According to the Biblical definition, America is not a Godly nation. We are not being blessed by God.  We are not fruitful, our birh rates are falling, we despise children as a nusance to our lust.  He has turned us over to ourselves, abandoned us.  And so we see the results of that, Romans One.  Even the women have exchanged natural fruitfulness for evil.  It’s as if men are not only too lazy to sow the fields, but the fields don’t even want to grow anything anymore.  And most of us are ok with that.

There are very few debates in our current culture, even church culture, on strictly theological issues.  I believe that all beliefs are at heart a matter of your relationship with your God, for better or worse.  But as issues within orthodox Chrisianity or as a matter of defending orthodox Christianity against new or old heresies remade, very little of the churche’s work in our day falls under these headings.  What I see instead is politics taking over everything.  We don’t debate how we should work out the communion service, we argue about whether women should rule us.  We don’t have councils to decide how to express the Trinity, we decide how many genders and sexual perversions we will allow in leadership.  We don’t work through how to bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord we argue over how much money the government gives our particular marxist public school.  We don’t debate on the extent of the effects of sin, we debate how bad white people really are.  We who hold to anything resembling orthodox Christianity have been pushed back to the wings, silenced.  And the volume has been turned up in every area of politics.

As I said this too is a religion.  It seems that our free open political system is just the means that those who hate God are currently using to attack Christians.  At first the arguments for Islam, Humanism, Darwinism, Marxism, or whatever rebellion you want to choose, were heard becuase Christendom was arranged to love free speech.  Christians set up a society where the best ideas can win, where everyone is able to express themselves.  And so this is the tool that evil weilds against us.  But it is coming to the polace where this isn’t good enough.  They don’t merely want a voice in the public square they want to make the square into a pentagram.  This is how it works.  Cultures can only be ruled by one god.  If you reject the God of heaven and replace him with something, that something is still a god.  It answers the same questions in our minds, it fills the same needs all humans have.  The big questions; What is wrong with the world?  How do we fix it?  Of course they don’t admit this.  They want to pit Religion agains Science or Religion against Politics, or Religion against Multiculturalism.  But this is just a clever lie to disguise their allegience to rebellion.

As we watch New York and our whole nation really, embrace the murder of infants, born or unborn.  It is so sad, but really just the old boring pagan death worship which has been the way of this world apart from the light of God.  Cain killed Abel and went on to practice his paganism.  Paganism was wiped out, Noah had the light, but his heirs revived the darkness.  Israel was a light in a pagan world.  Christ shattered the darkness and Christians spread the light all over the world.  Rejecting Jesus the Christ is not some bold new frontier, it is just reverting back to the old paganism.  It is to pretend that Jesus is not reigning, that he did not remake the world by his death and resurrection.  It is pretending that Satan is Lord, that he rules this earth.  So worse than watching this pagan horde advance is watching Christians cower and retreat.  We don’t hold councils of war to spread the Gospel light to every corner of this dark world.  We hold councils to decide how much like the world we can be and still feel like we are going to heaven.  We don’t remake every aspect of ourselves and our culture to align more with the wisdom of Scripture, we cower and use the World’s arguements against ourselves.  “Oh we can’t talk about that, that’s politics, Jesus wasn’t political you know”.  “Jesus wanted us to love everyone, so we can’t argue with that radical group, that wouldn’t be nice”.  “Well I’m not a scientist, so I guess the Bible was incorrect about the origin of the Earth”.

There are no viable options for remaking this world outside of Jesus.  Everything we have at this point is due to his blessing brought through the Church as it spread across Europe, America and this Earth.  There isn’t a political system that is going to make things right.  There isn’t a scientific breakthrough that is going to make things right.  There isn’t a smart person in a university that is going to make things right.  Pretending that Islam or Feminists or Humanists or Marxists or LGBTQWERTY have viable answers to anything is a joke.  Changing your sex?  Really?  The Koran the Book of Mormon?  Really?  Marx cared about the little people?  Really?  And anus us preferable to a fruitful beautiful woman?  Really?  Women are the same as men?  Really?  It’s ok you can laugh.  God does.  He is laughing at us right now.  You really think we can rebel against God?  God, you know the one who holds you together with a word?  And don’t think the rapture is going to bail you out either. Paul is very clear, God cut off Israel and grafted in the Gentiles, but if you don’t honor him he can just as soon cut you off too.  We need to stop cowering to the world.  We have the wisdom of the Scriptures, the foundation for Law and Order, Peace and Prosperity, Fruitfulness and Blessing.  This is the light the whole world needs.  Why do we hide it?  Why don’t we even know it ourselves?  We are fools and cowards.  May God have mercy on us.  But also get off your butt, turn off the Netflix and make things right in your house, your town, your country.

We aren’t even faced with the dark task of the early church.  They faced a dark world, and didn’t realize the full extent of how Christ had changed things.  We have seen it done.  We have seen the church go out into the world and remake it.   We should know it’s power.  We don’t have to invent a lot of things from scratch, we just have to go back to how it was, to how it has been done.   And yet we cower, afraid to admit that everything which everyone enjoys about this world was the result of Christians working out their faith in every area of life.  The rule of Law, ending Racism, ending slavery,  ending tribalism, political solution without bloodshed, talking isntead of fighting, unity and diversity, science instead of blind worship of idols, medicine instead of witchcraft, learning from the mistakes of the past instead of endless cycles of evil.  This is all from the Church.  This is the world made by Christ.  He defated the final enemy death.  And when we act otherwise we are part of the problem.  These things will not continue to exist for long without the Church.  We are running out of borrowed capital instead of pushing on to new frontiers and spreading the light to the last dark corners of this earth.   For example, we don’t worship our Consitution, we should even hope and build something better.  The past is not the ultimate, but it should be a tradition of Gospel light that we hold on to and go beyond.  We can do all things, move mountains, lions and lambs laying down together.  The desert will bloom.  It has happened it can happen more gloriously still.  Get to it.