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America – Culturally &
Spiritually Seduced
David
Alan
Carmichael (Listen
to story)
Freedom
Ministries News, 9 July 2008
I
was listening to David
Jeremiah’s
message on his website today
where he was
teaching about Samson. In Samson’s time, the nation of Israel
did
evil in the sight of the Lord and they were put under
their enemies by
cultural
and
spiritual seduction. The Angel of
the Lord told Samson’s parents that the Lord would use Samson as a
deliverer,
even though the people were not crying out for one.
They apparently did not sense their need for
deliverance. This American nation has
been slowly seduced spiritually and culturally. In
large part, they do not see their
need
for
deliverance.
Most
Americans look for cultural
and
economic salvation rather than spiritual and moral salvation found in
Jesus
Christ. America
has become
blind to the fact that righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a
reproach to
any people. The nation’s cultural and
economic salvation ought to come only as a benefit of right living.
I
am not surprised that for
many
months, America
has considered
one politician who is on the extreme left of the political right, and
two
Marxists who are on the extreme left of the left. Each
of those supposed saviors have a mindset
and practice of supplant the teaching of Almighty God
regarding the
answer to the ills of our nation. They
show
that they believe government is the means to the end of our salvation. Government administered wrongly becomes
merely a work of man’s hands, a dumb idol that cannot save.
Jesus
Christ is our only Savior
both
temporally and spiritually. He has
instituted government of men to be ministers of God for our good, not
for evil. In John Locke’s words, “Because
men are
corrupt, vicious, and degenerate, we have need of government.” Murder, sexual immorality, idolatry, sorcery,
and subversion of family integrity are today often government-licensed
or government-sponsored. Our society at
large then either tolerates or
celebrates those evils.
Again
- this American nation has been slowly seduced culturally and
spiritually. We are at the point where
conforming to
the societal norm, even if nominally conservative, places us in
opposition to
the policy of Almighty God.
I
cringed
as I read about
Samson,
knowing his complacency led him to blindness and bondage.
I now cringe over where I see our complacency
taking the church and the nation. I hope
that even in our blindness, we can free ourselves from bondage short of
our self-destruction. |
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No Time For Fear
David Alan
Carmichael - 8 Aug 2008
I
am involved in ministry work
where
the
vast majority of mainstream
Christendom does not consider that
there is a
need for a savior. The ministry that I
perform makes the comfortable uncomfortable. The
calling that the Lord has placed upon me has
taken me to the edge
of, or outside of, society. To entertain
what I say, folks have to look toward that uncomfortable “edge.” To entertain the things that I do, folks have
to look toward that fearsome “outside.” Considering
the ministry of John the Baptist does not give me comfort.
His ministry was telling people things that
they did not want to hear. He
lived on
the edge of civilization, outside societal norms. His
sustenance was meager. His Earthly reward
- gruesome.
I often consider the plight
of the
Levites in the Bible. Their entire
subsistence was from the Lord through the hands of men providing
freewill
gifts. Their sustenance was directly
proportional to the faith and obedience of the people. I
am, reluctantly, like the Levites. I am
completely dependent upon the Lord
because of the ministry that he has called me to. It
is my lack of faith that makes me
reluctant.
A
man of the Lord, Bernie
Gillott,
recently said in my hearing, “The opposite of faith is sight.”
The ‘sight’ of my own abilities, my financial
means and the disproportionate need causes me terror. I
discovered that I have a similar reaction when
I am at the edge of a sheer drop. At a
youth camp, I was required to participate in a ‘ropes’ course where I
had to go
the length of the course walking on a thin wire suspended thirty feet
in the
air. I knew that the cable under my feet
and over my head, and the lanyards attached to my harness, would
sustain me if
I fell. Of that, I was confident. It was my sight that
triggered my brain to
fear despite knowing the safety cables and harness were able to save
me.
Once I ascended to the thirty-foot platform,
I did not have the option of sitting idle with my eyes closed. I
had an obligation to the youth under my
ministry to complete the course with my eyes wide open, encouraging
them along
in spite of my own discomfort.
The
Lord Jesus Christ has
called
me to
a ‘platform’ of serving Him by preaching a message of faith and
freedom, and by
serving the needs of those who are in need of liberty.
That ministry boosts my faith, my courage and
my zeal for the Lord and His ministry. The
thing that puts me in terror is the “sight” that
I have with regard
to raising the money that I need to fulfill the ministry requirements
and to
sustain the needs of my family. I
disdain asking people for money. I am
terrified that people will hate me for asking for money.
I fear that people will avoid me because they
are going to think that I have money on my mind. But
just like the ‘ropes’ course, I don’t
have the option of sitting idle with my eyes closed.
I have to complete the course in spite of my
own discomfort.
Like
the Levites, I know that the
Lord
is my portion and my Savior. The ‘cables’
that must sustain me are the hands of men.
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