It’s sad to see the battle lines being pushed back from the front with actual evil, to the limp-waisted minds of enfeebled Christians.  China is marching around the world consuming resources in it’s large maw of evil and we are worried that social media posts might be mean.  Instead of defeating actual evil we are forced to fight our neighbors over idiotic things like masks.  The unity Christ and Paul prayed for, was so that we could present a united front to the world.  Bringing his will on earth as it is in heaven, remaking the whole Earth. When you look at the history of Europe from 600 to say, today, it’s sad to see European Christians fighting amongst themselves instead of fighting the real evil, Mohammed.  Death and destruction and the very slavery that reached our shores was begun by Mohammed and his hordes.

The Good Samaritan. Rembrandt. after 1633.

In Luke 10 Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan.  “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.”  But we are in an even worse position, we are passing by when he is still being beaten.  And we walk away.  Don’t we have a duty to stop the beating?  Do we try to go preach the Gospel to the robbers, as a hyper Evangelical minimalism might suggest?  Jesus makes it clear, walking by a brother in need is evil.  He also makes it clear that the whole purpose of government is to punish evil.  That is the real point of Romans 13.  These men should be caught and punished.  The government is the servant of God who carries out his wrath.  We don’t say “who am I to judge”, we punish them, God says.  Now secular governments can mess this up, but how much more should Christians punish evil when we the show?  Stopping the beating, catching and punishing the wrongdoer, is part of the Gospel.  How much more should this apply to whole nations?

Currently most of the church has become what Christ warned against.  We are the priest and the Levite passing by the man in need.  They did it because they were preoccupied with their reading of the Law.  They thought he was unclean.  But we do it for a more ridiculous reason, we are worried that we are unclean.  We are so self-obsessed with our problems and worrying about being perfect that we can’t do anything.  This is a completely different thing from fighting our own sin first and then fighting the sin out there. Which is correct.  We waffle with double minds tossed too and fro by every new woke doctrine.  But Paul says this is what children do (Eph. 4:14).  We need to grow up and spread our light to the world.  We need to be equipped to form a strong body and to fight.  For some reason we no longer see fighting as a Godly act of sacrifice.  But putting on your weapons and going in to the battle means that you could be killed too.  If you intervene with the Samaritan you could be killed, you are laying down your life for his.  That is what makes it a valiant act.  And that’s what makes not stepping in, cowardly.

So, if saving one man on the road being beaten is a good thing, how much more for a large capable body, like say a country, to step in and save another large group of people being abused?  Of course we should view unsaved peoples as first and foremost needing the Gospel.  And we should send the Gospel to them, as we have for generations.   But how do we sit back and watch people being abused all over the world.  How do we watch starvation, and the abuse of women, and the enslavement of other tribes?  “Who is my brother?”!  Do we just write it off as cultural differences?  And even worse we fund the very country which is guilty of this evil the most, China.  Every big tech company is in bed with China for money.  Where is the pressure on them? Instead we worry about offensive comments about people who don’t know what sex they are.  How about sending pallets of cash to Iran one of the most hated oppressors on the planet?  And then you elect Biden to do the same thing because you think it’s better than mean tweets.  You are a child.  This blood is on your hands.  Get some perspective and get in a real fight instead of all this child’s play.    Of course we need repentance, from this especially.  But we need to get on to better things like exploring the depths of God’s word and his world instead of the bottomless pit of self pity.