"And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, 'Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.'"
~ Nehemiah 4:14 ESV ~
~ Nehemiah 4:14 ESV ~
Beloved,
Nehemiah is one of my favorite Old Testament books (actually, I have a lot of 'favorites'!). The major theme of Ezra and Nehemiah (originally one book, not two) is that God works sovereignly through responsible human agents to accomplish His redemptive purpose (RC Sproul). The specific task in Nehemiah was to rebuild the destroyed defensive walls around Jerusalem. Each family had the task of not only laboring to rebuild the wall, but while doing so, to fight to defend the work they had accomplished so far. A tool in one hand to advance and a sword in the other to defend. We would be wise to apply that ethic today! "Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other. And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built." (Neh. 4:17b-18 ESV)
My oh my, how the protective walls and hedges in America have crumbled; not because of outside aggression, but because of inside passivity, apathy, and willful ignorance - on the shoulders of the Remnant. "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 forgive their sin and will heal their land." (II Chronicles 7:14 NIV)
I want to be sure to make you aware of a wonderful opportunity to hear David Barton of WallBuilders right here in Wichita! FREE!
A breakfast/conference titled:
Restoring Hope - Understanding Our Role in Civil Society
Saturday, March 29th - 9:00AM
Hyatt
Saturday, March 29th - 9:00AM
Hyatt
It is a breakfast for Pastors and concerned citizens. You are a concerned citizen!
As you are aware, we live in mind-numbing obstinance concerning our Christian duty within the culture. More often than not, our own dear Pastors and Shepherds have been educated in secular-humanist school systems and have been taken captive by the lie of 'separation of church and state' and in bondage to revisionist history that denies a biblical and forthrightly Christian influence in the founding of this great nation. Even more tragic than that, there are very influential evangelical Pastors who scorn 'earthly' participation in the culture claiming we are only to live to spread the gospel (conversion) - at the exclusion of the actual living out our transformed lives as Christ's stewards of this culture and the people within it.
There is a massive disconnect between orthodoxy and orthopraxy in our day.
God requires both!
Two sides of the same coin!
Read the book of James.
http://www.kansasfpc.com/
"He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"
~ Micah 6:8 ESV ~
Please know you and your husband are welcome to attend this free and informative breakfast. Encourage your Pastor and his wife to come and learn along with you. We must pray for our Elders and our Pastors! We must pray for them and encourage them to ask themselves, "What sayeth the Lord?" and to take every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ instead of merely parroting back some quippy answer they've heard from an articulate and influential church or seminary leader.
May God be pleased to open the eyes of His servants for the benefit of our nation and the people living in it and the generations to come. Amen and Amen.
Serving His Kingdom Here and Now ~
********************
For a more explicit article about the obstinance of American Pastors today, read: ...And The Pulpits Are Silent. Flies in the face of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book The Cost of Discipleship. Required reading for any intentional follower of Jesus Christ as Commander.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Daubenmire/dave106.htm
No comments:
Post a Comment