On What Is A Christian Supposed To Do?
Political Insanity
I feel a little like Jesus this morning when he wept over Jerusalem. She had been given so many blessings and refused to recognize them (Lk 19:41-44).
Another border proposal: On the heels of the failure of Congress to advance the bipartisan Senate border deal, The Washington Post reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are considering releasing thousands of immigrants into the country. Detaining immigrants is expensive, and the agency warned it would have to cut costs if it didn’t receive the $6 billion the Senate promised in supplemental funding. Meanwhile, according to another news flash, some 30,000 have recently just walked into the country at San Diego.
This sounds like the college kid whose Dad pays his tuition and buys his car, who texts his Dad—I will drop out of college, and you will have to support me since I’ll not be able to get a good job—unless you reload my spending account with another $10,000 immediately. My BMW needs a $3000.00 muffler kit, and I need $300 a piece for concert tickets to keep Mary Ann happy.
Daddy created the kid and his circumstances; now, he must borrow money to keep the charade going. President Joe, likewise. The problem is, in this case, President Joe is gambling with millions of lives and creating a monster with the capacity to destroy Western culture. Could it be that is the design?
A good read of the book of Proverbs will explain this mess. Failure to practice the admonitions of 1:1-7 (the thrust of the rest of the book explicated) leads to the natural consequences of this disobedience, as exemplified by President Joe and the Dad in the illustration.
Another Note
Here is an example of the doubling down of the opposition both to promote evil and to vilify good.
Andrew Walker1
wrote a piece on Rob Reiner’s film God and Country. If you decide to see it, you will come out realizing you have been branded a Christian nationalist. If not blatantly stated, here are the implications. Unfortunately, if you are a patriot (George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Ronald Reagan), that earns you being imprisoned behind Reiner’s cyclone fence topped with the barbed wire of Critical Theory and its derivatives.
Do you oppose abortion? If so, that’s a marker of Christian nationalism.
Do you oppose LGBTQ ideology? If so, that’s a marker of Christian nationalism.
Do you oppose critical race theory? If so, that’s a marker of Christian nationalism.
Do you oppose feminism? If so, that’s a marker of Christian nationalism.
Do you embrace a biblical worldview? Then you are a Christian nationalist.
So, What Is a Committed Believer to Do?
As usual, the sufficient Word has the answers. Let’s note the admonitions of Moses, Jesus, Paul, and Peter.
- Moses speaking at the formation of the nation of Israel.
Exodus 23:13 “13 Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be careful (be on guard); and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard [i]from your mouth.
Exodus 23:21 “Be attentive (be on guard before) to him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your rebellion, since My name is in him.
And at the end of his tenure as their leader–
Deuteronomy 32:45 ”…take to heart all the words I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of the law.”
- Jesus speaking with a view to the end times.
Luke 12::35: “Be ready and dressed. Have your lights burning. 36 Be like men who are waiting for their owner to come home from a wedding supper.”
- Paul as he closes his first epistle to the Corinthians.
I Corinthians 16:13: “13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 All that you do must be done in love.”
Ephesians 6:10-12: “0 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against [f]flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places….
6:18” “With every prayer and request, [i]pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, [j]be alert with all perseverance and every request for all the [k]saints, 19 and pray in my behalf, that speech may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.”
- Peter
Writing to refugees fleeing Roma, Peter addresses their anxiety and then follows with these instructions (5:8-10). “Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 [a]So resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your [b]brothers and sisters who are in the world. 10 After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”
Conclusion
With many flaws, we once lived in a nation that acknowledged God, and the right to hold a biblical worldview, while challenged occasionally, was largely an assumption rooted in the Constitution. Unfortunately, the enemy has succeeded in eroding the Constitution by applying Critical Law Theory and marginalizing those holding a biblical worldview more and more. Such individuals have become oppressed. If we behave in accordance with Critical Theory, we should engage in violence to topple our oppressors. However, our biblical worldview instructs us to rest in a Sovereign God who says, vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay (Romans 12). In the meantime, we are to guard our lives to live according to His law, evangelize the opposition by life and word, stand firm, be alert for the devil’s attacks, and watch with anticipation for the return of Jesus Christ.
Being a patriot means we hold to the Constitution and its intent as expressed in the preamble. If that makes us “Christian Nationalists,” so be. Our biblical worldview answers Critical Theory’s postulations in the negative as we realize they promote the very thing they purport to deny.
1Andrew Walker. World.Org, The Shift 02-22-24