What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. (James 2:14-17)
Are we really that blind to the attack against God is His Word?
We live in a day when we are at war on all sides as Christians. From abortion, the gay & lesbian agenda, the renunciation of all that is Christian to the out-right attack on marriage we see the battle lines not only have been drawn but they are ever increasing in size and pressing in on the Church.
We have raised a generation in the Church who has jumped on the social justice band-wagon yet they have forgone the Biblical truths as they rally for “every-one” has a right to be married, women have a right with regard to their own bodies to the support of a current president who is dead set on erasing the truth from our history and depicting Christianity as evil as the radical Islamic fundamentalist of in this hour. Look at the message from not long ago and see how it paints a picture not only of the current state of the Church but the ever increasing disobedient silence of Gods people:
We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman’s discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ. . . . But do we really believe that we are in a life and death battle? Do we really believe that the part we play in the battle has consequences for whether or not men and women will spend eternity in hell? Or whether or not those who do live will live in a climate of moral perversion and degradation? Sadly, we must say that very few in the evangelical world have acted as if these things are true. . . . Where is the clear voice speaking to the crucial issues of the day with distinctively biblical, Christian answers? With tears we must say it is not there and that a large segment of the evangelical world has become seduced by the world spirit of this present age. And more than this , we can expect the future to be a further disaster if the evangelical world does not take a stand for biblical truth and morality in the full spectrum of life. ~Francis Schaeffer
We are a country are not merely sitting on the cliff of moral depravity we have already begone the slide down. The hour is urgent and we must act now. We must wake up and pray like never before. We must repent and cry out to God for a Holy boldness to sweep through every Church in this nation. We need not a small reformation rather we need a tidal wave of Pentecostal flames to blow across this land with a stand against compromise and a Holy desperation for all that is good according to the Lord. We must stop the silence and release the Roar of the Lion of Judah.
The time of comfort is over – the word tolerance has no place in the Christians life. God has given His Church the Armor to battle not to be hung up collecting dust as an antique of yesterdays war. We must enter into the command post (prayer closet) seeking the directives of He who leads the army of Heaven joining them with the army of His earthly warriors. The call to a national fast is here, the trumpets of warfare have been sounding the alarm for too long and now we must arise and gather together for the war over the greatest harvest is before us. The time of retreat is over and all who chose such are nothing more than traitors to the Kingdom. If ever the call to count the cost was most urgent it is now upon us. Do you wish to save your own life? The Lord clearly said in doing so you shall lose it. Glory be to the Lord for those who are willing to lose their lives for His sake for in doing so you shall find true life and that life is eternally abundant.
Now is the hour – are you going to stand up for Christ or are you going to remain silent for in remaining silent you make a loud declaration for the things of this world turning your back on the God who saved you!!!
~Russ Welch
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