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Perspective
Stand firm!
by Anthony Jordan
Our nation’s moral structure is collapsing at an alarming rate. I sat down to watch the newscast a few evenings ago, and got up deeply troubled. The governor had led another successful drive to exponentially expand gambling in our state. Like selling the inheritance for a bowl of porridge, so is the moral soul of this state being sold for one thing money. Money that is not guaranteed and, in fact, has little “chance” of reaching the amounts predicted in the exaggerated rhetoric used in promoting the legislation.
On the same newscast, in a segment taped outside San Francisco’s City Hall, men were kissing men. Rosie O’Donnell paraded down the steps to introduce her new “wife” to the viewers. Watching these people living as an aberration to decency and morality I could not help but think of Sodom and Gomorrah.
In recent days, the Hollywood crowd has vehemently protested the powerful display of the suffering Christ in the film, “The Passion of the Christ.” Award-winning movie director Steven Spielberg declared that Mel Gibson was finished in Hollywood. According to Spielberg, Gibson would “never work in this town again.” Since the film grossed more than $125 million in its first half-week, and the cost of production was only $25 million, I doubt Gibson is going to be in the breadline anytime soon.
In short, we are beginning to see on a large scale by the rich and powerful the first wave of the rejection of Christianity and its high moral ground. While it seems farfetched, I would propose that unless God sends a great awakening, Christians will find our place in American culture more and more tenuous. We certainly will not hold center stage, as we have in the past.
Why? I would love to blame it on our society. I cannot. Scripture reveals the unhappy truth that nations fall when God’s people become like the world around them, instead of living counterculturally. God judged Israel for her spiritual adultery. Read the book of Jeremiah, and one is confronted with the reality that God’s people in government loved money and political power more than righteousness. Worship had become a place to be “seen” rather than a place to be changed. Worshipers came to the temple, and paraded to the altar covered with the filth of sin. They left unrepentant and unchanged.
We face the same issues today. Government leaders at all levels declare their faith, but bow to special interests and vote in politically expedient ways, rather than by biblical conviction. Churches are filled with compromised living and unrepentant hearts.
What shall we do? Fold our hands and wait for the judgment of God to come upon our nation? If we cannot defeat gambling, the homosexual agenda, pornography, abortion, social injustice, racism and a myriad of societal ills, should we just give up and quietly go away? No, and a thousand times no!
We must look within. Are we truly walking in the righteousness of Christ? Do we seek the face of God for purity and holiness in our lives? Do we take our moral cues from Scripture, or from the culture around us? Do we live counterculturally?
Remember Paul’s words in Ephesians 6. Stand firm! Stand firm in the power of His might. Dress up in the armor of God. Do not retreat. We must continue to speak out on matters of morality and ethics to national and state government officials. The President and Congress must not escape our voice of righteousness. We must fight for what is right, and oppose what is wrong. Take a stand! Don’t ever give up! And one last thing. Turn to the back of the Book of Books and read the final chapters. WE WIN!
Kathy Martin
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