
freedom that we can see and pursue after a manifested prosperity while most
ignorant of the fact that the outward freedoms we experience are produced from
an unseen liberty that begins from within and that the prosperity that we have
enjoyed is but a reward and blessing bestowed upon us if we will be but willing
to embrace the spiritual reform by which true liberty is produced and submit to
the authority thereof for it is by this authority that all things were created
and it is He who is the way, the truth, and the life:
The way for it is He in whom we are
reformed, transformed, and whose law is a perfect law by which our lives are
governed and ordered and whose counsel never fails nor leads astray.
The Truth for it is He who is the source
of all truth, wisdom, and knowledge.
The life for it is He who creates it and
gives it.
But there be those who think that there is
a greater liberty apart from our Creator, who count His governance oppressive,
and who deny His life-giving and life changing power, but as scripture has
recorded and to which history itself has also testified, any time men have turned
away from God in pursuit of that greater freedom, they have always found
themselves in bondage, captivity, misery, and despair and the ways that they would
hold to have been the ways of death instead of life, what they would take for
wisdom was instead foolishness, and the things they took for truth to be a lie
and the sole determiner of what was right and wrong, good and evil, was no
longer the Creator from whom a perfect law and order comes and remains
unchanging, but it was instead fallible men whose whims and opinions are
subject to change who would then decide what was good or evil or right and
wrong and any decrees made or laws passed were often never in the best interests
of the public at large, but only in the interests of the ruling class who would
suppress and crush anything that would be a threat to their power or challenge
the very narratives they wanted their subjects to believe.
And that same lie and delusion that leads
men to think they are better off apart from the authority of God and that they
will be more free and more enlightened without His guidance, counsel, or His
laws is the same that same lie and delusion that led the first man and the
first woman from whom all of mankind descend to do the one thing that God had
forbidden and them and which led them from a liberty more perfect than any of
us have ever experienced to an oppression and bondage that plagues the entire world
to this day but before that first act of disobedience, when God created the heavens
and the earth, there was no bondage, no oppression, no death, no misery, no
grief, nor any despair. There was no
darkness, nor any evil. Only peace,
love, life, harmony, unity, truth, and happiness abounded throughout the earth
for God had created everything to be good, but then one day, evil entered into
the creation in the form of a serpent who deceived the first woman, Eve, wife
to the first man Adam, into doing the one thing that was forbidden to them:
eating the fruit from a certain tree called the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, for they were warned that in the day that they ate of it, they would
surely die. (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) but the serpent, in his subtlety and
deceitfulness had assured them that they would not die, but that they would
become like God knowing good and evil (Gen. 3:4-5) but when they did eat of
that fruit, they did not become enlightened.
Their eyes were only opened to the shame of their nakedness. They did not attain divinity, but instead were
reduced to a lesser status than in the status in which they were first
created. And contrary to the what the
serpent assured them, the sentence of death was pronounced upon them (Gen.
3:19) because it was in the day that when they ate of that forbidden fruit that
a condition that has corrupted the inward nature of man had entered into them; a
corruption that influences not only our actions or even our speech, but also
the very thoughts, motives, and attitudes within that are behind the actions
and the words and that inward corruption that is ever present within us is what
the Bible calls sin and it was sin that brought death into the world and not
only to the first man and woman, but to all of humanity for it was from Adam and
Eve that the sin which entered into them was passed down to all of mankind (Rom.
5:12) and with sin coming to all of man came death for as it is written, the
wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23) and since we all sin in one form or fashion,
we are all subject to death for it is in sin that death has its power and it
does not matter how grave or how seemingly small our sins may be, it brings
death to us all the same be it the sin of our deeds, words, or even the sins of
our very thoughts.
But the pervasiveness of sin did not confine
itself to mankind, but it has affected all of creation and is the reason why,
as it is written, that the entire creation groans and travails in pain to this
day. (Rom. 8:19-22)
Sin is the reason why death reigns in the
world and why the earth is plagued and subjected to every kind of pain,
suffering, grief, cataclysm, turmoil, strife, misery, despair, oppression,
cruelty, and evil that there ever has been or ever could be, but even that is
not even the worst of it, for the disobedience of the first man, Adam, by whom
sin and death entered into the world gave the serpent who is better known as
Satan or the Devil, being the enemy of God and the adversary of our souls,
justification to claim lordship over all the nations, kingdoms, and empires of
the earth (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) which is why he is called the prince of this
world (Jn. 12:31, 16:11) and furthermore, and worse even still, it is sin that
estranges us from our Creator who is without sin, knows no corruption, but who is
perfectly good, pure, and holy and therefore cannot allow that which is sin to
dwell in His direct presence nor have any place in His Kingdom lest Heaven become
defiled as earth has become defiled and since sin cannot enter into Heaven,
there can only be one fate for that which is sin and for those who remain in
their sin.
