As Christians living in a world who even rejects the idea of God leave alone the fact that God is over all, we must learn to live and speak based upon the authority of His Word not our intellect. Take for example dealing with one who believes a women has a right to love and and marry another woman or man loving and marrying another main. We will never even begin to pull down this stronghold in their thinking with our intellect we must allow the world of God and Holy Spirit to accomplish this.
For the Word is clear that God has authority to define what is right and wrong, good and evil, based upon his pure and holy character . God makes clear to man that he will be judged based upon his obedience to the command God has given. God’s grace is evident, for he does not hide his law. In love, God tells man the way to life and exhorts him to walk in it.
For we do not wrestle again flesh & blood ( the corrupted thinking is the fruit of a corrupted flesh over-ruling the truth of the Spirit) but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Such thinking is a idol in ones mind lifted up in attempt to out-rule the laws of the Lord.
So many have actually been turned away from the Gospel as good intending believers wrestle with them in their own strength using “Human wisdom” as a weapon to convince them. This is where many are in error. I can stand outside ones house and hold up a sign all day long telling them they are sinning and destined for Hell and all that will do is fuel the rebellious spirit already ruling that individual’s life. David Wilkerson us to say something along the lines of “You can drag a sinner to the alter and they’ll just roll away but when they drag themselves there you can bet they are there to stay”.
In order to pull such mental and spiritual idols down we must spend time in prayer, praying that the Spirit pull down their walls of defense and begin to soften their hearts as well as time in fasting. We also must learn to pray the Word – speaking out scriptures in our prayers. Then we are to share the Word in truth coated with the Love of the Father having the discernment of the Spirit to do so.
David Platt writes in his new Book Counter culture:
Godless worldviews thus leave us with a hopeless subjectivity concerning good and evil that is wholly dependent on social constructs. Whatever a culture deems right is right, and whatever a culture deems wrong is wrong. This is precisely the worldview that prevails in American culture today, where rapid shifts in the moral landscape clearly communicate that we no longer believe certain things are inherently right or wrong. Instead, rightness and wrongness is determined by social developments around us.
He is right on with this statement. Today’s Church must return to its Biblical roots going back to the Word and studying how the first century Church impacted and changed the culture around them whereas the Church today is just the opposite as it is being impacted and changed by the culture around it.
We the Church, must wake up and take our rightful place in this world as the Lord Gods ambassadors representing His Kingdom and take a true stand to see the homosexual agenda stopped in its tracts, see to the ending of abortion and defend marriage. We must seek to stop the ever trending gospel of self-help and return to the first love of the Church seeking to see His kingdom established here on earth. But in doing so we must first shed our love and desires for the things of this world – but that is a post all in itself for another day….so stay tuned!!!!
~ Russ Welch
Radical Disciples - A Remnant Revolution 