Human Government will always end up reflecting the depravity and the insanity of man. It will always reject the God displayed through His Son. The Hope of Christians should always be on the promises of God in Jesus Christ. Our hope should not be on the governments of any nations that we occupy.<\/p>\n
History shows us that those that put their hope in the governments of the world are always disappointed. The world without God will increasingly prove its depravity but our\u00a0 hope is for eternal life in a body of perfection in a city of perfection.<\/p>\n
I want to caution those Christians that think we can change America to be a nation that follows God. No such concept is taught in the Bible. Only Israel as a nation ever knew God and that was because God made Himself known to Israel. Nevertheless, most of the citizens in Israel rejected God.<\/p>\n
Those that now know God by grace through faith have died to this world, they are new creations in Christ. They are now born from above and their hope is the same as Abraham’s, we now look for a city made by God (Heb 11:12).<\/p>\n
While we are in this world we should be salt and light to the world and live like God wants his people to live but we should not be under some delusion that any nation can have a spiritual rebirth when the people of the nation have not. Nor should we believe that a government in such a nation can be set up that will do the will of God or the will of the minority Christians living there.<\/p>\n
Through our own political actions we could no more set up a government that fears God than we could gather the world religions and make these religious harlots one with God’s Son. Yet, that is exactly what some Christians think they can accomplish.<\/p>\n
Christians have every reason in heaven to be living in hope of a better future but our hope is not in the lusts of our condemned body of flesh. We should know that the world is now reserved for judgment (2Pet 3:7). Only after Jesus purges the earth of evil and reigns on earth will there be any godly government on earth.<\/p>\n
Even if the world or the nation we occupy burns down around us we should still be live in hope of deliverance. We are not to fear those who can kill our bodies of flesh. This body is just a shell for our eternal souls. We died with Christ and are only here in the flesh for God’s purpose. The scriptures says to Christians, “that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” (2Co 5:8). There is no real death for those that have been born of the Spirit.<\/p>\n
I bring this up because I get emails from those that are going through great preparations<\/strong> preparing for perceived future troubles in our nation and in the world. There is nothing wrong with taking wise prudent precautions, we do have a God given responsibility to care for those we have charge over, but those that worry that God will not take care of His own in this nation cannot be walking by faith.<\/p>\n If you are stockpiling weapons for a fight against the government, you lack faith even if you call yourself a Christian patriot.<\/strong> Where is your hope in Christ?\u00a0 Better to die for the gospel of Christ than to place your hope in your guns as if your guns will buy you anymore time in this world than God has predetermined. You cannot fight evil with evil.<\/p>\n Jesus is our example. He did not resist those who persecuted Him neither did the Apostles and the martyrs of the Church.\u00a0 Yet, in a world very hostile to the Gospel, God was fully able to keep Paul alive for decades so his message would get out to the world. God also kept John alive into very old age to give the churches The Book of Revelation. The saints did not rise up in arms against the Jews and they did not rise up in arms against Rome. God is in control and no one has power on earth to kill you unless God permits. Those that are planing to fight in the flesh with carnal weapons of war had better be doing it in faith knowing that this is really what God called them to do.<\/p>\n If these are the last days like many claim to believe, then why would we expect our nation or any nation to make some turn toward morality?<\/p>\n If the people of the nations are corrupt the governments will also become corrupted. The governments of\u00a0nations reflects the people. Some with right wing values are now calling for a Constitutional Convention to make their values law<\/strong> but if there is a Con Con and the delegates selected want a nation that reflects their own values they will come out of the Con Con with a post-modern Constitution and nation. In one shot the old American Constitution would be dead and it would be open season on all the politically incorrect. <\/strong><\/p>\n If I had to make a judgment call on what a New Constitution would look like if the delegates were appointed by those in power today. I would have to say they would be founded on the teachings of people like Karl Marx and guests of Oprah. The aftermath of such a convention would bring open civil war but some misguided Christians are now putting false hope in a Con Con to save Christianity in America? <\/strong><\/p>\n Those that\u00a0 want to save this nation need to use spiritual weapons. Nothing will change for the better unless many people\u00a0in this nation believe, repent and are saved. The disease of unbelief in our nation will not be fixed by tossing out morality band-aids from church buses and you will not save your flesh from Christian haters or a police state through carnal self-defense preparations.<\/p>\n No matter what happens in this world, Christians should be the foremost to have hope. We know there is no death for the soul. The apostle Paul in 1 Co 13:13\u00a0 tells us there are three virtues\u00a0in the life of a Christian on earth. They are faith, hope, and love. Hope is an expectation, it keeps us going in the storms of life. People without any hope go into depression and become suicidal. Don’t go there. 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