For a day is coming when sin reaches its
full measure and when it does, it must face judgment for a good and Holy God cannot
allow for evil to persist in His creation forever which means He cannot allow for
sin to persist forever either lest it should destroy everything both good and
bad and when that day comes, not only must sin itself face judgment, but all
who remain in their sin and take pleasure therein and that judgment is one
filled with a torment that we cannot even imagine and it is a torment that
exceeds even the worst of griefs and torments that there could ever be in this
lifetime but that is the justice that every kind of evil and sin and they who
remain therein will be subjected to and because sin is ever present within us,
our own goodness, even that of the best among us, fall short of what God
requires of us (Rom. 3:23) and that is moral perfection which means in order to
attain moral perfection, you cannot sin even once, and not just in your actions
or even your speech, but you cannot sin even in your thoughts but sin within us
makes that an impossibility and because of sin, we are condemned to an eternity
of torment from which there is no relief day or night but is instead an ongoing
and perpetual torment, but that does not mean that a way of escaping this
torment has not been made for us, for our Creator, in His love for us would
rather show us His goodness instead of wrath and desires to show us mercy and
grant the forgiveness of sins rather than bring judgment which is why He is not
willing that any should be perish or be damned for all eternity but instead
come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9) and has provided redemption for us and on our
behalf through one in whom there is no sin (2 Cor. 5:21) which made Him that unblemished
and perfect sacrifice needed to take away our sin (Heb. 7:26-27) which He did by
His death upon the cross and it was on that cross that the demanded penalty for
sin was satisfied and mercy granted and the one who made that sacrifice on our
behalf is Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God whom God sent into the
world to be that needed sacrifice on our behalf to purchase by His death redemption
on our behalf and after having purchased our redemption by His death and shed
blood, Christ Jesus was raised again from the dead so that we might be
justified in Him (Rom. 4:25) if we will place our trust in Him alone for
salvation for there is no other name that can be called upon for the redemption
of our souls for it is Christ alone who was eligible to purchase redemption on
our behalf and therefore it is only in Him that the forgiveness of sins is
received, and it is only in Him who was raised from the dead to show His sacrifice
acceptable before God the Father thereby justifying in Him anyone who calls
upon His name for the forgiveness of sins that they may be saved from what
would otherwise be an everlasting, unceasing, and unrelenting torment.
It is in Christ Jesus in whom we are
spiritually reformed by way of the forgiveness of sins which cleanses our souls
from the stain and taint thereof and it is through Him that we receive in us a
new nature (2 Cor. 5:17) and are reconciled to the Father from whom our sin had
once estranged us. (2 Cor. 5:18) and it is this inward transformation that
causes us to no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but
after those things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to no longer take pleasure in those things
that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that which is
good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the lies of
this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ Almighty, no
longer placing our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking
forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly resources,
men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our needs and
provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs, recognizing that
the resources of this world and even the people He brings into our lives are
but instruments and vessels through which God meets our needs and that the
skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might acquire our provision
are provided and instilled in us by God,
to no longer fear what men can do to us,
but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an account
for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible
institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God
who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our
lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His
Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our
lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but the
glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible men,
but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that those
men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and
servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves with
the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of the
world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, nor depend on
corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer justice, but only in the
power of God to deliver us from evil.
This is the kind of transformation that
brings stability to unstable households,
that restores relationships once broken
and brings reconciliation between friends and family once estranged,
that saves marriages from ending
needlessly,
that causes us to give forgiveness and
show mercy that we might otherwise deny,
that causes us to be more charitable than
we otherwise would be,
that causes neighbors and community members
to treat each other like family.
that causes us to want to give what aid
and help we are able to those whom we find in legitimate need,
that causes us to treat each other with
respect and to try and love one another as Christ loves us,
that causes us to seek unity around virtues
such as truth, godliness, the things of God, and heavenly affairs, and to be bound
together in one, faith, one Lord, and one baptism (Eph. 4:5) and to avoid division
over petty, insignificant, inconsequential, and debatable matters,
that causes us to want to treat each other
fairly and treat other as equals in the Lord (Gal. 3:28, Col. 3:11) and to
judge men by their actions, words, and character, and not by age, gender,
skin-color, lineage, ethnicity, nationality, economic, occupational, or social
status,
that causes businesses to want to deal
honestly with their consumers and to regard the welfare and lives of the people
who work for them,
that causes employees to honor their
employers and to in principle faithful and diligent in carrying out their
assigned duties to the best of their abilities,
that causes children to want to obey and
honor their parents in the Lord,
that causes parents to want to raise up
their children in the love, admonition, and instruction of the Lord,
that causes religious leaders to want to
be the spiritual and moral conscience of society that they ought to be,
that causes schools, colleges, and
universities to strive to provide students with an honest unbiased education
that is concerned with only the pursuit of truth and not the furtherance of any
self-serving or political agenda,
that causes media outlets to strive for
honest and accurate reporting of current events,
that causes entertainment industries to
want to produce entertainment that affirms and celebrates those things that are
good, right, honorable, and to give praise and honor to God in their craft,
and produces a government that provides us
with a reliable and trustworthy law enforcement apparatus and justice system,
that safeguards the welfare and interests of all and not just a favored few,
that commends those that do good while bringing swift justice upon the wicked
without delay, that vigilantly protects our borders from hostilities and enemies
from without and within, that purges and keeps itself clean of all wickedness
and corrupt behavior, is fiscally prudent and responsible, preserves our electoral
integrity, and upholds our God-given freedoms enshrined within our
Constitution.
