Are You A Member of the Radical Right?

 “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted an ground in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length an height and depth and know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God”  (Eph. 3:16-19).

Somewhere along the line I picked up a description of a ‘Red Neck’ that I feel is very appropriate for Believers for this very hour.  If you believe that Believers in our nation are not going to be confronted and even persecuted for their commitment to the Lord, you had best get your head out of the sand the fill your dome of intellect with the Word of God.  It is not a time to take off the Armor of God and place it in the closet until another day.   An old country preacher once made the statement than when we have God’s armor on and the head place in place, Satan cannot tell us from Jesus. Sounds like a good idea to me.

Confession time:  In the past two months I have struggled, as I have never struggled in the previous 700 plus morning messages sent before, as I have I the past month or since announcing the ‘prophecy blog’.  But this is nothing new.  Throughout the years when we were developing the Village our family was always the ‘guinny pig’ and bore the attack of the enemy to stop any new idea in its track. 

 But Jesus made it very clear that, if you are going to follow Him as Lord, you are not going to have a walk-through- the-park.   In the past decade the media, in a degrading way, refers to those who walk with the Lord as the ‘Religious Right’.  But in today’s media the ‘Religious Right’ is now referred to as the “Radical Right”.    I proudly accept that moniker.

If believing God intended human kind to practice monogamy with the holy bonds of a committed “for better or for worse” marriage union, then I, with honor, wear the badge of the “Radical Right” proudly.

If believing that the punishment of criminals is, in the first instance for the protection of society and that those who, with premeditation, take a life must, in turn, have their lives taken, then I, with honor, wear the badge of the “Radical Right” proudly.

If believing the American Founding Fathers said what they meant and meant what they said when they wrote the Constitution, intending that it be interpreted normally and literally, then I, with honor, wear the badge of the “Radical Right” proudly.

If believing that men and women are to live by the sweat of their brows and that hard work is to be rewarded, and laziness unrewarded and a stigma, then, I will honor, wear the badge of the “Radical Right” proudly. 

If believing in the concept of separation of Church and State, but understanding that the context in which it was made was intended to keep the State from interfering in the religious freedom of its citizens and never to keep the Bible out of government, then I, with honor, wear the bade of the “Radical Right” proudly.

If loving God, rejecting idolatry, not taking the name of the Lord in vain, observing one day in seven for special religious purpose, honoring parents, not killing, not committing adultery, not stealing, not bearing false witness, and not coveting are characteristic of the “Radical Right” then I, proudly stand with honor with the “Religious Right.”

Sooooo,  Someone along the line said, “If you do not stand for something, you will fall for anything.”  Truth!  Take a moment or two and look around. One does not have to be a super-brain child to see with wide-angle vision “somethin’s fixen’ to happen.  One cannot make gay marriage the law of the land, glorify homosexuality, kill 57 million babies, and turn their back of the ‘Apple of God’s Eye, Israel, and not expect to see the shaking process promised in Hebrews, intensify.  

Yesterday as I was bringing a load of wood from the neighbor, the tractor sent me a message loud and clear, I need water!   By the time I reached home it was sending up a steady stream of steam.  I wonder if there is not some steam coming out the nostrils of our God. 

Blessings,

Gramps