Only 4% of those Born After 1984 are Influenced by the “Church”
A recent message delivered by Daniel Lim at an FCF focused on a main reason why our country is headed in the direction it is:
I googled and found this Link to stats: http://www.baptist.ca/church/files/Functional%20Structures/the_bridger_generation.pdf which represent the stats regarding 4%…
There is a failure in the church…The failure is its washed down Gospel that promotes tolerance to the degree that we do not hold fast to that which is good. We live in the days of so much tolerance inside the “church” that we call “good evil and evil good”. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isa 5:20 This includes me as I identify myself with the “church”!
The point is that the “Bridger Generation” has no moral compass to make judgments regarding leadership of a country. As believers of Jesus Christ as our LORD and SAVIOR, we must hold the scriptures and its teachings to be true.
For instance (one of many), killing babies can be found no where in the bible as something God tolerates or delights in. (period) In fact God’s says He will require blood for the killing of the innocent. Today our nation as well as many other nations of this world (who will all answer to God) stand in judgment of “innocent” blood on our hands. (In more than one way).
God’s love may tell us to turn the other cheek but it does not tell us to TURN OUR BACK ON HIS WORD for the sake of tolerance. We have confused being persecuted with being tolerant, for instance we hold fast and proclaim His truth in “turning the cheek” to be the point of being tolerant. Not the same thing at all! A true and faithful witness speaks the truth in love and would even exercise judgment by their VOTE. For some reason the “church” has not taught that God judges nations as well as individuals. From Genesis to Revelation God judges the nations. Most of all we need to cast our vote inside the booth of our conscious before the LORD and do the right thing.
A country’s laws say a lot about it’s moral compass. I don’t believe we should need a law against abortion. I believe we should live our lives in such a way that abortion isn’t needed. However, a nation that turns it back on the “killing of innocent babies” sets itself to be judged by our God who judges nations and has since nations were born.
We have become a people that are more concerned about their pocketbooks than what is good and what is evil, a people who have removed their hearts from God and His love.
So we talk about the injustices in our country and is the earth. Even if you feed every poor person in the world they could “gain the world but lose their soul”. We need the understanding that each of us stand before God with the condition that says He is other than us. condemned in our sins without the work of Cross. We have all sinned and fall short of the Glory of God. If we feed the body but do not call the soul out to repent then we do an injustice to the eternal condition of that soul. When we feed the poor as a doorway to feed their spirit with the Gospel of the Kingdom then we have done the work of the Father. But to feed to poor to say we are all equal then we forget that a full stomach does not save. Humanistic justice could care less if God is glorified only that a guilty conscious of greed is temporarily soothed only to become greedy again.
I think it is very interesting that in Minnesota a tornado strikes the cross on top of the building where “homosexuals” were being welcomed into leadership as ordained to do the will of God. In the following link we see that LUTHERANS VOTED 66.6% (666) IN FAVOR OF HOMOSEXUAL ORDINATION In the article is it clear that God does judge this the nations and the world with plagues, weather patterns, disease, etc. It is all in the bible. We are foolish to think WE control the weather patterns of this world. We are very prideful as least to say we do!
True change is the change of our hearts before God not some sweeping change dictated by an individual or a political party. It is realizing the wretchedness of our condition without the LOVE of God! A people given to God and His ways is a state that is governed by God and so the converse it true. How shall we separate the two: by becoming a Godless nation.
Bottom line is that I personally as a believer have to repent because I have not cried out to God to change my heart as well as the hearts of this nation in regards to His ways. And even as I do today I see the error of my way and my contribution to the condition of this country before our Maker.
The Prophets of God didn’t have a “we, they” cry unto the LORD, they cried unto God with “repentance” in their hearts and identified with the sin of their nation (even if they were walking in purity). This is what happens when we have seen great revivals like the 1st and 2nd Great Awakenings. Another Great Awakening is coming to this earth it is the final Awakening called the end-time harvest. There is also coming the Great Falling Away where many who have proclaimed to believe will become offended towards God and turn their backs on Him.
This is also another indicator that the return of Yeshua is soon. (no date predicted) Just soon or sooner than MOST think!
God’s Kingdom does not and will not have a political bone in its structure. It will have no need of two or more parties. He will reign in truth, righteousness and peace! Until then we exercise by our vote judgments regarding what earth should be like until Heaven comes to earth as it says in the Book of Revelation and throughout scripture.
When we pray “Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name; Thy Kingdom come, They will be done ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN” Then we proclaim a Kingdom, a state, a nation, if you will, that does the will of the father because of our Love of HIM.
Let us love in good deeds and works of righteousness….let us exercise God’s judgments in our abilities to vote.
For the record I can no longer identify with any “party” only with the judgments of God. Obviously that will make it difficult to choose in the days ahead. So I am left with much study (of the word of God) and much prayer to cast judgment according to the will of God.
We are living within the Last Generation before the Messiah returns. Let us all seek to understand the “times and the seasons” as Christ commanded us to do! Jesus said to “Watch and pray!” many times. The Great deception is coming upon us. It is real, as real as unemployment!
Another interesting verse in the bible: “For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?” 1Pe 4:17
Christ the Lamb has been slain but it is Christ the Lion who is coming next.
Serving By His Grace For His Glory In His Love Until He Returns!
with love,
Jerry