That is what will save our nation from
dying. That is what will bring life back
into our nation and that is what will bring our nation back to where our
forefathers who faithfully followed our Lord and Savior intended it to be if
not to a status even better than what they had envisioned but this longed for
Great Awakening that many pray will return America back to its Christian
foundation.
But that Great Awakening is not going to
begin with any dynamic political figure.
It is not going to begin with any prolific writer, or any influential
religious leader, nor is it going to begin with any popular entertainer or
athlete, or with any populist movement.
It begins with you and I answering the call of the Holy Spirit on our
lives, repenting of our sins, calling upon the name of Jesus for the forgiveness
of sins, allowing ourselves to be spiritually transformed, submitting to the
authority of our Maker, conforming to His ways, abiding in His truth, applying
His principles, laws, and doctrines to our lives, and not only that but also
calling others to repentance, persuading them of the truth of the soul-saving
life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ, and making disciples of them for the more
souls are led over to a saving faith in Christ and made into devoted servants
and followers of His, the less the darkness of this present world becomes, the
more diminished sin is, the weaker the forces of evil become, and the less
power over the earth that Satan has and the day is coming when he who is called
the prince of this world will be cast out (Jn. 12:31) and face his final
sentence (Rev. 20:10-15) and when creation will be liberated from the curse of
sin when it is made anew (Rev. 21-22) and not only will creation itself be made
anew, but we ourselves also look forward to the day when, just as our souls are
made free from a spiritual death in Christ, we will also be made free from bodily
death when these present forms having been subject to corruption are no longer
subject to corruption, but changed into incorruptible forms in which sin no
longer dwells and over which death has no power (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18)
and we who have chosen to follow and serve Christ will be made citizens of a
new world in which there is no sin, no death, no decay, no evil, no darkness,
no grief or sorrow, no pain, no adversity, nor any hardship, nor any misery,
but only peace, joy, contentment, and happiness before the Lord God Almighty.
If you have not done so already but want
to, then I urge you reader, to call upon the name of Jesus for the forgiveness
of sins so that you might be assured your place in the Kingdom of Heaven so
that you might become a light in the world and a restorer of life to your
respective nation whether that respective nation be America itself or another. It is but a simple heartfelt prayer away:
"Lord Jesus I need you.
I realize that I am a sinner
who has fallen short of the glory of God
and that my goodness falls short
of your standard of Moral perfection.
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Come into my heart and into my life
to be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make me into the servant and follower
that you want me to be.
In your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know that God is not concerned with the
words that you use to call upon Him forgiveness, but with the attitude of your
heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of
your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your salvation and in nothing
else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in Heaven is certain.
End notes:
1. Madison
Clinton Peters, “Empty Pews & Selections from Other Sermons on Timely
Topics,” pg. 35, Philadelphia A. T. Zeising & Co. , Printers And
Publishers, December, 1886
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Empty_Pews_Selections_from_Other_Sermons/f54PAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
2. Alexis
De Tocqueville, “Democracy In America Volume I,” pp. 26-46, Translated by Henry
Reeve, Esq., Saunders & Oatley, London, 1835
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Democracy_in_America/-b5LAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
3.
The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
4. John
Winthrop; A Model of Christian Charity, “A Library Of American Literature From
The Earliest Settlement To The Present Time Vol I,” pg. 307; Compiled and
edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson in eleven
volumes; New-York Charles L. Webster & Company, 1892
https://books.google.com/books?id=ugg6AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+Library+of+American+Literature:+Early+colonial+literature,+1607-1675&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMIhZWrxaGAxwIVzIsNCh1Fzg42#v=onepage&q=A%20Library%20of%20American%20Literature%3A%20Early%20colonial%20literature%2C%201607-1675&f=false
6. Ibid.
Scripture references:
1. John
14:6
2.
Malachi 3:6
3.
Hebrews 13:8
4.
Genesis 2:16-17
5.
Genesis 3:3
6. Genesis
3:4-5
7.
Genesis 3:19
8.
Romans 5:12
9.
Romans 6:23
10.
Romans 8:19-22
11.
Matthew 4:8-9
12.
Luke 4:6-7
13.
John 12:31
14.
John 16:11
15.
Romans 3:23
16.
2 Peter 3:9
17.
2 Corinthians 5:21
18.
Hebrews 7:26-27
19.
Romans 4:25
20.
2 Corinthians 5:17
21.
2 Corinthians 5:18
22.
Revelation 21-22
23.
Matthew 10:28
24.
Ephesians 4:5
25.
Galatians 3:28
26.
Colossians 3:11
27.
Revelation 20:10-15
28.
1 Corinthians 15:51-55
29.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
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