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Expecting the Resurrection

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As Christians we live in a Good Friday type of world.  You know a world where chaos, fears and evil things happen on a regular basis.  Sometimes we as Christians ask why?  Why do bad things happen to good people, especially Christians.  The simple answer is, I don’t know.  However the deeper and more relevant answer is that we live in a Friday type world.  You know that type of day, sickness happens, jobs are lost, fears attack us, we long for peace but it escapes us.  That is a Friday world, where sin is everywhere.   When Adam sinned he brought an inherent sin nature that invaded every person’s DNA.  Sin is a part of the “Friday World.”  Prayers are offered, but the answer never comes.  That is the kind of world we all live in.

We call it Good Friday because Jesus died for our sins, but the reality is there wasn’t much good about that day.  The night before in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus had made peace with His imminent death for you and I.  After all, that is the reason for His incarnation and birth.  As He stood before Pilate he carried the burdens of the world, literally.  He bore our sins, each and everyone one of them.  You see the Jews didn’t kill Him, the Romans didn’t kill Him.  He died willingly for us.   (I Corinthians 5:21) He who knew no sin, became sin for us.”That was the reason He came to earth.  Jesus was born to die a substitutionary death for mankind.  (John 3:16) “For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son.”

Paul lived in that kind of “Friday world,” beatings, riots and fear of his life.  He made a profound statement when he said if all we have is this world, we are most pitiful. 

Our hope in Jesus gives us citizenship in Heaven.  This isn’t my world, this isn’t my home, I have a home in Heaven.  Bought and paid for by the most precious element on earth.  The Blood of Jesus!

Maranatha!  Rh

Wake up the Mighty

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It is the best of times and the worst of times.  We are in a battle for the soul of America, a philosophical civil war.  Not with guns or bombs or sword, but with ideas and speech and political correctness that has run amuck.  So much so we are destroying the very language we communicate with. Meaning of words have change, are you male, female, x, use the wrong pronoun you could get arrested.  We are not fighting left vs. right, one political party against another, this war goes much deeper. Into the very depths and heights of spiritual warfare. We are fighting right vs. wrong and light vs. darkness.  Our fight is for who will control our nation. Sinister forces are in play today to discourage and defeat the very plan of God for America. The Pilgrims dedicated this new land for Almighty God, and He has not relinquished His hand or sovereignty  over us. We are in the fight of our lives, for the Devil knows his time is short and is doing all he can with the help of his minions to defeat the plan and purpose of this great nation. We are God’s land and never shall we turn from that! Will we have to fight?  Yes! The dark side has money, media, and foot soldiers that will do anything to win, but we have a mission from Almighty God. Psalms 94:16 says “who will rise up for me against the evildoers?” America is the last and best hope for mankind. If we fail, the world is lost.  America has sent money technology and most importantly missionaries to spread the Gospel all over the globe. We are a beacon of hope and light! Arrogance? No! A mission from God! Only Jesus can save our nation and world, but without the uniqueness of America and its freedoms and morality the world is a dark place.  We in the church need to understand that the darkest of places need the light of the Gospel and the morality of a Godly people. So often we hear that the political realm is to dirty for Christians, however Jesus ate and communicated with what the religious leaders of that day called sinners and unclean people. We are called to be light and salt.  Light illuminates and salt preserves. Salt can also be an irritant to a wounded nation, as we call out immorality and greed. Can we win this battle? Yes a thousand times yes, but will we? We have reaped in America what we have sown. That is a law of God. We reap after we sow and we reap more than we have sown. Now we must sow into politics to reap a harvest.  

Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan.  

Pro 14:34

Righteousness exalts a nation,

But sin is a reproach to any people.