28 May 2010
In today’s America, truth has become intolerance. There is therefore no steady footing for anyone to take a stand against the terminal ills of modern-day society. All who dare to do so are immediately dismissed as antiquated thinkers and contemporary bigots. What hope is there of solving our national problems when truth, the essential foundation of all real solutions, is banished from the public forum, thanks to the politically correct’s present-day perception of truth as vice rather than virtue?
In today’s America, the fanciful has become factual. Men no longer believe the dictates of logic and reality, but the wishful figments of their own imaginations. Anyone who dares to awaken them from dreamland by sounding the alarm of truth is instantly denounced as an enemy of this fallen world’s long envisioned manmade utopia. That fallen humanity is deluded enough to actually believe itself capable of creating a paradisiacal planet independent of its Creator is proven by the popular chant that rode our current president into the Oval Office and filled the Democratic side of the House of Representatives upon the historical passage of Obama Care: “Yes we can!”
While reason is rejected, the insane has become commonly acceptable. How else can you explain things like the following? Modern science’s insistence that an intricately designed universe came into existence without an intelligent designer. Government for the people and by the people ignoring and riding roughshod over the people. The pushing of global warming legislation in one of the coldest winters in recorded history. Shoring up insolvent Medicare by picking its pocket of a half a trillion dollars. Reducing the federal deficit by creating another entitlement program (Obama Care) with a price tag that runs into the trillions. Taxpayer funding of the defense of Muslim terrorists and the prosecution of our own soldiers who risked their lives capturing them. Elected officials who’ve sworn to uphold, protect and defend our constitution shredding it with procedural tricks and gimmicks. Government’s claim to have created thousands of jobs in a time of ever-increasing unemployment. And politicians who insist, despite their blatant hypocrisy and dishonesty, that all of their contradictory statements and stands are equally true and sincere.
In spite of the fact that truth has fallen in the street, that much, if not most of our populace, is walking around with their heads in the clouds of utopian delusion, and that the insane has become common place, as well as unquestionably acceptable, the vast majority of Americans still insist that we’ll bounce back from the crevice of national collapse. After all, we’re a great country and a great people; and we’ve always bounced back before. Yet, what seems to elude most Americans today is the fact that we’ve turned our back on the source of our greatness—God.
Make no mistake about it; it is God that made America great, not our form of government, free enterprise system, or superior populace. It was God’s blessing of a nation founded upon the Judeo-Christian ethic and the Christian faith. As Daniel Webster astutely acclaimed, the first foundations of American government were laid “under the light of the Christian religion.”
Today, unlike ever before, our nation’s underpinning belief in the God of the Bible has been pulled out from beneath our government institutions and banned from our public square, lest some individual living under our flag be offended by the underpinning principle for which it flies—ONE NATION UNDER GOD, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. Consequently, a government founded upon its acknowledgment of God—THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL AND ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS—is now forbidden by its own courts to acknowledge the God upon which it was founded. Go figure!
I know, I know, we have a Tea Party Movement abreast in America today, as well as talk radio and Fox News. But do you really believe that town hall meetings, holding up placards at Tea Party rallies, Rush Limbaugh (who has been on the radio for years, while our country has unraveled before our very eyes), and Fox News’ bloviating Bill O’Reilly can really fix what’s wrong in America? If so, then, how do you differ from the other side, which also has a formula for changing America that doesn’t include repentance from sin and a return to the God of the Bible?
If America can be saved by the Tea Party Movement or the Republican Party, by talk radio and Fox News, or by town halls and political protests, then, we don’t need God to save our country. We can do it ourselves. Once we set out to do so, however, we should be honest enough to admit that the cure we’re prescribing for America is no less Christless than the one progressives are prescribing. We may feel that ours is more noble, but it is still just as godless, since repentance of sin and a return to the God of the Bible is no more a part of our prescription than it is of the other side’s.
Unbeknownst to today’s betrothed church (2 Corinthians 11:2), climbing in bed with political parties and movements is equivalent to spiritual adultery. It is the two-timing of Christ. There is a spiritual danger here that is flying totally undetected by the church in America. Let me attempt to expose it with a recent comment made by one of conservatives’ most popular radio and television host.
On a recent telecast of The Glenn Beck Program on Fox News, the host, the extremely popular Glenn Beck, bluntly asserted, “The time of theology has passed.” Mr. Beck, who is a Mormon, advocates that all believers in God lay down their theological differences in order to come together and save America. Now, never mind that the right theological beliefs are essential to the church’s carrying out of Christ’s Great Commission or that the church’s true purpose in this world is the salvation of souls, not of America; to follow Mr. Beck’s advice is to replace Christ with our country, making our country into an idol that has usurped the place of Christ in our lives.
If we Christians follow Glenn Beck’s advice we will no longer be living for Christ, but for our country. We will no longer be about our Father’s business—the saving of souls—but about uncle Sam’s business—the saving of America. We will no longer be preaching and preserving the Gospel of Jesus Christ—the Word of our Heavenly Father—but fighting to protect and preserve the Constitution of the United States—the words of our Founding Fathers.
While Beck’s cause may be noble, it is not the cause of Christ. Thus, to exchange the former for the latter is not only to betray Christ, but also to forfeit the eternal for the temporal. America, like all of the other nations of our world, will soon come to an end. When Christ returns, all worldly kingdoms will come to an end. Furthermore, the Kingdom of God will be established, a Kingdom without bounds in its duration and dimensions. Why, then, should Christians give themselves to the preservation of these temporal United States rather than to the advancement of God’s eternal Kingdom?
Another popular television host among conservatives, Bill O’Reilly, recently gave some “sage” on-air advice to a viewer asking what she could do to change America. According to Mr. O’Reilly, she could stay informed, call her congressman, and vote in the next election. Can anyone deny the futility of such advice in these days and times?
Staying informed about the untoward antics of our nation’s leaders does nothing to change anything, with the possible exception of your blood pressure. As far as calling your congressman is concerned, our representatives are now completely ignoring the wishes of their constituents. It’s my understanding that many members of congress actually took their phones off the hook during the run-up to congress’ vote on Obama Care. And what good does it do to vote, when there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties and their candidates? Your vote to throw the rascals out, only puts other rascals in.
What O’Reilly should have told his viewer to do was to pray. America’s only hope of survival is revival! Unless we repent of our sin against God and return to God, this nation is toast! Tell me any politician or pundit that you know who is saying this. You know, as well as I do, none of them are and none of them will. Furthermore, the church, the only possible herald of this desperately needed message, is all but silent about it, lest it incur the wrath of our politically correct countrymen.
Well, we’re right back where we started. Our country’s future promises to be short-lived and our nation’s certain prospect is divine retribution. This thing is on! And we can’t stop it! There are powers at work far greater than any found in Washington D.C. These powers are working together and using Washington politicians as mere pawns in the bringing to pass of the biblically predicted end-time scenario, a scenario that is now materializing before our very eyes.
All of this calls us to an urgency that we have never known before. Not an urgency in our efforts toward the salvation of America, I honestly believe it’s too late for that, but an urgency in our efforts toward the salvation of souls. We need to forget about getting America back to where it once was, it simply won’t go there anymore. Instead, we need to get the church back to the Great Commission.
When a ship is sinking, it’s too late to save the ship. The only thing you can do is get a life preserver to as many people as possible! America’s ship of state is sinking. It’s too late to save America. The only thing we can do is get a life preserver (the Gospel) to as many people as possible. Look around you; spiritually drowning people are everywhere. Throw them an eternal lifeline before its everlastingly too late.
Don Walton
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