Reason to press on, God is with us

Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”

(Isaiah 66:1-2 EVS) You might have turned on the TV or picked up a magazine with ISIS on the cover page and found that you sit in wonder how our United States has become so immoral, so dangerous and corrupt. The answer is found in the Word of God but we will not hear it declared by any politician running for office; “The world has rejected God’s laws, commandments and principles. We have turned our backs on God like the Israelites who were God’s chosen people but, despite His love for them, he punished them. We are a Sodom where people long to do sexually immoral acts, kill babies by the thousands, sell unborn babies parts on the open market and reject every principle of God’s Almighty Word. The false teachers would call these atrocities “Planned Parent Hood and Pro-Choice, and the list goes on.” Our government leaders argue that same sex- marriage, transgender and homosexuality is a human right.

But where are the rights of those who would say enough is enough? Those who would stand up and say “No” will be subject to arrest, court, legal fees and the system rules in favor of this abomination. While our great White House is lighted as a rainbow. Man cannot declare legal what God has declared immoral. Do not misunderstand my words, I love those who practice immorality but there is no 11th Commandment that says, “Thou Shalt Support Sin.” Obama began his speech at the prayer vigil by citing 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 to 2 Corinthians 5:1, telling families, First Responder's, to the community of Newtown, clergy, guests the event that Scripture tells us, "Do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, inwardly, we are being renewed day by day."
Let’s take a close look at this Scripture, 2 Corinthians 4:1-15. Paul was speaking in this letter in regards to the Gospel, the new Covenant. He was telling Christians not to lose heart. (Vs. 2) Paul uses the word, “renounced” meaning to “turn away, to repent, ugly or disgraceful.”Paul gives us the reason for these tragedies in our world. We have turned ourselves away, Vs. 4:2 the gospel has been “veiled over yielded to false teachers that are twisting and perverting the world and waging war on Christianity. The world does not seem to have a problem with any faith except Christianity. Rest assured, my friend we are living in the “end times.” When Paul is speaking in Vs. 16 that the president quotes, he is speaking of the “believer who is aging and the body is in the process of decaying and will soon die, but we shall have heavenly bodies in God’s kingdom. “On the surface, Paul was referring to the normal aging process, but with the added emphasis, which his lifestyle had brought on him, Paul had worn himself out with his ministry, not to mention the beatings and attacks he absorbed from his enemies.” (MacArthur, 2005) 

I grieve for the families of those in Newton, Connecticut where children were needlessly massacred, but the reason is clear the Word of God is being discarded like dirty rags because the world has chosen to turn its back of our Lord Jesus Christ to false teachers. “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction” 2 Peter 2:1.

Finally, in Vs. 18, this Pauline writings actually begins in (Vs17), “ For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” Paul is saying “to look beyond the physical to the spiritual, beyond the present to the future and beyond the visible to the invisible.

Believers must look past the temporary, what is perishing in our world, the heavenly world is still unseen.” (MacArthur, 2005). What a promise for the believers that Heaven awaits as we anticipate Christ’s return. May we continue to share the Gospel with these false prophets! Amen 

 References 

MacArthur, J. (2005). The MacArthur Bible Commentary.

Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishing.

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